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 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.

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.

A t their core, the Sniper Elite games have always been about freedom of player expression. Despite what the title might have players believe, there are multiple viable approaches