Marine Sharpshooter III

by Groove Media

Product Features

• Huge maps spanning over 4 sq/kms of real world equivalent space.
• Over 20 weapons and tools including various sniper and automatic rifles grenades night vision
• 2 Vehicles the RST-V a Hummer like recon vehicle and the Polaris Special Forces ATV.10 Maps.
• Continuation of the MS2 story arc.
• Format: WIN 98 ME 2000 XP.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000IN6V0W
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 28, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,119 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

One Shot.  One KillProduct InformationYou are an elite Sniper/Spotter team deployed to infiltrate investigate andeliminate the dark plots that exist in Iran's terrorist underground.  Usestealth precision strikes and deadly accuracy to cut out key targets in theongoing fight against terrorism and international security.Product Features 16 realistic weapons to choose from including the M821A1 Barret sniper rifle and M14 Sopmod rifle Huge maps spanning over 2 square miles of real world equivalent space Real sniper tactics - semi-realistic ballistic system advanced reconnaissance and surveillance Switch between sniper and spotter at any time Use stealth to strike from a distance Minimum Requirements Windows 2000 XP Pentium 4 or AMD equivalent 2 GHz processor or faster 256 MB of RAM 1.5 GB Hard Disk space DirectX and Windows compatible Sound Card DirectX 9.0c compatible Video Card (ATI Radon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4600 with 128 MB RAM) or higher DirectX version 9.0c or higher 4X or faster CD-ROM drive Keyboard Mouse

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Snipe Away, June 11, 2007

By 

B. McBeth "PSN: DirkPittSpawn" (Warner Robins, GA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Marine Sharpshooter III (CD-ROM)

It's a good sequel to Marine Sharps. II, but in comparison to other games out there it's a little lacking.

Here's the Good, Bad, and Ugly on MS III:

__The Good__

Many combinations of rifles to choose from. Definitely enjoy employing silcencers on handguns/sniper rifles. You can order around your spotter or switch to your spotter when walking around in town for Close Quarters. It's fun to plunk away with the Barett M82 .50 cal.

Spotter/Sniper team is a good addition to the game. And the graphics/scenery in this one is improved from the last.

__The Bad__

Little improvement to characters and landscape.

No matter how much you sneak around, the enemy for some reason still sees you. Doesn't matter how far away, if it's within their field of view, chances are they will spot you. And they're fairly accurate.

Hit detection is sometimes off a little.

The length of the game is fairly short.

__The Ugly__

Enemy Charater movement: They move in weird ways. Almost as if they were a "Queen" on a chess board (looks like a diagonal move they make). More often they run right toward you, even if it means they are lined up in a row coming at you. Which of course means it looks like one guy coming at you since the two can occupy the same space, and they both look exactly the same (same character mapping).

Sniper/Spotter movement: Depending upon which character you're using, your teammate might just stand there. And not only that but he'll look like a scarecrow with arms stretched out to either side like he's trying to fly. It wouldn't do this all the time though; sometimes the spotter would actually assist.

There is NO multiplayer.

Overall:

Good thing it is inexpensive. This game is not worth anything above it. But for the cheap price it's fun to creep around and try out the different sniper rifles and switch to your spotter so that you can use whatever assault rifle he has on hand. While it's fun to explore and snipe, it's a shame that they didn't go the extra mile in game development to meet the current "standard" of graphics/gameplay.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars primitive and boring, August 18, 2009

By 

Dennis Boring "cdennyb" (on my crusing sailboat) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Marine Sharpshooter III (CD-ROM)

This game might have been a real hoot 5 years ago, but after playing Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty, this game is going to the swap meet... in the $1.00 bin for sale. Don't waste your time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great if you're expecting 1998 technology, October 2, 2008

By 

J. Loscheider "No one knows I'm a radical" (Midwest) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Marine Sharpshooter III (CD-ROM)

This game was released in 2007, but it's really poor for what it should be able to do.

The realistic points - less accuracy while standing, more while prone - are nice but can't make up for the ludicrous shortcomings.

Graphics are lackluster at best. Continuity is nonexistent. IGI and IGI 2 are far better than MS3 when it comes to physics and realism.

For some reason, it takes two, sometimes three shots to kill (even in the head) and even after two shots the target sometimes doesn't figure out that he has indeed been shot. Delta Force: Black Hawk Down's AI is light years ahead of MS3.

The game runs out of fun quickly. I can clearly see why it was in the $4.99 bin. I'd recommend about a dozen older games ahead of this one - the development team really fell disappointingly short with this release.