Everyone knows that the Sniper Elite series is a guilty pleasure. Any game where time slows to a crawl, the camera following a bullet’s trajectory through a Nazi’s testicle, can’t be taken seriously. It turns out this morbid, immensely gratifying gimmick is enough to carry a franchise, moving away from the European theatre of war towards the sands of the African campaign (we’ll forget the turgid Nazi Zombie expansion like some bad dream). So the staccato ring of a sniper’s shot sounds once more, now on current-gen consoles as well as the lumbering beasts that preceded them, expanding on Sniper Elite V2’s tantalising prospect of pointing guns at people very far away and pulling the trigger.
Here is a list of the best Nintendo Switch shooters while you wait for your girlfriend to come out from the hair salon.
The latest Humble Bundle will have 100 percent of proceeds going to support organizations responding to COVID-19. All told, there are 45 games included in the bundle as well as a number of comics, ebooks, and audiobooks.
"Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition is an excellent port of the original game, and feels right at home on the Switch. Unfortunately repetitive gameplay prevents it from achieving greatness. Nevertheless I would like to pin the Thumb Culture Silver Award over its heart." Phil @ TC