Sniper Elite 4
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic gunfire, melee, and explosives against human (Nazi and Fascist) soldiers with heavy blood spray across a WWII combat setting.
War, on-screen death, the massacre of a resistance group, and terminal illness are recurring subject matter.
The X-ray kill cam graphically shows individual bullets shattering skulls, rupturing internal organs, and breaking bones on impact.
Wartime dialogue includes moderate profanity from soldiers and characters.
Alcohol is referenced; a key enemy scientist is dying of liver cancer from heavy drinking.
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What it is
Sniper Elite 4 is a WWII third-person tactical stealth shooter set in 1943 Italy, where you play an Allied sniper picking off Nazi soldiers across large open maps using stealth, traps, and long-range rifle shots. Its defining feature is a slow-motion X-ray kill cam that follows the bullet into a target and shows bones shattering and organs rupturing in graphic detail. Combat is bloody and realistic; the story deals with war, assassination, and a resistance group being wiped out. There is no sexual content or nudity, dialogue carries some moderate profanity, and drinking is referenced in one character's backstory. Online co-op and competitive play exist but the build reports no in-game voice or text chat and no in-app purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames the player as an Allied operative fighting Fascism, presenting the killing of Nazi soldiers as heroic wartime resistance and rewarding precise, stealthy elimination with scored, celebratory X-ray kill replays rather than treating the violence as troubling.
Details
- Developer
- Rebellion
- Publisher
- Rebellion
- Released
- Feb 13, 2017
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