The historian in me raised an eyebrow at that one.

You also assassinate Martin Bormann at one point, which seems… odd. This isn't a game where you are there, fighting your way through the thick of the greatest battles of WWII instead, you're one of the secret guiding hands that makes sure history has the chance to unfold as it did. I'll admit there's a certain degree of frustration in that your sniper rifle isn't silenced - had they not invented silenced rifles back in 1945 or something? You've got a silenced pistol, so why can't you have a silenced rifle? - but the rest of the game is all about sneaking around the periphery of urban combat zones, subtly eliminating or evading enemies before they have any idea you're there. If you're a big fan of playing with sniper rifles in other third-person shooters, you'll probably like Sniper Elite's approach to the game. Accomplishing your goals requires a lot of stealth, as well as the occasional use of some good old-fashioned twitch reflexes. It's not quite a balls-to-the-wall action game, and it's not quite stealth-based instead, it's a combination of the two. Really, this isn't so much a World War II game as it is a very, very early Cold War game… but it's set in Berlin in 1945 and you're shooting Nazis.ĭue to your mission objectives and the nature of your opposition, this is weird, as third-person shooters go. Your job is to prevent all these angry Russians swarming all over Germany from getting ahold of Germany's research into the atom bomb. Your job isn't to win the war that's pretty much already done. You're thrown into the middle of all this as an American agent of the Office of Strategic Services, the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. At the same time, the Russians are pouring into Berlin by the dozen, angry and looking for revenge.

The German army has been depleted by years of fighting a losing war, and many of Berlin's defenders are conscripted civilians. It's April, 1945, and Berlin is under siege. In accordance with Video Game Reviewing Law #435-324b, I must now say this: enough with the World War II games already. Buy 'SNIPER ELITE': Xbox | PC | PlayStation 2

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