Sniper Elite 5: Rough Landing Mission and Weapon Pack Review

Season Go 2 is right here in Sniper Elite 5, and now the primary content material from that go has landed. Roughly, because it occurs!

Rebel has not solely launched a brand new mission and weapon pack as a part of this new go, however they’ve additionally dropped a brand new free pack of weapons for all gamers. The query is, does the Tough Touchdown Mission and Weapons Pack sustain the prime quality we now have develop into used to, and does the free Trench Warfare weapon pack add something worthwhile? Let’s strap on our greatest ghillie fits – we’re off to the woods to play conceal and search with the Nazis. 

The story of the mission, Tough Touchdown, is a fairly attention-grabbing one. Allied airmen, whereas maintaining a tally of what the Nazis are as much as, have been shot down behind enemy traces, and so we’re despatched in, as seemingly the one succesful soldier on this entire conflict, to get them out. One of many airmen is a excessive rating officer with essential info, and clearly we have to preserve this out of the enemy’s fingers whereas getting them out. Set in a forest, with small farms and villages dotted about, and even an underground mine to discover, this guarantees to be motion all the way in which.  

The mission pack additionally accommodates a few new weapons, which is at all times good. These are the Moisin Nagant sniper rifle, a well-known Russian rifle that apparently has nice stopping energy and stability, making it supreme to be used at excessive vary. How helpful that might be in a forest stuffed with timber, the place visibility isn’t normally that far, stays to be seen !More likely to be of extra use is the brand new Swedish Sjogren Inertia 12 gauge shotgun, which was one of many first semi automated shotguns developed on the planet. That is extra helpful when treading on the bunions of a Nazi, and normally makes a multitude of no matter it hits. I’m nonetheless not offered on shotguns in Sniper Elite 5 to be trustworthy, preferring to maintain the enemies additional away. 

Whereas we’re new weapons, let’s take a look at what the Trench Warfare free pack brings to the desk, lets? Effectively, as you’d count on in a pack with the phrase “Trench” within the title, the primary weapon out of the bag is the previous trustworthy Trench Gun, a pump motion, 6 spherical 12 gauge shotgun that once more trades vary for up shut energy. There’s a new sub machine gun included as nicely, the Carl Gustav M/1945, which is extra extensively often called the Swedish Ok. Not a breakfast cereal, this gun as a substitute can ship as much as 600 rounds per minute in direction of your enemy, whereas remaining fairly simple to manage; that is rather more up my alley.  Lastly, the final weapon on this pack is a brand new pistol, weirdly a double barrelled one. The Double 1866, as it’s recognized, was designed to be an simply concealable and shortly drawable pistol, and so regardless of the actual fact it has solely a single motion set off to tug to fireplace each barrels, it does carry one thing completely different to the battleground. And free of charge, it feels churlish to quibble, does it not?

Anyway, again to the Tough Touchdown pack, and included is – shock horror – a brand new mission. Now, the very first thing to say about this mission is that it isn’t massively lengthy, even taking in all of the non-obligatory aims we now have come to count on from the sport. We should infiltrate a village, discover three crashed plane after which the pilots, who might or will not be close by. As well as, we have to discover and kill a excessive rating German officer so as to get again some essential intel that he has confiscated. The non-obligatory aims are the same old, with a tank to take away (simpler mentioned than achieved, particularly on Genuine issue) and a few AA weapons to destroy. Essentially the most attention-grabbing a part of the mission is definitely that of an non-obligatory space, going down beneath floor in a claustrophobic mine. You’d greatest follow your shut fight abilities earlier than you head down there, that’s for certain. 

The map is properly designed and appears nice, with wooded areas and lengthy grass to creep by way of; there are various areas to discover, and enemies to perforate. I’ve to say I did get a touch of deja vu from a mission in Sniper Elite 4, the Regalino Viaduct mission, with a big central bridge that appears to dominate the map.  And this map does appear to have solely a handful of enemies on it. In truth, while there’s one part with numerous foes, as for the remainder, it’s just about run and gun a lot of the method by way of the extent. It felt nearly like a straightforward mode, and once I inform you that is the primary map I’ve completed in Sniper Elite 5 on Genuine issue, that ought to offer you an thought about how simple it was. 

The precise design of the map is nice, don’t get me unsuitable, and discovering the place the airmen have gone to floor is fairly difficult, but it surely simply feels prefer it may very well be rather a lot tougher, and more difficult.  

The Tough Touchdown Mission and Weapon Pack in Sniper Elite 5 does simply sufficient to get a grudging advice. The map is nicely designed however small, and the aims look like a rehash of different missions. Apart from that, the trademark Rebel gameplay and gunplay is there’s all the same old glory; one second capable of choose a Nazi off from the size of the bridge, the following seemingly unable to stroll up a set of stairs in case you are crouching.

It’s a combined bag, this DLC, and whereas it’s good to have new content material, I actually hope that Rebel sit down and take a look at the issues that made the missions in the principle recreation so good, and convey us extra of that slightly than the reduce down map on show right here.  

You will get the Sniper Elite 5 Tough Touchdown Mission and Weapon Pack from the Xbox Retailer