![]() Sniper Elite 5 does include a new mechanic that is pretty interesting in the campaign, and that is the function of invading other players games. What I do remember is all the beautiful scenery and bullet cam shots. There’s honestly not much to say about it, because I’m having a hard time remembering the details of it 2 days after completion. ![]() The story being weak isn’t really a concern with what the game is trying to give you, don’t think too much about it, just keep mowing through the enemies. The campaign of Sniper Elite has never really been the draw, and it mainly serves as a reason to line several hundred Nazis up in front of your sniper scope and tear through them. The campaign involves you trying to stop a Nazi plot to destroy America, and it’s not exactly the most dramatic of stories. Sniper Elite 5’s story is nothing to write home about, but it’s fine. There’s no wrong way to play Sniper Elite 5, but there are a lot of different ways. On the flip side, if you want more of a challenge, turn off the game’s assisted aiming function present on Normal difficulty and solve how to handle your long range shots on your own with wind measurements and distance scaling. If you don’t want to deal with all the hassles of the difficulties and logistics of sniping, you can turn off wind and bullet drop, as well as various other functions like how your heart rate affects your aiming stability or how being shot shakes the screen. The usual formula offered by Sniper Elite remains, with heavy customization on how often you want to see the kill cams and a myriad of toggleable options. Grenades, bullets, knives, mines will give you detailed close-ups of every little bit of damage dealt. Yes, the X-Ray cams are just as good as ever, with enhancements on the formula that make them happen in more scenarios and with more focus and detail than previously. You get to watch an X-Ray camera as the bullet passes through your target and breaks bones and organs. For the unfamiliar, Sniper Elite’s big gimmick that makes it stand out is the fact that often when you shoot an enemy, your camera will detach from the player and follow the bullet through the air in slow motion. Let me start off by focusing what everyone who comes to Sniper Elite 5 is looking for. Beautiful as ever X-Ray cams, smooth gameplay that can be as challenging as you desire, and a new functionality for multiplayer makes Sniper Elite 5 stand out as both the best that the series has to offer, and a game that feels as familiar and consistent as ever. While the overall enhancement to the systems has morphed, the series’s core feeling and gameplay has stuck around through all 8 (There were 3 spin-off games with Zombies) releases. They found a formula that works, and have made it exponentially better over time, but they hold true to the motto of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Sniper Elite is a series that other developers need to take some notes from.
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