![]() ![]() These gory moments return, with sharper, grislier anatomical detail than ever, but - at the default frequency setting - don’t feel gratuitous. Of course, Sniper Elite’s signature move remains its slo-mo x-ray kill shots, showing the horrific damage that a single bullet can do to a human body as it tears through flesh, bone, and organs. A pistol fitted with a suppressor may only utter a strangely satisfying and effectively silent “PTT!”, but will require you be closer to a target to make a kill, risking being spotted by other enemies. Some of these tricks have featured in the Sniper Elite series before, but they’re perfected here, providing more and better tactical options for how to progress in missions.Īway from physical stealth, there are also more tools at your disposal for silencing weapons - nearly every gun can be fitted with a suppressor to minimise noise, but this in turn loops into the improved tactics, as “suppressed” isn’t the same as “silenced”, and adding one may mean a trade off in power. You’re also incentivised to hide downed enemies, to prevent detection and alarms being raised. Bottles can be thrown to distract enemies, decoys used to attract attention, and even a humble whistle can lure infantry away from their patrols, where you can dispatch them with sneaky melee attacks. Fairburne is almost a WW2 era Solid Snake now, albeit without so much hiding in boxes. It also significantly improves upon the stealth gameplay of its predecessors. ![]() These often add significant depth to the game’s story and world, although there could be slightly better placing of these - for instance, in the first mission, you’ll likely have already destroyed a series of anti-air guns before finding the secret plans that hint at their existence. The scale allows more exploration too, either to go off and complete marked side missions, or to discover extra objectives hidden around the maps. This affords the player freedom in how to reach and solve objectives, or in making their way past - or through - enemy troops. It’s bigger, without feeling bloated, with mission maps that aren’t quite open world, but are far more traversable than what’s been seen in the series before. Over the course of eight lengthy missions, Fairburne is drawn into a surprisingly engaging tale that sees him crossing paths with scrappy members of the French Resistance and taking out cruelly evil Nazis, all while trying to dismantle the nefarious ‘Project Kraken’.ĭespite its broad and continuing similarity to its predecessors, Sniper Elite 5 is a perfect evolution of what came before. The single player campaign finds the series’ preternaturally gifted sniper Karl Fairburne back with a veritable arsenal of long-distance and up-close weaponry, charged with stopping a(nother) secret Nazi project before it can turn the tide of the conflict. Mild sarcasm aside, while Sniper Elite 5 won’t be winning any awards for originality of setting, it is a significant improvement on its predecessors, continuing the series’ evolution from fun-but-forgettable specialised shooter into one of the best tactical stealth games on the market. Format: Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, PCīrace yourself - Rebellion’s latest entry in its Sniper Elite series takes players to the never-before-charted setting of World War II, on the run-up to the totally unexplored Normandy landings. ![]()
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