By Alec Meer on October 19th, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
Rebellion’s Sniper Elite V2 was quite good but not great, wasn’t it? Come on, do my job for me, I’m tired. Also lazy. Also playing Retro City Rampage (WIT very soon) has fried my ability to concentrate on anything. Kill me, basically.
My point, if indeed I do have one, is that the quite good Sniper Elite V2 has some DLC, and hopefully that is quite good too.
It is called ‘The Landwehr Canal mission’, it is set in night-time Berlin, and it offers three new weapons, one of which is confusingly an assault rifle rather than a sniper rifle. Hmm, that doesn’t sound very snipery to me. The mission also sounds a little Hitmanny, in that you need to take out three high-ranking generals having a secret meeting.
I can tell you no more, though this link can. Jim asked me to post about this and so I have. But this post feels far too short now, so I’ll extend it by posting some photos of my cat:
19/10/2012 at 19:02 Sheng-ji says:
Your cat is cute :)
19/10/2012 at 21:36 DarkFenix says:
Though in that second last picture the look in its eye does seem to say “remove the hat, or I remove your face”.
19/10/2012 at 19:04 Shooop says:
It was an OK game. Hinted at much more potential than it ended up having – I mean, the longest range I’ve ever shot anyone at in that game was about 300 meters. That’s still designated marksman’s range not sniper’s.
And goddamn them for that flak tower level. That was the opposite of fun.
This is one game that absolutely needed to be a sandbox.
19/10/2012 at 19:10 Phelioz says:
Really cute cat you got, brings a smile to my face :)
19/10/2012 at 19:16 aamosnyc says:
FUS RO MEOW!
19/10/2012 at 19:29 subactuality says:
Your cat looks exactly like my cat. That is all.
19/10/2012 at 19:41 LeMonde says:
Meow.
The second picture is my favourite.
Cute, but dogs are better…
19/10/2012 at 20:10 Solidstate89 says:
BURN THE HERETIC!
19/10/2012 at 19:55 serioussgtstu says:
That second photo could be a meme.
19/10/2012 at 20:02 AndrewC says:
‘Watching Daddy Masturbate’ Cat
19/10/2012 at 20:56 Skabooga says:
Is that the cat equivalent of telling someone “You could be in the movies”?
19/10/2012 at 22:58 m3metix says:
*Meer cat*
19/10/2012 at 20:16 QualityJeverage says:
I enjoyed the game, the presentation and everything was great. But the levels were so linear and strict, it really hurt the game. I’m not always opposed to linearity, but a game about sniping really begs for a bit of freedom. It ended up feeling like Call of Duty with longer corridors. I would have preferred just a big environment (i.e. any Hitman level), a target, and the freedom to find a good shooting position.
I still had fun with the game, I don’t regret playing it. It’s just a bit sad how awesome it could have been.
19/10/2012 at 21:12 belgand says:
I feel like it also really missed out by not making it Eastern Front. The Russians are the ones who really got into the whole “cult of the sniper” around the time of Stalingrad. Plus working with a large, chaotic urban environment like that really feels like one of the ideal ways to go.
20/10/2012 at 03:33 Shooop says:
That’s exactly what all the talk about the game pre-release made it sound like it was going to be.
If there’s only one game that should have been a sandbox this year, it’s this one.
19/10/2012 at 20:20 skyturnedred says:
I hope the next DLC adds support for Windows XP.
19/10/2012 at 20:23 Solidstate89 says:
It uses Direct X10. It will never run on XP.
20/10/2012 at 16:28 fish99 says:
It’s a DX9 game on the 360.
20/10/2012 at 22:10 Solidstate89 says:
And it uses OpenGL on the PS3, what’s your point?
19/10/2012 at 22:36 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
Cats do not support XP.
20/10/2012 at 04:09 sinister agent says:
Why is your cat hoarding wine? I would keep an eye on this if I were you. The antics of a drunken cat are seldom benign.
20/10/2012 at 06:31 fabrulana says:
Yay for more Sniper Elite… that is one cool cat BTW.
PS. If those wine bottles got corks you should really store them on their sides – otherwise the corks will dry out if stored for a long amount of time. If you’re like me however they won’t even see next week, in which case it doesn’t matter :)
20/10/2012 at 08:11 Hodge says:
This of course means that Alec’s cat is now an RPS contributor and should be written into the XCOM diary.
20/10/2012 at 14:47 zhanbao28 says:
http://chilp.it/b62517