Ya evil genius is one of my favorites, though i modded the heck out of it to fix some of what annoyed me that I could correct.
Ok now for Sniper Elite. I like it as its one of the best modeled sniper games I've yet to see. Breathing, wind and bullet drop are fully modeled, you can mask the sound of gunshots with artillery explosions (think enemy at the gates), and its got a pretty cool bullet camera (which can be turned off). It is not a perfect game though, and while I like the sniping aspects, I can't stand some of the unrealistic stuff in it.
My biggest 2 gripes is the rest of the game is 3rd person other then sniping, and you can crawl around with a ridiculous amount of ordinance. Such as a silenced p38, your current sniper rifle, a mg42 on your back, and a panzerschrek to go with it. You can have 150 rounds for the sniper rifle, near endless ammounts of mg ammo, 3 rocket rounds, several clips of pistol ammo, plus explosives (2 kinds), booby trap grenades, 2 types of regular grendades, and 2 different types of healing packs. All in all a crazy ammount of stuff to be packing around. Also the sniper rifles are not overly realistic (the bolt action one acts like a semi auto) but not horrible either, most of it is pretty minor. You also can't adjust the scope, but I don't think it was very common to during ww2 anyhow.
You also are forced to play offensively (very little letting the enemy come to you) and most of it spent slowly crawling around from cover to cover. Play it like an action game and you will probably die a lot. The ai isn't stupid either, they will stay under cover, try to flank, and have pretty good hearing. Other then that the campaign is pretty decent and fairly long.
Here is a review if you want more details.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/sn...te/review.html I don't agree with all of what is said in it (i didnt mind having to exfiltrate for example, it added to the sense of immersion). It is definatly a game that to play well takes time and a lot of patience.
Compared to the rest of the Sniper games out there, this one beats the heck out of them (but all the otherones ive seen or heard of were all cheap crap).