Having an enemy that needs to be shot in the head is nothing new, but asking players to shoot the same guy five times in the face goes from challenging to frustrating- especially when half a dozen will show up per level. Less entertaining are the giant zombies that fire an MG42 and wear bulletproof coats. The enemy snipers are just fine-in fact, they're better than the ones in V2, since these ghouls can jump from rooftop to rooftop, rather than just ducking in and out of a single piece of cover. The other foes are where the game gets into a little trouble. This is even more true in co-op mode, where the number of zombies for each fight is more than doubled. Every one of these sieges is a skilltesting struggle the requires expert marksmanship, clever planning, and the careful implementation of high explosives. At certain points the players will find themselves having to defend strongholds from a 'siege' of zombies, and here that word is not being used lightly.Äozens of zombies clog the narrow city streets, and unlike the lumbering mooks of Dead Rising, each one of these resurrected soldiers can easily kill the player if they manage to get within arm's reach. The second development is actually quite a coup on Rebellion's part-the sheer number of zombies that can appear onscreen is huge for an FPS. Vital shots are just as important here as in V2-zombies not executed with a headshot have a bad habit of getting right back up to continue the fight. The game manages to put two twists onto this classic villain, however, which keeps the game interesting. Zombies are exactly the foes one would expect, lumbering forward with relentless bloodlust. While the plethora of bloody pentagrams and clutches of gutted corpses get a little over-the-top at times, the set dressing, along with thick fog and a notably creepy soundtrack, do a fantastic job of giving NZA a tone and atmosphere all its own. NZA takes place over five levels culled from V2, but all of the maps have been completely redecorated so the game never seems like a simple revisiting of well-worn locations. While I'm not certain that letting players decide exactly how hard they wanted the game to be was a most-used feature in V2, its was definitely a nice addition, and I missed it this time around. Unlike in V2, sniping difficulty has been tied directly to overall difficulty level, and the 'custom' difficulty option has been removed, even for single-player games. The sniping mechanics are as gorgeous as ever, once again giving players a choice of just how realistic they want marksmanship to be. The cover system is still fairly useless, but since almost none of the game's enemies have guns, it's not much of a flaw here. While it is technically a stand-alone game (purchase of Sniper Elite 2 is not necessary), NZA is built on Sniper Elite's architecture, and as such recreates all of that game's features and flaws. Throwing players into the action with only the barest figleaf of exposition, Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army ( NZA) invites 1-4 players to stalk their way through shattered structures, find clean fields of fire, and then watch as bullets tumble in slow-motion through the rotting organs of a horde of zombified nazis. The developers have addressed this specific complaint in the most logical way possible-by populating the war-torn streets of Germany with zombies! While this new iteration comes with a few flaws all its own, it's certainly solved its predecessors' biggest problem since it's now entirely possible to play the game without feeling like a terrible person. The sniping mechanics were great, there were some well-designed levels, and overall the whole thing felt polished and professional. My problems with Sniper Elite V2 were well-documented, and beyond a few technical issues, they boiled down to this: reveling in the brutal, anatomically explicit destruction of human beings left me with a bad taste in my mouth. WTF I'm disappointed by the utter lack of zombie Hitler, Rebellion. HIGH Watching a single bullet plow through five zombies.
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