After dreaming big Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, developers CI Games have decided that there’s little practical difference between targets being far away or simply small, and accordingly announced Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts. After making a big fancy open-world in GW3, this time they’re thinking smaller with- hang on, they mean contracts as a noun, not a verb. Ah. Well! They’re still scaling down, talking about going from an open world to focused yet open-ended missions in a way that reminds me a bit of Hitman – though presumably without the option to dress as a clown. Not such good camouflage in Siberia, the ol’ red honker.

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