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01About Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 3 is a tactical third-person shooter set in North Africa during World War II. Across expansive levels, plan routes, stalk targets and use rifle shots, distractions or traps. Distance, gravity, wind and your heart rate affect shot trajectories. Steam players rate it 82% across 21,514 reviews. English interface, audio and subtitles are supported. Released June 26, 2014.
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-23
02Before you buy
Play modes
The Steam PC version has single-player, online multiplayer and co-op. The full campaign supports online co-op for two, alongside two dedicated co-op modes.
Language and controls
Full controller support is available. English interface, audio and subtitles are supported.
03Frequently asked questions
Where is Sniper Elite 3 set?
It takes place in North Africa during World War II, where you pursue targets and sabotage a weapons program.
Can I play the campaign co-op?
Yes. The entire campaign can be played online in two-player co-op.
How open are the missions?
Missions offer multiple routes and objectives, with stealth, distractions, traps and direct combat as options.
Popular Steam reviews
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For anyone who still curious "Should I buy this game?" during summer sale. For Sniper Elite Player - It's the same game as where you came from. - If you're from Sniper Elite 2 : This game refined your item hud, story, stealth mechanic, etc. - If you're from Sniper Elite 4 : This is more relaxed. Just listen to the noise to mask your bullet and you're good to go. For non-sniper elite player - If you ever play 3rd Person Shooter (TPS) : This'll make you think that you're great in sniping, just like eurobeat makes you think you're great in driving. - If you ever play 1st Person Shooter (FPS) : The same as TPS, but you could see wider. - If this is your first game : go pick Sniper Elite 2 first. Just the base game, no dlc needed, can judge that you'll like this game or not. Because, like everyone dissed that "Every sniper elite is the same, just change the map.", it's 60% true. Another 40% is in the small detail. As a fan of this series, I still prefer sniper elite 2 map to this. But other than that, sniper elite 3 is better in all around. PS. Oh, and if you curious about Sniper Elite : Nazi Zombie Edition. It's like Sniper Elite 2.5 : Nazi Zombie in Sniper Elite 2 maps with Sniper Elite 3 refined mechanic. Hope this could help you! Ps2. If you think that I've not finished this game yet (only 16 hrs.), I confess that I've finished this game in the Pirated version long, long time ago and it's great that I came back and bought it. Ps3. Pick the Deluxe Edition, if you could. Just the DLC sidestories are worth, let alone the guns. 10/10 will try to find hitler single testicle again.Show moreShow less
4 sniper rifles in a sniper game. Do you want more? Buy the DLCs. 4 pistols. Do you want more? Buy the DLCs. 4 secondary weapons. Do you want more? Buy the DLCs. 2 horde maps. Do you want more? Buy the DLCs. 9 missions. Do you want more? Buy the DLCs. And so on, i guess you get it, right? Buy at your own risk. It lacks A LOT of content. In fact for 40 bucks it has a very low value. Just feel free to join our discussion on the comments section. There you can see different points of view from various people. Edit 2.0 aka "short story long" :) SE3 cuts both ways, it is pretty much SE V2 with bigger maps (don't expect more than 2 multiple paths per map though), they got rid off cheap mechanics like health regeneration but broken stealth mechanics, a few missions, not even more than 2 horde maps to expand the duration of the game (or any kind of content, it has 0 replayability), irregular AI, mediocre/unnecessary MP and details like historical inaccuracy make this game the worse of the series by far imo. I'm not saying that SE1 or 2 are more replayable or have better AI, but at least from SE1 to SE2 we saw a change, and felt like a new game for good or bad. In other words, it was a step in a different direction in some features and in others a step forward or backwards but a step nonetheless. Here it's a lazy move. This is the best they could come up with after 2 years? Pathetic. Not just that but it doesn't offer enough content to justify full price, and overall feels more like an expansion/dlc for SE V2. And of course this "game" already has 12 DLCs which add what Rebellion cut off the final game to be sold separately for extra cash. The perfect money grab. The game is a shell of its former self. If you still interested i would recommend you to wait till sales and get the complete package cheap as chips. After all, is your choice.Show moreShow less
