Sniper Elite Set for Autumn Discharge

You may (cruelly) not be allowed to pick off people from a mile away in real life, but at least Rebellion's new game will give you a taste. New screens.

In 2002, a Canadian sniper stationed in Afghanistan scored a successful kill from 2,430 meters away. You might not be pulling off anything as impressive as that in UK-based developer Rebellion's new title Sniper Elite, but the authenticity of the situations and the demands on your nerves should more than make up for it.

Playing as a German sniper recruited by the American OSS (the precursor to the CIA), you will have to wind your way through war-ravaged Berlin. The game is set at the tail end of World War II, in the spring of 1945, effectively making your mission one of the first shots in the Cold War.

Using stealth and a steady hand, you must work your way through the battered German capital to retrieve government secrets that could allow the Nazi's to develop an atomic bomb of their own.

Rebellion is quick to insist that Sniper Elite is not a first-person shooter. Rather, it's a cat-and-mouse game, played from both first and third-person perspectives, where you have to position yourself as best as possible to take down your target. The freeform mission structure means that you'll have to decide on your own strategy for success.

After several delays, Sniper Elite is finally being prepped for deployment on PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2. The game should be in stores across Europe this autumn.

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games