The five regions you get to explore are vast and gorgeously rendered. It’s enjoyable in the same way 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is enjoyable, and it’s at least pretty to look at, which helps with the whole turning your brain off thing.
The best and only way to engage with this game is to meet it on its level and turn your brain completely off. His handler suggests that Raven must not have the same politics as his target, to which Raven responds “I don’t have any politics.” Contracts 2 has about as much brains as Cellphone Dad, and his are all over the wall. At one point, Raven questions why one of his targets uses his power to hurt his own people. It may be the case that developer CI Games was attempting to provide commentary in a clumsy way, but I think whatever that message might be has gotten completely lost in a sea of exploding heads and stereotypical Middle-Eastern demonization. Yet, ultimately, it's still a game about killing brown people in order to bring those same brown people “democracy and peace” (an actual phrase used in the game’s marketing). It’s pessimistic in its portrayal of state violence and has a “business as usual” attitude towards political killing. Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts 2 functions as both a gritty military shooter and a parody of one. Related: Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 Is A Success, Next Game Already In The Works It will disrupt the whole region, inflating global oil prices.” Oof. “We have actionable intel Kuamar is planning an offensive against a neighboring state,” your handler explains. Though Kuamar has been under the thumb of President Omar Al-Bakr and his wife Bibi Rashida for more than 20 years, your benefactors have never had a reason to interfere - until now. You play as Raven, a contract sniper assassin, hired by an unnamed shadow organization with international interests to take down a dozen key members of the criminal syndicate that reigns down on the region with violence and fear. Welcome to Kuamar, an amalgamated Middle-Eastern country ruled over by a despotic regime. This is Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts 2.
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Killing them nets me bonus points that I can spend to upgrade my guns. His head explodes as if his skull were pressurized. On the second shot, the bullet leaves the chamber in slow motion and the camera tracks it all the way through Cellphone Dad’s dome. As they step out of the hut, I fire a silenced sniper shot directly into each of their faces. These men are not my targets, but they have the unfortunate luck of being in my path. She’s younger than he’d like, but he gets worried about her when he doesn’t know where she is. One of them is explaining that he thinks it might be time to get his daughter a cellphone. As I crouch in the bushes behind a brown, featureless hut with no doors, I can hear two men with vaguely Middle-Eastern accents talking inside.
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