Sniper Elite III [Review of the game]

Rebellion Developments today is the leader in the development of old games. This fact can be put in a series of axioms, next to the axioms of planimetry, who do not like students so much. As well as Rebellion games. AVP of the 2010 sample Russian -language “critics” was thrown with rotten eggs for the game are outdated in terms of the gameplay, and is rather a remake of the 1999 AVP outdoor release from the same Rebellion. If you watched the nonsense of “gambling” about this program, you remember how one not thin boy is complaining about the slogan “Segi”, which published the game. Like, how could you shout at every corner that only Rebellion can make the right avp. In fact, the slogan is quite true, only in it there are not enough “1999”. The fact that they released the “rebels” was an honest remake of past work on the topic.

In the same way, every game from Rebellion Developments can be called greetings from the past, from the late nineties of the last century. Whested plot and living heroes? Come on, who needs it! Hollywood scope? Leave the schoolchildren! Corridors without “troubles”? Well, no! Self -elimination of the Russian Academy of Sciences? For wimps! You haven’t run away yet? Then welcome to the preparation of a relative fresh “jam” from the arsenal of British rebels. Sniper Elite III!

Elite sniper from the usual differs in that it can read

I met this program during an informal, so to speak, communication with a relative of my wife, who very incredible the PC for my son. True, boys – they are in love of the age of the boy. The son was quickly expelled because of the car, and two great-aged uncles sat down to shoot fascists from a sniper rifle. Then the game hooked me with the X-Ray Kill Cam system, which involves a realistic image of damage from the bullet in the form of an X-ray (to be precise-not quite x-ray) video sequence in slow-off shooting. It looked fascinatingly, it seemed like bloodthirsty, but it seems to be within the framework of decency. Otherwise, the program seemed to me an ordinary military shooter with an emphasis on secrecy, since I was not particularly interested in the developer of the product. It took about six months, I passed the Sniper Elite III already at home, on the 7th generation box (special thanks to the developers for not leaving the prefix of the last generation, where the game was completely localized, unlike versions for PS4 and Xbox One). The frame of the first impression has not disappeared, of course, then it is a frame. But the formwork on it is now a slightly different sense. Therefore, I will try to tell about the program as unimportant as possible. Just for those who still play such.

And it would be worth starting from the year of release of the program. At my first acquaintance with the “elite sniper” I thought that he was born a year that year in 2008-2009. Well, the year 2014 does not fit in with a morally obsolete “motor” Asura, which Rebellion blinded themselves from what was. “Motor” not only is it old, but also capricious. “Iron” asks for non -legal, works with frequent errors. And the picture gives out such that even IW 3.0 Engine, which at one time before the turn of Mussolini Treyarch, seems against the backdrop of his real Nextgen. On the “box” also textures are periodically loaded – the lack of “relics” affects. Although honestly – I did not see anything like that in the picture. Just useless optimization. As in the case of AVP 2010. I understand that the British are generally such a people that they are used to cooking in their own juice, but for so many years you could weld?

Some kind of inventory is too pretender. Although https://onlinepoker247.co.uk/casumo/ this cannot be called a disadvantage

The disadvantages of geometry (and they are full, if you look) compensate for the impressive design of locations that are not only vast, but also non -linear. Here, technologies bring variety to the game process itself. In fact, they give you a card, give goals – and stomp to them as you want. If you want – take a sniper position, if you want – go from the north, you want – from the south. Options for the sea, and this variability is directly a nostalgic tear is knocked out. Now you rarely meet this. For the most part, game boobs are built on the principle of “tunnel of fear” in Disneyland – the player runs along the corridor, and spectacular scripts work around the play around the play.

Returning to visual execution, I would like to once again note the scenes of the bullet hit the target. It is clear with people – you observe a skeleton with muscles and guts, in which these muscles and guts are torn by a good shot. Enemy technique – and it is represented not only by trucks and armored cars, but also by tanks, saturates you with the reduction of the slow -off flight of the bullet before it enters the gas tank or other vulnerable place. But remember that these scenes will be shown to you only in the case of a lethal hit (for technology, however, this rule does not work) from a sniper rifle. No other weapons will allow you to achieve such an effect. That is, you are forced to use a rifle in 95% of cases. No, it’s not something bad. If the game is about a sniper, then it would be at least strange if the player was given a machine gun and ordered them to mow off adversary. Of course, not a single rifle, but still this weapon can be called the main one-just like Lancer in GEARS of War. Well, again I rolled off the technology into the directly game qualities. Yes, okay. You already realized that the shell of the visual series is too thin to walk confidently, so let’s already to the squirrel.

