Review | In Sniper Elite: Resistance video game, your goal is to shut down a Nazi secret weapon
The popular Sniper Elite series continues with a new main character on a mission to destroy a Nazi secret weapon programme in eastern France
It’s 1944 and World War II is raging. The Nazis are working on a secret weapon designed to turn the tide in their favour.
The French Resistance has heard about it and aims to thwart the plans with British help. That is the basic plot of Sniper Elite: Resistance, a third-person shooter for consoles and PCs.
The main character in the game is Harry Hawker, an agent for the British intelligence service the Special Operations Executive (SOE). An experienced sniper, he operates undercover in Nazi-occupied eastern France and takes up the fight alongside local resistance fighters.
The basic principle of Sniper Elite: Resistance remains true to the predecessors in this shooter series. An elite sniper acts as a deadly one-man army behind enemy lines. Infiltration, tactical action and precise long-range shots, where both gravity and your own heart rate must be taken into account, determine the gameplay.
The nine main missions of the campaign are spread across different locations. For example, you can explore a huge dam, infiltrate a castle, or sneak through a quarry converted into a chemical weapons facility in the dead of night.