Is it better than V2? Yes, definitely. So, what's changed in Sniper Elite 3? Here's a random list of improvements: - Maps are now more open, with multiple paths and multiple sniping positions. - Stealth works as it should, you can stealth though most of the game if you so desire. And every mission can be completed without raising any alarms. - You can hide dead bodies. - You can use foliage to hide yourself. - Relocation mechanics - move often to confuse the enemy. - Health regen is gone. That's right, medkits and bandages are back. - The highest difficulty setting is pretty much free of any handholding. No minimap, no more color-coded vehicle weak spots. Now you have to figure it out by yourself. - Sound masking now works as it should. Everything loud enough can be used to mask your shots, even grenade explosions.Show moreShow less
------- Its not that I dont recommend it , its that it is not finished -------- What I mean by what I said above , is that its disgraceful to release day 1 DLCs with so little content inside of the actual game. This is Rebellion wanting to be EA , which makes me sad beyond words. Let me elaborate : Pros : - Bigger Maps , 3 - 4 levels of elevation making for some interesting gameplay. - Kill Cam , Graphics and Game Overall looking and feeling better - Hardest difficulty AI is really insane , making it immence pleasure at least to me to fail against it. Cons : - Overall 4 Sniper rifles and 4 Subguns with 3 Pistols , and some rather lazy customisation options. - Day 1 DLCs which hold the weapons that could have been placed in the game, if they werent so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ greedy. - Lack of maps is honestly horrible. There are like 6 maps overall , only 2 you can do in Challenges ( Co-op ). - Lack of multyplayer modes , being only Distance King and Deathmach , and their Team equivalents. Overall , I enjoy playing the game , but in less then 2 hours I`ve played every map and tried out every weapon , which made it just ... a horrible dissapointment to me. If DLCs get on Sales , or they decide we are ,,Customers`` and not sheep , this game might become something.Show moreShow less
Buy Sniper Elite 3 $49.99 + DLC Sniper Elite 3 - Camouflage Weapons Pack $3.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Hunter Weapons Pack $3.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Patriot Weapons Pack $3.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Sniper Rifles Pack $3.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Axis Weapons Pack $3.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Eastern Front Weapons Pack $8.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Allied Reinforcements Outfit Pack $9.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Target Hitler: Hunt the Grey Wolf $6.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Save Churchill Part 1: In Shadows $6.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Save Churchill Part 2: Belly of the Beast $6.99 Sniper Elite 3 - Save Churchill Part 3: Confrontation $6.99 Sniper Elite 3 - U.S. Camouflage Rifles Pack $1.99 Sniper Elite 3 - International Camouflage Rifles Pack $1.99 Total cost = $120.86 Price(s) may vary since this was written when first released.Show moreShow less
This game fell far from what made Sniper Elite V2 fun, while at the same time fixing a lot on Sniper Elite V2's problems. How does that work? Well in my normal, befuddled, complicated review style I'll do my best to explain. The whole Sniper Elite series revolves around popping a bullet from your rifle of choice into the head of filthy degenerate Nazis (sometimes Russians), hey that's fun right? Yea it is! Except in Sniper Elite 3 you're more likely to be using the Welrod than you are sniping, also likewise using new silent close combat kills which actually do have some pretty wicked kill animations, and while nothings wrong with using CQC executions and the welrod to get into position for sniping, the problem is you're gonna be mostly using the Welrod and CQC to get through the level, there's rarely a place to get into position for sniping effectively making that sniper rifle of your choice on your back more of an optional weapon of choice in a game where the name happens to be SNIPER Elite. Normally in Sniper Elite V2 and Sniper Elite you got from point A to point B, point B being the place where you pull off a sniper shot and take out the target, throughout the game you can find areas where the noise blocks out your shots and you can pick off any soldier with a bit of patience. Now that returns in Sniper Elite 3, but my one big problem is that it feels...placed. Whereas in V2 something like mortars hitting the ground were a boon for pulling off a shot, the fact you use what feels like conveniently placed generators or noise making sources to mask your shot just feels off. It feels less like a perfect chance and more like a part of the game where you just sit, wait for the generator to make noise and pick off the enemy until everything is swiss cheese. Now that's not the ENTIRE case, of course sound masking sources like planes flying overhead return, as do artillery shots of course, but these are strung out so that it feels like you either use the generator or you don't, and if you don't and pull a sick headshot off in total silence then instead of everyone in a 5 mile radius combing the entire place for you you just gotta relocate. Relocting! Making the consequences of pulling off an unmasked shot null and void. Honestly its not that bad (in the context of Sniper Elite 3), in a game where you can't snipe anything and