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Honestly, I love the sniper genre. Makes for some great games. Intense, hardcore, and you must be accurate and precise with all your movements. In Target Barbarossa, however, lies most of the problems with sniper type games.
First off, the objective is usually obscure. Sniper games tend to stray into puzzle territory, with you shooting the right people at the right time, after thinking it throughly through. Target Barborossa, however, is simply puzzling. Finding the target is usually hard amongst the crowd, but sometimes the target changes or just completely poofs into the scene. Example being the mission where you protect the spy. You have to know to shoot the nazi officer (who will kill your spy if you don't, even if he hasn't appeared on the screen) and then shoot the VERY close behind assassin. This I learned through much trial and error, not actual knowledge or problem solving. The game is riddled with these, and it's just confusing.
Second, combos are awful. I love games with upgrade systems, experience and "rpg elements", but this game has you grinding without reward other than you can keep playing it. Snipers were meant to be precise and without error, not shoot someone in the leg, torso and THEN head! A clean headshot should be worth more than a bunch of fumbles - not that you can control the fumbles, as I got most of the rewards just by shooting the target in the chest a bunch of times. Even then, you don't have enough bullets to just mess around and shoot everything a bunchy of times. You have enough, usually, for ONE miss and enough headshots to kill off everything.
Plot has never been a major thing of snipers, but they are usually present. Target Barbarossa has that indeed, though nothing strong. The music is fine too, but the sound is annoying. (Unreal tournament, a high action game... using clips in a sniper, cool paced game? What?) The graphics aren't shiny, but they're fine as is. Other minor complaints can go here, but nothing else really detracts from the gameplay.
Target Barbarossa is... well, awful. It deserves the front page slot, as it is fun until you start NEEDING medals to unlock things, but it just isn't good for very long.