I also challenge you not to smile when you get a two-for-one headshot that burrows a bullet through four sets of ear canals. Destroying these targets skilfully – by a shot into a petrol tank lid, ammo box or right through their scope – is endorphins plus. The only time you'll not feel like a wolf let loose in a day care is when a tank shows up, or if you get pinned down by a mounted machine gun or an enemy sniper. Providing you can keep them at a distance, even a pack of goose-stepping grunts are no match for you. Nailing that hole-in-one shot – the hole being somebody's eye socket – is as gratifying as it is ghoulish. Think of it as golf but with a high-powered boomstick instead of a 3-wood. It takes some skill, too – you need to consider bullet drop, wind, breath control and moving targets need to be led correctly. Sniping, as you'd expect, is the way to go 90% of the time. You either sneak around and get in very close with your Welrod (read: a WWII silenced pistol that's useless beyond spitting distance) or you go long range. Ammo for your machine guns is ludicrously low and the targeting system and damage output for this style of gunplay have been built to be deliberately obtuse and ineffective. Standard run and gun tactics will get you killed.
If you've never played a Sniper Elite game, the concept is a bit different from your usual shooter – especially when you crank up the difficulty to "Sniper Elite". Expect a few much needed extra hours here. The "Assassinate the Fuhrer" mission, along with all the original DLC (Saint Pierre, Neudorf Outpost, The Landwehr Canal) have been included for free. That and I simply can't resist one more opportunity to shoot Adolf right in the moustache. While it's not resplendent, Rebellion has done a decent job of making a half-destroyed German pop in 4K and it's great to be back in the boots of the ridiculously grizzled Karl Fairburne, an OSS assassin who sounds like he gargles gravel every morning after a whiskey breakfast.
#PS3 SNIPER ELITE V2 REVIEW 720P#
Personally, I was lured out of cover for the chance to actually see my victims without a scope (the PS3 was a 720p study in murky browns). Sales seem strong for developer Rebellion, too.īe that as it may, they've decided to set their sights on the remastered route for a (relatively easy) shot at hopeless nostalgics like myself. Fast forward to today and I'm happy to say that we're on the right side of a fourth major release of this tactical third-person shooter. Having this become a continuing franchise worthy of its own niche fan base of wannabe Lee Harvey Oswalds didn't seem like a long-shot. That said, I also recognised that there was a ton of potential present. Developmental targets were grazed rather than hit square. Visuals, movement, controls, storyline – you name it it was acceptable for the time, but could have been done better. Secondly, it was clear that every facet outside of this experience's drawcard – shooting people horrifically from another postcode – was in need of polish.
#PS3 SNIPER ELITE V2 REVIEW PLUS#
For starters, you could blow through it on a respectable difficulty in four hours plus change. When I took aim at the original Sniper Elite V2 in 2012 on PS3, I remember thinking it was two things: short and scrappy.
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