Sniper Elite V2

Sniper Elite V2 is a 2012 tactical stealth shooter video game developed by Rebellion Developments. It is a remake of Rebellion's 2005 game Sniper Elite, and was remastered in 2019.

Plot[]

Ss 73d671377f8331851fb3adbaf324aa1198cc5bdf 800x600 — Karl Fairburne, the main protagonist and the main character of the game.

The main character is Lt. Karl Fairburne, an SOE and OSS officer who is inserted into Germany in 1945, during the final days of World War II. It references Operation Paperclip and its predecessor Operation Overcast, the plan by the USA to recruit the leading rocket scientists of Nazi Germany. Fairburne comes up against both Nazi and Soviet opponents as he tracks key individuals involved with the development of the V-2 ballistic missile.

The campaign begins with a tutorial mission (Prologue), in which Fairburne must assassinate German Major-General Hans von Eisenberg, who is attempting to defect to the Soviet Union. The next mission (Schöneberg Convoy), a slightly altered version of the demo, has Fairburne kill Dr. Gunther Kreidl, a Nazi rocket scientist, and escape with mission-critical documents in Kreidl's possession. Next, Fairburne infiltrates a V2 rocket production facility (Mittlewerk Facility) in search of the remaining German scientists from von Eisenberg's team; he finds no trace of his targets, but learns that one of them, Dr. Efram Schwaiger, has been captured while trying to defect to the American side, and was now being detained at the Opernplatz, awaiting execution. Fairburne is discovered, but manages to escape the facility, which is destroyed in the process.

Execute — Schwaiger about to be executed.

Ordered to secure Schwaiger as an important asset instead of killing him, Fairburne begins making his way towards the Opernplatz. In order to distract the Germans, he locates a cache of explosives and destroys a bridge (Kaiser-Friedrich Museum), provoking the Soviets into attacking a German garrison at an abandoned museum. As expected, German reinforcements arrive to defend the position, allowing Fairburne to slip by during the ensuing chaos. The plan works, and Fairburne infiltrates a German military camp at the Opernplatz (Opernplatz), where he saves Schwaiger from execution in the nick of time. He then provides covering fire as the scientist flees to safety, before holding off a detachment of Soviet troops sent to capture him. Schwaiger is mortally wounded in the process, however, and with his dying words states that "Wolff has a plan" involving someone or something called "Tabun". Confused and clueless, Fairburne proceeds with this mission: after retrieving some misdropped equipment and surviving a German ambush (St. Olibartus Church), he hunts down his fourth target, Colonel Müller, whom he kills with a long-distance shot from atop a flak tower (Tiergarten Flak Tower) during an air raid on Berlin.

Hoping to learn the whereabouts of Dr. Wolff, his last target, Fairburne raids a Soviet special operations command post (Karlshorst Command Post), where he obtains intel revealing that "Tabun" is a powerful and lethal nerve agent, and that Wolff has masterminded a plan to help Soviets load the last of Germany’s V2 rockets with it and launch them at London, with the intention of later making the attack look like Germany’s final act of revenge. Deciding to postpone Wolff’s assassination and prioritize stopping the V2 launch, Fairburne begins to look for clues regarding the location of the launch site. His search leads him to Wolff's private office (Kreuzberg HQ) near the German Ministry of War, where he finds a notebook revealing Wolff's plan to escape aboard a Soviet airplane and a tattered map detailing the locations of all V2 storage facilities and launch sites. He sets out to destroy the rockets (Köpenick Launch Site) and is ultimately successful.

With only Wolff left to deal with, Fairburne goes back to the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburg Gate), where only a few days earlier he had assassinated von Eisenberg. Fairburne makes his way to the top of the structure and, with a single, desperate shot, critically injures Wolff as he's speeding away, causing his car to swerve and flip over. As the Battle of Berlin comes to an end, Fairburne remarks that World War II may be over, but that a new conflict - the Cold War - has just begun, and that he is this war's first soldier.

Mission List[]

Campaign[]

DLC[]

Gameplay[]

Der testikel — Hitler being shot in the testicles.

Sniper Elite V2 is a third-person shooter that stresses employing stealth, rather than using brute force. Fairburne uses several WWII-era weapons, including sniper rifles, a silenced Welrod pistol, sub-machine guns and German and Soviet hand grenades (which can be also used to make tripwire booby traps). One of the main features of the title is the realistic ballistics, involving factors such as bullet drop, wind strength, and the effect of holding one's breath when attempting a shot. Sniping gameplay is from a first person scope view, whereas movement and use of all other weapons is in third person view.

Sev2headshot — The new features in *Sniper Elite V2* allowing player to have "X-Ray Killcam"

A major difference from the original Sniper Elite is the introduction of a controversial ‘X-Ray Kill Cam’, which activates when the player makes a particularly extreme shot.

The view then follows the path of the bullet in slow motion before slowing further as it reaches its target, whereupon the target’s body is rendered as an anatomical cutaway to show the bullet’s passage through the body and the damage it causes to organs and bones. Other new elements include being able to mark enemy fighters to highlight their position along with target information, and a white-outlined figure which marks the point where enemy soldiers last spotted the player so that players can make their escape.

Characters[]

Factions[]

Weapons[]

Primary Weapons[]

Sniper Rifles[]

Secondary Weapons[]

Submachine Guns[]

Assault Rifles[]

StG-44

Launchers[]

Panzerfaust

Tertiary Weapons[]

Pistols[]

Mounted Weapons[]

Machine Guns[]

MG42 (turret only)

Other Equipment[]

Explosives[]

Thrown[]

Placed[]

Distraction Items[]

Rock

Multiplayer[]

Co-Operative Multiplayer[]

Two player mode with several several different game modes:

Campaign - The main campaign, but with an additional player, allowing players to revive their downed allies before they bleed out.
Kill Tally - Fend off increasingly numerous and difficult waves of enemy soldiers and vehicles in an enclosed environment with an infinite supply point of ammunition and explosives.
Bombing Run - Players must search the environment in order to repair a truck to escape before the entire area is bombed.
Overwatch - One player as the operative who undertakes said objectives, armed with short range firearms and binoculars that can be used to tag enemies for the second player, who takes the role of a sniper who covers the operative throughout.

Adversarial Multiplayer[]

Multiple players or teams face off for dominance through various objectives. Must be downloaded.

Deathmatch - Traditional Free for All. Highest kill count wins.
Team Death Match - Team based version of Deathmatch.
DIstance Killing - Success is measured by distance of shots taken at enemies.
No Cross - Long Range Fire Fights only.
Dog Tag Harvest - Points are only scored after fallen enemies Dog tags are harvested.

Locations []

The game takes place entirely in Berlin, the embattled capital of Nazi Germany and the surrounding area, where the German Army and the Red Army are figthing.

Trophies and Achievements[]

Main Article: Sniper Elite V2 Trophies and Achievements

Prequels[]

North Africa[]

Sniper Elite III serves as a prequel, set in North Africa during 1942 and 1943 Karl is a volunteer of the British Army and is recruited by the British Naval Intelligence.

Italy[]

Sniper Elite 4 serves as a sequel to Sniper Elite III, set in Italy, in 1943 and 1944 . Karl is an SOE agent working with the Italian partisans and the OSS.

France[]

Sniper Elite 5 serves as a sequel to Sniper Elite 4, and is set in France in 1944, during the Normandy invasion.