Shadowcat on 10/6/2010 at 11:19
I was just looking at this surprisingly good-looking (
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/06/09/sniper-sniper-er-trailering-bright-sorry) trailer for City Interactive's upcoming "Sniper: Ghost Warrior" FPS.
Rebellion's "Sniper Elite" is well-regarded, but that one has pretty much stood alone as far as critically-acclaimed sniper games go. It'll be interesting to see if CI's effort comes out well. In the meantime, it's definitely on my radar.
steo on 10/6/2010 at 11:26
Counter Strike has a sniper rifle.
gunsmoke on 10/6/2010 at 11:37
FarCry has the best sniper rifle in an FPS, save for Sniper Elite.
Koki on 10/6/2010 at 11:39
All guns in Red Faction are sniper rifles.
Shadowcat on 10/6/2010 at 11:46
MDK had a sniper rifle too, along with a large proportion of the games produced since. I was really hoping, however, to limit this thread to games in which the challenge of hitting a target is something more than just waiting for a randomised "sway" of your cross-hairs to line up on the target.
Something which could reasonably be called a Sniper simulation, in other words. Maybe I should change the title to that...
(Far Cry <em>is</em> pretty awesome, mind :)
Um, how do the ARMA games stack up here? Red Orchestra, maybe? My recollection of Ghost Recon is that it was a bit lacking in this department, and that was hardcore for its time, so I'm not sure this sub-genre has all that much in the way of notable history.
Kolya on 10/6/2010 at 11:53
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henke on 10/6/2010 at 12:15
Forget about sniperrifles, check out that grappling hook! :D
Here's hoping you can't just use it on predetermined grappling points though.
icemann on 10/6/2010 at 12:39
Pretty much 75% of all fps games have sniper rifles.
Crysis had a pretty damn good one. Most of that game is spent snipering people and then hiding.
Ulukai on 10/6/2010 at 16:58
Sniper rifles beget SniperDudez.
You may find examples of SniperDudez in the wild with names such as ->El1te Sn1p3r F0xx 532<-.
I hate SniperDudez.
SubJeff on 10/6/2010 at 21:03
Red Orchestra yes. Sniping with or without a scope is very tough compared to any other game I've played because of the realistic ballistics. Nothing quite like learning how to lead a moving target dependant on distance.
