| Do you enjoy sniper games? It is OK to admit it, you | | | | estimated number of rounds fired per enemy killed |
| are amongst friends here. You see sniper games are | | | | numbers into many thousands. No, that is not our way. |
| one of a gamers little secrets. Society tells you that | | | | Our way requires patience and accuracy, not not the |
| being a sniper is a dirty and underhanded way to | | | | expenditure of enough brass to remake the Liberty |
| conduct yourself in battle, but out on the battlefield | | | | Bell. |
| anything goes. You do what needs to be done to | | | | Thankfully games designers are beginning to |
| succeed and if that means laying in wait to ambush | | | | appreciate the world of the sniper. Artificial intelligence |
| your enemy then so be it. | | | | is making it possible to have an NPC spotter that |
| In online games players dislike sniper tactics, claiming | | | | doesn't get you seen and killed and won't aimlessly |
| that "camping" as it is often called is somehow unfair. | | | | blaze away on full auto as soon as you are spotted. |
| Surely it is up to an individual player how they choose | | | | One of the PC games due for release later this year |
| to play a game, or fight a war? Modern battlefield | | | | that should put these recent advances into action is |
| games are almost exclusively aimed at small squad | | | | Sniper: Ghost Warrior. It promises true bullet physics |
| tactics and this is fine as far as it goes. It is just that | | | | and much more besides. I almost feel the urge to |
| small unit tactics should also extend to sniper and | | | | reach for my ghillie suit and camp out to wait for its |
| spotter teams and not just a 4 or 8 man squad; with | | | | release...almost! |
| some goon carrying a squad support machine gun. No, | | | | 2010 could signal the advent of a new type of military |
| let's do things with a little finesse. | | | | game for the PC and other platforms. It all depends on |
| Ever since the phrase "One shot. One kill." was | | | | the success or failure of this one new game. If it is a |
| popularised some players have been drawn to games | | | | roaring success then no doubt other games design |
| that give them an opportunity to emulate this | | | | houses will make their own releases in time and the |
| philosophy on a virtual battlefield. This stands in sharp | | | | world of sniper games on the PC will flourish. Lets |
| contrast to historical battlefields like Vietnam where the | | | | hope that it does. |