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Product summary
Invading Iran is just as painful in this shooter as it probably would be in the real world.
Specifications: ESRB: Mature; Genre: Action; Number of players: 1 Player See full specs
Price range: $8.87 - $10.99
Gamespot editors' review
- Reviewed on: 06/06/2007
- Released on: 05/28/2007
If nothing else, Marine Sharpshooter 3 lives up to its billing. You play a Marine. You do a lot of sharpshooting. And that's about it. The box-cover blurb claims that this franchise has sold over a million copies, but it's hard to see how a game this dumb and derivative could ever develop a fan base. While the game isn't horrific looking, and there is a lot of shooting going on, all you do is stalk through linear levels sniping everything that moves. Retro shooter fans might enjoy this monotonous killing for an hour or so, then look for the uninstall icon.
Do recon missions usually turn into crazed bloodbaths?
Still, at least the game is topical. Marine Sharpshooter 3 kicks off with a Mahmoud Ahmadinejad soundalike at a press conference where he claims that Iran is no threat to the world and that "using nuclear weapons is against the rules of Islam." Uh-huh. It's a good thing that the US doesn't believe that nonsense because it turns out that the Iranians are both messing around with nukes and arming terrorists in nearby Iraq. So what starts as a recon mission where you're ordered not to engage the enemy unless absolutely necessary soon turns into a search-and-destroy crusade where you gun down everybody you see. "Absolutely necessary" actually comes into play right after receiving the above directive because you have to kill a half-dozen Iranian soldiers within a minute of starting the game. So much for the sanctions.
The levels resemble movie sets more than war zones. Virtually all of the terrain and architecture could have been excerpted from any of a dozen clichéd World War II shooters based on the Unreal engine. Nothing here is particularly awful, it's all just really uninspired. For example, perishing enemies display ridiculous rag-doll contortions that would put Cirque de Soleil to shame, and baddies never seem to say anything other than "Take cover!" or "Send for reinforcements!" during battle. It's amazing how so many Arab and Iranian terrorists speak such good English.
There is little to no enemy artificial intelligence in this shooting gallery either, so these acrobatic bad guys materialize from around corners, pop up from behind boxes, and appear in the back of trucks like rabbits out of hats. The jihadist thugs just stand in place shooting at you, ignoring cover inches away or running headlong at your position. Smarts are only on display during close-up firefights with pistols or machine guns, which is when you will occasionally get flanked. But most of the time, it's more like these terrorists are mindlessly running around rather than trying to save their skins or trying to kill you.
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Marine Sharpshooter 3 (PC):
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