You’re given a limited equipment set and your location on the large map can be approximated with a telephone call. Much like a Dark Souls invasion, you have the ability to drop inside someone’s campaign mission and take them down as an enemy. Where my time with Sniper Elite 5 truly shined, though, is the Axis Invasion mode. However, it can still be enjoyed as such. If you’re confident in your guerilla tactics, you can even take an SMG and run your way through dozens of foes, but that playstyle presents the biggest challenge as it’s not the way the game is intended to be played. Sniping feels great as you judge how many enemies around you will hear your kill shot and move accordingly. Sneaking around is a breeze with ample opportunity for whistles/bottle throws. Sniper Elite 5 has a near-perfect gameplay loop, no matter what your playstyle is. Let’s get into why Sniper Elite 5 is immersive, engaging, and a damn good time. Also just let me say, I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen the whole time. My average mission time was just about 60 minutes every time. This time around, the maps are humongous. You also get slo-mo x-rays of your well-placed shots tearing apart enemy organs.
You take out Nazis as Karl Fairburne, whether it be with carefully-timed headshots, inconspicuous stealth takedowns, or some serious run-and-gunning. In Sniper Elite‘s fifth outing, players know the drill by now. How does a game like Sniper Elite 5 fare in 2022, where fast-paced battle royales are king? As a result, when a game is based around sniping and demands patience and versatility, for modern players, it’s like using the other side of their brain. With a hyper-focus on lax trigger-fingers and a need for peak reflexes, the pace in any first or third-person shooter is at breakneck speeds. The modern shooter has become something drastically different than when I started playing the genre with Halo in the early 2000s.