Sniping Mission: Difference between revisions

** [[Vice City]] had a fairly similar mission. You have to protect an ally during a drug deal.

** Also, a mission where you have to snipe about 25 Cubans as fast as possible.

* Multiple times throughout the ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' series.

* ''[[Resident Evil]] 4'' has this twice, with the second requiring the user to defend both themselves ''and'' the target.

* The {{spoiler|second}} fight against {{spoiler|Vamp}} in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''. Different from the other two because {{spoiler|Vamp}} does not have a sniper rifle, he is instead attacking your escort with his knives, and of course if she dies it's game over. It's not a very difficult boss battle, though.

** It's also entirely pointless. In what is the series' best case of ''[[The Battle Didn't Count]]'', {{spoiler|even after Raiden successfully shoots Vamp several times in the face and prevents Emma's health bar from even reaching the half way mark, she is critically wounded, and you are taken to her death scene. Way to waste your time.}}

** Or advancing the clock on your PS2 a few weeks so he dies of old age.

** Despite the cheap methods of defeating The End, the game rewards you for going the extra mile and NOT draining his life bar, but to actually break his stamina bar.

* And to round out the series, ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' puts you up against Crying Wolf, who uses a ''[[BFG|rail gun]]'' with a sniper scope (that is, when she's not trying to trample you). Like the fight with The End, though, you can use other weapons against her. Defeating her results in you getting the rail gun, which will be essential (due to its lethality) for an upcoming segment.

* While not a true boss battle, you have to bring down a sniper in a building who's found you and your comrade in the ''Call of Duty: World at War'' mission "Vendetta." As your comrade will only act as bait twice, a way to overcome this through a gameplay exploit is to remember which window he calls out, quit and resume the mission from the main menu. Immediately put your crosshairs on that window, hold your breath when he asks if you're ready, and hopefully the sniper will walk right into the shot. You also have to kill a German general at the near-end of the mission before he can escape off-screen to the right side, although there's an Achievement/Trophy for landing the fatal blow with a pistol, and he has at least one more marksman covering his escape.

* The Nosferatu battle in ''[[Resident Evil Code Veronica]]'' is the only time in the game you get to use a sniper rifle.