Sniper Elite (PS2) Online Gameplay [An entire 30 minute match from 8/3/2010 (Part 1 of 3)]
This is (Part 1 of 3) from an entire 30 minute online game of Sniper Elite from 8/3/2010. This is the Playstation 2 version of the game. The Xbox version no longer has online since Xbox live was discontinued for that console. This game is also online on the PC version.
Online matches for this game usually run about 30 minutes long, so up until this point I have just edited out parts of the match to upload it to youtube. SInce I can now upload 15 minute videos it is much easier to upload an entire matech. So, here is an entire 30 minute online match of Sniper Elite.
I am not showing this videos to show my skills at this game or anything. I simply want to get other people into this great game and its online mode.
There are a lot of dedicated sniper elite players who are much better than me at this game. A few of them were in these videos. If you want to try to join up with some of these players, please head over to (http://sniperelite.hqforums.com/ )
Here is (Part 2 of 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9JhVDRMtpo
Here is (Part 3 of 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQ7mQS19Rc
AND here is a review I wrote about this game before.
This is one of my favorite PS2 games and I have played a lot of them. This is one of my favorite World War 2 themed games and I have played far too many games in this often stale and boring genre. Also, This is one of my favorite third person shooters. Yes it is set in a World War 2 setting, but it follows a fictional and interesting story. You play as a special agent guy whose enemy is not the Nazis or any other Axis power. His enemy is The Russians, but, more specifically, the enemies are the Russian secret agent people. They have a plot to get a hold of nuclear material in Germany to make their own Nuclear weapon. So in essence, you are starting to fight in the cold war while World War 2 is still going on. What is cool about this from a gameplay perspective is that in many levels you will encounter dueling German and Russian forces, but you do not need to kill them. They would rather shoot at each other than you. But of course I snipe all those guys for fun anyways muahaha.
Why do I love this game so much? It is just such a unique game. There is no other game that I know of that is purely focused on realistic sniping like this. You can adjust the difficulty/ realisticness of your single player campaign. I play on the rookie level.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!!!!!!!!!!!!
,some of you less enlightened gamers may proclaim to yourself in a giggly prepubescent frenzy, but this game is very challenging even on the Rookie difficulty setting. You see, enemies in this game are tough and they are intelligent. If they spot you they will run from you and go hide. Unlike in other games, when they get shot at by a sniper they have the common sense to go take cover. They will even try flanking you if you stay in the same spot too long. They often will sneakily toss a grenade at you if you camp in one spot too long after you are spotted. This makes things very intense and makes enemy encounters play out difficulty almost every time.
As for the realism of sniping, it is really great. On the Rookie Difficulty setting, gravity affects your shots. This means that based on how close or far away your targets are, you have to adjust your aim vertically to compensate. It makes getting sweet headshots on far away targets or from quick shots even more satisfying. Your heart rate also effects how you play on the Rookie difficulty setting. Think real snipers can sprint for 5 minutes then dive to the ground and hold their breath for 30 seconds to stabilize their shot? Well, they can't. If you do lots of running around you see a little heart rate monitor thing act up and if you try holding your breath to stabilize your scoped in view, it won't work until you catch your breath.
On higher difficulty settings, you can add even more variables to the gameplay like wind for example. This means that on top of taking gravity into making consideration when placing shots, you have to adjust your aim to the left or right depending on how hard the wind is blowing in either direction.
You know what else is great about this game? Sniping is fun. It is really fun. Especially when this game lets you compete for high scores on levels. You get more points for lining up 2 or 3 people and hitting them with one shot. You get points for "remote detonations" which means sniping explosives or having somebody trigger a tripwire explosive you set. You get points for headshots. Even cooler is that this game compares your scores with other players online.
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Due to the size limit here in the video description I could not fit the whole review for this game, You have to read the second half of my review for this game here:
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/sniperelite/player_review.html?id=705925&tag=player-reviews;continue;1
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