Sniper Elite: Resistance (2025)

• Playtime: 100 hours (completed every map on Authentic difficulty)

• Played: 2025

• Expectation: High. Sniper Elite 5 was great.

Intro

SER is a first/third person shooter in which you run around medium to large maps, spot Nazis with binoculars, snigger because it shows their flavour text is something like "can't wait to see his kids again" and then shoot them.

The Good

• The core gameplay is amazing, just like in Sniper Elite 5.
• Killcam never gets old.
• It's nice to hear a different voice actor.
• The 'Kill Hitler' mission is basically a Hitman mission with tons of alternate ways to kill Hitler, like booby-trapping the toilet with a grenade.
• Incredibly extensive options menu with tons of sound sliders, accessibility options, etc.
• The funniest flavour texts i've seen in Sniper Elite games. You will find one guy who "thinks Churchill is a lizard in a human suit" and then later find someone who thinks "he's an idiot because it's clearly Roosevelt who is a lizard". There are so many funny weird ones too like "eats his toenail clippings" or "never mastered the goose step".
• Authentic difficulty can be really tense.
• Improved weapon unlock requirements.

The Bad

• Weapon unlocks are still restrictive. They should just use XP for unlocks.
• There are a few bugs, notably people sometimes falling through the floor when you choke them out.
• I didn't care at all for the new propaganda missions, especially the stealth ones.
• You can't place traps in a specific spot and disabling them is harder on higher difficulty settings, making you crawl around in a circle to find the exact spot.

The Ugly

• Selling weapons as DLC for €4 each is awful.
• The map design and waypoints are awful at times. I had to look up too many workbench and objective locations. Sometimes i struggled to find something even with a map showing the location. I never had this problem in previous games.

Conclusion

Even with its flaws Sniper Elite Resistance is a fantastic game. I kept cracking up at the flavour text. Shooting a Nazi after you've discovered he "takes his cereal without milk" or "has fond memories of executing resistance members" makes it so much better. If you're only buying a couple of games this year (like me), get this.

For a game about sniper when I decided to go through the campaign I did VERY little of it. You get the most experience for keeping people alive.

Which meant it felt like, and I played by, sneaking around and knocking everyone out from behind like Sam Fisher. It was honestly more "Splinter Cell" than when I actually played those games!

It meant that I usually spent about 2 hours per mission just creeping around! It was very same-y but tickled some addictive itch. They also have side-missions and assassinations that do play like mini (and specific) "World Of Hitman" type gameplay beats.

This was a pretty fun and chill experience. It is also exactly the same game as SE5 so if you wore out your welcome on the last one, there is nothing really they do to bring you back.