Sniper Elite III

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  1. Targaryen006
    Jan 26, 2023
    6
    Story
    -Main story 3/5
    -Side Quests 4/5 -Story Direction 3/5 -main character 2/5 -side characters 1/5 Gameplay -Controls(keyboard and mouse) 4/5 -Combat 3/5 -stealth4/5 -linear 3/5 -episode design 3/5 -general gameplay 3/5 Graphics 3/5 -Environmental design 3/5 -Animations 3/5 -optimization 4/5    Story
    -Main story 3/5
    -Side Quests 4/5
    -Story Direction 3/5
    -main character 2/5
    -side characters 1/5
    Gameplay
    -Controls(keyboard and mouse) 4/5
    -Combat 3/5
    -stealth4/5
    -linear 3/5
    -episode design 3/5
    -general gameplay 3/5
    Graphics 3/5
    -Environmental design 3/5
    -Animations 3/5
    -optimization 4/5 on record : 9h    … Expand
  2. Jollyolfun
    Nov 18, 2022
    5
    i got this game as a child because you could shoot hitler in the testicle as he only had one
  3. Goshan220
    Oct 29, 2022
    7
    Такая же классная как и предыдущая часть, только в другой декорации и с небольшим развитием геймплея. Не люблю шутеры на постоянной основе, но при этом игры про войну это наверно самое мое любимое, так что иногда пройтись по коридорным миссиям и пострелять врагов бывает в удовольствие.Такая же классная как и предыдущая часть, только в другой декорации и с небольшим развитием геймплея. Не люблю шутеры на постоянной основе, но при этом игры про войну это наверно самое мое любимое, так что иногда пройтись по коридорным миссиям и пострелять врагов бывает в удовольствие.
  4. BgSilva98
    Sep 4, 2022
    7
    [PT-BR] Serei Breve nessa analise, o jogo é bem mais elaborado que seu antecessor, os gráficos estão bem melhores, mobilidade, e mecânica, tudo foi bem elaborado nesse game, a historia, musicas, sons etc.
    Recomendo o game, porém darei a mesma nota que deu pro seu antecessor, motivo ? Bugs, o jogo possui diversos bugs, e as vezes os inimigos atiram em você antes mesmo de você aparecer ,    [PT-BR] Serei Breve nessa analise, o jogo é bem mais elaborado que seu antecessor, os gráficos estão bem melhores, mobilidade, e mecânica, tudo foi bem elaborado nesse game, a historia, musicas, sons etc.
    Recomendo o game, porém darei a mesma nota que deu pro seu antecessor, motivo ? Bugs, o jogo possui diversos bugs, e as vezes os inimigos atiram em você antes mesmo de você aparecer , tem uns insta kill muito cabuloso no jogo que chega a irritar . Nota 7/10 ! [PT-BR]    … Expand
  5. Woolee
    May 31, 2022
    7
    The game is nice if you just want to sneak and kill Nazis, however it gets a little old rather fast, Gives little to no story beyond "Must kill Vahlen" even if you include the obligatory "German soldiers also have families" diaries spread around. The setting still feel
  6. Izoeros
    Apr 26, 2022
    6
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  7. ZzTopNemesis
    Mar 27, 2022
    7
    Score: 7.2

    I playe this after playing sniper elite 4, but i'm happy to say that most of the things i loved on SE4 already existed in this one, it's fun, at times very tense making it soo **** fun, the story is easy to follow and also engaging.
    Recomend it
  8. Moein7
    Nov 8, 2021
    7
    the only good thing about this game is game play; other things like story or graphics are either mediocre or bad
  9. KevLooney
    May 12, 2021
    6
    The game is uninteresting entirely. When it is played one thinks to the many other things that would be a better use of one's time.
  10. Tomle1202
    Apr 1, 2021
    6
    The more you play Sniper Elite III, the more you wish for it to reach the end.
  11. eraybeycik
    Dec 24, 2020
    6
    Büyük çaplı ama gereksiz düz olan bir oyun. Abi sniperde niye susturucu yok ya.
  12. AstiX
    Dec 18, 2020
    5
    Pretty much the same game as Sniper Elite V2, but with boring locations and worse graphics. Some say the graphics are better, but the lighting on V2 looks much more natural, while with III you get the worst implementation of sun rays I've ever seen which looks fake and ridiculous and on top of that everything is drowning in an ugly bloom effect.

