A certain amount of planning is necessary to move around the map without being spotted and coming under attack from all sides. Obviously, it is not always that simple with multiple alarm points being hidden from view and numerous sentries or harder to kill ‘Jaeger’ soldiers patrolling the whole area.
I tended to survey my surroundings with binoculars first to tag as many enemies as possible and then took out any alarm systems before I did anything else. The Spy Academy mission which involves breaking into a heavily guarded fortress to eavesdrop on a secret meeting took me about three hours to fully complete and was the perfect illustration of how both of these play styles have to be combined to succeed. Your secondary weapon (a submachine gun), pistol, and knife can be wielded more efficiently in those situations. It is important to remember that a sniper’s rifle is not of much use when fighting at close quarters or inside buildings. It is great fun to set yourself up in an elevated position and snipe enemies ‘ghost style’ until there is no one left standing but it is also possible to just run and gun your way across the map.
You can choose to play in a completely stealthy manner, be an all-out killing machine, or mix and match the two playing styles.
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The ability to climb in certain areas is refreshing as it makes it much easier to traverse to the perfect sniping spot or hidden weapon upgrade bench. Some of the larger objectives can be completed in two different ways bringing a welcome level of flexibility to proceedings, there is no set order in which to fulfill any of your goals and there are even multiple exfiltration points this time around. A meeting between Japanese officers and their Nazi counterparts was very enjoyable to disrupt (killing everyone obviously) but was only signposted by a few Japanese flags that I had spotted flying around the area. The level of immersion is much greater than it was in the last game, to the extent that I even discovered events taking place while exploring my surroundings that were never mentioned in my mission brief or side mission list. On one occasion I failed to poison an officer and missed out on unlocking a rifle but I soon got over the disappointment by rather satisfyingly blowing him up with a ‘Panzerfaust’ anti-tank weapon. Eliminating these targets in the way specified in the mission brief unlocks special weapons to be used in-game. Multiple side missions are also available ranging from sabotaging enemy defences to tracking down and eliminating named targets. As more information is discovered from sources such as locked safes and overheard enemy conversations more objectives are added to your to-do list.
For example, after landing on a beach in a dingy rather than getting straight into my usual routine of tagging enemies with my binoculars and then killing everyone in a grey uniform, I spent a minute or so just marveling at the motion of the waves, the pebbles, the rocky cliffs and my wet clothing as the rain poured down on me.Īt the start of each chapter, it is possible to pull up a map of your local environment and a list of the main objectives that need to be completed before you can exfiltrate and finish the mission. The fine detail on screen is also pretty impressive and caused me to stop and marvel at it on several occasions. Something called ‘Photogrammetry’ has been used to capture real-world locations and allow them to then be stunningly recreated in game form.
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Players familiar with the series will have a general idea of what to expect graphically from this title but this has to be the best looking Sniper Elite yet. After coming across intelligence concerning a dastardly new Nazi plot known as ‘Operation Kraken’, Karl needs to find as much information as he can about a new superweapon and then close down the project before it can be unleashed. The game is set around D-Day and begins with our hero softening up ‘Atlantikwall’ German defences around the coast of Brittany just before the beginning of the allied invasion. Join me as I get tooled up in an overfamiliar cliché montage and set out to liberate 1944 France, in the Xbo圎ra review of Sniper Elite 5. Last seen kicking his heels after working his way through Sniper Elite 4, developers Rebellion have decided that it is time to unleash his ‘very particular set of skills’ once more in the fifth installment of this award-winning series. What we need right now is a hero, a real hero like Karl Fairburne ‘Sniper extraordinaire’. Freedom itself is in peril as Nazis once again carve a murderous and destructive path through a formally peaceful land.