The simple answer is yes, but strap in: Here comes the more detailed answer.įirst off, the visuals have had a considerable upgrade. OK, enough about glorious sniper shots, what has this newly remastered version of this seven year old game brought to the table? Has the spit and polish been worth it? Look, I’d snipe my way through Sniper Elite V2 Remastered all the time if I could.
I just love how when you get that perfect shot the camera changes to “bullet cam”, following the path of the projectile as it zeroes into its target, shattering bone, material and steel in a slow motion dance, punctuated with a puff of claret.Īnyone who says that the X-ray camera and bullet cam of Sniper Elite game aren’t the prime reason you play thease games are fooling themselves (also, anyone who has played any game in the series and didn’t snipe the downstairs operations of enemies at least once is lying to you). Ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to Sniper Elite V2 Remastered, once again the focused sniper shot is the most ‘piece de resistance’ in this game, as well as bullet cam and the X-ray camera that kicks in when when you manage to fire that perfect shot, striking the death blow. Released in 2012, Rebellion’s Sniper Elite V2, has you playing as US Sniper Karl Fairburne who has to infiltrate war-time Berlin to stop the German V2 rocket programme technology falling into the wrong hands. I gave myself a virtual high-five after that one.
Then, I took a punt and aimed for the tank’s rear-mounted fuel tank, which I miraculously hit, causing one of the biggest explosions I’d encountered so far in the game. I manged to snipe not one, not two but three belt-worn grenades, causing them to explode in glorious bursts of orange fire. Now, I’m not one to usually blow my own gaming trumpet but I have to say I impressed even myself in how this skirmish ended. I decide I’ll take out the soldiers, one by one, with my sniper rifle then deal with the tank – and this is where Sniper Elite V2’s single greatest feature comes into play: The focused sniper shot. I start to sweat and weigh up my options.
Making things a tad difficult is the German tank parked to my left, its turret trained on my position. He has papers I need to retrieve – but I need to clear the area first. Lying on the ground is the body of a Nazi collaborator, his body limp and lifeless, taken out earlier by a sniper shot from my trusty Springfield M1903 sniper rifle.
The troop truck they jumped out of is parked nearby. Out of a window to my right, I see a gaggle of German soldiers, gathered behind barricades. I’m hunkered down in the second floor of a bombed-out building in war-torn Berlin.