Sniper Elite V2

humanji

I've seen a couple. Mainly 6's and 7's. What you'd expect, really. The AI is the main issue.

Nodferatu

i agree the AI is crap to be honest. cancelled my pre order a week ago, was looking forward to it, but the more i played the demo the more i found wrong with it. might pick up a second hand copy dow the line.

Helix

decent game, nothing spectacular, bit of a change of pace from everything else out there at the moment. will have a full review up tomorrow

richymcdermott

didnt like the demo , why would i wanna play the most boring class , plaus i hate 505 games with a passion

Local-womanizer

Helix wrote: »

decent game, nothing spectacular, bit of a change of pace from everything else out there at the moment. will have a full review up tomorrow

I agree, good fun for a quick blast through. AI is annoying but overall I find the game not too bad.

Agricola

Eurogamer's 6/10 seems about right if the demo is anything to go by. I found I was being willed towards just killing every soldier one at a time, for the gratuitous kill cams. The stealth largely goes out the window and the AI just compounds this.
I'll pick it up at half price I think.

SeantheMan

I hate Eurogamer, and I wouldn't trust most reviews, as they are usually based on 1 persons opinion, and can depend on whether said person enjoys the genre etc.

They are no more qualified to rate the game than anyone here, so I tend to go by the majority on boards or get the demo myself and base my decision around that.

With that said, the demo seemed good at the start, but there is little difference in any of the difficulty levels.
The enemy placement was nearly exactly the same with each difficulty, and by the time I did my 4th or 5th run, I could finish the demo with 3 or 4 mins.
I don't think it's worth the AAA price on release.
This is DEFINITELY one for the Steam Sales
Give it 3 months, it'l be 15 euro

kearneybobs

SeantheMan wrote: »

I hate Eurogamer, and I wouldn't trust most reviews, as they are usually based on 1 persons opinion, and can depend on whether said person enjoys the genre etc.

Um, isn't that normally the case when it comes to reviews? One person, aiming to objectively critique a game. To me, that's what a review is. Show me a website/magazine that does a group review all the time. I know GamesRadar do Super-reviews for really popular games.
You should never trust one review but have a look at a couple and see what the general feel is.
It seems as though they didn't manage to get it completely right this time around from the reviews I've read.

LH Pathe

"High velocity bullet at range can damage the mind, shattering the skull shredding the brain severing the spine"

- it does look a bit gun porn to the detriment of everything else but rented nonetheless. am going to get stuck in

Grumpypants

If this had come out 5-7 years ago it would have gotten lost in the glut of WW2 games that had more to offer. Surprisingly now with a glut of modern shooters this is a welcome relief.

It is similar to Sniper ghost warrior with the bullet cam but i like that. It is class when you see their skeleton shatter, or when you take out two with the one bullet. Ok bit of action too when you need to escape and being stealthy goes out the window.

Solid enough performance really. Worth a pop.

Local-womanizer

Just finished it there tonight.

By no means game of the year but I enjoyed it all the same. The story is very disjointed and doesn't really flow, strikes me as a game you can just pick up at anytime and get on with, without worry about what part of the story line you are in.

The bullet cam is well done, and the x-ray aspect of it is interesting, I love seeing the round strike off a surface and ricochet into an enemy. Also when the round enters a person you see it tumbling out of them.

Again the bloody AI is really annoying though, sometimes they see you across a square before you have a chance to even begin spotting them, other times they run straight at you without firing :rolleyes:

Some levels also feel very restricted, only certain paths you can go at times and a lack of buildings accessible to get to higher vantage points while the enemy has the use of these vantage points.

An enjoyable game I found, but it has its faults. Why can't sniper games get the AI right?!

Headshot

For the pc gamers

what is the MP like?

kyle123

i loved this game finished it a while ago. the story is kinda predictable but what do u expect when all ur doing is sniping lol. but good fun and something different other that the usual cod type shooting games. love how when you kill them in certain ways it does bullet travel for headshots and the like but it gets annoying when you get the hang of it and get good kills more and more. you spend some time just watching ur bullet fly and hit them in the head or head or balls lol. but good fun mp isnt great however could have done alot with that and didnt

Spear

Some rambling thoughts, having finished it.

