

While shooting people is how you’ll take out most of your enemies, you also have grenades, and can even shoot vehicles or gas cans, which may take out any nearby enemy in the resulting explosion.Īs for its sniper mechanics, Sniper Elite 4 takes an approach similar to the racing games Forza Motorsport 6 and Forza Horizon 3. Of course, the Germans aren’t the only ones who have grenades in Sniper Elite 4. Or throwing a grenade at you, as the case may be.

It also tells you when you’ve alerted any nearby enemies, and how alert they happen to be, while leaving a ghostly image of where you were when spotted so you know where they’ll be looking for you. Like such similar third-person stealth games as Splinter Cell Blacklist, Sniper Elite 4 employs many of genre’s common mechanics, including tossing rocks to distract people, silently killing people from behind, and moving dead bodies so they won’t be discovered when his coworker comes looking for him. Which is how you wind up skulking around the island of San Celini, the picturesque coastal village of Bitanti, and the nearby woods of Rogliano. Set during World War II, Sniper Elite 4 once again casts you as Karl Fairburne, a gruff OSS agent who’s sent to Italy in 1943 to help the local resistance fight the fascists and to stop the Germans from deploying a new weapon. But while the sneaky sniper game Sniper Elite 4 ( Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC) avoids this pitfall by letting go all gun blazing when the situation arises, what really makes this such an exciting and addictive action game is where you do all your shooting. One of the downsides to both stealth games and sniper games is that having to be slow and cautious can get tiresome.
