It all adds a little more to a game that has previously been solely focused on the sniper rifle. You can also now kill enemies from behind wall cover or over ledges. There are now several different moves in the game such as shimmying along edges, ledge hangs, leaping, and more. The size of the maps also makes you feel like you are taking on a much larger mission and one that is far less linear than those that have gone before it. The open spaces make a huge difference in the kind of tactics you use and allow even further long range shots with your sniper rifle. Rebellion says they are up to five times larger than those seen in Sniper Elite 3 and I have to agree with them. The melee kill cam offers up a slow-motion X-Ray view of close combat such as knife kills or a punch to the face, though these are a lot less satisfying than a bullet to the bollock, heck there is even an achievement for ensuring that Hitler ends up with one ball.Īpart from the X-Ray camera, most other improvements are more subtle. Shrapnel kills come into play when you blow up a barrel or truck, fragments of metal fly off into varying directions and enter the enemy’s body shattering bones or just ripping them to shreds. The improvements made to the X-Ray camera are what most people will end up being interested in and fans won’t be disappointed.īefore I get into the deep details of the game, the new features of the X-Ray kill cam are shrapnel and melee kills.
It is this X-Ray kill camera that has made the series so popular, despite the budget undertones that have filled the rest of it. If there is one thing you can guarantee with a Sniper Elite title, it is close up violence. It can display bones shattering, the piercing of a vital organ or pulling/stabbing people off of ledges. Rebellion’s stealth shooter series has become synonymous with gratuitous up-close X-Ray bullet time camera trails of your long-range sniper shots.
In the single player mode, you play as Karl Fairburne who must fight the Italian Resistance to help free their country from the oppression of Fascism. The move to Italy is nice step up from the African settings in the previous game visually while Rebellion have also promised us far bigger maps, additional killing options, new weapons and additional kill cam views. Sniper Elite 4 is set in the year 1943 in Italy directly after the events of Sniper Elite 3.