With the end of the war in Europe mere days away, America is thinking about post-war matters, and the Russians make them mighty nervous. It's 1945, Berlin is under siege, and even the Third Reich knows it's defeated.
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Indeed, far from being faceless, it's perfectly clear that these poor blokes are also in full possession of skulls, jawbones, eyeballs, hearts, lungs, kidneys, and testicles, at least until a high-velocity slugs smashes, bursts, perforates, liquifies or disintegrates one or more of them in the game's eye-watering slow-motion bullet cam. In this aspect at least, it succeeds so well that what happens to these bog-standard faceless, generic Nazi gaming enemies while playing can provoke the same sympathetic wince that one finds oneself deploying when watching particularly horrendous skateboard mishaps on YouTube. The game's much-publicised selling point is lovingly detailing the grisly fates of those hapless members of the Wehrmacht that stray into our rifle sights.
So while there are a lot of adjectives frequently pulled out to describe the Nazis, “sympathetic” is rarely among them.Ĭredit then must go to Sniper Elite V2 for almost provoking that second thought. Even if on some logical level we understand that there must have been at least a considerable number of non-Nazis in the German army in WWII, history is written by the winners, stories need villains, and by now we gamers as a collective have surely mown down a thousand times more generic digital Nazis than the Third Reich ever produced, and all without so much as a second thought between us. History frowns upon them, as well it might – what with the evil, and everything.
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