![]() ![]() And while there doesn't seem to be any reason not to just waive your all-American kiss curled willy at the enemy and then hide around a corner waiting for them to all run up in single file for a rifle bullet to the gut, I'll be damned if it isn't gratifying as hell to get the job done sneaky-style. Gameplay is based around stealthily clearing out teams of baddies from little playgrounds of ruined streets, cover and strategically-placed vantage points. ![]() And in fairness to whoever that one brave person is, there's nothing particularly wrong with the mechanics of Sniper Elite V2, but then, the same could be said of an automated fish-gutting device and that won't make it smell any rosier. But while it has brought us such startling piddle as Aliens vs Predator, Rogue Warrior and Shellshock 2, the fact that it also produced the NeverDead of recent memory indicates that maybe there's at least one person there who is genuinely trying to do a good job and make interesting, innovative games, even if they have to work with a bunch of lazily-flexing arseholes who put the original vision through the wringer so many times they end up resembling an old crinkle-cut chip you found behind the oven. Brought to us by Rebellion Developments, so when I first noticed the logo, it almost made me not pick up the game, because Rebellion is a company one could describe as either "prolific" or "relentlessly vomiting garbage like a New Jersey seagull watching a Los Angeles award ceremony", and yet never seems to go out of business, in a pattern that would normally flag it as a possible front for organized crime. How many catalog brides do Russians have to sell to rich Westerners before we stop demonizing the poor sods?Īnyway, Sniper Elite: Wee Poo (he he he he, classic) ends up being a mission-based shooter with an emphasis on long-distance combat, stealth, preparation, tactics and an occasional throbbing erection for slow-motion graphic violence. It's like trying to pioneer chocolate-covered Brussel sprouts alongside a plate of Ferrero Rochers. There's something rather dreadfully "me, too!" about the way this game has you gun down Russians, especially while there are plenty of Nazis around, who as we've established, can be murdered infinitely without causing the slightest blip on the karma meter. This is going to make things awkward at the next White House Sunday coffee morning. As a lone American operative set loose in the bombed-out ruins of Berlin in the closing days of the Second World War, your task is to assassinate a bunch of German V-2 rocket scientists before they can be enlisted by the dirty Russians- oh for fuck's sake! Could we at leave off the fucking Cold War until we're finished with the hot one? I mean, historically America and Russia are fucking allies at this point. A-ha, I have indeed seen what they did there. So Sniper Elite V2 is the sequel to Sniper Elite, and the plot concerns the development of German V-2 rockets. Nazis are like Skittles in that you can rid the world of as many as you like and never get a bad taste in your mouth. Worked with a Russian girl while office temping once and I imagine we'd have gotten along very well if I'd understood a bloody word she was saying. Most of all, I guess I was looking forward to not having to kill Russians for once, because I like Russians. It wasn't that long ago that World War 2 shooters were like earthworms on a wet lawn, and you couldn't fire a gun in a video game for more than five minutes without hearing someone yelling about things being schnell, but now that endless quantities of modern shooters are clucking about like a bunch of strutting roosters in a farmyard, I'm really, really missing the days when the vicious, imperialist, xenophobic, war-hungry nationalistic bastards treading all over other peoples' countries with a ridiculously excessive war machine are the people I'm supposed to be killing, not playing as. ![]() ![]() It was with a small amount of bitter laughter like the sound of someone's life-saving medicine gurgling down the plughole that I picked up Sniper Elite V2 on the basis that a World War 2 game would be a welcome relief. ![]()
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