you gotta get around with the Welrod or the pay2win silenced semi auto; there has to be some kind of leeway that lets you wipe the dust off your rifle and tell someone they can ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in Hell. So why does it feel so bad to me at least? Simple: Shoot someone, relocate, rinse and repeat. And speaking of getting from Point A to Point B, lets talk about the maps! Now, these maps are more open world, meaning you can persue any objective in total silence or loud as ♥♥♥♥, nothing wrong with that, I like open maps! Except for the bit where at the end of each level in V2, Point B was the place you gunned down your target, in Sniper Elite 3 you can go through most of the level or the entire level without firing a shot from your rifle. Hell you can take down most of your targets through means that don't involve sniping, that makes the game feel less like Sniper Elite 3, and more of a Stealth Elite 3. But I think the thing that bites me the most is that rifles that were originally part of the base game in V2 are being sold as DLC, I mean yea it's odd to find a Mosin Nagant in Africa, but getting a KAR 98 wouldn't be difficult, instead you get that from DLC as well. It feels like Sniper Elite 3 has fallen to one of the biggest pitfalls the gaming industry is doing nowadays cutting out parts of the game, reselling as DLC. In the end Sniper Elite 3 feels weird, off, it's not what I expected, despite some of the highpoints, honestly I had fun for the first few hours, then the whole DLC bits happened and I noticed this game wasn't as good as I thought it to be, in fact I'd go as far to say that Sniper Elite V2 is the better game, the fact you can actually stealth for once is really nice but the fact that it takes away from sniping hurts on more deeper level, if you really want Sniper Elite 3 I'd recommend waiting for a sale or a price drop.Show moreShow less
Sniper Elite 3 is a third person tactical shooter developed by Rebellion Developments and published by 505 Games. This game was released on PC, PS3, PS4, 360 and Xbox One in June 2014. It is a prequel to Sniper Elite V2 and the third game in the sniper series. The gameplay in Sniper 3 is based heavily on being slow and steady with your approach to completing objectives, with an also strong focus on sniper gun play much like the previous games. What I really liked about Sniper 3 is that the stealthy approach is pretty much the only viable way to go on most missions otherwise you'll just be pinned down in a firefight and outnumbered. The stealth aspect of the game is done extremely well, you probably will be detected by the enemies whilst taking down the guards, but it is all about cleaning up after yourself by dragging bodies to the long grass, or how you escape and hide away until the enemies give up searching for you. You can use various methods to distract enemies such as throwing rocks and laying traps. Before each level you get to choose your load out, you get the choice of a sniper rifle, a secondary weapon, side arm, and various other items such as grenades, medi-packs and traps. As you level up between stages you also unlock further rewards and items. Of course, a Sniper game wouldn't be complete without the stunning slow motion graphics of your bullet soaring through the air and them piercing through your foes scrotum, this my friends is the pinnacle of slow motion gaming. Granted after a while you'll be skipping them because they will grow tiresome as they play after every kill with your sniper, but still, this gives you a chance to get some brilliant cinematic screenshots to show off your sniping skills. Graphically, Sniper Elite 3 is gorgeous, I wasn't able to push out full graphic settings on 4k resolution, but even on the lower resolutions (1080p), it still looks stunning. There is a wide array of setting to choose from which is always good to see. The visuals are amazing though, the night time levels really show of the games truly stunning lighting effects as well. I was a little disappointed to see the lens flare effect being used a bit too much, but everything else is truly stellar. The game is fully voice acted, with the enemy soldiers speaking in German too, so subtitles are recommended for that. The sound effects really add an extra level of immersion to the gameplay. A nice feature which is added is that you can disguise your bullet shots underneath the sound of loud sounds in game too, which really helps you in your efforts to complete levels as stealthy as possible. I have to admit, this game is quite difficult, even on the easiest settings; you really do need to take each level with a sense of slow and steady. There is really no point in running in all guns blazing because you will just get gunned down within seconds of being spotted. You will need to backtrack plenty of times in order to escape being detected, you'll be needing to hide in rooms, crawl under buildings, anything which you can imagine you doing in the situation you are in, you can do. The latter levels of the game also ramp up the difficulty significantly as well, as each level slowly introduces more and more enemies for you to deal with. Each level in Sniper