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Sniper Elite: Resistance preview – the first big new release of 2025


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It’s probably best to try and hide a bit better than that (Rebellion)

It might not be Sniper Elite 6 but Rebellion’s latest game is looking to add a suite of new online options and multiple player characters.

Rebellion’s World War 2 era Sniper Elite franchise is one of the gaming world’s hardy perennials. The first Sniper Elite game was released in 2005, nearly 20 years ago, and its most recent iteration, Sniper Elite 5, came out in 2022 – so Rebellion hasn’t exactly been shy about keeping its momentum going over that period, even with Atomfall coming up as well.

You won’t have to wait long for another instalment of its distinctive third person Nazi elimination action either. Sniper Elite: Resistance will be one of the first new releases of 2025 and while it’s not a numbered sequel it is doing its best to evolve the concept in more subtle ways.

In the grand tradition of long-running franchises, Sniper Elite: Resistance will be a mid-cycle game – Sniper Elite 5.5, if you like. We had the chance to play it, via the game-streaming service Parsec – for an hour. But before jumping in, producer Lauren Davidson explained what Sniper Elite: Resistance is all about and what new features it contains.

Resistance is intended as a standalone addition to the Sniper Elite canon, with a ‘full length’ single-player campaign. Rather than series stalwart Karl Fairburne, it puts you in control of Harry Hawker, a British Special Operations Executive agent (who has had a co-op supporting role in some previous Sniper Elite games).

Davidson also teased a new mode for the franchise, entitled Propaganda, which will centre on finding propaganda posters hidden around the levels. Once you find one you will then be able to step through it and play as a French Resistance operative, in a series of missions that have ‘time-sensitive objectives’.

Davidson added that the series’ Axis Invasion online mode will return, allowing you to step into other players’ campaigns as an Axis sniper. Plus, the game will have a competitive 16-player online mode as well as a three-player co-op Survival mode, in which you and two others will be able to take on waves of enemies.

Our hands-on playthrough was a demo consisting of the third level of Resistance’s campaign. Unfortunately, since it was an early demo, it lacked the checkpointing that would be in the final game, so once we died, we had to restart the level. Without further ado, we jumped in, playing via Parsec on a gaming laptop, but using an Xbox Series X controller rather than keyboard and mouse.

A briefing screen – delivered in typically authentic 1940s newsreel style – provided a hint as to Sniper Elite: Resistance’s overarching storyline: Harry Hawker’s mission to find out more about a legendary new weapon being developed by the Nazis, dubbed a Wunderwaffe, and supposedly so powerful that it could end the war.

In the demo level, Harry finds himself in Fourviere, a district of the French city Lyon, where unusual activity pertaining …read more

Source:: Metro

      

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