Sniper Art of Victory Reviews

Not worth your money or your time. Fortunately the missions and the overall campaign is pretty short; honestly wouldn't want to spend another minute in this game.

I have so many memories with this game. Yes, this game is bad. The mechanics are bad, and the AI is horrible, but honestly, it's still enjoyable after so many years and it's pretty cheap for what it is.

Around 2008, after CI already did about 1000 simple shooters on the Chrome Engine, they decided to do it again - this one last time. One last ride - like Dominic Toretto would say... But this time it's a Sniper game. I bet they decided to go in that direction after they saw that Sniper:Elite sold well - they knew the sales numbers danm well, as they were a Sniper:Elite's publisher in poland :) Demand was there, they just had to capitalize on it :) And oh boy, they did just that ;p This whole game is just a shameless quickly cobbled together cash grab. It's a bottom shelf even for low budget standards. All assets come from Mortyr 3 (called also Battlestrike: Force of Resistance) and few other games they made years prior. I did some digging in the game's files and managed to change the resolution to 2560x1440 and the FOV to 90 - the game was not unplayable anymore, so I gave it a chance :) And it was just an amazing experience; Game is pretty difficult - enemies can kill you with just one quick burst through the bushes - a lot of the time you're dead before you can even comprehend where the bullets came from. That was supposed to make the game more 'tactical' I guess - just like making all your weapons (except of sniper rifle) extremely weak and inaccurate. What's even worse - you can't reload weapons looted from enemies, so if you grab the mp40 you have 5-8 bullets in it and that's it. Basically the game uses these dirty tricks to force you to use only the sniper rifle and nothing else. So what is that sniping all about? Well, the game has a very complex bullet-trajectory calculation algorithm that takes into consideration all the neccassary factors, like wind direction and force, bullet drop, coriolis effect, your heart rate and even phase of the moon - all calculated in real time... HAHAHHAHA XD NOPE Really it goes like that - you aim and wait for a little dot to show you where the bullet goes while fighting against the overexaggerated wobble of your rifle that goes up and down faster than your favourite crypto coin. Then you press shift to slow the time and shoot. Sometimes you get rewarded(?) with a super janky homemade bullet cam. I mean - maybe it's somewhat impressive that they managed to actually make a working bulletcam on the Chrome Engine.... I mean it was kinda interesting for me, but I think i might be not normal :) And then -finally - you can admire the weird lightweight ragdolls shaking the bad guys bodies like they possessed or something.... Yeah, these ragdolls add a lot of comedic flavour to this otherwise tasteless experience :) Unfortunately - very often of your shots will be ineffective due to your bullets going through enemies without harming them - it's really annoying glitch - so many times I've taken a perfect shot that 100% should hit the enemy, but my bullet just went through him. The game would be a complete trash even without that glitch, but it's like a cherry on top :) I can recommend the game, if you're not normal and looking for something to test your patience and mental resilience - so things that all snipers should have perfected before even grabbing the rifle :) CI games really outdid themselves with this one ;p