series are churned out, there's a risk that the gaming world will soon grow tired of the military shooter. As enjoyable as these titles can be, some are starting to feel the genre is growing stale.

Sniper Elite V2 is an enjoyable, if limited, twist on the World War II shooter.

It's been five or six years since several significant games franchises abandoned their biannual restaging of the second world war in favour of depicting more modern warfare. It would be nice to suppose that it's largely because of this that Sniper Elite V2 feels like a throwback, rather than the...