It's really a shame, a proper sniper-themed game (set in a pre-modern setting, long-range shooting today would bore anyone but the hardcore sim audience to death) has so much potential, but they waste it on a mediocre third-person shooter with absolutely horrible distance compression. I don't recall ever making a shot past 200, maybe 250 meters in Sniper Elite V2, which is nothing even with a rifle from that era. Zero two inches high at 100 meters (which is another thing, the damn rifle scopes in Sniper Elite are never dialed in properly), hold around upper-torso height and you'll reliably hit a man-sized target out to 400-500m.
You wanna do something impressive in a sniper game? Make it actually stealth-oriented, unlike Sniper Elite where triggering an alarm just means more guys to shoot. Carlos "White Feather" Hathcock once spent four days crawling through a snake-infested field in Vietnam (nearly being bitten by a venomous bamboo viper, and barely avoiding being stepped on by an enemy patrol), all to fire one shot, successfully taking out a high-ranking NVA officer. That's the kind of stuff you want to be doing in a sniper game.
The X-ray kill cam is grand and the age old question ''can I hit im in the nuts from here?'' never gets old but the sniping part is build around a really shitty third person shooter with clumsy controls. Besides that the maps are way too cramped most of the time to really make advantage of the thrill of a super long distance shot(maybe something that's mitigated now with the franchise abandoning previous gen). 
