When you successfully fire a fatal shot at a target, the camera follows your bullet”s flight path until it penetrates the victim, then it goes “x-ray” so you can see the bodily carnage. I guess SEV2″s biggest claim to fame is the “x-ray bullet cam”, aka “ultra violent torn guts and bone shattering death” cam. Even though liberties have been taken with historical accuracy for SEV2, this kind of thing did happen in less specular degrees (to be fair, the only rocket scientist I know of is Wernher von Braun.) How much the game deviates from the actual history is beside the point as it”s still a neat perspective on the WW2 genre, particularly when compared to what we”re used to. Things go to hell, so you end up having to do more than just assassination runs, but the set up is pretty rad. In Sniper Elite V2, you”re tasked with sniping German and/or Russian officials to prevent V2 rocket scientists from defecting to Russia instead of the US. The biggest “success” in the world of rocket science at the end of the war was the German V-2 rocket… Yes, “V2”, like the game”s name!
Of particularly high interest were German rocket scientists because they were they were head and shoulders above the rest of the world in the development of jet propulsion for aircraft and missiles. Bit of a history lesson here (but it”s an interesting one): Towards the end of WW2, the allied nations were racing against Russia to get as many Nazi scientists and engineers to defect to their respective countries. Prior to play, I assumed the V2 meant version two, as it”s a sequel, but it”s actually a tie-in with the game”s storyline. The silver-lining is it unabashedly lets you know what you”re getting away with in games like CoD or Battlefield not that it”s ridiculously hard taking into account wind and gravity (with the assists), just that you”ll need to readjust from what you”re used to… And snap sniping is far less likely. This is especially true of its hardest difficulty setting that uses more realistic bullet ballistics - it”s like being force fed a large slice of humble pie. In that respect, if you don”t like games that are less forgiving with their simulation, you”re only going to get frustrated with Sniper Elite. Sniper Elite V2 is kind of like Gran Turismo, except instead of cars, you “drive” rifles with high powered scopes.
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