![]() ![]() Sniper Elite has drilled it into me – all through the campaign and the games from previous – that to be stealthy is to be safe, but now it wants us to go charging about in a half-arsed CoD wannabe mode. There are the usual choices with Free for All and various team based modes, but honestly, they just don’t work for me. What isn’t though are the PvP modes and I’m not going to lie, they are pretty dreadful. Still, the constraints are there for a reason, I guess, and so the new mode is pretty good fun. Now, I’m fairly sure that in the sniping fraternity what I did isn’t called camping, but rather “doing the bloody job”, so to be punished for it seemed faintly ridiculous. The game had other ideas, however, and told me that it had detected that I was camping, and had shown the enemy exactly where I was hiding. The first time I was invaded, I decided to play it smart, and set up a perimeter, laying in wait for the enemy to appear over the horizon. In practice, this can happen from either end of the scopes, so to speak, as if you choose to leave your game open, you can be invaded.Īdmittedly, this is fun, and hunting down real humans is a lot more challenging than finding and killing an AI sniper, but it does have a problem. There is the standard campaign, which can be played co-op if you have a handy friend hanging about Survival, which pits a group of four snipers against twelve waves of enemies PvP which is, in my opinion, a complete waste of time, and finally a new option called Axis Invasion – the most interesting proposition on the list, as it charges you with invading another player’s game before finding and killing them. Now, the first choice you have to make when playing the game is what mode you wish to play. So, the story is good, the presentation is excellent and so Sniper Elite 5 pretty much hangs on how the game plays out. With an achievement tied to hitting one from more than 100 metres away, you best get practicing! Sniper Elite 5 excels in how individual organs get minced by high velocity bits of lead teeth and hats fly, and lining up multiple Germans before shooting a line of them with one bullet to save ammo is all very good indeed. All in all, the graphics are truly impressive and those testicle shots are as wince-making as ever. The way the French countryside looks, and the ability you have to see for miles with the binoculars and through the scope on your rifle is all superb, whilst the series staple – the much vaunted X-ray shots – have had an overhaul. Presentation wise and Sniper Elite – as a series – has always been pretty good, but as you’d expect with the power of the new generation of consoles to leverage, the devs have upped the game this time. In fact, the scene is perfectly set for a blasting good time. Now, finding out what Operation Kraken involves is a big part of the story so I’m going to gloss over that part and just say that the saga is split over nine episodes, and there is no shortage of things to do and Nazis to shoot. Yet again, a Nazi has come up with a top secret super weapon that is invulnerable to everything except one man and a rifle, and so we, as the Shadow, have to find out the details and stop something called Operation Kraken, putting an end to its mastermind, a certain Officer Möller. And fortunately, whilst the previous Sniper Elite games certainly did that, the fifth installment doesn’t disappoint either. ![]() As Karl Fairburne's story continues, players will hopefully be able to find new weapons, abilities, and gear that they love, as well as enjoy new experiences that are completely unique to the legendary Sniper Elite franchise of games.It’s the story of Sniper Elite 5 which is the first hook it has to grab us and drag us along to the finale. The Invasions, which involve other gamers attacking their fellows during campaign missions, are sure to keep fans on their toes.Īlong with the multiplayer aspects of Sniper Elite 5, the title brings players into a new phase of the Sniper Elite franchise. In addition to the co-op modes, Sniper Elite 5 includes a new Invasion Mode as well, providing players with increasingly unique experiences. For that reason, it might be best for gamers to work through the campaign before they brave the enemy waves available in Survival. ![]() Indeed, the survival mode is complex and difficult even with four snipers coordinating with one another. ![]() In order to survive, players should invest in unlocking new skills in Sniper Elite 5. This mode requires up to four players to defend an area against hordes of enemies, similar to Halo firefights and Gears of War defense modes. Aside from the campaign, however, fans can also get together to play Survival. ![]()
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