Quick Look: Sniper Elite III

I enjoy history, but much like everything else from school, I forget most of it.

I'm convinced @jeff in both this QL and UPF was confusing Sniper Elite V2 which is a good game with Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 which they played not super long ago on another UPF, and they game is pretty rotten.

Also, "In Africa?".... sigh, videogames idk -.-?

I just really can't stand this dudes voice. He sounds like he smokes like 15 packs of cigarettes a day :/

This was an absolutely great QL and a great introduction to Dan as a QL-er. I'm pretty excited about his future here.

Great quick look!

Made me go back and play my free copy of Sniper Elite V2

This Dan guy has an almost identical voice to an instructor at my school. I wonder what he looks like...

The shreddinest shredder to ever shred.

Terrific QL, didn't care about Sniper Elite, but this looks a grand old time. And thank you for the Cigs66 reminder.

Welcome, duder dan.

Yay someone who have seen story of ricky! Welcome Dan

My dad was in Africa in world war II and he was in the RAF! Just so you know not all English people were bombed in London.

:p

Holy crap this is one of the best quick looks in a while! Good job Jeff and Dan!

Good start.

Sweet!! I love Dan in the Gameinformer replays. This should be awesome :)

God Dammit Dan, North Africa! Rommel and Patton and all that good shit. The first level from Call of Duty 2!

You didn't know that Africa was involved in WWII until college?!

Holy shit the American education system never ceases to amaze me.

The real shame here isn't the wildly uneven quality of public education, but that there are Americans who have somehow never seen the movie Patton.

If you're American and haven't seen Patton, please redress this between now and the end of the Fourth of July weekend.

German @Jeff is the best thing I've heard in a while.

To be fair, there are probably people here in Switzerland (and many other countries) who don't know that. Not caring or paying attention about history is not a uniquely American trait.

Hearing Drew say, " Oh. My. God." Made me smile.

@huey2k2:

Holy shit, the generalizations Non Americans make never ceases to amaze me.

Sad to see that people older than me are completely ignorant in the extraordinarily important North African campaign

Woah there, there's no reason to drag the planet into this. It's a nice place, galactically speaking.

"WW2, in Africa!?!?"

That American education really paying off for the guy with a minor in History.

I already appreciate Dan for telling Jeff obvious tutorial hints he forgot 30s after they were on screen. Like with the Up to zoom. AMAZING

Makes me think of this Mark Twain quote: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt". And also: "Don't let schooling interfere with your education".

Man this game is pretty dope. I've been sniping fools all afternoon.

Those lines/dots on the scope are milliradian dots or hash marks. Snipers use them to estimate range and bullet drop. Basically, one "mil" equals 3.6 inches at 100 yards and so on, so you if you know the approximate height or size of the target, you can estimate the distance. Same goes for estimating for bullet drop if you know how much the bullet will drop at distance. That's how it works in a nutshell.

This article explains everything in detail if you want to know the math behind it. It's pretty much one big algebra problem, and then if angles are involved it becomes a trigonometry problem too....
http://8541tactical.com/range_estimation.php

World war 2, AFRICA! My God..

I love how in this one that they just will straight out call the testicle shots like headshots because the developers realized that was what everyone was aiming for in the last one.

the best quick look in years.....

New guy's never heard of Rommel? The North Africa campaign(s)? Patton.... nothing?

I am sad now.

DAN DIDN'T SAY THANKS

oh man I'm really going to have to pick this up one day

Drew: "Oh. My. God."

Wow, I enjoyed this QL. Like literally, legitimately enjoyed it. This is probably the first time since Ryan passed that I've openly laughed at a Jeff QL. If that doesn't say anything about Dan being a good hire, wtf does?

And yeah, I don't get how multiplayer adds anything here. Like in seemingly 90% of games that aren't Call of Duty, it seems like it can be safely ignored, as the single player action looks absolutely insane.

Nut shots fo' life!

Wasn't a huge fan Dan... up until he read the tutorial and I was like, 'Holy crap! Someone actually read the tutorial for once.'

cigs66 ready for some top-notch shredding

I was kinda with him. As I get to know him it seems more and more like he came out of an isolation program, I love it. He has so much knowledge but is already getting so much more out of these guys. Watching him be corrupted is going to be a delight.

Actually enjoy the game quite a bit on the PS4...the lack of people online is not a surprise to me at least. It should be but, well, shoehorned in multiplayer as always. No platinum for me I guess.