Is Sniper Elite V2 still worth playing? (Retrospective) 

I am obsessed with the Sniper Elite series, I honestly can't explain it. I love all the games, including V2. V2 might seem old school and dated by modern standards, but thats why I love it. The linear levels keep the pacing interesting (though there are plenty of moments that are relatively open), and I honestly love how simple and straightforward the gameplay is. No bells and whistles, just fun sniping and great atmosphere. I really hate the sniper battles though, especially on the hardest difficulty. Their vision and accuracy is too fucking good. This was done a lot better in future games

I've beaten 1, V2, and 3 on Sniper Elite difficulty and 4 and 5 on Authentic Plus and Authentic, and I gotta say V2 is the best by far. It's the easiest to learn to play, the most fast paced and exciting, and it's got the best cutscenes and music. I like the other sniper elites openness and stealth but this one got the action down pat.

Yesterday I got Sniper Elite V2 Remastered for $1.74 on the Playstation Store, I played until 3 AM, best decision ever.I have always wanted to play a Sniper Elite game, and now I really feel like Karl.

sniper elite 1 actually had a very distinct sfx to mask your shots not really guess work, in the background there'll be an artillery probably shooting like 3 or 4 shells, when the shell hit sound comes up you have to take your shot quick. It's a bit precise than the later games

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Honestly the best thing about sniper elite v2 is the fact that its both a ww2 game and a cold war game at the same time

Another solid video. Really appreciated the bits that go over historical context.

Your input and analysis are very thorough and enjoyable man. I subbed and I await your further projects in my feed❤️

This is an excellent video. When I went to your channel and seen you only had 66 subs I was shocked! Keep up the great work.

This channel deserves so much more exposure, absolutely quality videos indepth and just clean editing Voice over I thought the views said 155k as I'd expect non-less , keep this up fantastic 👏

Honestly. How are you not drowning in subscribers? This content is Grade A. Keep it up!

underrated ASF subbed cuz u deserve more of them

Thank you for making this. I have such fond memories of playing this game. The online game was great too.

Damn the quality man, you deserve a lot more of respect and lot more of success with that level of quality man, you just got a new subscribers :)

Please do the rest of the series!

the sound in this game is excellent

amazing video!

This is great help. Thank you! I'm trying to put together a chronological ordered playthrough of World War II levels in video games and this helps with the history. Thank you

This video made me pull the trigger on the game. I've enjoyed my time in SE3 & 4 massively, and V2 has been on my wishlist for a long time. I'm expecting to be zoned out for hours on end in this one!

thanks man it was awsome i have all of them 1 - 5 but did nt know about v2 ty

Me and my dad when i was in highschool would play the free demo alot and we both thought it was awesome

Another banger!

I grew up with medal of honor ps1 and medal of honor frontline remastered ps3 with the sniper elite series I have the same feelings again played 4 and 3 and now 2 I love it !

An excellent review. I got this as part of the SE bundle so it didn't cost me $40, and I wouldn't pay that for this game, but as a remastered older game it's fun and interesting to play and see how the series has developed. In some ways it's harder than the later games, as you can't save at will, but have to hit a checkpoint, and the greater linearity forces a certain play style. I'm only on the second mission. Even in SE5 you still get Karl in the cutscenes, and not even with your chosen loadout/outfit but what chose to use, that seems very poor and lazy programming. Also in SE5 we still get very dumb enemy AI at times; a close miss or non-lethal hit freezes the target for a second shot, rather then diving immediately for cover and THEN trying to figure out where the shot came from. It's almost as if they don't value their digital lives.

В конце Карл сказал, что война окончена, но уже начаналась новая война, холодная война, я думаю это было бы хорошей идеей создать снайпер элит про холодную войну где-то во вьетнаме и тд. Или после холодной войны : Ирак, Афганистан, Сирия, а может даже и сегодняшняя Украина. Есть множество различных исторических военных событий. Надеюсь когда-то они это сделают...

I always found it weird how the exit wounds are basically goatse

I'm halfway through 3 but I didn't play the DLC for this one! might have to go back before starting 4

Great video! Your style of humor reminds me of Purposeless rabbit holes. You're mellower which is nice though.

We need more V2 games

Best of all

I actually turn off the Ambient Occlusion, due to it being a poor implementation that ends up looking like hard outlines around objects and giving a more cartoon look in some areas, it was strange. Granted, it does look good in some areas, but turning it off still looks just as good, it's easy to get used to seeing things without it and doesn't bug me every once in a while like the poor AO does. Honestly, I wish they would've given an option to use HBAO, SSAO, etc. for PC users, or at default to something based off what GPU brand is detected.

It's good, I enjoyed the game

sniper elite 3 and V2 were peak

Wanting for new vids man

14:58 You forgot to mention that it's only there on some difficulty settings.

Just bought v2 remastered for 5er and 4 for 5er too.

They should stick to urban places like the movie enemy at the gates or maybe a Russian protagonist.

Which do you prefer this or III?

Hi I need the coop trophy ,bomb happy‘ for sniper elite v2 can someone help me please?

in freedom dollars it's about the same.

Do you love sniper elite or do love karl

As a Russian myself I really hate this part of the game: hopefully didn't manage to play yet, and, THANK GOD, won't do this at all for now. As I saw the "enemy" - are the Soviet soldiers. Those, who came through sh*t, losing their families and closest ones in a total genocide on their own land made by filthfull, pathetic and hateful Nazi regime and the SS scumbags, whose place is really in hell. For those 27 million loses, these soldiers who came to Berlin to destroy Nazism and all it had left, in order to prevent and totally annihilate this plague of untihuman idea which can corrupt the whole planet and domesticate it for itself (Wolfenstein is the best way of what may have happened to it), and now the developers offer me this s*t??? I understand absolutely seriously it would be the Cold War, but the former allies didn't proclaime "a war" to each other: they supported their regimes in other countries and helped it - that's why it's called "The Cold war". But this bullsh*t I won't do even for the best version. And this was the time we were still friends and brothers in arms, even though the fog of the cold war has really appeared at the very end of it (it was being glanced mostly between the commanders' ranks, but junior soldiers really still good negotiated between each other), but being a historian myself I didn't find out there was really clear and opened fighting between both sides. I also can admit even though it was the game of the Soviet perspective and happened to play as a Soviet Sniper and the enemy "would be" the American soldiers whom I should "lay down" - I wouldn't have probably done it, as I also remember the Omaho beach fight, the D-Day, Normandy landing, liberation of France and, at last, meeting on the Elbe river between the American soldiers and the Soviet soldiers as fellers and brothers in arms, shaking hands to each other, greetings with hugs and really becoming friends. So for me the idea of shooting and "ally" is ridiculous (no damn it would be later "a Cold war" and a resistance to former ally in new political system), during the WWII we still were allies and saw each other as friends against the Nazis. And especially NOT shooting those who REALLY made One of The Most Decisive VICTORY over the pure evil that almost has conquered the whole world and in other way could leave the most of the population of the Earth to the ashes due to their evil perverted ideology. So, as for me, I would have never play the game to which part I feel bad and disgust, having also my relatives who suffered in this war from the Nazis (as all of the modern population of my country), so I won't recommend it at all: let the "other one" play this "game", I'm fed up with this part.