Sniper Elite: Resistance: Release Date, Platforms, Price & Features

Fans of the Sniper Elite series got a welcome update at Gamescom with a new trailer unveiling. Sniper Elite: Resistance was confirmed as the latest entry into the sharpshooting franchise. While technically the 12th Sniper Elite overall, distant bullet snaps from a sixth-numbered title were rumored to be ripping the air.

Those Sniper Elite: Resistance rumors have since been put to bed, as the story in this installment will run parallel to the events of Sniper Elite 5.

Table of Contents Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. What Is Sniper Elite: Resistance?
3. Sniper Elite: Resistance Release Date
4. Sniper Elite: Resistance Price
5. Sniper Elite: Resistance Pre-orders
6. Sniper Elite: Resistance Platforms
7. Latest Sniper Elite: Resistance News
8. Sniper Elite: Resistance Trailers
9. FAQs
10. References

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Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. What Is Sniper Elite: Resistance?
3. Sniper Elite: Resistance Release Date
Show Full Guide
4. Sniper Elite: Resistance Price
5. Sniper Elite: Resistance Pre-orders
6. Sniper Elite: Resistance Platforms
7. Latest Sniper Elite: Resistance News
8. Sniper Elite: Resistance Trailers
9. FAQs
10. References

What Is Sniper Elite: Resistance?

Sniper Elite: Resistance is the 12th Sniper Elite Game and the ninth cross-platform Sniper Elite title coming to PC and consoles, excluding the Nintendo Switch, in 2025. Rebellion Games will publish it and is a tactical third-person shooter that combines sniping mechanics, stealth, and third-person combat elements as players play as Harry Hawker.

Set in France, in 1944, during the Nazi occupation, players will work to support the Allied forces and French Resistance as an agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to take out a Nazi ‘Wunderwaffe’ or wonder-weapon. The title’s story runs parallel to the events of Sniper Elite 5.

In a single or co-op experience, players can take on Multiple Kill Lists and use their playstyle to make it to varied infiltration and extraction points. New ‘Propaganda’ missions also allow players to complete “time-sensitive objectives” as French Resistance operatives by identifying propaganda posters.

Sniper Elite: Resistance Release Date

The release date trailer, which came out on October 18, revealed that January 30, 2025, is the confirmed release date for Sniper Elite: Resistance.

Sniper Elite: Resistance Price

Sniper Elite: Resistance Pre-orders

If you pre-order the Sniper Elite: Resistance standard edition now, along with the game, you will receive:

? Target Führer – Lights, Camera, Achtung campaign mission
? 1x weapon skin
? Karabiner 98 Rifle

If you opt for the deluxe edition, you will get all of the standard edition perks, as well as an M1911 Pistol.

While the Sniper Elite: Resistance initial release date is January 30, if you pre-order the deluxe edition, you can also play the game two days early.

Sniper Elite: Resistance Platforms

As is tradition with announced trailers, The Sniper Elite: Resistance platform lineup was revealed in the form of logos. At the end of the video shown at Gamescom, we see logos for Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Windows Store, PS5, PS4, the Epic Games Store and Steam.

This confirms that the new release will arrive on consoles and PC, excluding the Nintendo Switch. This isn’t a huge surprise, as it’s the same platform lineup as Sniper Elite 5, although the two previous games (Sniper Elite 3 and Sniper Elite 3) were also released on Switch.

Latest Sniper Elite: Resistance News

The full weapons list for Sniper Elite: Resistance can be identified courtesy of the BrutalBarracuda YouTube channel, which was given early access to the game.

Pistols

• Modèle 1935A
• Welrod
• Star Ruby
• M1912
• Nagant M1895
• Hi-Power 9mm

Secondary

• Model 1907
• UD-42
• Erma.36
• MAS 38
• M1918 BAR
• SIG MKMS
• Stengun MK2
• Trench Gun

Rifles

• Lee No.4
• Berthier 1916
• Lebel Model 1886
• MAS 44
• M1 Garand
• Mosin-Nagant M91/30
• ZK-420S

That is a total of 23 weapons, 21 listed above, along with the Karabiner 98 Rifle and M1911, which are equipped if you pre-order the game. Moreover, 15 of those weapons were not in Sniper Elite 5, and many more will likely be discoverable as the game is played.

Sniper Elite: Resistance Trailers

The initial Sniper Elite: Resistance trailer arrived at Gamescom 2024, and along with the ‘announcement’ video, it can also be considered the main Sniper Elite: Resistance teaser. After all, how much can be shown in just over one minute?

What we do see from in-game footage is Resistance’s Harry Hawker of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). As the game camera pulls out from a Nazi officer peering through binoculars on a tower inside hillside fortifications, we see Hawker take aim and a shot. As we follow the round’s trajectory towards the office, the scene switches, and the premise is explained.

A British voiceover tells us it’s France, 1944, and the Allied Forces are looking to drive the Nazis out of France. With the French Resistance uncovering rumors of a devastating weapon, such a threat cannot be ignored. As a bearded shooter (Harry Hawker) walks towards the camera, we’re treated to in-game close rapid-fire from Hawker, a vantage point shot of a Nazi vehicle which proves explosive, and close-quarters combat as Hawker uses stealth as well as sharpshooting to take down foes.

We see Hawker use a zipline, Resistance fighters battling Nazis from makeshift battlelines on farmland, and a shot of Hawker knelt with a rifle in hand on a huge dam set in a mountainous backdrop. The camera spins and zooms out from Hawker as two planes fly over the dam and his head.

This trailer packs a huge amount of information about the potential for Sniper Elite: Resistance gameplay. Its description explains that the title runs parallel to the events of Sniper Elite 5, giving fans greater context for the battles being fought.

The release date trailer opens with RAF planes flying over a dam, only to come under heavy fire and have to abort the mission. One of the pilots can hear, “Hawker’s gonna have to take care of those cannons,” with the protagonist appearing from a lookout position above the dam.

We see a series of shots of different landscapes in occupied France, with the voiceover stating, “Let the game begin.”

There is then a sequence of clips showcasing the different moves you are able to execute, such as climbing up drainpipes, stealthily maneuvering behind sandbags, and climbing up a rockface to take out a Nazi guard.

This is followed by a shootout, where Hawker teams up with a member of the French Resistance. They engage in a shootout and close-quarters fighting, which transitions to Hawker taking a long-range shot, with the camera following the bullet to the target – a dam lookout. This footage is already impressive, but it also utilizes an X-ray camera showing the bullet going into the target’s skull with blood and bone fragmenting upon impact.

We see more of what is probably a key mission in the game, set around a dam. Hawker plants a bomb on one of the cannons before beating a hasty retreat. This clears the way for the RAF planes to return and drop a bomb to complete the destruction of the dam.

The trailer ends with a close-up shot of a grinning Adolf Hitler to add to the stakes and gravitas.

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