A Key Feature Of The Games Visuals Is The Camera

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After a few hours of struggling with the game and becoming increasingly frustrated, I finally managed to get into a good flow with it. I had to release all of my old FPS habits learned from years of playing Perfect Dark and Halo. Once I gave up on being an invincible super-soldier I found the game to be extremely satisfying, and one that discouraged my blood-lust in order to make me into a better soldier.

A key feature of the game’s visuals is the X-Ray camera. For successful, fatal, long-ranged shots you are shown a cross-section of the soldier that you just killed. You can see the bullet passing through bones and vital organs: bursting eyes, tearing arteries, shattering bones, smashing teeth, and severing fingers. It is extremely gory, but in a more realistic way than the over-the-top violence seen in games like Call of Duty: World at War, in which limbs fly off and blood splashes in all directions.

Sniper Elite V2Sniper Elite V2’s violence is much more sobering than gamers will be used to, and reminds you that even though the enemy is a mortal threat to you, they are just as fragile as you are. The deaths of your foes are not glamorous or triumphant, but serious and somber. This game exemplifies all of the typical clichés about the Allied solders’ attitudes towards the Germans: they are spoken of as Krauts, who are deserving of punishment and suffering. As you move through the ruins of Berlin, you can see the signs of its lost splendour.

Everywhere you turn you’ll find statues and banners celebrating a once-proud nation. There is no hint of celebration in this blasted-out landscape. It would fly in the face of everything that the game is setting up: violence is nothing to be celebrated, but something abhorrent, something terrible to be avoided, to be resorted to only when there are no other options. There is no joy in executing your objectives, only the satisfaction of having done what was necessary for your mission.Voice acting in Sniper Elite V2, on the other hand, is terribly executed.

The German and Russian accents are just awful, and though I speak neither of those languages, nor am I capable of telling one Russian accent apart from a second Russian accent, these voice actors clearly do not know how to sound fifa 14 coins Russian or German. One of the scientists that you meet, Dr. Schwaiger, sounds like he had only ever heard a German accent during a B-movie about World War II that he had seen only once. It is one thing for generic soldiers to have bad voice acting, but when characters that are central to plot cutscenes are portrayed poorly, it ruins the dramatic effect in the scene.