In face, because you’re shooting zombies and not living, talking people, there won’t be much at all in terms of vocal talent, even from the enemies. Aside from the opening cinematic where you see Hitler shouting and shooting his men, and the narration at the start of each level, you won’t hear much talking while you’re playing the game. SOUND: The sound design is another part of the game that the developers have gotten away with doing very little with. Is this a Nazi Zombie Army or a Nazi Zombie Quintuplet Army?
By the time you’re about half way through the game, you won’t be able to stop from asking why the same zombie that you’ve killed about ten thousand times is still shuffling towards you, or why a single wave of zombies have only about three model types. You’ll see only a handful of different zombie types, most of which appear in the first few minutes of the game, with only a couple of exceptions to the rule.
The variety of enemies that you’ll come across during your sessions is downright abysmal. However, as much as the visuals will make the average user’s jaw drop, there’s also one aspect of them that will get you groaning in a way not too dissimilar to the people whose heads you’re filling with lead. When you put that game into it’s ‘Ultra’ setting, you’ll be treated to some absolutely gorgeous graphics, with the player’s model standing out as one of the title’s better examples. GRAPHICS: The visuals are where Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army stands proud and tall, and for a downloadable stand-alone game that’s only asking for a tenner, you could do much worse. A lot of people won’t be downloading and playing the game for its deep and rich story, leaning more towards good old zombie-shooting goodness – preferably played with friends – but it would have been nice to see at least some semblance of a narrative. You’re given vague targets and told to shuffle towards them, defeating any flesh-eaters that the game feels like throwing at you. The player isn’t really told why they seem to be the only living person left in Germany, they’re just dumped in a seemingly random village and told to find some transport out of this hellish new area.Īll the way through your time within Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army, the story will be the absolute definition of “bare bones”. This, as you would have probably guessed, brings back the recently deceased and gives them another chance at defeating the enemies of the fatherland, this time using their bare hands and desire for human flesh instead of honour, bullets and anything else that may have motivated them before their deaths. You’re told through a cutscene at the start of the game that in the twilight hours of World War II, with defeat inevitable, Hitler made use of a final plan: Plan Z. STORY: If there’s a story present in Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army, then I must have missed it. But does any of that leave us with a decent game at the end of it? So why not mix the two together? Surely that would be the greatest shooter in the history of modern video gaming, right? Well, no, not really, but it did give us Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army, a game that, if it came in a box, would just have the quote “The game where Nazi zombie’s faces explode” – and it would probably be rather successful too. But if there’s something that people love to shooter even more than Nazis, it’s zombies. It’s one of the reasons why the Wolfenstein reboot was palateable and it certainly didn’t hinder the gameplay in Sniper Elite V2 either. If there’s one thing that’s true about video games, it’s that if you give someone a chance to shoot a Nazi in the head, they’ll probably take it.
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