By Jim Rossignol on August 12th, 2011 at 9:00 am.
Games about shooting people in the head remain moderately popular, it seems, because Sniper Elite is back, Back! BACK! And baddies are going to get shot in all kinds of locations, but particularly in the head. Not only that, but the new game is being self-funded by Rebellion, whose bossman Jason Kingsley has said they wanted to create a PC-specific version which “will be built specifically for PC to take advantage of the more flexible and powerful hardware, with strong support directly from Rebellion.” So that’s good. It’ll be coming out on Steam, and possibly retail at some point. Assuming the shops are not on fire, I suppose.
505 Games, who have taken on the console version of the game, have celebrated its existence by releasing a grisly cinematic trailer, entitled “One Bullet Can Change History”, which features a cut-away sequence of a Nazi’s head, showing the bullet going through his spine and the base of his skull. Mmm! Lovely.
12/08/2011 at 09:19 Eddus says:
l337 sni43r.
Amirite
12/08/2011 at 10:15 Magnetude says:
xX420xSN1P3RXx
12/08/2011 at 13:17 Anton says:
Headshot +10
Marksman Headshot +500
12/08/2011 at 09:25 Antsy says:
Inna head!
Sniper Elite is quite good fun. A spanky new version is most welcome.
12/08/2011 at 09:27 razgon says:
We gamers are a bloodtthirsty bunch
12/08/2011 at 09:34 SilverSilence says:
Oh hell yes, Sniper Elite > Ghost Warrior
12/08/2011 at 09:41 konrad_ha says:
FPS meets Mortal Kombat. Question: Why? Answer: Why not?
12/08/2011 at 10:07 YeOldeSnake says:
TPS , stealth game , are you unaware of the first one’s existence?
If so , go get it and get educated kid
12/08/2011 at 09:41 atticus says:
Found myself sighing loudly in relief when I read “It’ll be coming out on Steam”… Funny how spending too much time reading comments on RPS-threads can subconsciously change your perception of things. It’s on Steam? And they’re spending extra time to make the PC-version good? No hated DRM in sight? I’LL BUY IT!
All the internetrage surrounding certain companies these last weeks really is making marketing somewhat easier for everyone else I guess.
“Hey, potential customers! We’re on Steam! And we’re trying to please your needs instead of pissing you off! How ’bout that? HEY HEY, CALM DOWN! NOT EVERYONE AT ONCE! AAAaaaaaghhh!”
12/08/2011 at 09:55 PoulWrist says:
Steam only = wait for sale. Nothing worse than no retail. Who wants to pay the steam-fee to play games? Not I.
12/08/2011 at 10:05 jon_hill987 says:
Actually Steam only games don’t tend to be as overpriced as games that are also available at retail. If it is retail as well Steam just sell it at the RRP until a sale where everyone else knocks 33% off right away (online retail anyway). Steam only games tend to be £15-£20 to start with.
12/08/2011 at 09:44 yhalothar says:
Now THIS is a game I will play.
12/08/2011 at 09:45 AlonePlusEasyTarget says:
Achievement unlocked
Whack-a-Mole – Bronze
12/08/2011 at 13:05 Plivesey says:
Yay for Red Orchestra!
12/08/2011 at 09:53 I LIKE FOOD says:
No thanks. I don´t like the idea of killing innocent Germans for pleasure.
12/08/2011 at 10:28 Grape Flavor says:
Is this a troll post? I for one, as a designated Untermensch, find killing virtual Nazis to be a perfectly enjoyable, guilt-free pastime. They probably would have killed me had they got the chance so I’m damn sure not going to wring my hands about killing virtual representations of them.
12/08/2011 at 11:09 Teddy Leach says:
He dislikes the idea of ruining those lovely uniforms.
12/08/2011 at 11:25 Grape Flavor says:
@Teddy Leach
Well alright then. Even I gotta admit, those Nazis had style.
12/08/2011 at 11:59 Heliocentric says:
Innocence Proves Nothing
12/08/2011 at 14:09 oceanclub says:
“Say what you want about the Nazis, no woman has ever had a fantasy about being tied up and beaten by a man dressed as a liberal.” — P.J. O’Rourke
12/08/2011 at 14:21 Hensler says:
The guy invading the town in the giant death machine and screaming orders at his henchmen is innocent?
