Sniper Elite 4 review: Lofty aims battle grindhouse roots in this ambitious sequel

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Sniper Elite 4 is a very serious game about stealthily killing Nazi scum during the Allied invasion of Italy. Most of the time.

It's also a laugh riot of a game where each and every bullet is shown in glorious slow-motion, tearing through skin and internal organs, kidneys and livers and testicles and other fleshy bits all jiggling in a weirdly detailed nod to Newton’s laws.

Which Sniper Elite 4 you choose to focus on? Well, that’s up to you.

Shot through the heart, you’re to blame

As I wrote in our preview last month: “While the series may never wholly shed its grindhouse B-movie feel, there’s an increasingly smart stealth game hidden underneath the fountains of blood and guts.”

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