    Sure, stealth is more doable in this    Pretty much the same game as Sniper Elite V2, but with boring locations and worse graphics. Some say the graphics are better, but the lighting on V2 looks much more natural, while with III you get the worst implementation of sun rays I've ever seen which looks fake and ridiculous and on top of that everything is drowning in an ugly bloom effect.

    Sure, stealth is more doable in this title, but that's only because the AI is dumb af. You can literally kill someone in front of dozens of enemies, watch them get a little upset and then go back to their regular routine as if nothing happened. If you go in guns blazing the enemies don't even try to close in on you or flank you, which was a thing in V2. With that said, the game is actually more enjoyable if you throw stealth out the window and just go mindlessly sniping everyone.

    There are some frustrating moments like not being able to shoot through bushes because they're BULLETPROOF, missing a target because there's an invisible wall in front of it or leaning over cover and having a clear shot only for the bullet to somehow hit the wall you're taking cover behind instead. And the best thing is, if you run in an underground tunnel, people way up on the surface can hear you, go "Huh?" and walk all the way down in the tunnel to the very spot where you made the sound. SUPER HEARING ENEMIES.

    There's also an attempt at a storyline that I can't believe anyone cares about. The only fun thing about this game is the bullet cam animations which we already had in V2 and they don't look like they've improved in any way.    … Expand
  13. zeux
    Dec 14, 2020
    7
    It's a good game but the setting is very repetitive and gets boring quickly because everything looks the same
  14. nascent
    Dec 12, 2020
    7
    Sniper Elite V2, was a dark horse. It seemed like a Call Of Duty ripoff but was actually a pretty fun and challenging sniper game with decent mechanics and good level design.

    Sniper Elite 3 is definitely a "more of the same" game. It's actually a prequel rather than sequel, but the story is weaker than SEV2 and this time around the levels are fairly void of anything memorable unlike    Sniper Elite V2, was a dark horse. It seemed like a Call Of Duty ripoff but was actually a pretty fun and challenging sniper game with decent mechanics and good level design.

    Sniper Elite 3 is definitely a "more of the same" game. It's actually a prequel rather than sequel, but the story is weaker than SEV2 and this time around the levels are fairly void of anything memorable unlike some very standout levels in SEV2.
    That being said, the Sniper Elite series is very fun if you like stealth sniper style games. The games bring me back to days of Spec Ops on the original playstation, running around alone with limited ammo and mostly relying on a sniper rifle, being stealthy and knowing when go on the offensive. I sorely missed these types of games, so this fills a void.

    The game format is essentially, 3rd person to move around levels and position yourself for shots, then a first person scope view for gunfights. There's the ability too play somewhat stealthily in these games, but there's also gunfights and assassination missions.
    The main differences between Sniper Elite v2 and 3 is that th levels are now more open and less linear. This dramatically improves the stealth element of the gme as you are no lngr forced into situations where you can't sneak around or flank enemies, plus it means you can psition yourself nearer atmospheric noises to mask your sots. However I feel the sound masking was developed more with SE2 as it had levels with events such as fireworks or the bell of the church which really continued through and was a key feature of those levels. There's not really anything like that in SE3 it's just a mechanic in the levels you can choose to find and use for some kills but not all.

    SE3 also fixes the issue I had with SEV2 with manual saves, allow you to no longer suffer trying to redo a 3 wave gunfight where you'd get to the very last sniper and die because you couldn't flank tham or position yourself properly, and then needing to restart the entire gunfight. Checkpoints were few and far between. SE3 allows you t save whenever you want, in addition to the checkpoints, which seem more frequent anyway. Although this also makes the game far easier as you can essentially save after every kill meaning there's no risk for any action you take.

