I spent most of my early time in each mission crouched in foliage, tagging enemies, vehicles, ammunition, explosives, and more with my binoculars. Sniper Elite 4 lets you put on your grown-up pants (fatigues?) and solve these problems however you see fit. Your map is marked with large, non-specific circles to point you toward your goals, and… that’s that. This is far longer than most shooter missions, but because you make your own path and do only what you want to do, they didn’t drag at all.Įvery mission begins with a few primary objectives – Nazis to kill, generally – and a smattering of secondary tasks, such as destroying a downed spy plane or blowing up an ammo cache. I didn’t finish a single one in under an hour, and many took closer to two. Sniper Elite’s humdrum World War II story is spread across eight huge campaign levels. So, unless you’re bent on playing like a masochist, a healthy chunk of Sniper Elite 4’s ideas fall into the “take it or leave it” category.
On hard, escaping this scenario becomes much more painful because sniping is harder and enemies are tougher, and on Authentic, every tiny bit of caution is warranted because your HUD is limited. On normal mode, if you miss a shot and blow your cover you can gun down foes with a pistol or an SMG and you’ll probably be fine. As I mentioned at the beginning, Sniper Elite 4 often asks more from you than it actually requires. The difference between difficulty modes is astounding, and that corresponds heavily with the level of effort you’ll need to put into your play. There is a side-effect to Sniper’s smorgasbord of options, though. Few shooters pack so much consequence into each copper casing. It sounds like it could be cumbersome or tedious, but the satisfaction of learning the systems and, eventually, intuitively “feeling” the bullets makes it gratifying to experiment, fail, and improve. All of these factors matter, and they make each long-range shot into a miniature math problem. If you crank up it up to “Authentic” mode, you’ll also have to contend with wind speed and direction, weapon spread, more scope drift, ammo scarcity, realistic magazines (losing the bullets you didn’t fire from a clip when you reload early), and more. True to its name, Sniper Elite delivers options galore, but its single-player and co-op campaign wisely doesn’t force you to consider all of them all the time.īefore you pull the trigger, here’s a handful of things you might think about: Will you use regular ammo or more precious silenced ammo? Can you score the kill quickly, or will you need to hold your in-game breath to steady your aim? Have you considered the effect gravity will have on your bullet? Is your weapon’s muzzle velocity high enough to hit a moving target with only a small lead, or will you need to aim a few feet further in front of your target to land that heart shot?įew shooters pack so much consequence into each copper casing.Īnd that’s just for the standard difficulty.
If you’re going to put “Sniper” in the title of a game, you’d better put serious thought into your weapon mechanics.
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