No new plot elements here, just a whole lotta pretty, courtesy of the CryENGINE 3. Check it out below!
Players will again play as Captain Cole Anderson, who has since left Delta Force and is now working as a private security consultant. As Anderson, players will take part in various missions around the world, including urban fighting in Sarajevo, tropical jungles in Burma, and the mountains of Tibet.
A press release from the summer offers up glitz n' glam for what else Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 has to offer.
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 takes the bulls-eye precision of its 2 million plus best-selling predecessor to new and exciting heights. The only multi-platform FPS modern shooter exclusively designed around the sniper experience and built using the most advanced game engine in CryENGINE3. The missions of Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 are graphically stunning and provide more diverse sniper challenges. Feel the kill as you experience unprecedented levels of realism in weapons, ballistics and environmental factors.
The game's sniping system will take into account wind speeds and directions, heartbeat rate, and bullet drop. Successful sniping will require minute control over these inputs.
* Defend your perimeter with Claymore mines, demolish enemy outposts with C4 charges and make silent kills with throwing knives
* Realistic ballistics system measures bullet trajectory, bullet drop and environmental effects such as wind, fog and rain
* Pull off the perfect headshot and watch your bullet strike the enemy with pin-point accuracy in Bullet Cam mode
* 12-person multiplayer battles featuring
* 6 custom created mapsSniper: Ghost Warrior 2 takes all the breathless anticipation, precise controls and skillful fun of sniping and mixes it with stealth and silent elimination play, action scenes, a cooperative move playbook
* Night vision and thermo vision goggles to use in limited visibility situations
* Multiple and varied locations including urban, jungle, mountain environments"
Initially scheduled for release in August 2012, Ghost Warrior 2 has since been pushed back to a January release for Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii U, and PlayStation Vita.
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 will be released in both the normal retail version and a limited "Bulletproof Steelbook Edition" that includes the soundtrack, a booklet of the history of sniping and extra downloadable content.
