When things really go wrong a well-placed grenade will do the trick. Karl carries trip wire explosives, mines and dynamite to set up trips and escape routes. Sometimes engaging the enemy is unavoidable. There’s a handy gauge which notifies players if they any in the enemies’ line of sight and about the get discovered. Karl can throw rock to draw enemies out of the way. Slipping past enemy soldiers or carrying out stealth kills is the best way forward. Drawing attention and engaging in a firefight is best avoided. Each level usually sees Karl making his way to a target, either for an assassination or to plant charges. But don’t let any of this put you off, the game looks fine.Īs with the original, Sniper Elite V2 requires a degree of patience. The animations don’t look as smooth as they could be. But this is a remaster, and not a remake, so whilst the textures are better, the 3D models and lighting are not quite up to the quality of other recent titles. Jumping into the game, the visuals are most definitely current-gen. Fairburne fires the first shots of what would, arguably, be very few fired between the US and the Soviet Union during the next 45 years of tension. US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operative, Lieutenant Karl Fairburne, has been inserted behind enemy lines to assist in the defection of German scientists to the US. Players are dropped into the devastated German capital as the enraged Russian army drives itself through the city. The country that controlled the German’s V2 rocket technology would be the country that won the next war. With the Nazi war machine on its knees, both American and Russian priorities have started to change. The game is set in Berlin during the last few days of the Second World War. But in this age whereby Xbox One X owners got a 4K version of Red Dead Redemption with a free patch, shelling out extra cash for a remastered version of a six-year-old game does sit as well as it once did. It does, sort-of, makes sense to spruce up V2. Sniper Elite 4 released in 2017 sending players over to Italy and offering a larger, more open world environment in which to operate.īoth Sniper Elite III and 4, were both released on Xbox One, PS4 and PC, and still stand up well. In 2014, Sniper Elite III swapped Berlin for WWII’s North African theatre of war, and further refined the gameplay. Just when I thought that the era of “remastering” games was over, Rebellion have polished up their aging Sniper Elite V2 for the current gen of consoles.Ģ012’s Sniper Elite V2 cemented Rebellion’s WWII third-person sniping franchise as one of the greats.
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