12/08/2011 at 14:42 Nalano says:
Invading the town? It says “Berlin 1945″ right there! He’s defending the town!
12/08/2011 at 15:19 0p8 says:
Hitler had probably already put one in his nut by then.
(Original Poster,lets be politically correct about it,you should have said innocent nazi’s, not innocent germans,)
12/08/2011 at 20:05 Mark A. says:
In terms of Political Correctness the original Sniper Elite’s premise is likely to offend the sensitive. The player character is an American sent into the Siege of Berlin disguised as a Volksturm sniper so he can kill Red Army soldiers and officers at will and collaborate with remnant German forces in stealing R&D materials and whisking away German scientists and contacts to the States before the NKVD gets them.
The premise was intriguing and helped to balm some of the frustration caused by the game’s hilariously jacked up controls and gameplay. It’ll be disappointing if the sequel dumps the moral ambiguity and becomes another Herp Derp Die Fritz affair.
12/08/2011 at 10:16 ZIGS says:
Screw Sniper Elite, where’s my Rogue Warrior 2??
12/08/2011 at 10:17 AlonePlusEasyTarget says:
Hah really? Isn’t that supposed to be the other way round?
12/08/2011 at 10:18 Dhatz says:
monster failure tewoo?
12/08/2011 at 12:35 DdCno1 says:
The only good thing about Rogue Warrior was the nicely looking architecture of the levels (not the leveldesign itself, I might add).
12/08/2011 at 10:18 Grape Flavor says:
I lol’d heartily at the slow mo bullet sequence. If that was meant to be gritty and dramatic, and not just cartoonishly silly, they failed. Hard.
12/08/2011 at 10:27 augustl says:
I want a game with sniping as seen in The Hurt Locker. Blurry, slow, and difficult.
12/08/2011 at 10:28 indigohjones says:
Far and away the best scene in the movie
12/08/2011 at 11:00 Magnetude says:
Agreed, I want to see more sniping like that in games. I hope BF3′s single player has at least one such moment.
It’s strange that for a movie about bomb disposal, the sniping scene that came straight out of leftfield (oh hey it’s Ralph Fiennes!) ended up being its best moment.
12/08/2011 at 15:26 0p8 says:
agreed, hurt locker what an awesome film too.
CoD4 MW1 did a bloody good job near the end of “all ghillied up” level, when your on the Barret .50 and having to check wind,movement etc.
12/08/2011 at 17:22 sneetch says:
@0p8
I got that guy right in the head! Right in the head! Missing arm my arse!
12/08/2011 at 10:28 indigohjones says:
Hmm, not sure about that “one bullet can change history” tagline. What difference does snuffing out that tank commander make? Considering the sniper’s within a stone’s throw of the Reichstag and Berlin is in flames and ARG shouldn’t analyse game trailers
12/08/2011 at 10:34 Grape Flavor says:
Good point. Unless there’s some supernatural twist and the tank commander is some sort of demigod. But my money’s on it’s just a very poorly thought out trailer.
12/08/2011 at 11:06 Teddy Leach says:
Maybe that tank commander would have gone on to blow up Churchill. Did you think about that? Huh?
12/08/2011 at 11:38 Matt says:
That tank commander’s Nazi children will now grow up fatherless, becoming disillusioned and ending up on the street instead of inventing the blah blah oh forget it.
12/08/2011 at 13:33 nubbuka says:
@Teddy Leach
You made me imagine that Churchill is some kind of art museum… I nearly lol’d
Tank Commander: “Darn art designers, with their papers and colours….”
12/08/2011 at 15:05 Starky says:
Why would a German tank commander blow up that nodding dog off TV?
Why?
12/08/2011 at 15:42 TeraTelnet says:
“Ach, nein neinneinnein.”
12/08/2011 at 16:06 JFS says:
History has already been changed in this trailer, as far as I know there is no street leading towards the Brandenburger Tor in this angle, and in all likelihood never has been.
12/08/2011 at 10:52 Davee says:
Another Red Orchestra 2 trailer?! Awesome!
…
Hey wait a moment. Oh.
Please take the above as a compliment; ’cause if it’s anything like RO – I’ll love it.
The trailer was a lot like the RO2 one though (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEgJUPjSz4 – 52 seconds in), but with all the events the other way around!
12/08/2011 at 11:03 Teddy Leach says:
This pleases me.
