![]() ![]() When caught in the line of fire, you can hardly take any hits before you go down. This is gory and downright disgusting, and I love it.īeyond that, the game makes it clear that Karl is no footsoldier. Doing this will make it easier to score an x-ray kill – which is like a Mortal Kombat-style kills that follows your bullet in cool slow-motion replay as it flies toward your target and pierces their bodies. For a start, the right shoulder button will allow players to steady their breathing while aiming through the sights of their sniper rifle. Very much the definitive edition of the gameĪnyone who has played a third-person shooter in the past, will recognise that the controls in Sniper Elite V2 Remastered are fairly straight forward: “aim with the left trigger, shoot with the right”. Rather it is all about the journey that players will take as they rid the world of Nazi scum. Although it lacks a bit in story, the focus here is not Karl and his voice-over work. In essence, the game is very much a shooting gallery, arcade-style game. Sadly, bringing a friend along will not make the main game any longer. Other game modes include things like Kill Tally – the game’s take on horde mode and the traditional co-op experience that lets you go through all missions with a friend. These include short, one-off missions that take players to different locales, where they practice out various tasks. All neatly packed into the full release of the remaster. Characters hardly get any exposition besides the briefing that claims they are the enemy, and Karl Fairburne himself only gets exposition by way of the short voice-over work between missions.Ĭampaign aside, Rebellion also added all of the previously released downloadable content for the game. Once you get the required intel, shoot the necessary bad guy, and successfully exfiltrate out of an operating zone, the mission is done, and you move on the next briefing screen. I will admit that the game is a fairly simple-minded affair. The missions take Karl from the ruined outskirts of Berlin, all the way through quarries, dry valleys, and even mountain research bases disguised as mines. ![]() All before the Russians get their hands on it. Here, it is up to OSS operative Fairburne to take to the streets, ruined buildings, and even watchtowers and mountainous sniper nests, in order to take out the last group of men with the power to make the world burn once and for all.Īs you progress through the admittedly linear six-hour campaign, you must infiltrate behind enemy lines to gather intel on a secretive group of scientists and cripple their work on a German V2 rocket program. The first few missions are set during the final days of World War II, as the remaining Nazi forces try their darndest to rule over what is left of Berlin. In Sniper Elite V2 Remastered, you play as Karl Fairburne, a master sharpshooter and elite marksman. As soon as you start the campaign, it throws you into the thick of things with nothing but the introductory cutscene to get you going. In terms of story, Sniper Elite V2 Remastered wastes no time in getting the ball rolling. However, does it deliver where it matters most? Is it worthy of being called a remaster? In this Vamers Sniper Elite V2 Review, I go over exactly why I think it certainly does.ĭestroying the Nazi regime, one scientist at a time It promises incredible visuals by way of upgraded textures, added ambient occlusion, better screen ratios, overhauled lighting, and a heck of a lot more. As such a whole new generation will now have a chance to try our this classic.įor all intent and purpose, Sniper Elite V2 Remastered is a brand-new, upgraded and reworked version of the 2012 masterpiece. The Sniper Elite franchise is at the heart of this review, whereby the second game in the series has been remastered. Fortunately, both franchises are entertaining as much as they are challenging, and both emphasise stealth and long-distance shooting. As it stands, Rebellion Development’s Sniper Elite and CI Games’ Sniper: Ghost Warrior franchises are the only two that focus on sniper warfare as a whole. ![]() Proper sniper games are few and far between. New characters would be better if they had their own VO. ![]()
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