Fairburne is sent to North Africa to help turn the tides against the brutally efficient German Africa Corps. The story picks up in the early 1940s during the events of the Second World War. I wasn’t especially looking to Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition to tackle the grisly nature of war but something more than your standard-issue buff guy with a gun might have elevated affairs to the kind of experience developer Rebellion talk about crafting. Fairburne’s cliche romp doesn’t detract from the experience as the game’s best elements are largely divorced from the narrative. Fairburne is the exemplary stoic masculine archetype but thanks to the game’s quasi-realistic sheen he winds up feeling like Wolfenstein’s BJ Blazkowicz as seen through a Ken Burn’s filter. Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition puts you in the shoes of, fittingly, the elite sniper Karl Fairburne. This split personality confused players back when it first released in 2014 and now it arrives on the Nintendo Switch, complete with all the DLC packs and the chance to perplex and delight a whole new audience. A game that, despite puffing out its chest with action bravado like so many military shooters before it, is actually a surprisingly methodical assassin simulator. This is how it feels to play Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition. Everyone heard me, my plan was shot and as a storm of bullets tore through my nest I laughed and reloaded a save, ready to do it all again. Decision made, I lined up my scope, took a deep breath in, hesitated a second too long and pulled the trigger. Then, movement, the target was leaving the tent. Loud enough to cover my sniper, but only if I timed it exactly right. A nearby generator was malfunctioning, intermittently firing off loud pops.
From my sniper’s nest, I had been watching him for a while now, keenly aware of a number of factors that could foil my whole plan. Night has fallen over a secluded African desert oasis and my target, another cog in the Nazi war machine, was pouring over documents in a lamp-lit tent.
0 kommentar(er)
