The fact that a new Sniper Elite game dropped the same day I posted a comic about the series? Pure coincidence. I’m not in Rebellion’s pocket—though I’d love for them to send me free shit.
I was aware of Sniper Elite Resistance in development, but I genuinely thought it had been scrapped since it was originally planned as a Battle Royale. And look, I don’t mean to paint with a broad brush here… but every BR game is an excruciatingly boring slogfest made by indolent, malformed aberrations who survive exclusively on each other’s leavings.
The genre is beyond redemption, and I blame the utes of today for its continued existence. But I digress—Rebellion ultimately did cancel Resistance as a BR and reworked it into a second chapter for Sniper Elite 5.
Not exactly the direction I was hoping for—I’d have preferred a setting in Japan or Russia—but I’ll take another chapter in France over a shitty PUBG/Fortnite clone. Sniper Elite already has solid multiplayer, and even in single-player, other players can invade your game, turning a solo mission into a cat-and-mouse duel. I can only assume Rebellion initially fell for the trap of chasing trends, but at least they course-corrected before it was too late. Studios need to stop begging for relevance by jumping on the Battle Royale bandwagon instead of innovating. BR games aren’t made out of passion but out of desperation for player engagement and revenue. And gamers need to stop clamoring for BR modes in every franchise, as if no other multiplayer format could possibly exist. Some series just don’t need it, and some players just need to admit that not every game should be twisted into their personal flavor of the month.
Anyway, one last thing: I had intended to have an original background for both Sniper Elite comics I did this week, but I ran out of time. I went a little overboard with the first one and didn’t have time to give the second the same treatment, so I used it twice. This is kind of a fitting theme for this, though, as Rebellion put a new game over the same environments used in the last one—so I’ll lay down a bit of bullshit here and say that reusing the background was a totally intentional design choice.