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It can be done with out a sniper rifle however (in fact as seen here its still possible to get silent assassin ranking taking the direct rout) Silent Assassin has its second real mission follow suit with a sniping mission that involves guessing who to kill between 4 look likes based off of small traits about them told over radio.The first mission (except for the tutorial) in Hitman: Codename 47 (it can be done without sniping, but it is dangerous.).It's frustratingly difficult in the first game as terrorists can show up from literally anywhere, but the sequels fixed that by giving a green pointer on the scope for spotting nearby enemies. CT Special Forces, a game that is otherwise Run-and-Gun, have sniping areas where your character drops their assault rifles, mounts their sniper, and must snipe the next scvreen clear of enemies before they can proceed.Appropriately for a game set inside computers, said sniper rifle is called the LOL.

Enemies are trying to reach a specific point through a maze-like path, and you have to stop them with the sniper rifle.

Tron 2.0 has a level in which you're on top of a tower overlooking a large space.

Price, incidentally, was the sniper in the above mission. That is until Captain Price, who's more concerned about rescuing a captured informant, dangles the loyalist commanding officer over a ledge.

Earlier in the game, 'Blackout' features SAS newbie Soap MacTavish providing sniper support for Russian government loyalists while they try to retake a village from rebels.

Once the shot is fired, assuming it has actually hit the target (the ballistics are malevolently real, other than the bullet always lopping off the target's arm no matter where you end up hitting him), you will have to use the gun again to take out a helicopter pilot (though at a much shorter range).

One mission in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare places you as a sniper with a very-long-range rifle, trying to take out a single target from about a mile away.

Turned around in the first Russian mission of the later World at War, where upon meeting a sniper, he instead gives you his rifle and uses himself as sniper bait.

And by 'covers you', I mean 'uses you as sniper bait.'

Kind of inverted in the first Russian mission in the original Call of Duty, where once upon meeting a sniper, he covers you.

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Several levels throughout the Call of Duty series (even though your character is never identified as a sniper or marksman, beyond the player character 'Soap' in the fourth game being the only member of his squad given scoped rifles.

Amusingly, though the bad guys are armed with semi-auto pistols and SMGs, they never think to rush you.

This trope is somewhat inverted when going inside areas such as the mansion near the end of the first game - the sniper goes through the mansion taking people down from about 20 feet away.The Silent Scope series was one big Sniping Mission.