History Main / SnipingMission

* The final mission in Portland in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto 3''. The character on your side has to plant a bomb on a ship, but the ship's resident bad guys don't much appreciate the idea. Your job is therefore to sit on a tower a short distance from the ship and snipe at the bad guys before they can kill your guy. Said job is made particularly hard by the tendency of the bomb planter to calmly walk out of cover and into assault rifle fire before you've eliminated all resistance. Interestingly, it is possible to disregard the orders and walk on board the ship with the bomb-planter, eliminating the bad guys with standard weaponry.
** ''ViceCity'' 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.
*** ''GTA 4'' had a similar mission, but at least the person who you were covering was sane and could shoot back.

** ''Max Payne 3'' has an exampl3e in the second chapter where you cover Giovanna [[UnexpectedShmupLevel from a helicopter]], and in the third chapter while covering Passos in the stadium.

* ''FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' has the level "Urban Decay", where you have to clear an abandoned building of Replica Snipers armed with Type-7 [[DisintegratorRay particle beam]] rifles, which can [[OneHitKill vaporize you in one hit]]. Luckily, you have the same weapon.

*** The Perfect Agent isn't nearly as hard as it sounds, since you start with a gun disguised as a laptop. And can potentially kill one of the snipers on the roof so they drop they're rifle where you can reach it.

* ''FirstEn thatcounterAssaultRecon'' has the level "Urban Decay", where you have to clear an abandoned building of Replica Snipers armed with Type-7 [[DisintegratorRay particle beam]] rifles, which can [[OneHitKill vaporize you in one hit]].

* The console version of ''007 {{Nightfire}}'' includes a mission roughly halfway through where Bond faces a good dozen or so snipers while moving through an abandoned nuclear power plant. Except for the few interior firefights, most of the gunfighting consists of patiently hiding and watching for muzzle flashes and where the enemy bullets impact to locate the snipers and shoot them before they get a bead on you.

* ''007: {{Nightfire}}'' had a level with a major sniper-escort section where a Bond has to provide sniper support from the tower of an airbase. Subverted, because the silenced Walther pistol that is signature to the franchise is [[HitScan more accurate and does more damage]], and the fact that AI Bondgirl being escorted will react to gunfire by taking cover behind an object that provides maximum exposure to all present hostiles. There is also a second sniper section shows up later in the same level.

** ''Contracts'' has a reimagining of the same mission. The easiest way to complete it is to invoke this trope. Several missions throughout the series allow for this. And of course, there's ''Absolution'''s pre-order ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sniper Challenge]]

A SnipingMission is when the player is tasked with using a [[SniperRifle long-range weapon]] to attack far-away targets.

Many [[SnipingMission sniping missions]] are also [[EscortMission Escort Missions]]. In these, the player, situated over a great distance with a long-range weapon, must eliminate enemies who are trying to prevent an {{NPC}} from completing some task, be it reaching the exit, activating the consoles, planting the bombs, or what have you.

* The ''VideoGame/SilentScope'' series was one big SnipingMission. At the very end of each one... "[[OneBulletLeft Bring him down with one shot!]]"

* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 2'' had a small part in a mission where a sniper rifle is placed before you over a rocky ledge, allowing you to see a bunch of enemies over a long, open area - with the main character saying "Anybody need some sniper practice?". The main character would yell out their kill count after each escalating kill, ''louder''. The lines are: "That's one. ''That's two.'' ''That's three!'' THAT'S FOUR! [[ThisIsTvTropesBitch ''THAT'S FIVE, MOTHERFUCKERS!'']]

!!Examples of [[SnipingMission sniping]] [[BossBattle boss battles]]

* In ''SyphonFilter: The Omega Strain'' after retrieving your gear in Taherir Palace, you have to protect Zohar with sniper fire from [[RespawningEnemies endless waves of mooks]] [[HoldTheLine until your extraction chopper arrives]].

* Taherir Palace in ''SyphonFilter: The Omega Strain''.

* Multiple times throughout the ''SlyCooper'' series.

** ''Max Payne 3'' has an exampl3e in the second chapter where you cover an escaping hostage [[UnexpectedShmupLevel from a helicopter]], and in the third chapter while covering Passos in the stadium.

* The counter-sniping segment of ''MaxPayne 3'''s Chapter 3.

** ''Max Payne 3'' has an exampl3e in the second chapter where you cover an escaping hostage [[UnexpectedShmupLevel from a helicopter]].

** Part of the second level of ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' involves counter-sniping against Jackals armed with plasma rifles. The other option being to run up close and gank them...

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** ''Max Payne 3'' has it in the second chapter where Max must provide sniper cover for an escaping hostage [[UnexpectedShmupLevel from a helicopter]].

* Every mission in ''SniperElite'' is a sniping mission.

** One of the co-op game modes, Overwatch, takes the concept to extremes, casting one player as a sniper, armed only with his rifle, and the other as his spotter, tasked with tagging enemies for the sniper to take out.

* Inverted in ''HalfLife 2: Episode 1'', in which the PlayerCharacter's sidekick Alyx at one point grabs a fallen enemy's sniper rifle and provides covering fire for ''him''.

* While it isn't a mission ''exactly'', there's a certain trench area in VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} filled with Super Mutants. The optimum strategy, therefore, is to use a stealth boy and snipe them.

* The first SiN has a short section wherein you must snipe all the guards on an oil rig before you can board it. An easy mission, as the guards are never close together and have predictable patrol routes.

* The [[spoiler: second]] fight against [[spoiler: Vamp]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. 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 ''TheBattleDidntCount'', [[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.]]
*** To add even more insult to injury, not only [[spoiler:did Emma die anyway, but Vamp survived a bullet to the head due to his HealingFactor and makes a return in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'']].

** 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.

* 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.

* Quill in ''RedFaction II''.