The absolute star of Sniper Elite V2 Remastered is, as you would likely guess, the sniping. The game then throws you in, and you get to work. Each of the game’s missions opens with a voice monologue where Karl explains what he aims to accomplish. The storyline is completely forgettable and doesn’t really insert itself into the forefront. The game tells the story of a sniper named Karl Fairburne as he tries to stop a missile launch and assassinates various Nazis involved with it. The question is: does the game warrant this visual upgrade? The new textures and lighting do look very good, though. But as the title states, this is almost exclusively a visual overhaul and not a remake. It adds new textures, lighting, and geometry alongside new stuff to the multiplayer mode.
Sniper Elite V2 Remastered is an update of a seven-year-old game. This made me like Sniper Elite V2 Remastered even less than I did before. The game then told me that, despite the fact that I killed him, Hitler had escaped and I had failed. The killcam only rolls if you get a fatal shot, so I know that I did what I was supposed to. Only, once this ended, he kept running and got on the train. The killcam kicked in and followed my bullet before culminating in an x-ray shot that showed it blowing through his intestines.
After dispatching a tank by shooting its gas tank (I know that’s redundant, but how else can I say that?), he finally ran out of cover, dashing to a train he could use to escape. First, however, I needed to shoot my way through a dull series of enemies in order to get my shot. I was in a prone position overlooking a halted enemy convoy.