In Sniper Elite 5, the one-man surgical strike known as Karl Fairburne is inside France in 1944, pressing the Allied liberation onward from Italy (Sniper Elite 4) and North Africa (Sniper Elite 3).
This is important, because the level I played in Sniper Elite 5 gave practically no assistance in the form of sound-masked shots.
I think about that premonition every time I have played the game, from 2014 to 2017’s Sniper Elite 4, and in a two-and-a-half-hour preview of Sniper Elite 5 that Rebellion Entertainment organized two weeks ago.
Sniper Elite 5 is also a very iterative game, as indicated by the generous auto-saves and checkpoints throughout the level.