There's also some annoying bugs and design flaws. These are all about navigating a high mountain, and they don't fit in with the mood of the game at all. There's the usual enemy outposts and strongholds, which players can clear in the hopes of getting crafting materials and ridding that area permanently of enemies, something we've also seen already, and side missions are mostly assassinating dangerous war criminals or rescuing civilians, although for some reason climbing missions are included in the game as well. It's not hard to think where the game has gotten most of its ideas, and even the season pass has a bow. It's almost completely devoid of any innovations in this regard, and all of its mechanics and guns have been seen many times before.
The biggest flaw is its utter and complete blandness. The script, characters, and North's inability to deal with ladders have already been mentioned, but there's also many other issues we'd like to raise. The game is far from being without fault. If you make a good shot, you also get a bullet cam similar to one seen in Sniper Elite (although no internal organs explode here). This makes it oh so rewarding when you hit a long distance head shot and realise all your adjustments were correct. For example, one level above the basic difficulty only shows the distance and the effect of wind on the bullet, and everything else is left to the player. The sniping mechanics, thankfully, are where the game excels, especially on harder difficulties. Basically, all enemy locations have to be scouted using the drone before approaching them, and this starts to feel a bit boring after a while. This helps to differentiate snipers and heavily armoured soldiers from basic troopers, much like in Ghost Recon: Wildlands, but it feels like the player has to rely too much on it.
Planning your course of action and scouting are essential in order to succeed in your assassination missions, but luckily you have a small drone to help you out with this, which marks enemies with different symbols. Ignoring these clear cues should be done with extreme caution, as this will backfire immediately, and barging in guns blazing isn't really an option either, as enemies can gun you down in a matter of seconds, without regard for your bulletproof vest. A fence has a clear opening in a suitably covert spot, enemies leave some areas out of their patrols, and so on. The game maintains that you can do this any way you want to, but in reality there are usually very few choices in the matter. Trekking the wilderness is an essential part of the experience, but occasionally North has to infiltrate an enemy outpost or stronghold. Even with his experience, North still struggles with ladders, as for some reason you need to press an extra button to take the last step off the final rung, something that immediately annoyed. Only some rocks have ledges North can hang on to, for instance, and these are identified via his detective vision, something that's necessary, as two identical rocks might not both be climbable. North is an experienced mountaineer, so he can navigate this terrain easily, although only if there's a marked path to do so. These are ideal spots to look for enemies and then, you guessed it, snipe them. There's a lot of verticality (that word that devs love to throw around these days), and there's not an enemy base or a village which doesn't have a hill or mountain next to it. Landscapes are vast and open now, and range from hills with snow to more hills without snow. While Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 was a fairly linear experience, this third instalment is something completely different. The game isn't really about the story though - it's about freedom to choose how and when you do your missions. The game feels like an action flick from the eighties, all the way down to its clichéd characters with rough accents, and this plot feeds into that, as does the token women who are wearing revealing clothing. He also has an agenda of his own there are rumours that his missing brother is in the country too. Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 sees you take on the role of Jonathan North as he is sent to Georgia (the country, not the US state) to sort out some local business.
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