12/08/2011 at 11:35 Gunrun says:
I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t steal Red Orchestras sniper scope method (of showing the peripheral vision around the scope) and instead stick with a black matte around the scope. Sniping in RO is so satisfying because of this small thing.
12/08/2011 at 12:27 westyfield says:
Agreed. Crysis 1 had a similar scope, with a fisheye effect around the edge. I got distracted many times by waving it over an enemy’s head and watching it stretch their face out. Like looking at your reflection in a spoon. Then I got shot.
12/08/2011 at 14:59 Nalano says:
Speaking of odd scope effects, how is this a sniper game set in WWII where the guy can change the zoom of his scope at will?
12/08/2011 at 19:38 yhalothar says:
Variable magnification scopes, while far from being popular, have been produced as early as before the First World War. Zeiss Zielklein was one, I think.
12/08/2011 at 11:42 Tretiak says:
Co-op?
16/08/2011 at 06:28 HeavyHarris says:
His will be done…
12/08/2011 at 11:51 sinister agent says:
Ooh, good to see this getting an overhaul. I hope they change the focus so that it’s actually on, y’know, sniping, rather than shooting your way out of an area with a submachine gun. Removing the teleporting enemies set pieces would aid this immeasurably.
But ugh… skelet-o-vision. So tacky. I wish people would stop doing that.
12/08/2011 at 12:31 indigohjones says:
I know right? Should have stopped with Romeo Must Die.
12/08/2011 at 12:05 pakoito says:
PSP/PS3/Wii/360/3DS…
12/08/2011 at 12:25 MrNice says:
One bullet can change history…
Show German tank commander in may 45 getting killed in front of the reichstag.
12/08/2011 at 12:59 El_MUERkO says:
I was also thinking that, his tank probably ran out of fuel.
Still though, Sniper Elite was a fun game so more of it qualifies as a fun thing.
… as long as they ditch the drama music and read a history book or two.
12/08/2011 at 15:53 skurmedel says:
It would have been more appropriate if he shot Goebbels.
12/08/2011 at 16:08 JFS says:
This is not even the Reichstag. WW2 computer games have planted strange associations into people.
12/08/2011 at 16:40 MrNice says:
You are right It’s the Brandenburg gate.My bad.
12/08/2011 at 17:03 lijenstina says:
Maybe it was Wernher von Braun.
Thanks to that The Soviets went first to the Moon in 1975. That was a glorious day, comrade.
12/08/2011 at 17:05 Nalano says:
@ lijenstina
And already you’re a better writer than most games writers.
12/08/2011 at 12:28 tigershuffle says:
as per post 16……… nice but almost made redundant by the fact RO2 as all the extra content as well plus original RO’s sniper was soo good
Just cant see myself picking this up unless its very very good and is on Steam sale
12/08/2011 at 13:15 roryok says:
Are these time travelling bullets? How do they change history?
12/08/2011 at 13:30 db1331 says:
“Games about shooting people in the head remain moderately popular, it seems, because Sniper Elite is back, Back! BACK! And baddies are going to get shot in all kinds of locations, but particularly in the head. Not only that, but the new game is being self-funded by Rebellion”
This is where I stopped reading.
12/08/2011 at 13:38 BooleanBob says:
It’s not just me, right? The screenie looks incredibly like that one Day of Defeat map, does it not?
12/08/2011 at 13:57 Hensler says:
Rebellion has made such awesome games lately, I can’t wait for this one especially!
12/08/2011 at 14:50 ZIGS says:
Such as…
12/08/2011 at 15:14 Hensler says:
Exactly!
12/08/2011 at 16:05 ZIGS says:
You really should make your sarcasm more obvious to avoid these kind of embarrassing moments :[
12/08/2011 at 14:08 lijenstina says:
Hm a game and an interactive anatomy atlas. I’ve could never locate where the spleen is. Maybe this game could help.
12/08/2011 at 17:36 Felixader says:
Berlin 1945?
Isn’t that a bit late for trying to change this particular part of history?
15/08/2011 at 13:43 MythArcana says:
Bullshit. They are porting this thing to three other consoles as we speak. Besides, another war game is so unbelievably fucking passe at this point…who even cares anyway?
16/08/2011 at 21:09 Elementlmage says:
Ok, so everyone has noticed that the tagline for the trailer is meaningless.
But, what I want to know is, why the hell did the German Sniper shoot his own god damned tank commander!