![]() It’s 1944, and the game kicks off with you sneaking up the beaches of France. Once again, Sniper Elite 5 puts you in the shoes of series protagonist Karl Fairburne. The core pillars of the foundation laid down in past Sniper Elite games – level design, stealth, and sniping – have all been expanded upon and improved in significant ways, and the result is an impeccable military stealth shooter that will keep its hooks in you from beginning to end, while constantly getting better and more engaging throughout its runtime. " Sniper Elite 5 has built on that formula once again, combining sandbox maps, stealth, and sniping to deliver an immaculately designed experience that far exceeds anything Sniper Elite has done in the past."īut what Sniper Elite 5 lacks in production value, it more than makes up for with its excellent design and gameplay. Narrative and storytelling, meanwhile, also take a backseat once again, and though the game does have a few (rather unremarkable) cutscenes here and there, the bulk of the story is relegated to mid-mission debriefings that are little more than voice overs over static screens. That lack of a blockbuster budget shows in some obvious ways- visually, the game is solid, but will never come close to knocking your socks off, with animations and facial models in particular coming across decidedly aged, while you’ll also occasionally run into the odd audio or graphical bug. ![]() Sniper Elite 5 is much bigger, much more full-featured, and much more polished than past instalments- though it is still very much a AA game, of course. 2017’s Sniper Elite 4was a significant step forward for the series on that front, and now, Sniper Elite 5 has built on that formula once again, combining sandbox maps, stealth, and sniping to deliver an immaculately designed experience that far exceeds anything Sniper Elite has done in the past. While sniping and tactical shooting has been one of its primary focuses since its inception, more and more with each new game, the series has put a greater emphasis on stealth as well. The Sniper Elite franchise has grown a great deal in the nearly-two decades that it’s been around.
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