
You have a stuffed bag of tricks to trap and deceive, even if most of them explode with varying degrees of magnitude. While you are technically a sniper and you’ll always be toting around a rifle, the game is better described as a commando simulator. You will fire sniper rifles, you will blow up tanks with TNT, you will see a ton of grody X-rayed images as your bullets impact with human flesh.

You control Karl Fairburne – one of developer Rebellion’s most popular characters, despite being as bland as porridge given human form – as he takes the fight to the Germans with a collection of weapons and traps. READ MORE: ‘The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum’ hands-off preview: precious story, lacklustre stealth.The stealth shooter has long been the best place to go if you want WW2 commando antics, but with this fifth edition it’s taken a step up as probably the best current-gen stealth game out there, taking clear inspiration from titles like Hitmanand Metal Gear Solid 5. Playing Sniper Elite 5 involves a sense of delayed gratification.
