Karl’s has whacked more Nazis than you’ve had hot dinners. If you get sloppy you’ll find that enemies hit hard and kill fast, but Rebellion Developments have worked wonders in reducing re-start and load times to just a couple of seconds. I never got tired of these gruesome little cut-scenes triggering, though they might be a bit much for some, especially those who wince at the sight of a testicle taking a battering. If you manage to fire a shot on target this will result in the camera tracking your bullet as it merrily whistles through the air, before you are treated to a Mortal Kombat-style x-ray showing which organ or bone has gone to the great offal dump in the sky.
Thankfully Karl is able to empty his lungs to steady his rifle and provide you with visual clues as to where to aim your shots. Realistic bullet trajectories are applied at higher difficulties, meaning your shot won’t necessarily hit home when an enemy is in your cross-hairs. This is for fighting, this is… also for fighting. What’s more you can save at any time, although this can cause some issues which I’ll touch on later. Re-locating far enough from where you fired or hiding from patrolling Nazis for long enough will reduce caution levels back down again. While Karl isn’t exactly a parkour master he controls reasonably well, and sometimes the enemies feel a bit puny given how easy it is to escape their sights.
You also have a range of traps and explosives, a very short range silenced pistol, some nigh-on useless machine guns and a knife at your disposal.
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Thankfully you can use environmental noises, such as a spluttering generator or an intermittent storm, to mask your shots and remain incognito. Taking a shot will typically alert all nearby enemies to your vague location, with another shot from the same location confirming exactly where you are. This might sound like par for the course, but unfortunately Karl’s primary weapon is (you guessed it) a sniper rifle, which happens to make an absolute racket. Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition is a stealth game at its core, and much of the gameplay revolves around silently stalking around enemy outposts, while silently taking out Nazi soldiers without being spotted and located. Why not take out the neighbourhood voyeur? Gameplay Your goal is to track and take down the fictional General Franz Vahlen, who is doing naughty things with military technology. You play as Karl Fairburne, a gruff-voiced man with a rifle which enters the room 10 seconds before he does. Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition is set in 1942 in Nazi-bothered North Africa, which makes for a refreshing change from the usual dingy grey bunkers on dingy grey streets which litter games set during World War 2. It was perhaps inevitable that a Switch port would one day arrive, but I’m pleased to say that this is a quality conversion, and brings across extra content and improvements which developers/publishers Rebellion Developments have introduced over the years since it first came out. Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition initially released on multiple formats back in 2014.