Situational awareness is paramount so you always want to recon each area with your binoculars. The rules of proper sniper techniques are surprisingly spot-on for a video game, and your success will be determined by how closely you follow them. If you plan on playing the game and sneaking by lots of your enemies, do so knowing that you are probably going to miss out on a lot of this stuff. As the circular meter sweeps around you may collect ammo, grenades, med kits, and yes…the occasional letter or collectible document, but most of the good stuff is usually at the very end of the search, so if you stop too soon you can often miss something. It takes a good 8-10 seconds to thoroughly search a body all the while leaving you open to discovery or getting hit by a bullet. One of the more interesting mechanics in Sniper Elite 4 is the body search. It’s even worse when a collectible is hidden on a random soldier. Most of it is hidden off the main mission path, forcing you to go into this blanket coverage of the entire map just to find secrets. And that is really the only downside to having all of this collectible stuff. Each level has three stone eagle targets that started off as fun to find and shoot, but in later levels were so absurdly impossible to find I stopped caring. And even then you aren’t likely to gather all the collectibles, if you care about such things. Each of the eight primary missions are no less than two hours each some reaching three or four if you are going for total stealth.
The levels are massive – the smallest level in this game is three times the size of the largest in any previous game – and you are allowed to complete the various primary and secondary objectives in any order you choose. While past Sniper Elite games have given you limited explorative freedom when completing their linear mission objectives this fourth game goes totally “sandbox” in its design. The story is communicated through artistic panels prior to each mission as well as conversations with in-game characters and a library’s worth of readying material in the form of collectibles. This latest game even adds some much needed co-op play, allowing you to bring another sniper along or even play using a spotter to call out your targets.įor this installment you’ll be playing once again as Karl Fairburne, this time sent to 1943 Italy to investigate and stop the Nazi development of a new guided missile program that could turn the tide of the war if left unchecked.
Things are a bit different in the modern military but the core skills and tactics are captured brilliantly from breath control to limiting your noise and visual profile. Sniper Elite 4 is a remarkable game from start to finish, both as a visual showpiece and a game that truly encompasses what it’s like to be a sniper at least in WWII. I’ve played many games since then that have had sniping in them but never the central focus, so I was interested in seeing what Rebellion was going to do with their fourth installment in their WWII franchise. It’s been a while since I’ve played a pure sniping game actually I believe it was Sniper Elite 3.
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