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Sniper elite v2 for pc12/20/2023 ![]() The first will help you take out large groups who are too close to be tackled one by one, and the latter lets you kill enemies without drawing attention with the sound of gunfire, an especially useful tool when infiltrating indoor locations. Inevitably, you’ll get to use your SMG and silenced pistol as well. You have tripwires and land mines, which can be strategically placed to guard your flanks while you’re busy looking the other way. Luckily, you’re armed with more than just a sniper rifle to help you out of those sticky situations where you let them get too close. While it might be tempting to spend all your time scoped in and getting headshots from a distance, you may end up getting gunned down from behind. If you give them enough time, you will find that the enemies are annoyingly adept at flanking and making their way towards your position. If you’re spotted by one enemy, he won’t hesitate to let his buddies know where you are and send a hail of bullets your way. If you fire a shot, they will notice, they will look for you, and in all likelihood, they will eventually find you. The enemies in Sniper Elite V2 are also surprisingly aggressive. For the most part, they react like real people would to a sniper in the area they scatter, head for cover, and scan windows and rooftops for the intruder. This isn’t the typical shooter AI you might be used to, where you can hang out behind cover somewhere and pick them off as peek out from their designated spots. The enemies are pretty smart, sometimes frustratingly so. The gameplay provides a decent challenge. Everyone: Fighting the Germans (and the Russians) With that said, the plot is not too memorable, and acts mainly as a means for you to pretend you’re playing for something more than the headshots. The story takes place over a few days in one city, but the time of day and locations range from the city square in the afternoon to a decrepit church at night, and the experience is quite varied overall. This isn’t necessarily to the detriment of the gameplay though. ![]() You’ll face the same types of objectives as you play through the story: infiltrate the location, place explosives to detonate remotely, kill the target, and so on. You’ll often clear out the enemies guarding a location from a distance, and then venture inside where they’re lurking around every corner. The game usually manages to strike a nice balance between close quarters stealth and longer ranged sniping. Hundreds of infantry, dozens of snipers, and a handful of tanks will fall prey to your trigger finger. You will be surprised at just how much firepower the enemy will use in an attempt to stop just one pesky US sniper though. It would be nice to have a friendly voice around sometimes, and I will certainly be persuading one of my friends to join me. There is a war going on after all, and it seems a little odd (especially since we know who won) that there seems to be no one else around fighting on your side. I imagine this is why they threw the ability to play through the campaign with a friend online as a spotter-sniper team, along with a few other co-op modes. While it is thoroughly invigorating to take out a tank with your sniper rifle by hitting the cap of the fuel tank, or to finish off an entire group of enemies from a distance without being spotted, it does get a little lonely at times when the action is low. You are truly a one man army, and it’s up to you to be your own sniper, spotter, and backup team. They don’t want it badly enough to send you in with some assistance however. Your mission isn’t just to kill the bad guys you’re crippling what remains of German forces while also trying to keep the Russians from getting their hands on German scientists who have intimate details of the V2 rocket program - intel that America wants for themselves. Don’t let that deter you too much though the story itself is a little different from what you might expect, thanks to an added Cold War twist. That’s right, like the first Sniper Elite, it is yet another game set during what is possibly the most overused historical period in the history of the genre. In the campaign, you take on the role of Karl Farlsburg, an OSS officer deployed to Berlin during the final days of World War Two. So when I played through the demo of Sniper Elite V2 on PS3 for the first time, I knew right away that I had to have it. I’m talking about stealthy, tactical, “one shot, one kill”, one man (or in my case, girl) army, invisible threat kind of sniping. ![]() I don’t mean the camping at the back of the base, guarding my precious kill/death while my teammates go for the objective kind of sniping. This will probably get my name put on a government watchlist somewhere, but I really love sniping.
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