    SE3 also adds takedowns, so you can takedown an enemy by sneaking up behind them, which is a very welcome addition. The silence handgun is still there from SEV2, but I prefer the takedowns for when yoou manage to get right up to an enemy without them seeing.

    Another thing to mention is the control scheme is better in SE3. The default scheme in SE2 was unpleasant and there was only one other control layout choice available, which allowd you to aim the scope with L2, but meant you lost sprint on L3. In SE3 yu can sprint with L3 and aim the cope with L2.
    SE3 is designed to be a superior game with the non-linear levels, improved controls, and more focus on the Xray bullet cam (which can start to get annoying after every kill, but you can press a button to skip them which wasn't possible on SEv2). However it also lost some of its charm with level design, the levels are less memorable and aren't as creative in terms of design.    … Expand
  15. Kotofon
    Jun 6, 2020
    7
    Sniper Elite 3 – шутер от третьего лица с серьезной тактической частью, где нужно продумывать каждый шаг, любой выстрел из вашей снайперской винтовки, для подрыва немецкой машины изнутри. События разворачиваются во время Второй Мировой войны, в не самом стандартном сеттинге – Северной Африке.

    Сюжет является приквелом к предыдущей части серии – V2. Главным персонажем, элитным снайпером    Sniper Elite 3 – шутер от третьего лица с серьезной тактической частью, где нужно продумывать каждый шаг, любой выстрел из вашей снайперской винтовки, для подрыва немецкой машины изнутри. События разворачиваются во время Второй Мировой войны, в не самом стандартном сеттинге – Северной Африке.

    Сюжет является приквелом к предыдущей части серии – V2. Главным персонажем, элитным снайпером станет агент Управления Стратегических Служб (УСС) Карл Фейрберн. Он попадает в немецкий тыл для оказания серьезной помощи союзным силам и сбора информации о секретном проекте фашистов – разработке секретного оружия. Руководит процессом создания генерал СС Франц Вален.    … Expand
  16. PedroNowicki
    May 31, 2020
    7
    Sniper Elite III to niezła skradanka i dobra gra, ale została wykonana kiepsko, nawet nie wiem, co mi nie pasuje, coś jest nie tak ze mną, albo z tą grą. Słyszałem, że Sniper Elite 4 jest bardzo dobry, więc może zagram w to, wiem, że to spóźniona recenzja, ale jednak recenzja.
  17. Sanjous_1999_
    May 19, 2020
    6
    Rus. БЕЗ СПОЙЛЕРОВ, игра - очень средний продукт и объясню почему. Однако сначала плюсы.
    +: 1) Неплохая графика (для меня нормально)
    2) Неплохой level design Ну это всё плюсы. -: 1) Тупейший искусственный интеллект (я понимаю что во всех играх так, однако тут слишком) 2) Примитивный сюжет (не зашел, та вообще главный персонаж какай-то обычный, нет харизмы, ничего запоминающийся в нем)    Rus. БЕЗ СПОЙЛЕРОВ, игра - очень средний продукт и объясню почему. Однако сначала плюсы.
    +: 1) Неплохая графика (для меня нормально)
    2) Неплохой level design
    Ну это всё плюсы.
    -: 1) Тупейший искусственный интеллект (я понимаю что во всех играх так, однако тут слишком)
    2) Примитивный сюжет (не зашел, та вообще главный персонаж какай-то обычный, нет харизмы, ничего запоминающийся в нем)
    3) Пустые персонажи
    4) Плохая стрельба с автоматов, я нигде не выдел такой отдачи оружия в играх (тут перегнули с этим)

    Спорная вещь в этой игре это когда ты прошел игру, и ты не чувствуешь завершенность игры (серьезно я во время первого прохождения не почувствовал финал)

    Итог я ей ставлю 6/10    … Expand
  18. r03vg
    Apr 15, 2020
    7
    Отличный симулятор снайпера. Появились открытые локации, заметные прогресс со времен второй части.
  19. PrincessRose
    Apr 5, 2020
    6
    It's fun for a few hours and then feels very repetitive and not much variation on objectives.
    It's a gimicky kind of game.
    I don't feel like a sniper as most of the time is just sneaking around to stealth kill with a knife as you don't have a silencer on your sniper rifle and can't always use it if you don't want to be heard. It's alright if all you want to do is kill people and not    It's fun for a few hours and then feels very repetitive and not much variation on objectives.
    It's a gimicky kind of game.

