Not really the best game in the world but it's a fun one to play. It's sort of a stealth-game where you're meant to go around and pick off Nazis from the distance with a high-powered sniper rifle - replete with a slow-motion camera tracking a bullet going into the Nazi's skeleton - a gimmick that never gets old mind you.

It's the type of thing where it looks like they were going for some sort of sense of realism - where there's bullet-drop off and you have to cover the noises of sniping by making your shots in-tune with the sound of bombing and artillery strikes. But, then the game decides to go for a comic-book type edge with secret Nazi conspiracies and and any sort of realism is ultimately twisted out into somewhat of a repetitive but fun arcade type environment.

Also you can shoot Nazis in the testicles - and they made a specific detail that Adolf Hitler only has one testicle - a recurring joke that you might have found in movies such as The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974). Something about the slow-motion mechanic and testicles is just intrinsically hilarious. It doesn't matter how mature and sensible or stoic you are - shooting Nazis in the testicles is always funny.

Sniper Elite: V2 doesn’t stand for version 2 as some people may think. This is about trying to stop the Germans from using V2 rockets in World War II. After seeing those three words you probably left this review already. Another WWII game? V2 has a lot of potentials, but is lacking in many areas due to the developers’ laziness in design. The story is nothing special with the only satisfying thing being sniper shots.


The game is all about stealth, but right away you will notice this is broken. The enemies are laid out in a poor manner in which it is hard to figure out how to take everyone out without raising an alert. If you do so you have to fight it out with limited ammo from your other weapons and you die very quickly. Using the sniper rifles is just fine with an ability to hold your breath to steady your aim. Slowly a red diamond will focus on a part of an enemy and that is where your bullet will land. Once you fire the game uses a bullet camera and sometimes you will see an X-Ray shot of the bullet penetrating the targets organs (the nut shot is awesome!) You will see the skull shatter, organs burst, and eyes explode. This is the most satisfying use of a sniper rifle in any shooter. The problem is, the fun stops there.

Of course sniper rifles back then really didn’t have silencers so once you make the shot everyone knows you’re there. Some levels have loud noises you can mask the shot in, but this can be difficult. The enemy AI is extremely dumb in which they won’t notice a dead comrade right next to them, or they will spot you from hundreds of yards away with some sort of eagle vision. On top of the all that enemies spawn strangely out of some sort of ether because you will walk a hallway with no enemies, circle around, then somehow there’s an enemy there. This makes stealth frustrating as hell and you will rage quit often. It doesn’t help that the forced shootouts are frustrating and hard because you die almost instantly.


You can lay traps for enemies and such, but I honestly didn’t find any reason to do this much. Even the level design is screwy because the hallways are confusing and everything looks the same. There just isn’t enough satisfaction from finishing levels and outsmarting enemies because in reality your exploiting the dumb AI to advance through the levels. After just about 3 or 4 you will probably have enough and call it quits. It is just so sad that the great sniper mechanic was wasted on such a boring and dull game. The graphics look pretty good but other than that you won’t stay interested. I had this game on my HDD for about 2 months and even when I had nothing to play I couldn’t go back to this drab game.


Overall, V2 has some awesome kill shots and great sniper rifles; everything else is a bust. Dumb AI, poor stealth mechanics, boring level design, uninteresting story, and frustrating shootouts. The multiplayer is pretty satisfying, but you won’t be coming back for long. V2 is a huge disappointment over a prequel that was fairly decent. Even the most patient gamers won’t last here.

Sniper Elite V2 é um dos melhores jogos sobre Sniper que você pode encontrar no mercado, mas isso também não quer dizer muita coisa, né?

Gráficos decentes, gameplay travada, trilha sonora medíocre e com um dos melhores bullet time de todos os tempos, isso é o que resume esse game.

Demorei bastante tempo pra zerar ele, tem MUITAS partes que são chatas, cansativas e repetitivas e a história eu nem me dava o prazer de acompanhar direito porque chegava momentos que só faltava eu dormir com a narração do personagem.

É um bom jogo pra passar o tempo, não chega a ser nenhuma master piece, mas não tem nada mais prazeroso que acertar um inimigo de uma distância considerável e ver a bala destruindo os órgãos do inimigo, realmente satisfatório.