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 cross has landed. Roughly, because it occurs!

Riot has not solely launched a brand new mission and weapon pack as a part of this new cross, 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 have now 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 disguise and search with the Nazis. 

The story of the mission, Tough Touchdown, is a reasonably fascinating one. Allied airmen, whereas maintaining a tally of what the Nazis are as much as, have been shot down behind enemy strains, 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 important info, and clearly we have to maintain this out of the enemy’s arms 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 incorporates 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 excellent to be used at excessive vary. How helpful that might be in a forest stuffed with bushes, the place visibility isn’t often 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 earth. That is extra helpful when treading on the bunions of a Nazi, and often makes a multitude of no matter it hits. I’m nonetheless not bought on shotguns in Sniper Elite 5 to be trustworthy, preferring to maintain the enemies additional away. 

Whereas we’re taking a look at new weapons, let’s take a look at what the Trench Warfare free pack brings to the desk, we could? Properly, as you’d anticipate in a pack with the phrase “Trench” within the title, the primary weapon out of the bag is the outdated devoted Trench Gun, a pump motion, 6 spherical 12 gauge shotgun that once more trades vary for up shut energy.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 properly, the Carl Gustav M/1945, which is extra extensively referred to as the Swedish Okay. 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 moderately simple to regulate; that is far 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 identified, 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 drag to fireplace each barrels, it does deliver one thing completely different to the battleground. And at no cost, 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-compulsory aims we have now come to anticipate 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 as a way to get again some important intel that he has confiscated. The non-compulsory aims are the same old, with a tank to take away (simpler stated than finished, particularly on Genuine issue) and a few AA weapons to destroy. Probably the most fascinating a part of the mission is definitely that of an non-compulsory space, happening beneath floor in a claustrophobic mine. You’d finest 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 via; there are lots of 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 actual fact, while there’s one part with a number of foes, as for the remainder, it’s just about run and gun many of the manner via the extent. It felt nearly like a straightforward mode, and once I let you know that is the primary map I’ve completed in Sniper Elite 5 on Genuine issue, that ought to provide you with an concept about how simple it was. 

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

The Tough Touchdown Mission and Weapon Pack in Sniper Elite 5 does simply sufficient to get a grudging suggestion. The map is properly designed however small, and the aims appear to be a rehash of different missions. Aside from that, the trademark Riot gameplay and gunplay is there’s all the same old glory; one second capable of decide 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 blended bag, this DLC, and whereas it’s good to have new content material, I actually hope that Riot sit down and have a look at the issues that made the missions in the principle sport so good, and convey us extra of that quite than the lower down map on show right here.  

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