I mean, to the plot. A few paragraphs I had previously warned about what games Rebellion makes. And if you are waiting for philosophical depths and dramatic reliability, it is better to immediately make a refund for the game. “Elite Sniper” gives you hello from the 90s-the synopsis boils down to a single proposal. A sniper came out to shoot the Fritz to Africa (and there are also sharks, gorillas, and more and more crocodiles, not afraid of after all), and suddenly came across the drawings of the Rat Super-Secret Tank. “Rat”, by the way, is not small, but I waited until the end of the game, when would they let me go out with one on one. Did not give. Just a Chekhov gun, which instead of a shot smashed muffled. Heroes are absent as a class – these are just talking model. The finale of this story is no less sad if you reach it, you will understand what I am about. And so, it would seem, to bury the time of the patient, but no. A delicious yolk is hidden under a gray protein, for which Sniper can forgive everything. This is a gameplay.

For which 90% of players are launched by Sniper Elite III

Skeptics, of course, will immediately begin to grumble-they say, this is not a sniper simulator at all, snipers do not send the enemy outposts, and in a successful duel against the tank without an anti-tank rifle, I doubt something. Especially at a distance of damage by a tank gun. And let them grumble. Rebellion did not beat themselves in the chest with a heel on the creation of a super -realistic simulator. Sniper Elite III is an action movie with a sniper rifle in his hands. In it, the simulator is exactly so much to seal the lovers of Salovzdutii, who are accustomed to overflow. A thoughtful player, not even being a burned hardcore, will enjoy the carefully verified complexity of the program, from the abundance of tactical possibilities. And from imminent death, it is case if you are still discovered. If at the first levels you can somehow shoot from the fascists banging from all sides, then the elite fighters at the later levels will simply crush you with the number and the skill. Even at an average level of complexity, these sexots use shelters and grenades throw grenades. Therefore, my advice to you is in a hurry. Found a convenient position, aimed, held their breath (this function on a separate button), shot. We ran to another place so as not to open up, and repeated. If you manage to disguise your shot with some loud sound-like a shot of a mortar gun or the noise of the engines of flying aircraft, then you do not need to run through.

Often you will be offered to destroy the fortified bunkers, and both in the main and in the side tasks (and it would be better not to refuse the “side effects” – the experience is not superfluous ”). In such situations, you will need to take binoculars (use it more often, a useful thing), find something explosive with it (will be highlighted in red) and make one accurate shot. In slow shooting, the terrible destructive consequences of this action will be shown to you. And if this seems a little to you, then tanks and armored cars will be taken against you. Against such a scrap, the procedure for the same – binoculars, shot. Repeat several times. And preferably changing the place of deployment, because the first hit in the armored vehicles will be found. And the answer will not be long in coming. Then you will regret that you did not dress brown pants. So immediately remember the main rule of the sniper – “discovered sniper = dead sniper”. By the way, if you pay attention to the clothes of your character, then it is very easy to notice him. While enemy snipers are well disguised.

I have the same face on fluorography

As for weapons and useful things, in addition to a sniper rifle, you will be offered a useless machine gun and a murder pistol for “quiet” murders. For healing wounds (here’s a surprise, they themselves do not heal in a second!) You will be given 3 bandages and 3 first -aid kits. The bandage will restore one division of the health scale, and the Apochka will cure completely. You can find bandages and first -aid kits by searching the hidden corners of the map, well, or the bodies of the dead. The latter, by the way, can be worn and thrown. Shot everyone, threw it into the abyss and said that it was so.

Each murder has its own price with experience glasses. Something very similar to Bulletstorm, only with less sophistication. As these glasses accumulate, you will increase the level of character development. At the same time, various “lotions” for weapons or new items will open, so be more zealous.

So we approached the market scales. Personally, I am satisfied with the game and I do not regret a minute of time spent on it. A strong gameplay, forcing to think, plan, explore, in this game is combined with an entertaining spirit. Yes, she looks old for her years. Yes, with the plot it did not grow together. But first of all, it is interesting to play this project. Because they play the game, not admire it. Deserved “good”

P.WITH. I deliberately did not compare the game with past parts, t.To. I did not play in my shame. And to take, it seems, it is better that the fresher.