British satirist, writer and TV presenter Charlie Brooker will make an appearance in Sniper Elite 3, as “a character the general public will be able to shoot in a specially created level”. Brooker is a long-time fan of the series, mentioning it several times in his Guardian columns and television shows.
He was apparently recruited after a visit to Rebellion and 2000AD’s Oxford headquarters and a hands-on demonstration of the game. Rebellion founder Jason Kingsley proposed the idea as “a novel thank you” for Brooker’s praising of the series. “You can buy endorsement all you want, but gamers can tell the difference between a genuine fan and a celeb that is happy to get a payday,” said Kingsley.
We don’t know exactly what role he’ll play in the game, but the development team promise that it will “appeal to Charlie’s dark sense of humour.” Here’s what Brooker had to say about the Sniper Elite series in a Guardian column last year.
”I reckon I could watch a highlights reel of Sniper Elite V2 organ-deaths for about, ooh, three hours before checking my watch or blinking. Hopefully for Sniper Elite V3 there’ll be an even more comprehensive kill sequence in which, after an even more explicit close-up of the bullet boring a path through some Nazi intestine, the camera hurtles to the other side of the world and shows his sweetheart’s expression as she receives a telegram announcing his death. And then it shows his crestfallen kids being told daddy won’t be home for Christmas. And then the camera follows them through their entire lives, in real-time, depicting them growing up despondent and angry and unfulfilled, and eventually all killing themselves in atrocious ways on the 50th anniversary of pop’s murder. And then the camera whizzes back through time, back to the battlefield, back to the point where you’re about to pull the trigger. Just so you can pull it again.”
Sniper Elite 3 is coming June 27 for PC and consoles.
