Amazing graphics and very fun shooter game for fans of WWII
I first discovered Sniper Elite 3 and began playing that. I played and love it and when 4 came out I played that as well. Sniper Elite 5 is just another experience altogether in terms of its graphics and overall experience. I play on a PS5 with a 75" Sony 4k TV. So it is almost lifelike. I am embarrassed to admit it but I have 979 hours of playtime on this game. I am retired and nearly 70 years old so yes, there are gamers out there that are not youngsters. There is so much about this game I like. Karl has a good sense of humor and drops some good smart cracks along the way. I love each and every DLC that has been released. I love that you can take different paths and roots and I still am discovering places and hidden items after so many hours. What I don't like is that you have to use your R1 button to bring up a wheel to select items like mines, grenades and health kits etc. If you are jamming along and need to set a mine and run as the enemy is on your heels, it never fails to not select the right thing. I end up lobbing a grenade in lieu of placing a mine and then that explodes and literally tells the enemy where I am at. That happens a lot even after playing it so much. So that is really my only complaint. Otherwise the game is very stable I do not remember on instance of it locking up or having an issue. The DLC's when released work flawlessly and you are not a beta tester on them has been the case with other games I have spent big money on that are nearly unplayable due to the vast amount of bugs that the creators I guess expect the users to make them aware of, and then send out tons of patches. This game is really well developed and runs flawlessly on my PS5. I you are a WWII era fan as I am, then this is great. My folks were married during the war and my father landed on the beach at Normandy. So revisiting this era via this game is something I like. You can even kill Hitler in the Wolf Mountain DLC. I like trapping him in the main lodge and setting mines everywhere. He ends up on the run and blowing himself up trying to escape. Meanwhile every Nazi in the building is on your heals and you are shooting and setting mines and traps at almost every opportunity. The latest DLC Kraken Awakens is by far the most challenging of the five DLC's that have been released. Tons of snipers taking aim at you and lots of various tasks and goals to complete in order to blow the giant carrier ship the German's are building. Winding you way around the huge ship alone takes running this DLC many times to learn your way around. And that is just the ship, the entire DLC takes place in a shipyard that you must learn to navigate. Worth paying the extra $$ to pick this one up if you buy Sniper Elite 5. Read more
