Sniper Elite: Resistance

Game is just another incantation of the same old same old! Very little in the way of fresh and new besides a new character. Kind of disappointing if I'm being honest! Yep I still feel the same,

Don't buy it. It's just copy pasta from the last games. They don't try even more. I am mid game and two maps are almost the same.

Amazing game to get during the suspiciously timed sale currently. Completely unrelated, I have aimed in some very unfortunate spots of the body today.

This game is good, but not 50 dollars good. If you liked Sniper Elite 5, then you'll like this game too because it's literally the same game! Same music, same menus, same skill tree, it's quite apparent this was intended to be a DLC, and if you treat it as such, it's still very fun! Get it on sale only.

If you like single player, and you like sniper games, I recommend you try this. It's not perfect, but I don't think there are many single player equals.

[b]Foreword[/b] I'm following the same approach here I did with [i]Sniper Elite 5[/i] since [i]Resistance[/i] appears to be something very similar to SE 5. It is as if they'd just decided to put together a lot of new maps with a new protagonist, similarly to those expansion packs we got back in the day when DLCs were not common, at all. This also means that the development time was reduced to just 3 years as opposed to the 5 years we needed to wait between episode 4 and 5. [b]Amour sacré de la Patrie,[/b] France. Again. But this time we are ditching [i]Karl Fairburne[/i] and take control of [i]Harry Hawker[/i]. Harry is also one of the good guys but he is British. I understand his storyline runs parallel with that of Karl. As for personality? He does have a lot of one-liners be it after a successful kill or just looting a corpse. "This is proper useful!" Interestingly, he was present already in SE 4 but only in multiplayer mode. [b]Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs[/b] 8 missions, again. As in 8 with several main and secondary objectives, an important person to eliminate and lots of collectibles to find. Then you have that extra 9th which is a sort-of "boss fight". The person on our kill list always has a specific criterion for the elimination (e.g. poison, explosion) and I must say this is an episode with some really great assassination opportunities. One in particular is really funny as it involves a love triangle. [b]Liberté, Liberté chérie,[/b] Cutscenes between missions are mostly briefing narrations. The camera pans over a table with maps and other useful intel. Some, especially those towards the end of the story, show Karl with the resistance fighters. This isn't much to go on - I missed some of the dialogues Karl had with members of the resistance. The [i]Wunderwaffe[/i] this time is a chemical nerve agent called Small Flower (or [i]Kleine Blüme[/i]). And, of course, we have heavy machinery to destroy during a few missions. [b]Combats avec tes défenseurs[/b] Is that it? Well, assets will be familiar and even one of the missions is identical to one of the multiplayer maps in SE 5. Overall, the 8 missions are quite diverse: we have a dam and its surrounding area, a huge train station we visit at night while it is raining, rural areas we will be familiar with and several underground facilities. Maps seem a bit smaller but more utilised. Every section has its own objective to do. If you do not see any markings, you can still head there for collectibles or for discovering new starting locations. There are just no empty areas here. [b]Sous nos drapeaux que la victoire[/b] But with the all-too-familiar things the all-too-annoying ones return, too. Try to find all benches to ensure every attachment is unlocked for your weapons. Grinding will be essential if you want to obtain all those mastery-related achievements for all rifles, pistols and secondary weapons. [i]Authentic[/i] difficulty returns with its own 'cheevo (plus one for each DLC mission). [b]Accoure à tes mâles accents,[/b] Levelling up (same skills), the focus mode during gameplay and several multiplayer options return. This includes team-based deathmatch, survival with many waves of enemy combattants coming at you and the invasion mode allowing you to bother somebody else while they are doing the story mode. You can customise not just the weapons but your character, as well. I used Harry's resistance fighter clothing from start to finish (it is a DLC content) and for the DLC missions I wanted to pick Karl immediately but then I realised that he did not get any voice over. Only use these "skins" when you redo your missions on a higher difficulty or for extra achievements and the remainder of the collectibles. [b]Que tes ennemis expirants[/b] The game actually has 2 interesting additions. One is the propaganda mission. This is series of missions running parallel to the story. There is a resistance poster you need to find to unlock the corresponding propaganda mission on each level. Then you launch them separately from the main menu. They last only for a couple of minutes - we get one weapon and lots of enemies to deal with. The timer only starts when we make our first kill. Bonus score is awarded for specific enemies or e.g. environmental kills. It's not that difficult to complete everything with the highest 3 rating. But then you have [i]Authentic[/i] to do, as well. [b]Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire ![/b] The 2nd thing [i]Resistance[/i] has to offer is a special bullet to pacify enemies instead of killing them. Even your shotgun (a DLC weapon) has a special rock salt ammunition for simply knocking out enemies. This means more XP and faster levelling up. There are specific medals / ribbons you can get for doing these but no achievements. [b]Aux armes, citoyens ![/b] Resistance was a surprise! A good one! It was released without adding anything significant to the SE series, however, as a big DLC or expansion pack it serves its purpose well. Plus, Harry is an interesting protagonist. The question is: Will Sniper Elite 6 feature Karl or Harry? Or perhaps both. The game comes with 3 story-related DLCs and the usual extra content focusing on the [i]Führer[/i] only. I added my 2 cents to these, too. Feel free to check them out. As for the base game: if you like the series, do pick this one up just don't expect any significant changes, gameplay-wise.

I love the "Invasion" Mode so much, its such a great idea! thanks slorgs for the recommendation

This game definitely deserves a 'meh' rating, but I'm leaning more towards not recommending it for a few reasons... it's just a straight up copy of SE5 with no fixes to the bugs that plagued it, map design is heavily linear and limits your options, and it overall just doesn't feel that fun to play. Would not recommend, even on sale