If your aim is true, you are rewarded with one of the many gruesome and gratifying camera shots that Sniper Elite V2 lovingly serves up. You can hone your targeting by slowly exhaling, which slows time and zooms in slightly. Shots to heads and torsos usually kill or incapacitate your foes. While your SMG and pistol are great teammates, your rifle is the franchise player. Shot through the heart! And also, the lung. Guards usually move in predictable patterns that you can exploit, or you can lure them closer for a cleaner kill. You can often make good progress with sneaky melee kills, silenced pistol shots, and timed rifle reports that are masked by the noise of exploding bombs or tolling bells. Crouch-walking everywhere gets tiresome, but loud footsteps attract hostile attention, and even one enemy in close quarters can spell doom for the fragile sniper. Trip wires, land mines, dynamite, and grenades all blow up in different ways, and having enough firepower to set an extra trap or take out a cluster of advancing enemies can be a big help.īut before you start blowing things up, it behooves you to remain quiet as long as possible. More crucial is your choice of explosives. You can carry a rifle, a submachine gun, and a sidearm, and though you unlock new weapons as you progress, the differences are slight. You are behind enemy lines, and your only allies are the weapons and munitions you carry with you. The beginning of each mission starts out stealthily. Unsurprisingly, PC players get a much-better-looking version of ruined Berlin, enjoying crisp details and lovely skies while Xbox 360 owners deal with softer, more muted visuals. The solid level design makes good use of the setting, as bombed-out buildings and barricaded streets provide lots of nice hiding places for a lone sniper. The story plays out in nicely acted voice-overs and perfunctory cutscenes, providing a decent backdrop for your missions.

Naturally, things don't go as planned and you have to improvise. You're an American sniper sent in to stop the Russians from scooping up Nazi scientists. Like its predecessor, Sniper Elite V2 is set during the closing days of WWII. Now Playing: Sniper Elite V2 Video Review By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

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