    I don't feel like a sniper as most of the time is just sneaking around to stealth kill with a knife as you don't have a silencer on your sniper rifle and can't always use it if you don't want to be heard.
    It's alright if all you want to do is kill people and not care about a story or any depth.

    This isn't my kind of game and just feel sick of playing it, not going to bore myself to death by forcing myself to keep playing to complete it, I'd rather spend my time playing something that is actually fun.    … Expand
  20. Relkad
    Mar 26, 2020
    7
    Well,i mean,it keeps you going,not bad overall,but nothing great either
    Probably good for challengers who can take the hardest mode.
  21. Wiebe
    Feb 26, 2020
    6
    This game had one good element, but that element was just about perfect: the kill cam.
  22. Nameless2131
    Feb 6, 2020
    6
    7/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  23. Pickle
    Jan 26, 2020
    6
    The issue with this title lies in the fact that it neglects it's one good aspect, and that is the sniping.

    Instead the game tries to implement pseudo-stealth mecanics that don't work that well in the least. You only get one silenced weapon, assuming you don't have the dlc, and that is the welrod, now a staple gun of the series that has a silencer attached by default. It isn't the    The issue with this title lies in the fact that it neglects it's one good aspect, and that is the sniping.

    Instead the game tries to implement pseudo-stealth mecanics that don't work that well in the least.

    You only get one silenced weapon, assuming you don't have the dlc, and that is the welrod, now a staple gun of the series that has a silencer attached by default.

    It isn't the best weapon in the game, it has terrible fire rate and you have to be fairly accurate with it, beyond that you don't get any other chance to mask the sounds of your shots but to go to specific places around the map where there might be an engine, or a motor that you can sabotage, or activate, in order to then have it make enough noise to mask your shots from time to time, proving that you are close to it.

    This is the problem with the game, because if you're buying this game is probably because you enjoy the rest of the Sniper Elite games, and if not, because you enjoyed v2, and now, 4, and the one thing that separates this series from the rest of games, and the main reason as to why it keeps selling copies to this day, is because it excels at this particular aspect, and this game is no exception to that.

    Sniping in this game feels empowering and brutal, thanks to the x-ray cam that gets trigger for the most part when you shoot at your enemies (plus the fact you can control the frequency of said cam) you get to watch in close and explicit detail the damage that your bullets cause, and this incites a fair amount of morbid pleasure, as you notice your enemies faces literally fall apart, or alternatively when you incapacitate an enemy by shooting at its legs, you can then target the grenades that your enemies carry around on their uniforms, in order to cause a chain reaction to take multiple enemies at once.

    This systems haven't really changed ever since Sniper Elite v2, some things have been refined, and most of the improvements were implemented in the sequel to this game, that being the fourth entry in the series.

    But as for this game, the problem is that it becomes a bit obsolete when you consider how good its successor ended up being.

    Almost every issue that breaks this game, that I've mentioned, got resolved completely in its sequel.

    In Sniper Elite 4 you get more freedom on how to tackle your objectives, more diversity in the levels, the aesthetic is better, the level design is better, the sniping mechanics thanks to silencers for your rifles and bullets is better.    … Expand
  24. Mitya64
    May 19, 2019
    6
    Весьма неплохой шутер. Прикольная баллистика. Не порадовала стрельба с ппшек, нужно в упор стрелять чтобы попасть, полнейший бред. Сюжет настолько простой. Миссии не интересные. Только интересен эффект рентгена
  25. EgoSum
    Feb 7, 2019
    5
    Sniper Elite 3 aka Sniper Crippled 3 Balls Cut Edition

