A Single Serving of Goreporn.

• Large, open levels.
  
• Amazing co-op experience.
  
• Multiple ways to approach each level and play style.
  
• Glorious gore moneyshots. (If you're into that kind of thing)

• Physics engine seems dated, but it worked well enough.
  
• Movement and animations seem a bit stiff.
  
• Graphics leave something to be desired.

• Story is almost nonexistent.
  
• AI is pretty derpy, even on the harder difficulties.

Get it on sale. Even with its issues I'd recommend it for the right price.

The game has guns in it

I don't need to tell you the misc parts so here's the most important one...
It took me 3 hours for 1 mission...and that's the 2nd mission.
It's stealth is very good and gameplay synchs with the stealth.
Perfect match if you ask me,
Worth it(on sale).

"World War II Secret Agent Game"

Let me start off by saying that "Sniper" should not even be in the title of this game. So little of what you do in this game is what a Sniper actually does, really frustrated me. I have yet to even complete the story of the game because to me it just felt so disconnected, boring and just plain BAD at times. What it really should be called is "OSS Files" or something of the sort, something that clues you in to be more of a Secret Agent who HAPPENS to be a really good marksman, not a US Army Sniper. I've been playing this series from the get go and time and time again I've been disappointed by it. Between the simple fact that a lot of the rifles in this game wouldn't have been used as Sniper Rifles, to the downright horrendous AI even on higher difficulties, leads me to finally write a sadly quite bad review for this game. Now. Let's dive into the Pro/Con.

Pros:
-Wide variety of tasty WWII-era, mostly authentic weaponry for your Nazi-killing pleasure.
-Did I mention variety?
-Bullet physics and the like are desperately refeshing in a gaming era dominated by CoD and Battlefield where legitmate ballistics are woefully lacking if existant at all.
-The environment is very immersive and authentic, right down to the vehicles.

Cons:
-Remember that variety I mentioned? Yeah. You have to pay for a lot of it.
-The AI ranges from laughably stupid to mind-numbingly difficult.
-Remember those physics I was talking about? Yeah. They only work sometimes.
-"Remote detonated TNT" that you shoot to set off. (Don't even get me started with the physics of this one)
-The lack of any GENUINE sniping got old after the first two or three hours.
-No seriously. You BARELY snipe anyone in this game. 100-300 meters does not constitute sniping. I regularly make shots inside that distance with my Iron-sighted rifle at the gun range.
-Did I mention stupid AI?
-I could go on. No really. I could.

Bottom line is, the game can be really, really enjoyable. It also can be the bane of your existance and WILL drive you absolutely insane with how bad some of the story can be. Honestly a very fun game, with sadly tons and tons of unrealized potential, that the game reminds me of every single time I boot it up.

More technical difficulties than a state school server room. For the want of a new release after V2 for the same reasons, I can't see how there's been any improvement on the first. While the gameplay sets in after a couple of missions, there's a feel for how the Welrod and rifle pair up, but the last save point becomes the most used feature. The list of issues can be accredited to jittery animations, almost like they know you're watching, and the age old know-it-all AI. Take down an alerted enemy, the only of several who know where you are, and the rest come running to your exact position, never having seen you. There also seems to be a bug in the way concealed gunfire works in conjunction with a canon or dodgy stationary motor. Countless times the AI went on alert after shooting during the covering noise, making it confusing to know the outcome of options. AI enjoyed screwing up multiple attempts by detecting my movement through walls, and I don't mean on account of running, but by their mesh sifting through the wall and somehow seeing me. A WTF moment including being shot by a soldier who was shooting me, as he hung suspended in a wall (see screenshots). Other soldiers fired through the corners of buildings, without head-view of my position. A run through the underground/basement tunnel of a hill somehow alerted soldiers on the summit, as they cascaded down to my position. The animations even included unnatural movements making well set up rifling utterly clumsy. Most rifle nests also come with no gunfire cover, so it's game on if you want to use them. The upside of all this bumbling around is cracking the idiodic AI in the melon with a big calibre rifle. After all, they embody the frustrations with clunky algorithms well enough to feel a sense of satisfaction popping a pair of eyes out. It works really well on the level of infuriating the player into enough of a rage to really want to put a thousand pounds of shrapnel into the back of someone's centre mass. The problem is, and many times over, this often won't kill the target, as they fumble forward, about face, and successfully put machine gun bullets in your head from the hip a good 70 metres off. Lovely. :/

The game is fun sometimes but a lot of the levels are broken with lazy developement.
-There are multiple spots in missions where there are special enemies that will stay completely hidden & unkillable until you hit an invisible trigger and they pop out of cover at the worst possible time.
-Enemies will often survive after being shot in the head with a heavy rifle on "authentic".
-The enemies have the memory of a goldfish. Even on authentic you can start a full-on firefight and the enemies will forget you exist after running away for 15 seconds.
-The AI sees trough some of the walls, fences and bushes.
-Shot masking breaks every now and then. Sometimes your shot gets detected when you masked it and other times the enemies can't hear you no matter how much you spam.
-The Siwa Oasis mission has many bugs that cause the mission to fail even when you complete the objectives

There's not a lot different between this and Sniper Elite 2, aside from graphical enhancements, and being set in the desert rather in Europe.

The problem here is variety. No matter how good the game strives to be, there's always a point where it's just more of the same. Unfortunately SE3 is mining vein as SE2 was.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the game, I'd say it's a good game, and I recommend it, even at full price, but if you found SE3 tedious after a while, the same is likely to happen with this one.

If you ask me...."Sniper Elite 3" is the best of the series so far. While the previous installments stuck to Europe....this game takes place in Africa. Which means instead of traveling through war torn and narrow streets....you get to snipe targets in wide open spaces. The sniping mechanics are still reliable as ever and if you know what you are doing....you should rarely miss a shot. To make said shots....you have an entire arsenal at your disposal. Everything from rifles...sub-machine guns....pistols....to explosives. Not to mention....you can pick exactly what you what from the main menu once you've unlocked everything. For those that want more of a challenge....you can always sneak up on an unexpecting adversary and peform a stealth takedown....which will either result in a neck-breaker....or a knife to the throat. The missions are challenging but fair and if you are the type of person who likes to take their time and collect everything....then you can easily spend 2+ hours on a single level alone. The game has plenty of achievements to keep one occupied....along with DLC missions that are well worth the price of admission. Speaking of price....the game usually retails for around $49.99....but I picked up the game for the low, low price of $9.99 while it was on sale. Rebellion products are on sale often enough and you can usually expect something in the 50% - 75% off range. No matter what you spend....if you like sniper games....for now you can do no better.

Something with this is off - it's just not fun.

Graphics are pretty but the story is so trash with its cookie cutter yank with gravel stuck down his gullet. The whole bullet camera thing gets old really fast and you'll find yourself turning it off in options (which is handy to be fair). COOP is boring and usually ends up in the two of you sat on some rock or roof picking the stupid AI off as the run in walls and bales of hay.

The whole lighting dynamite with flint is just fiddly for the sake of it as well.

TL;DR: Utterly boring due to the stupid AI, terrible story and forgetful characters and repetitve mechanics. I didn't even bother to waste my time trying to finish it.

Characters and objects don't load in from a distance (pretty significant issue in a sniping game...), and you'll be spending an inordinate amount of time waiting for something to mask the sound of your shots.