Issue 041 — July 2026
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About Sniper Elite 5

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Sniper Elite 5 is the latest entry in the award-winning series, delivering unparalleled sniping, tactical third-person combat, and an enhanced kill cam. You fight across the most immersive maps the series has offered, many built from real-world locations captured in stunning detail, and an improved traversal system lets you explore far more of them than before.

Set in France in 1944, the campaign follows elite marksman Karl Fairburne as part of a covert US Rangers operation to weaken the Atlantikwall fortifications along the coast of Brittany. Making contact with the French Resistance, he soon uncovers a secret Nazi project, Operation Kraken, that threatens to end the war before the Allies can even invade Europe. The expansive campaign uses photogrammetry to recreate living, immersive environments, and multiple infiltration and extraction points plus kill list targets offer fresh perspectives on every mission, whether you take on the plot solo or work with a partner through improved co-op that lets you share ammo and items, give orders, and heal each other.

Advanced gunplay physics and traversal deepen the tactical experience, letting you use ziplines, slide down slopes, and shimmy along ledges to reach the perfect vantage point while factoring in rifle stock and barrel options, gravity, wind, and heart rate. As an action-adventure FPS on PC, Sniper Elite 5 rewards patient, precise marksmanship.