Hitman: Sniper Challenge - PC Game Review
Hitman: Sniper Challenge is a sniper game that came free with the Hitman: Absolution pre-order.
In fact, that is the main reason I got it on pre-order. Even for games I expect to be good, I rarely buy on pre-orders anymore without some extra thrown in. I imagine that was the thinking behind Sniper Challenge, and that it probably succeeded.
Sniper Challenge is 47 on a roof with a fixed weapon (sniper rifle with silencer) and his mission is killing a business man, and all his bodyguards.
Unusually for a Hitman game, killing the main character is trivially easy. Getting all the bodyguards isn't, though. And as in all Hitman games, there are many ways to kill. In Sniper Challenge, you can just shoot them (including more than one with one shot), shoot them off the roof, drop barrels to kill a guard, kill someone down an elevator shaft, or my favorite, activating a bunch of mines.
There are also a number of challenges - from the trivial (kill main enemy in a short time) to the very hard (kill everyone with headshots), passing many whimsical challenges - killing all gnomes, a ninja, ducks, dropping someone down an elevator shaft, and many more.
The challenges only have to be done once and they unlock a permanent score multiplier. And scores above certain points get you upgrades for the full game.
Overall, pretty cool.
In fact, that is the main reason I got it on pre-order. Even for games I expect to be good, I rarely buy on pre-orders anymore without some extra thrown in. I imagine that was the thinking behind Sniper Challenge, and that it probably succeeded.
Sniper Challenge is 47 on a roof with a fixed weapon (sniper rifle with silencer) and his mission is killing a business man, and all his bodyguards.
Unusually for a Hitman game, killing the main character is trivially easy. Getting all the bodyguards isn't, though. And as in all Hitman games, there are many ways to kill. In Sniper Challenge, you can just shoot them (including more than one with one shot), shoot them off the roof, drop barrels to kill a guard, kill someone down an elevator shaft, or my favorite, activating a bunch of mines.
There are also a number of challenges - from the trivial (kill main enemy in a short time) to the very hard (kill everyone with headshots), passing many whimsical challenges - killing all gnomes, a ninja, ducks, dropping someone down an elevator shaft, and many more.
The challenges only have to be done once and they unlock a permanent score multiplier. And scores above certain points get you upgrades for the full game.
Overall, pretty cool.
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