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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.0 hrs on record
Posted: Jul 25, 2015 @ 9:09am
Updated: Jul 25, 2015 @ 4:42pm

The Sniper Elite 3 Season Pass adds approximately three to four hours of additional content (depending on difficulty and achievement collecting) which is enjoyable although nothing remarkably special. In one mission, you once again are tasked with killing Hitler much like in the SE V2 DLC. This mission tries to include a mystery element -- is it Hitler or a decoy? -- that doesn't add much and has the downside of less action. There is only one real "action" area before the mission's ending with the rest mostly spend sneaking around. That said, killing Hitler in a variety of ways still remains entertaining at the end.

Better constructed is the Save Churchill mini-campaign, a three mission set that has you uncovering a plot to assassinate the British Prime Minister. These missions play a bit more traditionally although they felt a bit more linear than the base campaign and the maps were more prone to have long twisty "hallways", be they in buildings or canyons. The final mission adds a few new twists such as dodging mortar fire or locating hidden traps although the ending carries on the dubious tradition of the base game of setting up an antagonist just for a rather unsatisfying conclusion. Plot complaints aside (you're not playing this for the plot, are you?) the game play remains pretty solid and enjoyable for fans of the main game.

Also included in the Season Pass is a plethora of new weapons. Arguably, some of these should have been in the base game although you're likely to settle on one or two favorites and leave the rest largely unused. Beyond the new rifles with their different stats and graphic options (camo or non), you get new pistols and SMGs including a variant silenced pistol besides the Welby and a "trench gun" shotgun for your SMG slot. Finally the Season Pass includes some character skins for multi-player use. For people on the fence, you can try all these guns in the base game's firing range letting you decide for yourself how valuable or game changing they'd be to you.

At three or so hours of content, it's impossible to say this pack is worth the $30 asking price but if it can get grabbed on sale for under ten bucks, I think fans of the game will find it satisfying.
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Woligi Jun 25, 2017 @ 12:29pm 
Nice review. 👍