Charlie Lima said:I do like Sniper Elite, so I might give this one a go. Just have to check the achievement list first. Im so tired of grinding right now...
If the stealth / sniping part of Sniper Elite is the thing that most appeals to you about those games, just know that that's largely absent from this one. One thing I liked about the Sniper Elite games was that you were dropped in on the map, and you had to try to take out the Nazis without revealing your position (or better yet, without even letting them know you were there), and so far, I haven't encountered anything close to that here.
In this game, when the zombies spawn they immediately know where you are and start coming for you. You go back and forth between two different situations... you're either moving towards the next checkpoint, and dealing with random zombies a few at a time along the way, or you must stand your ground and defend as a few waves of zombies and skeletons swarm toward you. There's no stealth about it. You can use your sniper skills to thin out the oncoming horde a bit (and that is fun if you get them all lined up and shambling down an alley toward you), but it loses a lot of the "sniper elite" feel in my opinion.
I've only done the first couple of missions, though, so maybe that's not representative of the whole game. The campaign levels are quite long (at least playing solo), so it's taking me a while to get through them.
TVippy said:This game can have something spoiled?
Can somebody explain how it works exactly? What would be the closest known equivalent? To my understanding, this "trilogy" doesn't have a campaign in the normal sense of the word, is it just a set of small maps to play horde mode with friends on?
The closest equivalent is probably Sniper Elite, since that's what this game is based on. The gameplay mechanics are pretty much exactly the same as Sniper Elite 2 and 3, right up to the slow-mo bullet cam when you get a headshot with a sniper rifle.
There is a "campaign" mode, but it's basically the same type of campaign you get with Sniper Elite itself, or like a Call of Duty sort of game. There's a brief description at the beginning of a mission that basically just says where you are and what your objective is, but you can pretty much ignore it... during the missions, your goal is to just advance from one checkpoint to the next until the mission is over. Only difference is that instead of Nazi patrols and checkpoints, you get zombies and skeletons spawning out of the ground. There's a separate horde mode, as you mentioned.
It does seem like a spoilers thread is a bit superfluous for this one, although maybe there's some stuff about the level bosses that some people wouldn't want to know ahead of time?