


Should you buy Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition? No, at least not for the Nintendo Switch This is a substantial weakness, and one of my biggest annoyances with the game, enough that it justifies the score nearly entirely, because it brings the whole game down.

As I've trod over a few times previously, for a game where the best part of the experience is shooting things in the distance, it's kind of a pain when you can't discern exactly what it is you're aiming at. There's a lack of clarity that makes it frustrating to engage with the game's best parts. In docked, I still found it hard to pick up the difference between soldiers and background, particularly during night time missions. The wonderful looking desert I mentioned above? In the Switch's handheld mode, it's too hard to work out who you're shooting at, as camo-clad soldiers and the background melt into one, and I frequently found myself firing rounds based on the enemy icons that spotted enemies have floating above their head. However, the Switch edition of the game has real problems. Sniper Elite 3 was a decent game when it launched back in 2014, but now it's a fairly mediocre action-adventure game. Many of the game's mechanical problems are problems inherent in 2014 gaming, with the enemy AI being slightly wonky, and the game lacking slightly in depth. Sniper Elite 3 was a decent game when it launched back in 2014, but now it's a fairly mediocre action-adventure game outside of the sniping aspects of the game. These issues are severe and impact whether this is a good purchase on the platform, especially considering it costs nearly double for the hybrid console as it does for PC, PS4 or Xbox One. The biggest problems with Sniper Elite 3 come from its integration with the Nintendo Switch. Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition What I don't like But the game is so punishing when you break cover, it's unlikely you'll survive long with that last option. You're set loose to accomplish your objectives any way you want, and while the game is definitely stronger mechanically when you're sniping with a long rifle, but you can sneak in and do you work with the silenced Welrod and your knife, or even just charge about with a submachine gun and an armful of grenades to cause as much chaos as possible. The open-world environments are great fun. Aesthetically, the game looks great, although there's a lack of definition, something especially noticeable if the Switch is docked. The intricacies of combining a landscape that's largely inky shadows, muddy yellow environments, and soldiers trying to camouflage in those maps make for frustrating gameplay, but we'll get into it later. It's so rare to see the African front of World War 2, and mucking around in the dunes is satisfying.
