5.0 out of 5 stars A Welcomed Change Frome The FPS Out There. Great graphics and controls, but the campaign is linear and boring. Some of the more open levels give you a small amount of freedom in going about your grim business, adding to the sense of being truly dropped in unfriendly territory by yourself and relying on your wits. But Sniper Elite V2 forces you to play like Rambo and you can only approach most objectives from one direction. The lack of co-op support for challenge missions and character selection in. The sniping gunplay is well designed and endlessly satisfying, and you may even find yourself holding your breath alongside Fairburne as you line up your scope on a key target. Sniper Elite V2 was always a great game, and V2 Remastered gives a new generation of players a chance to experience it. In terms of gameplay, everything that was true of the original V2 is intact here. A successful long range hit will occasionally trigger a slow motion X-ray killcam (a mainstay of the franchise), showing the path of your bullet as it rips through the bone and muscle of the foe who was unfortunate enough to appear in your crosshairs. Nice touches all, if not major additions.For those of us who aren’t John Wick, there’s a breath holding mechanic that, as well as steadying your aim, will bring up a small and shrinking red diamond to indicate where your shot will actually land. The main campaign is short and sweet with some intriguing DLC for people who pre-ordered.
#SNIPER ELITE V2 REVIEW PLUS#
Showcasing in slow-motion the delivery of well-aimed bullets, accompanied by close-up x-rays of shattering bones and ruptured organs, it's arguably utterly gratuitous but, with the focus on a single bullet's destructive capability, really drives home the horror of war in a way many other titles can't match.īrand new content is mainly reserved for the multiplayer side – modes include the familiar Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and Dogtag Harvest, plus Distance King which tests your ranged scope snipe skills – which now support up to 16 players, while characters from Rebellion's Zombie Army series are now playable in both multiplayer and campaign modes. Sniper Elite V2 is a third-person shooter that plays much like any other in the genre with a solid focus on stealth and, of course, sniping. But does this little-remembered jaunt through the Battle of Berlin shoot true If the developers of the Sniper Elite series can be commended for anything in particular, it’s locking in on the art of doing one thing well. V2 Remastered also packs in every bit of content from the 2012 version, including DLC missions such as the infamous 'Kill Hitler' campaign, while the series' grisly-yet-satisfying Kill Cam returns. Sniper Elite V2 Remastered serves as a time machine back to the quaint old days of 2012, when smacking down Nazis was generally considered A-OK. It's pretty enough to warrant the inclusion of a Photo Mode – de rigeur for any title wanting to showcase its looks, these days – and the ability to access this at any point by clicking in both thumbsticks is a nice touch. Settings are recreated with remarkable fidelity, from the bombed-out ruins of Berlin's streets brought to life with posters, shops signs, and other details of lives abandoned, to the subterranean bunkers or train yards of the Nazi war machine whirring along with unsettling efficiency. Sniper Elite V2 Remastered is a solid remaster that allows you to experience the campaign, DLC levels, and visceral, satisfying shooting the game is known for again in 2019. There's a steady pace and tactical approach to each mission, as you skulk through ruins or shadowed landscapes, marking out enemy positions with your binoculars – the magnification of which doubles as a showcase of how well Rebellion has remastered the settings, with fine detail and scurrying counter-snipers clearly discernible from great distance – and finding the highest, safest vantage point from which to take them out.Īs a remastering, this is top tier stuff. Sniper Elite V2 is an award-winning and authentic World War II sniping experience. However, this is far removed from the bullet-ridden shooting galleries that typically populate the genre, instead emphasising stealth, laying traps, and taking out enemies from a distance, one perfect shot at a time.
Set in the dwindling days of the conflict, players take the position of elite sniper Lieutenant Karl Fairburne, dropped into Nazi territory on a mission to stop German scientists behind the development of the V-2 missile from defecting to Russia. Some seven years after its original release, Rebellion's World War II shooter returns, spruced up for modern consoles.