You’d think that blasting bullets into a Nazi’s nutsack would be a thrill that never gets old, but somehow Sniper Elite: Resistance has made shooting SS scumbags squarely in their Swasticles start to seem a little stale. This side story spin-off introduces a new trigger-pulling protagonist and seven sizeable sandboxes to sneak through, all wrapped up in a 10-hour long quest to seek and destroy yet another top secret Nazi superweapon. However, the actual process of infiltrating Axis bases and eradicating the fascist foes within them doesn’t feel all that different to how it did in 2022’s Sniper Elite 5. With no noticeable gameplay improvements, new enemy types, or gamechanging weapon upgrades to speak of, Sniper Elite: Resistance is an unambitious clash with the Third Reich that feels decidedly second-rate.
In some ways it makes sense that Resistance hasn’t advanced beyond Sniper Elite 5, because the events of its story take place at the same time as those of the previous game. Running in parallel with Sniper Elite 5’s Operation Kraken, Resistance’s campaign focuses on thwarting the development of the ‘Kleine Blume’, a deadly nerve agent that those naughty Nazis intend to inflict on the Allies. What follows is a disappointingly familiar procession of breaking into Nazi bunkers to take reconnaissance snaps of blueprints, satchel-charging AA guns to create safe passage for Allied aircraft, and sabotaging machinery in large scale weapons factories to hinder Hitler’s evil expansion plans, along with several other copy and pasted objective types that anyone familiar with the Sniper Elite series will have already experienced numerous times over.
There are nine missions in total, although the final chapter is a fairly abrupt sequence that can be settled in the space of a single shot much like the climax of Sniper Elite 5. While there are some notable settings to stalk through over the course of the journey, like the sprawling French city of the St. Raymond level with its
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