Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The story is built around wartime atrocity — a Sarajevo flashback in which the player photographs an ordered genocide, and on-screen executions of captured characters drive the plot.
The player snipes and shoots human enemy soldiers with realistic firearms; hits produce blood, sometimes shown in a slow-motion bullet-cam, but there is no dismemberment or gore focus.
Military dialogue between characters includes moderate profanity.
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What it is
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is a first-person tactical shooter in which the player is a U.S. Marine sniper carrying out covert military missions across the Philippines, a war-torn Sarajevo, and Tibet. Play centers on long-range shooting with realistic bullet physics — accounting for distance, wind and bullet drop — alongside stealth movement and hand-to-hand takedowns of enemy soldiers. Kills are realistic and bloody, and successful sniper shots are sometimes shown in a slow-motion camera that follows the bullet to its target; bodies remain but are not dismembered. The story deals with heavy wartime subject matter, including a mission to photograph an ordered genocide and scenes of prisoners being executed. Dialogue between soldiers carries some profanity. There is an online player-versus-player component, but the provided data indicates no in-game voice or text chat and no in-app purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as professional military work, with the player positioned as a soldier pursuing arms dealers and a traitor while trying to recover a stolen bio-weapon. The Sarajevo atrocity is presented as something the protagonist is ordered to witness and document rather than celebrate, and a spotter character is shown breaking down at being unable to watch further, so the cruelty is treated as horror rather than reward.
Details
- Developer
- City Interactive
- Publisher
- CI Games
- Released
- Mar 11, 2013
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