Summary of Phillips' "Sniper Elite III: Death".

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“Sniper Elite 111: Death”
Introduction
Death serves many purposes for gaming, from motivating promoting competition. Using Sniper Elite III, Amanda Philips argues that understating how a game treats death can reveal how death operates in a wider cultural milieu. As a mechanism of power, trauma, or even as a shared experience. In Sniper Elite, the gamer plays as Karl Fairburne, an American sniper tapped by the British who travels across countries for their African campaign in world war II, taking out entire companies of soldiers and battling one on one with tanks.
The Mechanism of Power
Video game kill cams often showed the player’s death on a multiplayer field to provide a bit of information about their attacker. Sniper Elite, however, never shows Karl’s death; the game claims sovereignty by refusing to grant the gamer access to the gruesome death scene, thus reinforcing the Karl's position as the sole judge of death within the narrative. He's an untouchable, lethal hero fighting in what is known as the modern era's morally righteous war.
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