• Sniper Elite 4 (Rebellion, Multiformat)

    Whereas most modern first person shooters are looking to the future for inspiration (notably, the much maligned Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare), this gleefully violent game instead looks to the past – or at least a ludicrously stylised retelling of the past. In this version of World War II, and in the epitome of Boy’s Own wish fulfilment, it only takes one man to bring down an entire fascist regime. That man is Karl Fairburne, a lantern-jawed Rick Dangerous type who is preternaturally gifted at operating a sniper rifle and amoral enough to use it without losing any sleep. To…