In many ways it's a step back from Sniper Elite 1. Your character is just too resilient, meaning you can simply go rambo on the enemy. The stealth and planning aspects are devalued, provide no advantage and pointlessly slow you down. In the original there was a much greater emphasis on avoiding detection, and had the extra layer of atmosphere stemming from the fact that you were masquerading as a German soldier, and wearing their gear.

The feasibility of going in guns blazing also has the unfortunate side effect of shortening the game. I finished the campaign in barely 5 hours.

The most basic gameplay element of shooting people is still fun. The slo-mo organ/skeleton damage may be a little like gun porn, but it's still satisfying and amusing.

The mechanic of shooting tanks in their fuel caps is still there, albeit badly researched. The cap on the back of the Tiger tanks is actually for the air filters, not the fuel tanks. Air filters that also wouldn't be found on a late Tiger. You notice these things after playing World of Tanks...

It's an amusing diversion still, but not remotely worth full price. Wait for the sales when it's down to €10 or so, which I expect it will be soon.

Angron

Been playing this a bit on PC, gotta say I've enjoyed it.

Dav

I was sent a copy of this to review completely out of the blue which was nice (big thank you to Nicola Watkins PR for sending it to me), but I would never in a million years have bought this game because I think snipers (and anyone who enjoys playing as one in any game) are pussies and I *despise* playing as any sort of sniper in any shooter (take a look at my BF3 stats and see how much time I spend in Recon). I was also sent a copy on XBox and there's nothing worse than having to play a precisions aiming sort of game with the wrong controls (a controller simply does not work when you're used to playing with a mouse and keyboard). I just need everyone to be aware of these thoughts before I continue because the 3ish hours of this game I played were living hell for me The things I do for this job...

I thought maybe this might be some manner of sniping simulator where you stealth and sneak and avoid all sorts of groups of soldiers and patrols to go and take out one key target.

It's really not, which is a great pity really cause I'd have been reasonably interested in giving that game some time.

Instead we have a pretty linear "shoot almost everything you can see, just do it from a distance" experience. I did a run through several sections of the second level without using the sniper rifle at all and it was pretty straight forward. You can stealth kill guys if you sneak up on them which is grand, and you're given a silenced pistol if you can't get up close

The slow-mo x-ray cam stuff is a pretty feature - put me in mind of SKATE's Hall of Meat section where you had to do as horrific an injury to yourself as possible and it'd xray in to see the shattered fragments of your bones after each pulverising hit. Certainly it encouraged me to take out the sniper rifle rather than the Thompson or MP40 when there was only one or two guys to kill (Seeing the X-Ray after getting 2 guys in the head with one bullet was unquestionably one of the most satisfying things in this entire game for me).

So, I didn't like this game, but I was never going to like this game and so in the interest of fairness, I'd like to give my copy (on XBox 360) to a Boardsie who might want it, but on the condition that they write up a review of it for us.

Angron

If it had been PS3 I'd have done it :pac:

Q_Ball

Dav wrote: »

So, I didn't like this game, but I was never going to like this game and so in the interest of fairness, I'd like to give my copy (on XBox 360) to a Boardsie who might want it, but on the condition that they write up a review of it for us.

If I could splel porprely I'd be all over this!

TerrorFirmer

Is that offer still going? I'd be happy to write a review for it - I hardly ever write reviews but when I do I try and make a decent effort of it, like here

Creamy Goodness

looking at this it really shouldn't sound as satisfying as it does

Dav

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Is that offer still going? I'd be happy to write a review for it - I hardly ever write reviews but when I do I try and make a decent effort of it, like here

Sold - I'll get your address in a PM and post it to you tomorrow - forgot to bring it in from home today *derp*