Sniper: Path of Vengeance

by Xicat Interactive, Inc.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005V131
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 1, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,941 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #93 in Software > Outlet
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Sniper is a first-person 3-D shooter that puts you in the role of Dominick Trulion, top hit man for the Mob. Your job is to survive everything in your way and take out your objectives. It's the mid-1980s: the powerful crime families in Las Vegas are at war and people you know are turning up dead. It's up to you with your deadly aim and an arsenal of hit-man weapons to take back the streets and end the Mob war.

Customer Reviews

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ... Do not waste your money..., September 21, 2002

By 

John MacLaren (Plymouth, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sniper: Path of Vengeance (CD-ROM)

I cannot believe Xicat delayed this game several months to have this be the end product. ... First off, the game play and storyline have almost nothing to do with "Sniper" at all (Carlos Hathcock 93 Vietnam confirmed sniper kills, Delta Force, SWAT, etc. anything but this), its more like a "Hitman" wanna be with worse graphics, worse sound and sub-par level design. I had a bad feeling about the game just from looking at the bad box design ... But I thought I would give it a chance, bad move.

The first mission is absolute ... Have to take out 4 cops with an M-14 sniper rifle from street level and of course their handguns shoot acurately from several hundred meters. If there is a way to get to a building top I couldnt find it which would be the logical place to shoot a sniper rifle from in an urban setting. I am not even sure I am going to move on to the next missions. No Multiplayer option either where at least having 2 or more humans involved in some sniper vs. sniper action might have been a little redemption but I can get that in so many other games with better graphics, sound and delivery ...

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid like the plague!!!, October 1, 2002

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"bzbzbz1" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sniper: Path of Vengeance (CD-ROM)

From their press release, "Xicat predicts that "Sniper: Path of Vengeance" will become the new benchmark in first-person action games." If this is the new benchmark, then Xicat must be predicting that goal posts will be the rage at limbo parties. Sorry folks, but this game is just plain awful. It has more bugs than the Amazon basin. Here is the list I found in the first and only 40 minutes of playing(or waiting on?)it.

When first started up, the monitor will click back and forth. Is this game crashing? Nope, there it goes. Oops, back to the desktop. No wait, it's starting now. Oh, back to the desktop. Get the point?

When the game finally starts, there is no reverse mouse button in the menus. Is this a beta release? Hmmm...it doesn't say so on the box. In all fairness, there is a patch to correct this. Wonder why it wasn't done in the first place?

I started the game to find my "contact". Where could he be? In this building? Oh, you can't go into any buildings. In the water? Oh, you can't go into the water. Hmmm...I thought this was the LITHTECH engine?

I get my assignment and move on. Let me do a save here. That seemed to work ok.

I get killed to test the quick load function. I hit F9 as instructed and the level starts over at the beginning. I load it from my saved games and it takes two minutes to come up. The stupid music is playing again even though I turned it off already.

I get killed again and load my game from the save menu. Now I have no sound. And the stupid music is still turned on. At least I can't hear it.

I finish the first level by going back to my car. Do I get the next level? No. I get the desktop since the game crashed.

Oh well...I did have high hopes for this game. I love camping in Half-Life an Unreal and was looking forward to a game that focused on sniping. I guess I will have to wait some more.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst. Game. Ever., October 15, 2002

By 

John Van Brunt (IL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sniper: Path of Vengeance (CD-ROM)

Ugh. This game is so abhorently, dreadfully awful, it's downright painful to play. I feel stupider for having wasted the 45 minutes it took me to give up on it. There is not a single redeeming feature to speak of. Frankly, I'm stunned that Mirage managed to stay in business after their last lemon of a game, Mortyr. But somehow, this one is even worse. There is no reason to waste your time on this, when there are so many excellent shooters out there. Just this past month Mafia, Hitman 2, and No One Lives Forever 2 came out. All are very good. ... On a side note I feel pity for the unfortunate soul who gave this game 5 stars. He clearly played this game a little too long and suffered brain damage..