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As someone who has played the whole franchise through, I gotta say that "Sniper Elite 4: ITALIA" is a bit of a let down. There are about five main areas that I think have made it a let down.

Stability: The game is a genuine mess when it comes to stability, playing it when it has been out for 7 years, the game is still horribly unstable, with crashes frequently.

Story: Even though its the genre, the story feels to be lacking a lot of depth that you get from modern games, it feels more like I'm playing Conflict: Desert Storm, than a modern shooter with written characters. It is exceptionally two-dimensional in its characters and plot, being neither here nor there, where it could choose to embrace the Nazi shooter genre like Wolfenstein, or try be a serious historical game, but kinda sits randomly in the middle making it just feel like a boring fictional story.

Voice acting and general sound: This maybe a personal thing due to my equipment, but the sound effects in this game are horrible, and the voice acting honestly quite average. Possibly too its the artistic styling, but I almost hate hearing my character speak as its painfully bad, it sounds like a Steven Seagal film.

Gameplay: Sniper Elite has always been a bit ironically named, this one feels even more so like the Sniper element is gone, where in previous ones I felt like I was constantly trying to mask my shots and find vantage points, this one feels like I could just walk it with the SMG even on the harder settings. There are more items etc than in previous games, but I feel like they have added little to the game.

Price: Come on guys, its 7 years old.

Its an enjoyable game when it runs right, and the environment is beautiful like most Sniper Elite games, but its firmly a "buy when its on sale" game.

Long review tl;dr - Adds very little to the game, definitely not for everyone, and I would argue one that should be skipped if you value ten dollars more than myself.

Another unfortunate release for EUIV

Origins is a mix of positive and negative aspects, continuing many of the negative trends that have been part of the DLC recipe since Emperor was released. I do want to avoid things that will likely be fixed, like the AE imbalances with Personal Unions


From my short time playing it, the positives that I can see are:

- Finally having more flavour in Africa

- Far cheaper DLC than previous ones

- A few quality of life fixes free to all players like a warning of sieges, improved HRE interface etc


The negatives however are much more numerous:

- Continues the "gives free stuff" trend with missions and balance that has been present since Emperor and was expanded in Leviathan, whilst not as bad as Emperor where a fairly relaxed play would have a fully formed HRE by 1500 with personal unions over half of Europe, it reminds me a lot of Leviathan where your capital would have 100+ development without trying, and playing any Asian nation, you would find yourself owning the region by 1500.

- Mission trees for many African nations have a dozen very simple missions, followed by a few much more endgame oriented missions, resulting in a quick rip through the missions followed by a 200 year grind to complete one mission. Great example is Kongo where you can control the whole of Southern Africa by 1500 without much effort and find yourself playing a nation with Mamluk level flavour for the rest of the game.

- In general the mission trees are fairly lackluster, most being built around consolidating the regions where you begin, with little real difference between most nations which benefited. This was similar to Leviathan where the mission trees felt hardly different to eachother regardless of your choice of nation. Ethiopia does however offer an interesting playstyle with its decentralising mechanics and Coptic faith. Overall though, a big let down from the depth and careful design we were treated to in Third Rome, Rule Brittania, Golden Century and to some extent Emperor.

- Despite being an Afrocentric DLC, it has done nothing to address the utter lack of flavour in Africas most powerful nation of the Mamluk Sultanate, and has kept Morocco as the only interesting North African power. Although I guess it was never meant to be for North Africa, a lot could have been done considering Egypt's deep history, a set of missions based on a choice between either rebuilding the Caliphate or rebuilding ancient Egypt would have made for a long and interesting game. Surely Paradox reads this and makes an EUIV lost cultures/fantasy DLC based on reforming ancient Empires like Egypt and Macedonia, and creating Mythical Empires like the Kingdom of Camelot

Things that just annoy me but may not worry others:

- To my knowledge, unlike almost every other DLC in the last two years, there hasn't been significant map changes, I was rather hoping they would do more with central Africa instead of just marking half of the continent as wasteland, I do get that Africa has the worlds largest deserts, but there are whole nations worth of land currently marked as wasteland

- I don't like the excessive amount of great projects, they were cool and all, but like most things, they only remain cool when not everybody has them, and worst yet, half of the Great Projects are just copies of each other. They have tried to balance the abundance against having tighter requirements for many, however this has just resulted in weird great projects only accessible to a handful of nations. Adding a few more monuments in Italy would have satisfied us all enough.

Civ V strikes a nice balance between playable simplicity and tolerable visuals, which is great, as lets face it, we like older games because of the memories and plots, not because of the 8-bit graphics.

Good learning platform, barely spend half an hour a day on it and have learnt 20 odd words in but three or four days.

>Had my army destroyed by a Mudslime
>Wandered through the Tundra gathering forces and plotting for several weeks
>Finally have my chance
>Hunt down the Emir who killed me
>Destroy his Army
>Sell the survivours into slavery
>Carry him around as my trophy

10/10 would enslave again

There is more than TTT on here?

One of the most extreme learning curves of any game I have played. Really good though, well worth the buy. If you are worried about the price, don't be, the skins pay it off pretty quickly.

9/10 would remove kebab again

Overall fun game, kinda strange physics that took a new to Fallout player a while to learn. Not the best game, but not the worst, kinda dissappointed at the choices, felt more like a y/n game at times than a multichoice one.

Pros:
-Fun
-Has Legionaires that fight degeneracy
-Power armour
-Replayability

Cons
-You make your major stat choices that determine how you will play before you even learn to play
-Combat Physics that feel like they belong in an RTS at points
-Poor choice making at points
-Short game, not many hours in the story
-The Legionaires aren't as cool as they could be
-You can't keep playing after ultimate victory

7/10, worth the play considering its low price

It's pretty good, has too many hackers though, although it doesn't directly affect you they do take much of the point out of the game specially seeing as there is no consequence.

So boring