Holding down L1 brings up your weapon wheel where you can choose what other items you carry, these vary from grenades, mines and health packs. The D-pad changes your weapons so if you need to run and gun you can press left on it and bring up your machine gun which you aim with L2 and fire with R2, always keep it loaded incase you are discovered. The D-pad lets you zoom in with the scope and the binoculars, plus if you hit R2 after hitting R3 to get to the binoculars you tag the enemy which makes creeping around much easier. Everything else is pretty standard, the thumb-sticks control your movement and camera.

The controls are really simple and the hardest thing to get used to is holding down R1 to steady yourself and R2 to fire the fatal shots. The intel you collect during your objectives moves the story forward and propels you further into enemy territory where you are alone with only your wits and aim to keep you safe. In one objective I had to battle another sniper to make my trek to the radio tower easier, needless to say, he didn’t survive long. Within the overarching story of seeing the Allies succeed and win the war, you must complete other objectives that will make everything easier for the Allies and yourself. You are to assist with the Italian Partisans before General Eisenhower storms the beaches at Normandy. Instead of fighting against Rommel in Africa or trying to acquire knowledge of the V-2 rocket you are in Italy before D-day. Sniper Elite 4 continues the story of Karl Fairburne and his trek through the annals of history. Being a World War II era sniper rifle makes it a bit harder, but why make it easy then the kill just isn’t as satisfying. I thought that after many entries into this series that it would have become stale, I was incorrect, there is nothing stale about sniping unsuspecting people from afar. And if there is one company and series that can perfect the Nazi headshot, it is Rebellion.

Thankfully Activision screwed the pooch with Infinite Warfare and shoved all of gamers back into the loving arms of head-shotting Nazi’s. They were wrong, EA proved that with Battlefield 1 and Rebellion follows suit with Sniper Elite 4 World War II is here to stay. I remember a few years ago everyone was hemming and hawing that World War II shooters were a thing of a past and that Call of Duty was launching us into a bold new era of warfare shooters.

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