There is also a real sense of place on your missions (Guernsey, the Loire Valley, and more), which is further compounded by the ragtag group of Resistance fighters who help you along the way.īut it’s hard to be impressed by even the best bits of Sniper Elite 5 when almost everything it attempts is better executed in other games. In this way, the atmosphere beneath the game is highly effective, with enemies gradually beginning to fear you as a sort of Grim Reaper figure as you progress through the campaign. In the same way that pro-Hitler propaganda has convinced foot soldiers that they’re winning a losing war - a detail that is subtly baked into enemy barks - news of your deeds travels like wildfire across France. You can, if you’re clever, lose your pursuers by twisting and turning through towns and thickets, eventually resuming your status as The Shadow who is universally feared by the Nazis. This is when the action of Sniper Elite 5 well and truly kicks in, for better and for worse.Īs with most stealth games, enemy alertness is a reversible state. Sure, you might catch him off guard enough to knock him unconscious or incapacitate him with a silenced pistol - but, once in a while, this rogue Nazi will round up all his Nazi pals to ruin your day. On the contrary, you are far more likely to accidentally alert a wandering enemy as you klutz and kerplunk your way through the French countryside. It is rare that you will meticulously pick off lone guards as you slink through the shadows like the spectral sniper of Nazi nightmares. Sniper Elite 5 in action, however - at least on your first run through each of its maps - is something wholly different. There are multiple routes to each objective, which incentivizes experimentation and encourages replayability for run optimization - so far, so good. The “ideal” way to play is to slowly but surely skulk through each level, discreetly picking off opponents with well-placed crackshots from across the map.
You’re kitted out with a sniper rifle (duh), a handgun, and a submachine gun, as well as a variety of equipment including grenades, mines, medkits, and decoys.
Sniper Elite 5 is requires closer, quicker stealth - or a fast escape routeįor the most part, Sniper Elite 5 is a pretty standard third-person shooter. This review would probably have constituted a shopping list of minor complaints had I not been lucid enough to constantly remind myself how much fun I was having.įor what it’s worth, I don’t rate that word: “fun.” It’s a near-useless descriptor that is usually lazy and imprecise, but in this specific instance, it’s the most accurate term I can possibly use. It is, put plainly, a game that is equal parts tactile and coarse, tight and janky, clever and zany. The above vignette is a perfect diorama of Sniper Elite 5, a third-person tactical shooter that is both helped and hindered by that chaos. Someone off screen with no line of sight on me sounds an alarm. Bizarrely, not a single slug connects with me until I have scaled the wall and entered the building, at which point I take a huge amount of damage from … somewhere? I take cover, stitch my wounds, and wait for things to calm down. I am exactly halfway up the wall of an exorbitant chateau in rural France when my cover is blown.Īs I hang suspended from vines that have outgrown their trellis, bullets pelt the area around me, punching concentrated holes in musty stone.
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