Honestly I don’t like to give bad reviews to games, but this game is simply horrible and almost unplayable.

I want to play the entire SNIPER ELITE series on my YouTube channel and I decided to start with the very first game from the series.
I don’t mind the graphics, is a game from 2005 old graphics are not a problem with me plus that the graphics in this game are super ok, I played games with horrible graphics, they don’t matter. If the game itself is good, if the story is nice and if is user friendly, I don’t care for shiny graphics.

Allow me to list a few CONS that this game have. Keep in mind all CONS that you’ll see are enemy related.

1. AI that controls the enemies is broken.
2. No matter what you do, no matter where you go enemies will know exactly where you are.
3. Enemies can pinpoint your location super precise.
4. Enemies will wallbang you in 98% of cases
5. No matter if you prone or not enemies will always sense you.
6. Enemies have mad reflex and accuracy. They can shoot you with a PPSH weapon from 30 meters and hit you 90% of time.
7. Sniper enemies are so hidden on top of the buildings that is almost impossible for you to see them, but they can see you. Even if you see nothing on a building they will shoot you cuz they can see you.
8. Enemies will come shooting at you. Don’t matter that you are on prone, hidden behind something, if they sensed you, they will come shooting and killing you.
9. Near the end is a mission where right in the beginning if you wait like 5-6 seconds 4 enemies will appear in front of you so you can shoot them otherwise can’t advance.
I decided to trick them, don't wait for them just go left RUN and go far away and around them. Guess what, I did that and hid behind something, I waited like idk 10-15 seconds, I hear enemies… the same 4 enemies that were supposed to appear on that street now came here and stopped 30cm away from me, I moved a muscle trying to kill them, they wallbanged me and killed me. How did they knew that I made a left and hid there? Weren't they supposed to patrol on that street only?
10. Enemies do not have a pattern, they do whatever they want. If you do something now and die, if you QUICK LOAD this time enemies will either not be in same location or do something totally different. One time on a mission 2 guards were supposed to be on one of the entrances, after I quick load they were not guarding that door anymore they vanished… in the end they appeared from behind me shooting.


I’m pretty sure that I missed more enemy cons, but I hope that all I mentioned above will make you understand how bad the AI is.
In my gameplays I was on prone a lot, like over 85% of time I was crawling on the ground because if ill be on 2 feet and walk, enemy will hear me.

Many times I was walking or on prone mode and when I’ll go near an entrance I’ll just move the mouse to see like behind the walls to see if enemies are near me, guess what… sometimes enemies were there, behind the wall and they will look thru wall straight at me, I move a bit to the left they move their weapon a bit to the left, they will follow me thru wall.
Many times on prone I was going inside a building, never managed to see any enemies because they have like a spidey sense but 1 million times better, and they will wallbang me without even knowing what happened.
As I said in one of the videos, I don’t understand why this game is still on steam for sale, this game is so broken that should be given for free at this moment, or like sales for $1…
Now I cannot wait to start playing Sniper Elite V2, hope to God that this one is better.

Again, I’m sorry but I cannot lie to my fellow gamers, I know that lots of people worked on this game but the game is almost unplayable because of the enemies. I played on Cadet which is medium difficulty, how are they on maximum difficulty? You spawn on map and they kill you instantly?

If you wanna test your resistance to anger, buy the game and play it on cadet difficulty atleast.
I cannot recommend the game, i'm truly sorry.