Bizarrely that as the most successful route not what you expect from a game so intent on making you slow down. When trying to reach a vantage point at the top of a museum I got so annoyed with trying to sneak up and dying every time that I opted to just run like hell and hope nobody caught me. There are plenty of opportunities to stay sneaky and out of sight, although that’s easier in some areas than others. Only then can you plan your attack strategy – do you take out isolated targets under the cover of a nearby explosion which masks the sound of your rifle, or do you make yourself known, shoot moving targets and hope that you haven’t missed an enemy sniper sat in the building opposite? Instead you’ll be best served sneaking around, hiding behind cover and spotting your enemies from afar with your binoculars. As soon as you start making a noise things are going to get difficult, and although your inventory features a mchine gun in addition to the sniper rifle and silenced pistol, it’s clear that getting into a firefight in open ground isn’t the best plan – that’s made obvious when you die very quickly. Whether you’re trying to disrupt a convoy (as seen in the demo), infultrate an enemy base or blow up a bridge the premise is the same: keep quiet, keep hidden, and keep killing.
#Sniper elite v2 xbox 360 review series
Set in the 2nd World War and with a story that is trick to spot and easy to forget you follow one guy through a series of increasingly difficult and daring missions. This isn’t a kid’s toy, this is a violently accurate sniping simulator. Moments later, it rips through the forehead of the enemy in a glorious x-ray moment that gives you a brutal idea of just how much time it’s going to take to clear that particular mess up. With the wind blowing and gravity doing what it does (COD snipers might need to look that up) you squeeze the trigger and follow your bullet as it flies through the air, moving across a bit and always dropping as a result of the world around it. The title of the game gives a pretty good impression of what this is all about, and while you’ll always get COD and Battlefield players bragging about their ability to sit 42 miles away from their enemy and still kill them, their bragging will stop short when they see just what you’ve achieved here. And so with Sniper Elite V2, 505 Games have taken a reasonable, but not spectacular game from a few years back and given it a lick of HD coloured paint. Breathing life back into last-gen titles can be a bit of a risk, and while some have been hugely successful (like Ratchet and Clank for example) others have suffered from either some unfortunate design decisions (hello Worms 3D).
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