<P> Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is a tactical shooter video game developed and published by CI Games for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and was released worldwide on 25 April 2017 . It is also the first game in the series to feature an open world environment . </P> <P> The player takes the role of Marine Captain Jonathan "Jon" North, who, along with his brother Robert, is sent to the Russian - Ukrainian border to destroy an abandoned stockpile of Soviet - era bio-weapons before they're stolen by terrorists . The two succeed in their mission, but are ambushed by an unidentified group of special forces soldiers, led by a man named Vasilisk who plays a game of Russian roulette with Jon before knocking him out and capturing Robert . </P> <P> Two years later, Jon is sent to Georgia to help destabilize the local Georgian Separatist cells, who are reported to be receiving an abnormally high level of funding and resources . Jon accepted the assignment with the hidden agenda of locating his brother Robert, after hearing intelligence chatter placing him in the region . He is assisted by his JSOC handler Frank Simms, a Georgian Loyalist ex-special forces sniper named Lydia with whom he was formerly in a romantic relationship, and Israeli Mossad agent Raquel, who is in the region looking to capture and recruit a Russian scientist named Sergei Flostov whom she believes is being held by the Separatists . </P> <P> The Separatists are led by a pair of twins, Davit and Tomas, and a woman named Inna, whom Tomas is scheduled to marry . Jon infiltrates the wedding in hopes of gathering intel to help him assassinate Tomas later, but the wedding is interrupted when Tomas' bodyguard guns him down at the altar before being killed himself by an unseen sniper . Continuing other missions against the Separatists, Jon learns that events in Georgia are being manipulated by an international conspiracy known as the 23 Society, whose forces are equipped with high - tech experimental weaponry and led by a mysterious soldier with seemingly superhuman abilities known as Armazi . </P>

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