By outright porting the entire game, Rebellion has also avoided the trap of handheld titles being scaled down in content. Yes, Sniper Elite 4 comes in a full package with its competitive multiplayer, survival mode and a progression with unlockable DLC equipment. Its campaign is lengthy according to play style, giving it adaptive pacing which especially works for gaming on-the-go. It keeps the same level of depth as consoles, complete with sparing characters and enough lore through collectibles to capture the WW2 essence. The Switch port preserves the grounded, yet straightforward approach to Fairburne’s mission: get in, cause trouble, get out. This turns a select number of places including San Celini Island into Nazi-occupied battlegrounds and long-range target practice. Players rest behind the scope of legendary OSS sniper Karl Fairburne who is deployed into Italy ahead of an impending invasion by Hitler’s Nazi regime. Of course, the Nintendo Switch paints a near carbon-copy picture of Sniper Elite 4‘s setting as it did in 2017. Coming from the support of AAA studios, Sniper Elite 4 is another title which further legitimizes the Switch as full console gaming on-the-go. By trial and error in-house, this is how Sniper Elite 4 shaped up to be a match made in heaven with the Switch. But patience was a virtue for Rebellion Developments, who opted to slowly shrink Karl Fairburne on the platform with Sniper Elite v2 and Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition first. Though Rebellion’s latest WW2 action game was released in 2017 for the beefier PS4 and Xbox One, the studio could have easily made it a launch title for Switch (released a month prior to the console). Top-notch performance with gameplay on-the-go is enough to surprise veterans revisiting the game, just by how identically it works over a small console that’s showing some age. Sniper Elite 4 has found a new life on the Nintendo Switch and it’s one of the best-looking ports by far.

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