NERO (video game)
NERO, or Nero: The Sniper is a Sri Lankan stealth-action third-person shooter video game released in 2021. Development. NERO is Sri Lankan game developed by "Arimac Lanka". NERO is the second game developed by "Arimac Lanka", released five years after the development of its first game, "Canchayudha". The game's budget was $18,000. According to its developer, the game will have a multiplayer version for mobile, and will include in-app purchases. It was titled NERO to pay tribute to Sri Lankan Sniper hero Ranjith Premasiri Madalana, who was known as ""NERO"" in the  period of Eelam war, in which he had 217 confirmed Tamil Tiger kills. Despite its name, the game has not included events from the civil war. Gameplay. The game has three difficulty modes on startup: Easy, Normal, and Hard; and fourthly there is Brutal which unlocks after completing the game at least on Easy. NERO is a stealth-action third-person shooter game. The game for most of it is set in a tropical forest, with a small amount of levels featuring industrial backgrounds. The player is given several objectives in every mission, which are briefed in a cutscene introducing  the mission. When the player takes damage, the screen will show blood splatters. When the character dies, the screen turns black and restarts from a checkpoint. As the player progresses, new checkpoints are saved automatically. Release. The early access was released on 26 September 2021 by Arimac developers. The game has taken three years to develop, starting from 2018.