I very much doubt there would be that big market for simulator-ish sniper game, like with other sims. :hmmm:

Oh yeah.

Crawl 2km through jungle, dig hole, cover with camo net, wait 3 days for target, adjust scope for wind and Coriolis effect, pull trigger, crawl another 2km through jungle, escape to air lift.

All at 1 x TC of course.:yeah:

Sniper Elite is a good but old game. Should run under most OS with the right conditions. This thread made me want to play it again, so I did and now I'm stuck modding the blasted thing to use more up to date graphics.

Never knew the thing can be modded. :o

Sniper elite was cool, other then belly crawling with a mg-42, sniper rifle, pistol, a pile of explosives, and a panzershrek on your back. A little silly in that regard

ever play arma 2?

I find it to be more about luck than how well you aim your shot in ArmA. :hmmm:

Where's a good place to find Sniper Elite?

If you don't have problem with Steam, then you can get it from there, cheap too. :yeah:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/3700

Wow I never noticed it was on steam. I've always had my eye on it, but when I first saw it on 05, my computer couldn't handle it. :haha:

I'll get it next paycheck. :up:

:haha: Yeah.

You need a decompresser for the *.pc files (the level files in the environment folder) and then Game Extractor will fully extract all *.dds and *.wav files from the archive.

The *.pc files are an ASURA format compressed archive. To decompress them you need a program called asurauncmp (dos command file) and then Game Extractor.

TBH, I always thought it was unmoddable but there was no way I was playing this game in 1080p with those graphics.:D

You and your HD stuff. :DL

*hugs his 17" LCD monitor*

Don't worry about him, I still like you...

'Vietnam Line of Site' was my first sniper game more based on stealth than anything else the AI snipers were cheats the kind of game where they could see you but you couldn't see them cause of the fog or they didn't show up on the screen till you got within range. But you were always in range for them to snipe you. :damn:

Haha, V:LOS was so bad... :haha::-?:wah:

Please let me know when you are getting ready to release your mod. I'd love to replay the game again (maybe with better graphics;))

Is it really that good? What put me off from ingame pictures ive seen is it looked to me you play the game in 3rd person. Do we have an option to change to first person. Is it realistic enough or will i just end up putting the sniper rifle away and grabbing me trusty machine gun :haha:

Sniper Elite has few good missions, sadly, the others are more close quarters combat missions than sniping.

The game is in 3rd person only.

Realism goes as far as windage/bullet drop/fatigue. No sight adjust, so it's all mils.

I guess it's praised as much as it is, because it really doesn't have much competition. :hmmm:

Okay, might give it a miss. :up:

Sniper Elite is worth a go imo. It has its foibles, but there's some really sweet moments if you take the time to set up a shot :up: using ambient sounds to hide your gunshots, distracting enemies and 'seven at one blow' moments.
If it's going cheap grab it.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior Demo out now.
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...rior_Demo.html


EDIT:

demo didn't work for me... missing DX .dll
downloaded d3dx9_39.dll and xapofx1_1.dll an put in games root directory and it worked, but without any sound.
apparently early versions of DX9c don't have certain .dll's and as the demo doesn't seem to install any dx components, go figure.

NOT a good start as far as I'm concerned... honestly, having to mod a demo to get it to work (I know that's stretching it a bit).

Looks like you'll have to make sure you have the latest release of DX9c, all 90-something mb of it, first.

For what it was sniper elite was pretty good. For me the first real sniping games were the old delta force games (1-3)

Sniper elite was good enough but no where it was a very good game.

For sniping experience I'd recommend ArmA 2. Seriously.