Rebelllion has defended reusing assets in games, saying it's a 'smart' move to avoid drastically increasing budgets and development crunches.

Sniper Elite Resistance is right around the corner, but the game is already in hot waters for repeating the same mistake as Ubisoft's Far Cry franchise.

Resistance to deviate from the Sniper Elite formula, if only a touch. I thought maybe we'd be shooting something other than nazis, perhaps during a point in history that's not World War 2. No: Sniper Elite Resistance is still about shooting nazis during WW2.

Resistance lead level designer Beck Shaw about its mission design, its role in the overall franchise, and more.

While not making any major gameplay strides, Sniper Elite Resistance is doing right by the franchise's penchant for creative stealth opportunities and dense map design.

At the risk of sounding too cliché in my introduction, it only feels like yesterday that I found myself, controller in hand -- WW2-period French countryside before me -- trying out a sample of what was,

Stealth and high difficulty create tense, engaging missions with multiple tactical routes.

Resistance focuses on a thrilling side story running concurrent to that of Sniper Elite 5, with more of the great stealth gameplay.

To invest one's time in "the next Sniper Elite game," would be to buy into the idea perhaps that Rebellion would simply go about things as they so often had -- nothing gained, but through that continued enjoyment of the series' core loop of gameplay (hilariously-gory kill-cams and all) so too nothing would technically be lost either.