That feeling of a single moment in time, where you have an enemy lined up and have a variety of methods from which to remove them from the battlefield, still feels absolutely magnificent. While the idea of having a dedicated button to the scope of Fairburne’s rifle feels odd, it’s a minor gripe at best. When you are in a prime position to cause some mass chaos though? Sniper Elite V2 is still a masterclass in precision. It’s those moments between the core sniping sections that feel properly antiquated not only by Sniper Elite’s far more fluid and engaging sequels but by the action genre as a whole. Combat itself using anything other than your trusty sniper rifle is a fool’s errand, with ammo for sub-machine guns being scarce and the enemy AI being woefully inconsistent in these close-quarter encounters. Karl Fairburne may be this era’s greatest sniper, but he also happens to sound like an elephant in a mosh pit if he so much as breaks into a gentle strut when he navigates through the massive level design. The problem here is that the balance between the two ideas never managed to gel properly. Originally attempting to mix stealth gameplay with cover-based shooting between a bit of sniping in checkpoint nests, Sniper Elite V2 never managed to quite get the hang of this lofty idea. The most glaring of these is how confused Sniper Elite V2 felt then and now, with the kind of game it wanted to be. Everywhere else? Some dated ideas do begin to show through the cracks.
Surprisingly, not too badly in the meat and potatoes department where it made its name. How well does Sniper Elite V2 hold up in comparison? Seven years, in which we’ve seen the franchise evolve to gloriously gory new heights in the superb Sniper Elite 3 and 4 sequels which moved the battle further across the European theatre of war. Sniper Elite V2 is back, with a fresh new coat of paint that makes a game of Aryan vs Predator look that much better.
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Developer Rebellion decided to crack out a sequel to a 2005 game, heighten the sniping aspects even further and give players a gory new look into the biological inner workings of a Nazi as you dissected them with 303 calibre rounds from a Lee Enfield rifle. It’d be a shame if somebody were to…misplace a bullet inside of it, know what I mean? Seven years ago, Sniper Elite V2 was that game. That’s a nice skull you got there, Adolf. The Fuhrer is having a bad day, and if there’s one thing that Reich Said Fritz doesn’t need right now, it’s an additional spanner being thrown into his crumbling engine of mass destruction.Ī spanner that happens to be especially adept at killing from afar and being able to improvise his way out of death traps. And by beautiful, I mean that it’s kind of rad to see Hitler’s war machine being smashed apart by the combined Allied forces who are busy moving in for the kill. The mode I had the most fun with is the Overwatch (no not THE Overwatch) mode.It’s a beautiful day in 1943 Germany. You can also play another mode where you make your way to the center of a map, picking up stuff as you go.
You can work together taking down wave after wave of enemies which is fun. The multiplayer modes are also a lot of fun.
While I would say that the campaign is the real draw in Sniper Elite V2. I played on the standard difficulty and found it to be more fun, even if the AI was a tad dumb from time to time. For those looking to test themselves and have a more realistic option, this is for you. If you play the game on the highest difficulty the AI is ruthless and you better make each shot count. If you manage to nail the shot just right, you get this gory kill which is as brutal as some of the stuff we have seen in the recent Mortal Kombat games. If you hold your breath you can do what is pretty much a bullet time type of deal. However, the game is at its best when you are concealed and lining up a long-range shot.Ī huge part of the fun of this is the way Sniper Elite V2 is so brutal with its kills. You have silenced pistols, machine guns, melee attacks, and so on. I love sniping and this game is a joy to do it in! The gameplay on offer here is great. The real draw to a game like this is of course the sniping and it is great. The story is not as cinematic as say a Call of Duty WWII, but Sniper Elite V2 still manages to tell a very engaging story and it is a story that is easily going to last you ten or so hours so it is a very decent length.
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