There's something rather dreadfully "me, too!" about the way this game has you gun down Russians, especially while there are plenty of Nazis around, who as we've established, can be murdered infinitely without causing the slightest blip on the karma meter. This is going to make things awkward at the next White House Sunday coffee morning. As a lone American operative set loose in the bombed-out ruins of Berlin in the closing days of the Second World War, your task is to assassinate a bunch of German V-2 rocket scientists before they can be enlisted by the dirty Russians- oh for fuck's sake! Could we at leave off the fucking Cold War until we're finished with the hot one? I mean, historically America and Russia are fucking allies at this point. A-ha, I have indeed seen what they did there. So Sniper Elite V2 is the sequel to Sniper Elite, and the plot concerns the development of German V-2 rockets. Nazis are like Skittles in that you can rid the world of as many as you like and never get a bad taste in your mouth. Worked with a Russian girl while office temping once and I imagine we'd have gotten along very well if I'd understood a bloody word she was saying. Most of all, I guess I was looking forward to not having to kill Russians for once, because I like Russians.
It wasn't that long ago that World War 2 shooters were like earthworms on a wet lawn, and you couldn't fire a gun in a video game for more than five minutes without hearing someone yelling about things being schnell, but now that endless quantities of modern shooters are clucking about like a bunch of strutting roosters in a farmyard, I'm really, really missing the days when the vicious, imperialist, xenophobic, war-hungry nationalistic bastards treading all over other peoples' countries with a ridiculously excessive war machine are the people I'm supposed to be killing, not playing as. It was with a small amount of bitter laughter like the sound of someone's life-saving medicine gurgling down the plughole that I picked up Sniper Elite V2 on the basis that a World War 2 game would be a welcome relief.
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