Sniper Elite 3 (Review)

Information about the game:
Exit date: June 27, 2014 (in the world)
Developer: Rebellion
Publisher: 505 Games
Publisher in Russia: Buka
Delivery method: DVD, Steam (PC)
Localization: completely in Russian (PC, Xbox 360, PS3) (review)
Frankly, I am an ardent fan of the Sniper Elite series and a trace of the series from the very first part of 2005 release. Therefore, this article can be written with a slight fan of fanaticism. But let’s get down.

Elite sniper in Next-Gen’a
I’ll start with a moment of analytics: Rebellion Studio Creators of the series have been acting extremely strangely. Instead of making a full -fledged third part, they either release DLC, then do not do anything. The announcement of the third part of the once controversial, but nevertheless one of the best sniper stealth Sniper Elite 3 for me was a complete surprise. Immediately I recommend relaxing to those who expect a breakthrough or development of the ideas of the previous part, there is nothing like that. Repairs rather cosmetic than mechanical. The game came out not only on the consoles of the old generation, but also on the PC and NEXT-GEN consoles PS4, Xone. Therefore, Rebellion was simply obliged to tighten the graphic component. The graphics really look modern, but in comparison with more eminent projects it loses on almost all points.
Useful: the owners of old systems may not worry, despite all the graphic improvements, the game is very democratic to system requirements, so almost any average user can fully enjoy the game.

One shot, and there are many corpsesThe gameplay SE3 is also a controversial thing before, someone likes it, someone does not. In this aspect, the developers acted with gesture conservatives, we are all the same as before we celebrate enemies, we are looking for a convenient position, we are waiting for a successful moment and make a shot. The algorithm has not changed at all. Only overgrown with details, so now the enemies are looking for the position of the shooter and find it sometimes very successfully, so now it really makes sense to look for ways to retreat and retreat. And in which case you plan everything in advance. The shot with a shot “under the noise” also got its development. Generators can be disabled so that they cause a noise under which you can quietly make a shot. But in practice everything works after all, the enemies sometimes do not hear point blank and do not see our protege. And shots for noise refuse to work in principle. Now fashionable pumping and achievements have appeared, by the way they give achievements for almost any action. Search for a sniper position also lost its meaning, sometimes our hero “by the handle” lead to a convenient firing point. From the positive, one can note the true scope of locations, the ability to go to the desired object in different ways. Hand-to-hand combat was introduced (finally!), it is not as beautiful as it is, we say in Splinter Cell: BlackList, but nevertheless it does not cut the eyes and will have to use it quite often. Also, the main character has binoculars with him, with his help you can celebrate enemies and the necessary goals, later all the marked objects will be visible to the player even through the walls. In terms of physics and destruction, everything is done at the level, the fabrics are shot, and it turned out perfectly with the technique, but more on that later.

X-ray great and merciless.
It https://wilberforceinstitute.uk/ would all be good, but somewhere I already saw it. Since the time of Sniper Elite V2, all the mechanics of the game have remained exactly where it was. The tasks are all the same monotonous and quickly bore “kill the officer, the search officer, eliminate the tank that came from, destroy the technique, kill the goal, kill …, kill …, kill” and there is nothing more than more.
In fairness, it is worth noting the appearance of any interesting side tasks, find a radio broadcast, arrange a sabotage in the garage of tanks, disable spotlights, cover a wounded agent, arrange a murder of an important goal as an accident and much more, sometimes sometimes saves a game of despondency and forgetting. Pumping. I don’t even want to talk about her. She is here for checkmarks.
It is worth talking separately about technology. The creators of the game are very fond of building scripting skirmishes with all kinds of technology and absolutely, it does not matter if the player has passed the task quietly or not. The tank at the end will definitely wait! You say hardcore! But here the developers stumble about their own creation, namely about artificial intelligence. We have already talked about enemies earlier. But the same rule applies to technology. For example, a tank can ride in one place in circles and do not notice the hero running past. To destroy the equipment, you need to shoot either weaknesses, or run up and put dynamite. In theory, everything looks quite difficult and it is worth preparing an action plan, but in fact, the local AI itself spoils the “grand sniper simulator” which was promised to us.
As a reward, we are shown detailed destruction of technology in X-Ray mode, the rule also applies to people, but we saw this earlier. For the sake of this, it is worth playing in Sniper Elite 3!

The plot that is not

One of the many plot sketches.

A long epic about the plot and the general background usually begins here, but alas, it may simply be paid to the scriptwriters, or from the fact that Rebellion really tries to make a simulator without a goal and thought, there is no intelligible story here. This is just a set of operations. There are short rollers on the knee, and the main part of the “ties” is also told by all the sketches made on the knee. That’s the whole story about the plot. Experts will figure out history and without my help. Only from third -party sources (Wikipedia) can you find out that the game is the action of the game, takes place three years before the events of Sniper Elite V2. It seems to me even fans of the series will be in error, because if the game is mentioned somewhere, then casually and hastily.

The tragic fate of the sniper
Summing up, I would like to say that the project could turn out the best in the class of “sniper simulators”, back in 2005 the developers took the right direction. Sniper Elite did not forgive mistakes, did not give second attempts. It was a game where every step should be calculated. But the creators apparently do not understand where to lead the series. Sniper Elite V2 seems to have remained faithful to the traditions of the predecessor, but made its changes to the concept of the game. Sniper Elite 3, in turn, has become a dead end branch of development, the new part of the series literally parasitizes on the ideas of the previous game, and sometimes even on the ideas of “colleagues in the workshop”. Yes, the game still has a hardcore, but AI is foster, tanks and other equipment can ride in circles, and the adversaries seem to be blind, they do not see the only run -up protagonist. The locations have become much wider, but due to the above problems the meaning of the meaning to look for workarounds, there is simply no. Opponents themselves are happy to let the hero into the zones he needed.
There is also a cooperative, a multiplayer and now a fashionable survival regime, but here it did not work out. The developers were not even able to make a separate story for a cooperative and simply gave the opportunity to run out of a single company to two players from a single company. And the survival regime and multiplayer will brighten up a couple of evenings, but nothing more.

The final commentInstead of making a full -fledged third part, Sniper Elite Rebellion released a global patch and called it Sniper Elite 3. The mechanics remained almost the same as before, artificial intelligence is supposedly improved, new spacious locations were added, and the graphic component, processed for the sake of the new generation of platforms. In general, this is all the same Sniper Elite V2 with exactly the same problems as before, and no one is going to fix them and is not going to correct them. Alas.