    Karl is not an elite sniper. Karl is some 2 weeks trained grunt having his balls cut, sent to so-called stealth missions equipped with the most sh*ttiest weapons on Earth. Welrod is not a stealth weapon, it is the poorest excuse for a weapon, implemented to not helping the player but to doing everything to impede and annoy him.    Sniper Elite 3 aka Sniper Crippled 3 Balls Cut Edition

    Karl is not an elite sniper. Karl is some 2 weeks trained grunt having his balls cut, sent to so-called stealth missions equipped with the most sh*ttiest weapons on Earth.
    Welrod is not a stealth weapon, it is the poorest excuse for a weapon, implemented to not helping the player but to doing everything to impede and annoy him.
    Same for Semi-Auto HDM. God forbid if you want to fire more than 2 (TWO!!!) f***ing shots in a row. The 3rd shot will always miss, even if you stuck your pistol in your enemy's throat and pulled the trigger.

    Lousy DLCs (camo weapons) and good for nothing weapons. STG-44 was one of the best assault rifles in WW2, here is a miserable beanshooter with which you cannot hit an enemy more than 3 meters from you.
    Camo versions? Please, spare me. I need a good silenced weapon not paint.
    Fallschirmjäger Gewehr 42 rung any bells for you? Instead of Arisaka Sniper Rifle?
    On Sniper Elite mode, they always parry your melee attacks if you are detected.
    Crouching. Sloooooooooow, veeeeeeerrrrry sloooooow. He's not wearing boots, he's wearing buckets. This game adores to waste your time.
    The game annoyingly warns you "Relocate!" and you hear German soldiers shouting "Wachs en bleiben!" (Stay awake!) even if you cleared the whole goddamned area.
    If you fired more than 2 shots in a row you have to relocate up to Eris' orbit to become invisible again.
    God forbid if you are detected. The whole goddamn Wehrmacht is upon you, spawning up from Pluto's arse right behind you. On top of that, Karl cannot sprint more than 20m without having some cardiac arrest.
    In THEIR hands, MP40 is some kind of pinpoint accuracy weapon, capable of hitting and killing you from kilometers away; in YOUR hands, THE SAME MP40 becomes some kind of a stupid peashooter with horrible accuracy and recoil, needing ~1 clip to kill some Italian or German grunt or more, if you want to kill an elite Fallschirmjäger. Because, you know, developers.
    Instead of being a kickass commando sniper, poor Karl is crippled by stupid cheap mechanics and miserable weapons implemented to artificially increasing the difficulty.
    Weird sound stuttering in some places.
    At least they had the decency to implement a hard save and quick save system for a poor excuse of so-called stealth game.
    I'll raise my mark +1 for decent graphics, runs decent at high settings even on old PCs.
    Have a five from me.    … Expand
  26. Flashback92
    Jan 25, 2019
    7
    The game graphics is scrambled with bloom effects, and give to the game exposure problems. The AI is too weak, and stupid. (Throw rock system).
    The coop mode is good, and enjoyable if we play it with full stealth.
  27. soxs
    Nov 8, 2017
    5
    Not as polished or fun as Sniper Elite 4, but still fun. Also more true to life than 4 because you don’t get siliced bullets. The traps are not as fun as they are in 4 and you don’t get the whistle option.
  28. kourtin
    Sep 18, 2017
    6
    Although this game has pretty good graphics, includes large maps and some kind of "semi-open-world" where you can do your mission as you want I cannot say Im satisfied with the game. Sniper Elite 3 is way too continuist with its predecesor when we talk about game mechanics or how the story is told, although the story is just an excuse for killing nazis rather than telling a good story. TheAlthough this game has pretty good graphics, includes large maps and some kind of "semi-open-world" where you can do your mission as you want I cannot say Im satisfied with the game. Sniper Elite 3 is way too continuist with its predecesor when we talk about game mechanics or how the story is told, although the story is just an excuse for killing nazis rather than telling a good story. The kill-camera has been improved and polished making it a really stunning feature of the game, but after playing a couple of missions this hype about the bullet camera disappears and you will find yourself struggling in a game where player physics and mechanics dont work as well as expected.
    The IA is fine but kind of simple, defeating mechanical enemies becames the real challenge in this game due to its pretty limited (and small) critical points making you think about your strategy and I kinda liked it but I missed the sniper thing of the second release of the franchise. But there is something that this game misses and I cannot recommend it because of it, the sniper. This game focusses way too much in stealth and gathering data rather of having a real target to kill in each map, the need of an audio source to keep being quiet makes you struggle in a way that if you want to complete the game in stealth mode you will end using your basic pistol and nothing more. This will cause you to get bored as you will realise you can only complete the mission by pressing Y to stealth-melee-kill or close stealth kill with your pistol.    … Expand
  29. Warmuro
    Dec 30, 2016
    7
    PROS
    +Nice graphics and great optimization
    +X-Ray CONS -Character animations are terrible and extremely unrealistic, expecially death animations. -High violence during X-Ray but after the X-Ray effect, corpse has no bullet wounds. So X-Ray is just a visual deception. If the enemy's head exploded in X-Ray, you expect it to be exploded and want to see it in your non-X-ray eyes when    PROS
    +Nice graphics and great optimization
    +X-Ray

