Zero Punctuation: Sniper Elite V2

[Farther than stars]

Yeah... I think you should probably get that looked at.

 

[Terramax]

You jerk off to Disney Princesses?

Frankly, who doesn't? Rule 34, my friend, it's a horrific, disgusting and wrong wonderful thing that every human who doesn't have a one single shred of dignity and deserves to die should see.

Um... well I don't.

You've never lived.

 

[SaunaKalja]

No mention of the testicles? He just keeps surprising, even after all this time.

I must say after seeing some gameplay videos of the game, the x-ray bullet penetration view invokes the same disgust that Mortal Kombat (whatever the newest number is) does with its x-ray views of bone breaking and internal damage. I'm so used to thinking that shooting an enemy in a game just spawns blood spatters and reduces hitpoints.

 

[Stabby Joe]

Funnily enough while I do enjoy the game, my biggest issue is one Yahtzee didn't bring up and that is there are a couple of missions it seems where the concept are sniping your way through a war torn city shifts to generic spy operations IE sneaking through underground bases, being forced the engage in CoD-style shot outs etc... They just aren't as plausible or fun compared to the missions that included large open landscapes.

Also for some reason I think the white protagonists sounds black (if that makes sense).

 

[redisforever]

In case you're wondering what the Russian girl at the start of the video is saying, it's "I hate you."

 

[redisforever]

Also for some reason I think the white protagonists sounds black (if that makes sense).

Yeah, I totally got that feeling from the demo. The opening narration starts up, and I instantly assume I'm playing a black character, for what I think would be the first time in a WWII game, but then NOPE! Generic white guy.

 

[Grayston245]

A friend of mine showed me some of the gameplay for this one. Most of what I remember about it stemmed from the fact that bullets ricochet off the pavement and bricks of the ruined streets of Berlin like Super Bouncy Balls.

I don't know if Yahtzee came across any of this in his run-through of the game, but if he didn't, it might be worth looking into - it's pretty hilarious, lol.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

You jerk off to Disney Princesses?

Frankly, who doesn't? Rule 34, my friend, it's a horrific, disgusting and wrong wonderful thing that every human who doesn't have a one single shred of dignity and deserves to die should see.

Um... well I don't.

You've never lived.

Yeah well while the Disney Princesses may be hot they aren't worth risking further scars to my brain for.

 

[Scarecrow]

Great review as always, but I do want to point out that there was a difference between German soldiers and nazis. Most soldiers were consripted, and a lot followed the nazis because...they had no choice besides to flee. And most of said soldiers in the final days of the war were teenagers and old people, forced to be the last line of defence. So it's not excatly as guilt free as you first might think.

 

[porpoise hork]

You jerk off to Disney Princesses?

Doesn't everybody?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

You jerk off to Disney Princesses?

Doesn't everybody?

Well I would hope not. 0_0

 

[FallenMessiah88]

Yeah, Rebellion really does seem like a company that should have folded long ago. I guess as long as their games sell well, they can somehow keep going and I for one actually quite enjoyed Alien vs. Predator, even though I didn't find it very memorable as evidenced by the fact that I haven't really touched it since completing it two years ago.

Anyways, Sniper Elite V2. Uhm, well it looks very interesting. It has sort of an old school vibe (circa 2002) to it. I like it. I think I'll try the demo and then decide whether it's worthy of a purchase.

 

[MercurySteam]

It had a good concept but just got stale for me too quickly. Good review though!

 

[Corporal Yakob]

Can we have a WW2 game where we get to gratitiously and graphically slaughter the enemy AS the Germans? Please?

 

[Corporal Yakob]

Great review as always, but I do want to point out that there was a difference between German soldiers and nazis. Most soldiers were consripted, and a lot followed the nazis because...they had no choice besides to flee. And most of said soldiers in the final days of the war were teenagers and old people, forced to be the last line of defence. So it's not excatly as guilt free as you first might think.

Especially when players are gloating over their perfect liver shot that leaves a terrified 15 year old German conscript slowly bleeding to death, the Panzerfaust he's been given just a week ago and expected to stop the Red Army with just out of reach.

 

[Grahav]

Still waiting to play a morally challenged german soldier, a refugee from the khmer rouge, a poorly equiped russian soldier, an african child soldier...

 

[Scarecrow]

Great review as always, but I do want to point out that there was a difference between German soldiers and nazis. Most soldiers were consripted, and a lot followed the nazis because...they had no choice besides to flee. And most of said soldiers in the final days of the war were teenagers and old people, forced to be the last line of defence. So it's not excatly as guilt free as you first might think.

Especially when players are gloating over their perfect liver shot that leaves a terrified 15 year old German conscript slowly bleeding to death, the Panzerfaust he's been given just a week ago and expected to stop the Red Army with just out of reach.

That's why I've never liked games that have the slow motion kill effect. It goes beyond the quick, silly level of violence and just makes it unpleasent to watch. Do I want to know I'm hurting my enemy? Yes. Do I want to watch his organs explode to leave him screaming and dying in the street, all done in loving slow motion like some porn movie? No, not really.

 

[spaceinvaderj]

WAAHHH! Where's the voice-over?
Nah, no crying, it's was a welcome change last week, Yahtzee.
Please continue with the voice-overs...
Please.

 

[ColaWarVeteran]

Great review as always, but I do want to point out that there was a difference between German soldiers and nazis. Most soldiers were consripted, and a lot followed the nazis because...they had no choice besides to flee. And most of said soldiers in the final days of the war were teenagers and old people, forced to be the last line of defence. So it's not excatly as guilt free as you first might think.

Especially when players are gloating over their perfect liver shot that leaves a terrified 15 year old German conscript slowly bleeding to death, the Panzerfaust he's been given just a week ago and expected to stop the Red Army with just out of reach.

That's why I've never liked games that have the slow motion kill effect. It goes beyond the quick, silly level of violence and just makes it unpleasent to watch. Do I want to know I'm hurting my enemy? Yes. Do I want to watch his organs explode to leave him screaming and dying in the street, all done in loving slow motion like some porn movie? No, not really.

At one point in the game I recall sneaking around near some soldiers who were talking. One of them says something about wondering if he'll have a home to go to once the war was over considering how trashed Berlin was. For some reason or another after hearing that I decided that I would spare him and made every attempt to get around him and his buddy without alerting them.

 

[Scarecrow]

Great review as always, but I do want to point out that there was a difference between German soldiers and nazis. Most soldiers were consripted, and a lot followed the nazis because...they had no choice besides to flee. And most of said soldiers in the final days of the war were teenagers and old people, forced to be the last line of defence. So it's not excatly as guilt free as you first might think.

Especially when players are gloating over their perfect liver shot that leaves a terrified 15 year old German conscript slowly bleeding to death, the Panzerfaust he's been given just a week ago and expected to stop the Red Army with just out of reach.

That's why I've never liked games that have the slow motion kill effect. It goes beyond the quick, silly level of violence and just makes it unpleasent to watch. Do I want to know I'm hurting my enemy? Yes. Do I want to watch his organs explode to leave him screaming and dying in the street, all done in loving slow motion like some porn movie? No, not really.

At one point in the game I recall sneaking around near some soldiers who were talking. One of them says something about wondering if he'll have a home to go to once the war was over considering how trashed Berlin was. For some reason or another after hearing that I decided that I would spare him and made every attempt to get around him and his buddy without alerting them.

I find myself doing that in some games. Sucks sometimes they don't even give you the choice to avoid killing enemies. I mean, if you give them dialog like that, why make us kill them, unless you're going for the "War is Hell" angle. But if that were so, why all the slow motion "cum shot" views?