The end goal is always the same: find your target and kill him. Dropping players into action as Karl Fairburne, a gravely voiced, stoic OSS officer budding snipers will find themselves entering an entirely new realm set across eight distinct missions, opting for a more open-world feel to gameplay than either of its predecessors.Īs has been the bane of the previous 'Sniper Elite' games, 'Sniper Elite III' suffers from a pure afterthought of a story, giving characters a clichéd hero to rally behind and a plot pulled from any number of WWII games, films or both. a lot of bombed out cities, bases, and countryside), 'Sniper Elite III' enters the fray taking not just the series, but the WWII game genre to a vastly unfamiliar territory: Africa. With two games taking place in the familiar locales of the WWII Western Front (i.e.
SNIPER ELITE V2 XBOX 360 REVIEW SERIES
2012's 'Sniper Elite V2' would bring the little underdog of a game series back into the forefront with a solid but not flawless single-player campaign and largely tacked-on multiplayer. It's Rebellion's 'Sniper Elite' series that since it's inception in 2005 has amassed a tidy following with the original Xbox/PS2 version fetching a pretty penny on the secondary market. The sniper has made his way into many games, including two series' specifically devoted to his stealthy specialty. When taken in the context of the first-person shooter, specifically the online component, the sniper class is viewed by many as "cheap" or the go-to for the dreaded, "camper." Yet, I'd make the case that even those who malign said class, find it infinitely rewarding to play as now and again.