#Sniper elite 3 single link series

#Sniper elite 3 single link series

It's the stuff surrounding it that has held the series back from greatness, and it's to Rebellion's credit that despite arriving only a few years after the previous title, Sniper Elite 3 represents a pretty huge step forward in terms of design. That's almost a mini-game in its own right. This usually revolves around the same persistent, burning question: can I get him in the nuts from here?īut then the problem with Sniper Elite has never been the sniping. It's also, rather worryingly, an experience that never really gets boring, often leading to its own meta-game as your given mission gets temporarily shunted aside in favour of your own improvised objectives.

It's an experience you'll repeat over and over (unless you switch the kill-cam off entirely) across the game's eight missions. The lighting is legitimately gorgeous at times. It is, by far, the most horrifically violent orgasm ever captured in a game - or, arguably, any other medium. The soundtrack is all squelches and groans. Then the X-ray kicks in as you penetrate, bones splinter, organs disintegrate, and it's all rendered in pornographic detail. We get to see the blankly oblivious face of your chosen quarry, the bullet now mere inches away from his skin. Just as the bullet gets close to your target, everything slows down even more. If this camera view is triggered, you already know it's a hit, so there's no tension. Time slows down as the camera lovingly traces the path of your bullet, thrusting manfully towards its target. After the foreplay of lining up your shot, you hold your virtual breath, squeeze and let fly. You don't need to subscribe to Freud's theories of psychoanalysis to see the connection, as bullets burst forth from your rifle with ejaculatory zeal.

You're sent behind enemy lines to sneak around and disrupt the Nazi war machine, and you do this by graphically demolishing the faces, torsos and testicles of as many German troops as possible. The scenery may have changed but your role hasn't. That headline feature, of course, returns for Sniper Elite 3, which switches the action from the ruins of Berlin seen in 2012's Sniper Elite v2 to the more interesting terrain of the North African campaign. This is the series that has made its name by fetishising the entry of a bullet into the human body almost to the point of parody. There's always been a linguistic connection between sex and violence, and no game illustrates it quite so viscerally as Sniper Elite.