He quickly ignited the truck into flames. When a german truck pulled up with a turret in the pick-up Karl aimed his rifle and saved the men from being mowed down.
He made quick work of the two German spotters and proceeded down to assassinate the final spotter. Karl finishes putting his rifle together and headed out. Karl was putting his M1 Garand together when a fellow soldier Tommy came rushing through the battle to tell him sniper's were needed. Minor issues aside, headshot enthusiasts and stealth fans will find much to love here.In June 1942, during the Battle of Gazala, OSS Sniper Karl Fairburne has recently arrived at Tobruk with orders to hold Tobruk against the German army along with 35,000 British soldiers. The tactical components have been well thought out, despite predictable enemy AI upsetting the balance somewhat. In closing, Sniper Elite V2 does a lot of things right. Overwatch mode is the standout offering, casting one player in the role of a sniper providing support for a ground level companion as they complete a range of objectives. A selection of multiplayer modes provides further mileage, along with some unique twists on the military shooter formula. The solo campaign offers around 10 hours of gameplay, and can be played co-operatively online to pad it out further.
Even on the higher difficulty settings where guard patrols will come at you in force, their attack strategy is enough to make one of Darth Vader's stormtroopers blush. Picking them off from a safe distance is not unlike shooting fish in a barrel. While enemy AI can be lethal if you blow your cover, its movement patterns and behaviour are thoroughly predictable. While these segments show off Sniper Elite V2 at its very best, they also highlight one of its biggest drawbacks. Pulling off an effective kill gives rise to an immense feeling of satisfaction, heightened by the bullet-cam depiction of your handiwork, which shows your target's internal organs being ruptured via an x-ray effect. Trip mines can be affixed to the threshold of a doorway to cover your escape, while proximity mines are useful for booby trapping enemy corpses. There's also a range of explosives on offer that must be used tactically if you want to get out of war-torn Berlin alive. Infiltration is a delicate game, and once your sniper's cover is blown, you're unlikely to last very long.Ī submachine gun, a silenced pistol and a trusty sniper rifle are the tools of your trade, although other weapons can be picked up later on. It starts out stealthy and tense as you creep by enemy patrols in search of a suitable vantage point to pick off your target from.
Missions see players venture behind enemy lines on their lonesome, with only their wits and arsenal as allies. Those rubble-strewn streets and burnt out buildings look glorious at the higher resolutions, and are functional environments where gameplay is concerned. In-game backdrops aren't too shabby either. The storyline runs only surface-deep, though newsreel-style cut scenes and effective voice acting help capture the Zeitgeist of war-torn Europe. The game takes place in a battle-ravaged Berlin in the closing days of World War II, with players controlling a US officer dropped into the city to stop the Russians from poaching the Nazi's top scientists. Sniper Elite V2 is essentially a reimagining of its 2005 predecessor, set within the same time frame, with a different spin on events.