Played a little bit last night before going to bed, and from ~30min of playing it's seems pretty cool; great camera effects for kill shots! Only thing is controls seem kind of clunky (you have to be in the perfect spot to search/use objects); and I kept getting 'stuck' on things like small brick piles and other objects (I remember the first one had the same problems).

So is this version's setting only WWII? I kind of liked the jungle areas of the first one more

Definitely going to have to keep FRAPS running to catch some great kill-cams!

You're thinking of Sniper Ghost Warrior, that one was modern day in the jungle setting. That was fun too, but SE is the next step up the chain. The original SE was WWII as well.

Ahhh, that would explain it lol. They share a lot of the same mechanics it seems. Well in that case I haven't played the first SE hehe

I absolutely love how a bullet that exit a body is now tumbling and deformed by the impact... IF it had impacted a bone, a weapon or anything! GREAT attention to detail, man!

I shot a guy, and the bullet passed through him and then the deformed bullet struck another guy behind him, passed through the second guy and then you could hear the bullet impact on a burned out car.

First time I saw a bullet come out I thought it was the guy's tooth. LOL
Had a bullet *PANG!* off of the guy's belt buckle on the way out once too.

Small tip - shoot their nade! I had one shot three kills that way.

Wait, shoot their nades or nads. People seem to be doing both.

Yeah I was suprised to when I saw a deformed bullet exit an enemy and nail one behind him. I also like the silenced pistol.

One thing I noticed that kind of annoying is that your character's footsteps are obnoxiously loud if your speaker's bass is too high. Sounds like he's thumping around the place in lead boots. I also wished terminated enemies had there physics maintained. I love ragdoll physics but always get annoyed when a developer neglects to have those rags remain in place after death. A little pet peeve of mine.

This is gonna be the next must have on my list, Multiplayer is probably going to be devoid of all the sfx but coop might still have it. I've played it through about 4 times and I'm wondering if you'll be able to take out the tank with a shot down the barrel?!!

In the original, you shot the fuel tanks IIRC for the tanks.
I'd like to see if they have a "through the scope into the eye" animation like in Saving Private Ryan. I haven't been able to manage it.