Sniper Elite 5 (PS5)

Product Information

While the campaign is thoroughly entertaining, the developer still hasn’t solved some age-old problems, like the fact that you can get totally overwhelmed after a simple mistake. One of the cool things about Sniper Elite 5 is that it's impressively customisable, allowing you to tailor the experience to your tastes.

There’s a progression through-line between all of the game’s modes, which extends to ribbons, medals, and cosmetic unlocks. Squeezing the trigger slightly will put you in over-the-shoulder aim, while holding it down has you look down the sights/scope.A true PlayStation veteran, Sammy's covered the world of PS gaming for years, with an enormous Trophy count to prove it. The game stars US operative Karl Fairburne, as he embarks on a one-man mission to disrupt a plot named Operation Kraken in Nazi occupied France. The Sniper Elite series has been aggressively consistent, with storied developer Rebellion fine-tuning its execution with each iteration, rarely reinventing the wheel, but doing just enough with the franchise’s established stealth/sniping gameplay to keep it fresh. Sure, it’s nothing you haven’t seen before, but it helps flesh out each stage and usually has you venturing off the beaten path, as it were. In doing so, you’ll be surreptitiously making your way through a series of diverse locations, including the lush French countryside, industrial complexes, towering chateaus, Nazi strongholds, and more.

The sheer scalability of the experience is a selling point, and when paired with the immense scope of the gameplay variety – spanning traditional third-person shooter all the way through to stealth simulation – it should appeal to a variety of demographics.Keep in mind that when you play Sniper Elite 5 on the lower difficulty settings you are given the option to save your progress whenever you like. When Möller contacts the base and unintentionally speaks directly to Fairburne, he panics knowing Fairburne is fully aware of the project and needs to launch immediately before the Allies can react.

IGN, by contrast, criticised story and enemy AI and felt that the title felt like "more of an incremental upgrade rather than a major revolution", and voiced disappointment in the recycling of objectives which caused the game's campaign to feel repetitive as a result. It became increasingly underwhelming when each impressively rendered Nazi facility I carefully snuck my way through ultimately culminated in a similar style of humdrum handiwork, and it diminished my desire to complete all of Sniper Elite 5’s side missions once I learned how samey they all seemed. Sniper Elite 5 is designed to be replayed, and so you'll want to take advantage of various different unlockable infiltration points. One side objective tasks you with gunning down a key Nazi soldier in the midst of a huge chateau, flanked by armed goons. As for how to actually use medkits and bandages in Sniper Elite 5 once you have them, you first need to hold L1/LB to bring up the gear and weapon wheel.These tools are used to open passages and containers, perform acts of sabotage and other important activities. Sniper Elite 5 is scheduled for release on May 26, 2022 for PS5, PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One. As always, let us know in the comments section below — and good luck bringing an end to the Nazi regime. But while they can certainly be deadly in numbers, they will also often march mindlessly into your crosshairs, struggle with basic pathfinding, or veer unpredictably between different states of alertness. GameSpot claimed that the game's strengths rested in the core sniping experience, encouragement of player agency, tense multiplayer invasions, and the robust weapon customization model.

Fellow contact Marie Chevalier informs the pair that Möller is occupying a nearby chateau and leaving to investigate. The game’s missions are intended to be played over and over, with co-op and a new Axis Invasion mechanic – where rival snipers infiltrate your game online – adding to the replayability. Sniper Elite 5 is the upcoming entry in Rebellion's long-running franchise, and it's taking its Nazi-blasting action to Brittany.Not only does this add significant replayability to the release, but it challenges you to think differently about environments you may already be intimately familiar with.