It's during these levels that you can really lose yourself in the experience and live out your sniper fantasies and it's where Sniper Elite VR really begins to feel like it's capturing the atmosphere of the traditional games. The constant skipping around at the start does get aggravating, but in later levels like the second one featured in the video above you do start to feel a lot more freedom. Instead it's almost like your watching an interactive slide show - a series of loosely connected scenes that are bookended with lengthy periods of narration and loading.īut that's not to say it's not fun. By breaking the game up into tiny chunks in order to appeal to newcomers rather than letting us lose ourselves in large open worlds that we can explore at our own pace, players are never given enough time to truly feel like they're part of the world. It's the same trap that Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond fell into. These types of bitesized missions work great if you're new to VR and need regular breaks, but for someone like me who enjoys spending hours at a time inside virtual worlds, being constantly pulled in and out of the action really hurt the immersion. The levels themselves, especially in the first few hours, are very short indeed and each one can be easily completed in less than 10 minutes. Instead, you'll be filling the boots of a member of the Italian Resistance who also acts as the narrator for your adventures.

You'll notice in the video above, that in Sniper Elite VR, you're not playing as the series' usual protagonist, Karl Fairburne. That means there's a semi-open-world structure to the level which encourages you to use stealth, planning and patience in order to take out as many Nazis as possible before they spot you and set off an alarm. The second level feels much more like a classic Sniper Elite level though. The first level featured is basically a standard VR shooting gallery where, with the help a group of resistance fighters, I have to defend an oil refinery from waves of Wehrmacht. Both levels are fairly short, but they'll give you a good idea about the mixture of gameplay styles that you'll encounter during the game. You can decide for yourself by watching this week's episode of Ian's VR Corner where you'll be able to follow me through two full levels of the PC VR version of Sniper Elite VR. But, after sniping and stealthing my way through the first half of the game, does Sniper Elite VR have a shot at living up to the hype in my head?

As a big fan of both the flat Sniper Elite games, and open-world VR experiences, the thought of playing a combination of both of these things put my excitement into overdrive. I've had my sights firmly set on Sniper Elite VR ever since its initial announcement in 2019.

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