The depth of the game is staggeringly low when compared to 90% of today’s games. And Sniper Elite V2 Remastered proves that this is due to much more than a need for up-to-date graphics. This means that what was a successful game 7 years ago will not necessarily be a successful game today. As game developers charge headstrong into new technologies, techniques and depths of gameplay, they rarely look back to return to a retro style (gems like Cuphead are marvelous obscurities). The one major downside of remastering this, or any other game, is the ever-changing climate of gaming. The missions are the exact same as I remember (kind of sad to think that I actually remember specific missions from the original game 7 years later), and the X-Ray killcam is just as gruesome and glorious as ever. The campaign gameplay, thankfully, has not changed one bit.
That being said, I am no game developer and I applaud all of the efforts to revitalize this game, I only noticed the few things I mentioned because I was watching with such a critical eye. Some of the surfaces seem to have not received the same treatment that others may have, and the lighting seems to still look slightly older. The remastered graphics are a noticeable improvement but nobody will mistake Sniper Elite V2 Remastered for a freshly-built next-gen title.
Nevertheless, Sniper Elite V2 Remastered does breathe some life into possibly my favourite title in the series, so while I may not understand the reasoning behind its re-release, I was certainly excited to see that it was coming back in all its glory! While the Sniper Elite series has been a long-standing franchise and one that filled a fairly unique niche market for covert historical sniper games, it is slightly confusing to release a remastered version of a game in a franchise whose latest release was only two years ago. Is this remaster worthwhile enough to bring fans of the series back to a title that was originally released in 2012? Let’s find out! Fans of the series will likely be relieved to hear that the game is indeed a clean remaster – little to no content has been modified outside of the visual improvements to the game and an expansion of the multiplayer game mode. Earlier this week, one of the most acclaimed covert shooter games was re-released with Sniper Elite V2 Remastered hitting the virtual shelves of PC’s Steam store (as well as Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch) on Monday.
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