In all, the game took me around five hours to complete. Of course, there are many set pieces across the levels where you have to do just that, but within the first few minutes of the mission is not one of them… Certain levels have loud noises that hide the noise of your rifle, yet I would invariably mistime it, despite the visual cue, and end up having to blast a ton of enemies. Try as I might, I couldn’t quite get the hang of sneaking somewhere undetected. The mines and trip-wires allow you to create traps for enemies trying to flank you, so long as you remember to use them, and find a good place to do so. You also get to use mines, trip-wires and two kinds of grenades - though ammo for those is a little more sparse than the various bullets are. There are three sniper rifles that you get to use, as well as a variety of automatic rifles and semi-automatic handguns. It’s certainly graphic, and definitely awesome. Certain ones qualify for an X-Ray, showing exactly which organs, bones or muscles the hot metal tears through. Certain shots will make the camera track the bullet in slow motion, showing you exactly where it hits the enemy soldier. One of the very cool features that the Sniper Elite series boasts of is the bullet cam. There’s also DLC which lets you kill Hitler, but I don’t own that… His mission is to track down and kill the men behind the V2 rocket project, and in the process stop the Soviets from using those very rockets themselves. You control American sniper Karl Fairburne as he engages Nazis across 11 levels, whilst Berlin is besieged by Soviet forces in the closing days of World War II. I’ve never been very good at stealth games, so it’s not something I thought I’d enjoy, much less finish. As I didn’t own the original, I decided to sit down with the sequel: Sniper Elite V2.

It may be true that Sniper Elite 4 is going to come out soon, but I felt that I couldn’t even look at it until I had caught up with the series. Articles // 31st Oct 2016 - 5 years ago // By Andrew Duncan Game Over: Sniper Elite V2

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