World War II Sniper: Call To Victory
(For PC)
By Lance Cpl. Charlie Foster, HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS, Washington
Glory be to he who happens upon the unsuspecting enemy, before the enemy happens upon an unsuspecting he. You might call that sneaky success, but such a ruthless approach is precisely the glory of the computer game World War II Sniper: Call to Victory.
As an American soldier in war-torn Europe during World War II, your key to survival is crawling forward in the underbrush, sighting in on a lone sentry and ensuring that he won't be sounding the alarm that day or any other. You lead your targets as necessary, finding a natural breathing pause, while aiming center mass and squeezing the trigger until the recoil surprises you. You reload, repeat, then relocate and spot another watchman. "Sniper" actually finds a way to factor all this and more into its sniping.
It's this firing realism, combined with authentic World War II weapons systems, which are the game's true values. Fire from the offhand and your front sight aperture will sway as you breathe. Lower to a kneeling position and the muzzle movement will reduce considerably. For maximum accuracy, settle into a good prone position. It's from there that the farthest targets become easy pickin'.
Realism is also the greatest cause for criticism. As you traverse the WWII environments, you might walk straight through a parked jeep, but be killed by a jeep idling forward. If you miss an objective and wander to a point in the level the game isn’t ready for, you just drop dead. You can become stuck between two game objects and the only way out is to restart the level. Also, any squad members assigned to you for a mission can be counted on for only one thing, watching you die. Not only do they ignore enemy gunfire, they don't even draw any themselves. It's as if the Nazis seem to know that your fire team isn't any threat to them and the only way to win the war is to kill you. And in this game, they're right.
Of course you don’t need any help from them if you're a good sniper, and that’s the whole fun of the game anyway. If you don't tire easily of scouting a good vantage point, waiting for a patrol to wander through your crosshairs and letting 'er rip, you'll find something to enjoy in World War II Sniper.
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Pentium® III 750 Mhz; Windows® 98, ME, 2000, XP; 128 MB RAM; 32 MB DirectX® 9 compatible video card with Hardware Transform and Lighting (HW-T&L) [Minimum ATI Radeon® 7200 or nVidia GeForce® 2 required. Video cards based on the Intel Extreme®, nVidia TNT2® and ATI Rage® Pro/128 chipsets are not supported]; 16bit DirectX® 9 compatible sound card; 600 MB free hard disk space; 16x CD-ROM
