
Fairburne uses several WWII-era weapons, including sniper rifles, a silenced Welrod pistol, sub-machine guns and German and Soviet hand grenades (which can be also used to make tripwire booby traps). Sniper Elite V2 is a third-person shooter that stresses employing stealth, rather than using brute force. Fairburne remarks that WWII is over but the Cold War has just begun, in which he has acted as the first American-German combatant. Fairburne climbs on top of the structure and, as Wolff is about to escape in a car, he shoots, causing the car to run off the road and crash, killing Wolff instantly. With only Wolff left, Fairburne goes back to the Brandenburg Gate, where he had assassinated von Eisenberg few days earlier. Fairburne arrives at another building just in time to retrieve from a fireplace a map detailing V-2 storage facilities. The office has been already destroyed, but Fairburne finds a ripped notebook and establishes that Wolff is about to escape from an airfield. Wolff, the mastermind behind the project, to find more information. With only information that location is somewhere outside Berlin, Fairburne goes to the Berlin office of Dr. With no location of V-2 launching site, he goes to a Soviet HQ, where he finds that tabun is a nerve gas carried by the V-2 rockets that are about to launch on London. Müller, whom he assassinates from his command tower. Schwaiger is shot in the process, and before he dies, he says " Tabun".

The plan works and Fairburne heads off to a place called Opernplatz, where he finds Schwaiger and is forced to hold off waves of Soviet troops who have discovered their position. Fairburne decides to steal a cache of explosives and destroy a bridge to distract the Soviets and Germans while he slips behind them and rescues Schwaiger. Schwaiger, who is willing to defect to the United States, but Fairburne is discovered and must fight his way out of the facility. Next, Fairburne infiltrates a V-2 rocket production facility in search of another scientist, Dr. Gunther Kreidl, a Nazi scientist, and escape with his documents. The next mission is a slightly altered version of the demo, where the player is sent to capture Dr. The campaign begins with a tutorial mission, where the player must assassinate German Major-General Hans von Eisenberg who is attempting to defect to the Soviets. Fairburne comes up against both Nazi and Soviet opponents as he tracks key individuals involved with the development of the V-2 ballistic missile. Karl Fairburne, the main protagonist and the main character of the gameīy the USA to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany.

It references Operation Paperclip and its predecessor Operation Overcast, the plan

The main character is Karl Fairburne, an OSS officer who is inserted into Berlin in 1945, during the final days of World War II.
