Sniper Elite 5

They've removed everything I liked about Sniper Elite 4. It's way too easy to do the thing you don't want to do and way too hard to do the thing you want to do. For example, once I open a safe I have to stand in front of it and make tiny adjustments to the player's position to select the one thing in the safe I want to pick up. And why do Germans stand in a field carrying on a conversation when no one is around? It makes no sense. And after you kill an NPC and want to search it, the games uses the same button for picking up his weapon that you use to search his body, so I'm constantly picking up weapons I don't want. I simply can't play this game. It's way too frustrating for all the wrong reasons.

Sniper Elite 5 is like Sniper Elite 4 but with other name, let me explain, the same thing we had from the previous game but with 1 or 2 differences, Sniper Elite 5 its not a bad game, but differences beetwen Sniper Elite 4 and 5 are not much, however Sniper Elite 5 its a good game to play when you are free.

Xbox.

I haven't played enough of SE5 yet to form a complete opinion on the game.

I'll just say the environments are nice, but what have you done to the controls, Rebellion? SE4's controls were the height of perfection in sniper/commando games. Why did you fiddle with them? Why did you remove things? Why did you add confusing things like the 'temporary weapon' system?

The new controls are not as atrocious as Zombie Army 4's awful layout, but it's like you looked at some abomination like Sniper Ghost Warrior and went "Yeah! Let's get some of that unusable interface stuff going over here!". Tool workbenches? Seriously? Sniper Elite is not that sort of game and was mercifully free of that tiresome mechanic ... until now.

And the other thing it was mercifully free of was diversity tick-boxing. OMG. It's a WW2 simulator, not a fantasy game. Can you kindly remove the african-scottish french resistance fighter (and gawd knows what else you've added that I haven't come across yet - asian-polish wermacht troops, perhaps?)

I'm on Xbox so it will never be fixed. Hopefully some mods will come out for the PC version, particularly now it IS possible to synthesize a character actor's voice down to the inflexion without a bazillion dollars in fees.

I own all the Sniper Elite games and DLC (except for SE 1 but who cares). Really not sure about 5. I'll probably warm to it. I hope so.