Sniper Ghost Warrior 2: Siberian Strike DLC

It is an absolutely amazing DLC. Do purchase it you will love it. Absolutely class

This text is focused only on the ‘Siberian Strike’ DLC, my review of the base game is available here: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198029593711/recommended/34870/ --- ‘Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2’, unlike its predecessor is IMO really solid game and I had quite a lot of fun with it, therefore getting this DLC was obvious decision. I would have been happy even if ‘Siberian Strike’ was just more of the base game, but it’s even better than that and it’s a great example how things like this should be done. Story told in ‘Siberian Strike’ is a prequel of events from the base game: bad guys from Russia are working on some bioweapon and CIA agent Diaz (our operator in ‘Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2’) is sent to their research facility in Siberia where he pretends to be a scientist. Everything goes well until it doesn’t anymore, Diaz goes radio silent and Cole Anderson has to locate him and find out what happened. It’s top secret operation, so our protagonist is on his own and there will be no radio contact with the base at all. Once again it’s B-movie script and once again it’s more than enough. I have no complains here whatsoever. ‘Siberian Strike’ offers 3 completely new missions and it’s about 2 hours long, but have in mind that I was playing on the highest difficulty setting and I’m pretty sure it would have been at least 20 minutes shorter (maybe even bit more) on ‘Normal’. Story, what is obvious after seeing the title of the DLC, takes place in various locations in Siberia and I have to admit I really enjoyed the setting. It’s different than all things we’ve seen in the base game and more importantly, it doesn’t feel like just bunch of reused assets that were cut from ‘Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2’ and sold separately. So even though the location itself is not too original (I mean we’ve seen it in dozens of various games, not to mention movies or books) it offers something new, feels fresh and on top of that looks really good. When it comes to the gameplay ‘Siberian Strike’ is even better than the main game for very simple and rather unusual reason: the level design. Technically speaking we’re still talking about very linear game and for most of the time all we have to do is moving from point A to point B and clearing the areas between them. That’s how it worked in the base game and that’s how it works also here. There’s just one, but significant difference: in ‘Siberian Strike’ levels are designed to give us much more freedom in almost every aspect of gameplay. There’s not only bunch of different routes if we decide to stay hidden and avoid the enemies, but also at least few good sniping positions in every area so we can eliminate enemies in many ways and there are also some nice spots for short range combat if we decide to use the silenced pistol. Moreover, ‘Siberian Strike’ encourages us to do something that was almost non-existent in the base game: changing positions during the firefights. Due to the level design in ‘Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2’ for most of the time we were good to stay in one spot and simply take out all enemies until the area was cleared and even causing the alarm didn’t affect our style of play. In the DLC areas are much bigger and open, so on hardest difficulty setting changing sniping positions was not only useful, but in few cases almost crucial to stay alive in case of the alarm. It’s a massive change because it makes the pace of the game significantly faster, more dynamic and simply better. Overall this really is well done DLC. ‘Siberian Strike’ adds a lot to the base game, improves the gameplay and feels really fresh. It offers much more freedom in almost every aspect, different feeling and faster, more dynamic pace. It’s definitely not a cash-grab but a high quality product and I totally recommend getting it to everyone who already have the base game. This is how DLCs should always look like.