It’s an altogether more freeform experience, and the step Sniper Elite needed to take to grow into its ambitions. Or you can get up close and personal, taking him out with a knife to the brain stem. Want to kill your target from across the map, having never stepped foot inside his mansion? Yeah, you can do it. Still, there’s certainly more verticality to Sniper Elite 4 than its predecessors, along with tons of alternate paths-caves, bunkers, and entire sections you can skirt past without firing a shot.
You’re at the mercy of the devs whether you can clamber on a roof for a better vantage point or whether you’re stuck on the ground. But most of the game is still out of reach, and as a result there aren’t nearly as many paths through (for instance) a city block as you might expect.
Prior to release, the developers were happy to talk about the game’s Assassin’s Creed-esque platforming, but it’s more like Prince of Persia or even The Witcher 3-there’s a clear delineation between where you can and cannot climb.Ĭlimbable? Some pipes, chains, and a few ledges. There’s lots of hiding in foliage, lots of jumping out and popping people in the head.
I wish there was more penalty to being sloppy.Īnd the stealth systems, while improved, are still fairly limited. You’d think when dead Nazis started turning up all over a secret base the commanders might call for backup or something-or at least stay on alert for more than thirty seconds. The game has some AI woes, mostly due to stealth game tropes. Sniper Elite 4 counters with enormous maps and a sometimes overwhelming number of mission goals, secondary objectives, collectibles, and challenges, with each level taking well over an hour to experience fully. Sniper Elite 3 was knocked for its short length and restrictive levels, a series of discrete arenas and chokepoints. A fourth involved a moonlit infiltration of a dockyard, paving the way for an American bombing mission by taking out the air defenses. The third took me to an enormous valley, pocked with enemy camps and gun emplacements, told to destroy a German railgun by blowing up the ravine-spanning Roman viaduct it rested upon. The second mission had me invade by beach, up through a harbor and crowded Italian streets, culminating in a battle outside a hilltop castle. But even armed with that knowledge ahead of time, I was still surprised at Sniper Elite 4’s scope.
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