Zero Punctuation: Sniper Elite V2

[ActionDan]

LOL at my own flag being represented in such a way.

 

[Iggy Rufflebar]

yay for the accurate representation of the welsh!

only a minor issue though, all our world war 2 era tanks have sheep's wool covering them so we can hide them in fields near our borders.

It will soon be our land!!

 

[MonkeyPunch]

The single picture bit at the end was pretty damn ingenious this time.

did the US even have Sniper units in WW2? I know Russians had some nasty bad asses who ranked up hundreds of kills and so did Germans and Brits to some extent but I think the US didn't have any Sniper units and mostly just let armored units take front or in the case of a lot of green soldiers "went prone and waited for German snipers to pick them off one by one".

Ima let you finish, but the Fins had arguably the most successful sniper of all time.

 

[Bvenged]

Yahtzee you didn't even mention getting to assassinate hitler. ASSASSINATE HITLER.

Pre-order DLC only. If he "picked it up" as a spur of the moment thing, like he was describing, it wouldn't have been a pre-order.

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I enjoyed this game a lot. Once I'm done with the co-op I'm going to stick it on my shelf for a year before playing it again. It's short, sweet, not much replay value but definitely a keeper.

 

[Dr Jones]

I love watching me a nazi's bones torn apart from a bullet o' mine. Best part of the game, really <.<

Even if you don't get to kill Hitler, as long as you end the game killing Nazis it'll still feel like a...
*puts on sunglasses*
...Goodwin

Oh you smart bastard!

 

[Skeleon]

In case you're wondering what the Russian girl said while skipping along with Yahtzee: "I hate you." Aw, that's so cute.
And so ninja'd. :-(

 

[Gennadios]

Yahtzee's been leaning pretty heavily on the English->Russian google translate lately, the Russian temp worker might not have been a passing phase.

Try the Swedes or Poles one of these days, now those f****** are crazy.

 

[TheIronRuler]

I just realized Yahtzee used a Hitcher-hiker's guide to the Galaxy reference back there with the flying whale.

Classic.

 

[mb16]

But I hate sneaky games.

Having played it I can tell you its not all sneaky sneaky. You are given a pistol and SMG and can just sprint through the levels mowing down all the enemies.

 

[Altered Nova]

The dick jokes felt really forced this time. Methinks it's time to find some new jokes.

 

[Darth_Payn]

"SNIPER ELITE: WE POO" Even yahtzee couldn't hold back the laughter! Just like that time he mentioned "experience with relationships [SNORT]" in his "Catherine" review.

And the puns, Oh God the puns, MAKE IT STOP!!!

 

[Steve the Pocket]

It hit me while watching this video that the whole Russians-as-villains thing is something developers do to get back at the Russian gaming community, who from what I hear are... problematic.

 

[Soggy Toast]

I hope Yahtzee realizes that you DO get to kill Hitler in this game.

 

[daxterx2005]

Disney princesses huh?

 

[aarontg]

Stop reminding me that I can't afford diablo 3 escapist!

 

[Terminal Blue]

did the US even have Sniper units in WW2? I know Russians had some nasty bad asses who ranked up hundreds of kills and so did Germans and Brits to some extent but I think the US didn't have any Sniper units and mostly just let armored units take front or in the case of a lot of green soldiers "went prone and waited for German snipers to pick them off one by one".

All sides had snipers in world war 2, but this was back in the days when stalking living people and blowing their terrified, shell-shocked brains out through a scope so powerful you can see whether or not they're married was considered a somehow unsavoury pastime rather than fuckin' awesome bro! so they didn't talk about it.. except the Russians who as you rightly said were totally into that.

Snipers in world war 2 would not generally be taken prisoner if captured.

It makes the current 'cult of the sniper' seem a bit weird, in context. Maybe we've not had enough wars with routine use of snipers by both sides..

 

[Hollyday]

Oh! Boyo! What's your beef with the Welsh?

or should that be lamb?

 

[Gardenia]

Personally I thought the game was extremely dull and repetitive, especially with the unbelievable health regen making it really damn hard to die on any difficulty level. The gore shot gimmick is interesting at first, but after replaying a demo for some time you pretty much got the whole experience in my opinion.
Story is really bland (oh look we must stop the not-a-nuke), characters are pretty much nonexistent, it's invisible-wall-level linear. Tutorial took that up to eleven.
Plus the AI was so balls-to-the-walls stupid you basically got no enjoyment out of stealthily outsmarting them. At least in Thief: Deadly Shadows the AI was so stupid it was hilarious again, and if they found you they could still knock a considerable amount off your health bar before you can initiate countermeasures.

I like how they made sniping on harder difficulties a bit more skill-requiring and by extension more rewarding when you blow up a group by shooting a grenade like it's a pinto, but between that and the killcam novelty there was nothing about this game that struck me as worthwhile.

Basically this, although I will add that the rigid enemy spawns annoyed me.
I spend 15 minutes silently clearing a bridge of nazis, lining up my shots to get the most kills per bullet, and waiting til the sound is masked by bombs, and what do I get? More nazis spawn out of a door when I am halfway across the bridge! I reloaded and tried waiting for them, I even tried to get their attention by shooting at the door out of which they were running, but no. They spawn when you cross the bridge. And it's like this the entire game!

For me that ruined the game. I love preparation and sneaking, and nothing makes me feel cooler than picking oblivious idiots off 1 by 1, but in this game, probably about 5-10% of my kills were the sneaky kind, and the rest were cover-based headshots of instantly by-default alerted enemies.

Also the enemy counter snipers. God, they are annoying. The only way to spot them is by taking a bullet from them, and then scope out the location the shot came from.

 

[Hutzpah Chicken]

Myself from 2007 would have never conceived that someone, especially Yahtzee, would find relief from World War II games. I remember those things were such a curse on gaming, I refused to play a Call of Duty game after the first one. Times have certainly changed...

 

[Yankeedoodles]

That Scotty reference was kind of topical. They just shot his ashes and the ashes of about 200 other people into space yesterday from Cape Canaveral aboard the new SpaceX rocket. I'm sure he'll be up there beaming us all up in due time.