It took all 150 minutes I had with Sniper Elite 5 to blunder through the second chapter mission and complete only its core objectives - not even the optional kill that usually represents a level’s greatest tension and action. Such gut feeling, that You-will-go-to-the-Dagobah-system imperative, is absolutely necessary to enjoy a game that demands the player meet it on its terms, and play at its pace. I think about that premonition every time I have played the game, from 2014 to 2017’s Sniper Elite 4, and in a two-and-a-half-hour preview of Sniper Elite 5 that Rebellion organized two weeks ago. Where Richard Dreyfuss sculpted a mountain out of mashed potatoes, I would buy Sniper Elite 3. In the summer of 2014, my subconscious was rinsing out whatever I’d read on the internet that day, and I woke up with a compulsion I have never felt before. Sniper Elite first visited me in a dream.
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