Sniper Elite V2 Tactical Shooter Videogame asks, Will You Kill Hitler?

[Johnny Rico]

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According to recently released trailer, a new pre-order bonus for 505 Game’s popular Sniper Elite V2 will finally give some legs to that classic moral dilemma, “If given the chance to travel back in time, would you kill Hitler?” Guns.com remembers getting asked this question back in Sunday school a couple times and we always seemed to get the answer wrong.

Sniper Elite has been a popular WWII inspired tactical shooter for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 since 2005 and the second installment, V2, has been anxiously awaited by a gun gaming public both in the US and UK. This new bonus content will literally launch the narrative of the game and only be provided to gamers who pre-order before the May 1, North American release date. It will also grant players access to two new rifles, the SVT-40 and the Kar 98.

The story goes something like this: when the game opens, you are sent back in time with the mission to eliminate Die Furher with extreme prejudice. First, you have to intercept his train and second, you’ve got to put one in his computer before he can duck out of the Berlin train station.

For modern video games, that’s pretty standard. Where the game gets interesting is that a) it’s very hard to score a kill shot on the Nazi head of state and b) every time you miss Hitler the game proceeds along a familiar WWII history and c) if you do succeed in preventing the Holocaust, the game proceeds along a narrative in which “you’ve never been born”.

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My answer? No only yes, but Hell, yes!

[Ian David]

1. What happens if you just shoot him in his one, remaining testicle? n/t

[riverwalker]

2. made me think of Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Christian theologian who struggled with desire to kill Hitler. Although killing was a sin, the bigger sin was to let him live, he concluded.

[raouldukelives]

3. That's the olden days.

Now we know the proper thing to do is amplify & exaggerate any threats to ensure massive amounts of money for military & defense contractors to be used in securing assets for exploitation on world markets.
Then when the balloon is so full of holes it can't hold anymore air no matter how much you pump you can present the head of the villain and start arming and funding your next enemy
Lather, rinse & repeat.