SNIPER ELITE V2 PS3 PLUS
Plus there”s a silenced single-action pistol that you invariably rely on to prevent the entire third reich from potato mashing your ass before or after an assassination/detonation. The sneaking is complete with wall-hugging and a meter indicating when/if enemies see you. It”s definitely not a game for the impatient you crouch/crawl a lot in order to avoid detection and it”s slow going sneaking around.Īctually, with all the third-person sneaking involved, the game reminded me of both Assassin”s Creed and Metal Gear Solid quite a bit, which I wasn”t expecting. I can understand why someone would tire of this formula, but on the harder difficulties the repetition serves as a good way to get a solid grasp on the mechanics and, at times, awkward, controls… Kind of like Assassin”s Creed, but less fluid and not close-quarters centric. Missions, regardless of their objective, typically play out in the same fashion: sneak into position, snipe/detonate your target(s), sneak (or run) your casino internet way out of the hot spot. Hell, they should have spent that time refining the game”s close-quarters controls just to round out the game a little better.īecause of the game”s somewhat restrictive set En boksholder, der har blackjack skema, har vundet. In my opinion, Rebellion should have focused even more on those mechanics rather than worry about making someone”s face being blown in half look even more gruesome.
Not just sneaking up and melee killing an enemy or using a silenced weapon while you”re crouched unseen behind a stove, but cracking off shots timed with lightning or bell chimes so they go unnoticed is where the money is at. It”s kind of gimmicky just following the bullet as it enters someone”s head does a good job of emphasizing your death dealing, but I”m not convinced that showing their brains getting blown out of their ass actually adds to the game in any tangible way.Ĭonversely, unlike the gratuitous x-ray cam, the various ways of performing stealth kills add to the game and gameplay. Of course the entire display is in slow motion to emphasize the splattery mess your bullet is creating. When you successfully fire a fatal shot at a target, the camera follows your bullet”s flight path until it penetrates the victim, then it goes “x-ray” so you can see the bodily carnage. I guess SEV2″s biggest claim to fame is the “x-ray bullet cam”, aka “ultra violent torn guts and bone shattering death” cam. Even though liberties have been taken with historical accuracy for SEV2, this kind of thing did happen in less specular degrees (to be fair, the only rocket scientist I know of is Wernher von Braun.) How much the game deviates from the actual history is beside the point as it”s still a neat perspective on the WW2 genre, particularly when compared to what we”re used to. Things go to hell, so you end up having to do more than just assassination runs, but the set up is pretty rad. In Sniper Elite V2, you”re tasked with sniping German and/or Russian officials to prevent V2 rocket scientists from defecting to Russia instead of the US. The biggest “success” in the world of rocket science at the end of the war was the German V-2 rocket… Yes, “V2”, like the game”s name! Of particularly high interest were German rocket scientists because they were they were head and shoulders above the rest of the world in the development of jet propulsion for aircraft and missiles.
Bit of a history lesson here (but it”s an interesting one): Towards the end of WW2, the allied nations were racing against Russia to get as many Nazi scientists and engineers to defect to their respective countries. Prior to play, I assumed the V2 meant version two, as it”s a sequel, but it”s actually a tie-in with the game”s storyline. The silver-lining is it unabashedly lets you know what you”re getting away with in games like CoD or Battlefield not that it”s ridiculously hard taking into account wind and gravity (with the assists), just that you”ll need to readjust from what you”re used to… And snap sniping is far less likely. This is especially true of its hardest difficulty setting that uses more realistic bullet ballistics - it”s like being force fed a large slice of humble pie. In that respect, if you don”t like games that are less forgiving with their simulation, you”re only going to get frustrated with Sniper Elite. Sniper Elite V2 is kind of like Gran Turismo, except instead of cars, you “drive” rifles with high powered scopes.