Sound still plays a major part, with loud noises quickly giving your position away. That’s why it pays to focus on the lieutenants – it’ll leave the grunts confused and they’ll be less effective later in the level.

The enemy is a lot smarter this time around, actively hunting you down if you take out one of their number. There’s a reason you start each level with a rifle, though: the AI can be brutally difficult if you take the enemy soldiers on directly, and you aren’t a bullet sponge. It’s just as fun to go all Rambo, taking on everyone head-on, as it is to play the silent assassin, which helps distinguish Sniper Elite from that other open-world kill-em-up, Hitman. You’re fully loaded with TNT, mines and detonators, too, in case you decide stealth really isn’t going to work. Sprinting away from danger still spikes your heart rate, though, and you won’t be able to steady your rifle until it goes down again. If you do get discovered and the enemy goes on alert, you don’t feel as trapped as you did in previous games. It helps that you have an expanded skill set now, shimmying up drain pipes, hanging off ledges and escaping out of windows.

You’re really left to play as you choose, dropped into each level with a selection of explosive playthings and a map showing the general location of each objective.

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