    CONS
    -Character animations are terrible and extremely unrealistic, expecially death animations.
    -High violence during X-Ray but after the X-Ray effect, corpse has no bullet wounds. So X-Ray is just a visual deception. If the enemy's head exploded in X-Ray, you expect it to be exploded and want to see it in your non-X-ray eyes when you check the dead corpse, but no, what happens in X-Ray, stays in X-Ray.
    -Enemies are better snipers than you ! Yes, even in very long ranges, they shoot at you with submachine guns and almost all of the bullets hit you. So what's the point of being a sniper in long ranges ?
    -Enemies see you with their eagle eyes immediately, and instead of hiding, they are mostly rushing to your location because they know they have automatic sniper rifles (!) because of the developers.

    Could be much more better game, still, if you do not look at its bad sides, it's an enjoyable game.    … Expand
  30. ave
    Oct 7, 2015
    7
    I've recommended this game even if I still have mixed feeling about it.

    There are some aspects of the game that are unsatisfying or broken - Sometimes the weapons do not fire. It's not a gameplay choice (like "jammed") but more a controller issue. And it's deadly. - The camera has some follow through when you aim, so it doesn't stop where you want. You have to learn to compensate. -    I've recommended this game even if I still have mixed feeling about it.

    There are some aspects of the game that are unsatisfying or broken
    - Sometimes the weapons do not fire. It's not a gameplay choice (like "jammed") but more a controller issue. And it's deadly.
    - The camera has some follow through when you aim, so it doesn't stop where you want. You have to learn to compensate.
    - The end of the story is somewhat anti-climactic. I expected a final fight after blowing up the factory, but it never came.

    In spite of these, I found this third opus of Sniper Elite more engaging than the previous ones :
    - The rendering of Africa, both at day and night is beautiful
    - The levels layout offers many ways to approach your mission and take care of enemies
    - All the new features of the "enemy radar" (tagging with your binoculars, sensing where the enemies are, and being informed of their level of awareness) offers a new and refreshing game experience.

    Like previous Sniper Elite games, you'll have to switch between quiet approach + silent kills, long range kills and messy rifle shooting. Each one has advantages and disadvantages, a carries a specific risk / reward.

    I encourage you to play this game if you appreciate on-the-fly planning and careful execution !    … Expand
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#58 Most Discussed PC Game of 2014
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#50 Most Shared PC Game of 2014

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Riot Pixels
    Aug 27, 2014
    65
    Sniper Elite 3 is hardly worth it, but at least it’s nice to see that the series is changing its course.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Aug 25, 2014
    60
    A solid action game, focused on stealth, larger maps and picking enemies from a distance. The game has its weak spots but in overall, plays refreshingly. [Issue#244]
  3. CD-Action
    Aug 25, 2014
    65
    Once again Rebellion did not step outside the familiar, comfortable zone of games that are interesting but not outstanding. [08/2014, p.60]
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