Elite 3 is massive. Each level will have its own main objective, but as you progress and reach new areas of the zone, you'll also unlock optional objectives, which can be things such as destroying some trucks, cutting off communication or something searching for secret plans. These optional objectives reward you with additional experience at the end of the level and also add an extra element of immersion to the game as well. The size of each level really means that you can get stuck in, and explore to your hearts content. There are countless amounts of collectable items for you to find if that is your thing too. Each of the games objectives, whether it be main or optional, will have more than one way of you being able to complete them, which will really add some replay ability to the game on your second run through. I was a little let down by the fact that I finished the game's single player in about five hours, granted I was playing on the easiest difficulty, but for a big release like this, I was expecting something more to be honest. I can see there being an essence of replay ability due to the nature of the levels being able to be completed in more ways than one, but I would say that there is no real need for playing through the game more than twice at least. There is a multiplayer side to the game, which I tried out, but it seems to be a little on the low side of players, and struggled to actually get into any proper gameplay, because given that it is a sniper based game, most people are camping in well-hidden places just picking people off when they try and complete objectives, for me I didn't really enjoy the multiplayer. Technically, I had a one major problem with Sniper Elite 3, and that was that the game kept crashing on launching the title, it would reach the title screen, but then just crash to desktop. This actually turned out to be an issue with Malwarebytes closing it, so it would be highly recommended that you add the Sniper Elite 3 folder into the exception settings for Malwarebytes if you run that AV. Granted that it wasn't actually Sniper Elite causing the crash, you would still expect the game to have been tested with various popular AVs like this to see if they caused any compatibility problems. My conclusion of Sniper Elite 3 would be that I would only recommend the game as a single player title; because the multiplayer just didn't do it for me. Given that the single player side of the game can be completed in almost five hours, the full price tag of £39, 99 is absolutely absurd, and is actually fairly offensive that they can charge that amount of money for such little content. I would only say this game is worth picking up when it is below the £10 mark, yes the gameplay is top class, and the graphics are stunning, but you can pick up any of the other Sniper games for the same experience in both of those departments for cheaper. Actually saying that, it looks like all of the games in this series are expensive. Definitely wait for sale season to start before adding Sniper Elite 3 to your library. Tom's Score Card 1) Stay away 2) Not Recommended 3) Only recommended when on sale 4) Recommended 5) Highly recommended 6) This is a must play If you found this review helpful, please consider giving it a thumbs up. You can also find more reviews over at http://www.completingthebackloggroup.com/ Please also check out Completing the Backlog's Curator page here - follow for regular updates on reviews for other games! http://store.steampowered.com/app/238090Show moreShow less
Though the developer's promised to have 'learned from the mistakes in Sniper Elite 2, this is sadly not the case. Actually the game is very much like the 2nd part has been. There is no sand-box-like environment, though in theory the levels are huge and feature long distances, one cannot make use of it. The level design restricts the player's movement in mutliple ways. Not being able to step over he smalles stone in your path means that one need to stick to the few predetermined paths. The enemies are popping up in a certain distance. For example one can observe a tower on the other side of a lake, seeing no enemies at it - when moving closer the enemies are created there out fo nothingness. The average distance of a firefight is about 30-80 meters, to get a long shot you need to crawl to the target to make it appear, then crawl all the way back to give it a shot. Even worse, at long ranges the collision is not working correctly. Though the target is presented in clear view the tactical assistance shows the target as 'obscured' effectively the shot is blocked by something invisible. Longest shot i did take in the normal game was at 130 meters. Same goes for corners, windows and doors. Often your shots will hit the frame, though your crosshair is dead on target. If you like the sniper series stick to the 2nd part, this one is just a bit more flashy. Oh and the customizing is utterly useless. From their ads: -Expansive new environments – Stalk huge multi-route levels with multiple primary and secondary objectives than can be tackled in any order. Never play the same way twice. -> Though there is no order given, the level design claerly dictates a certain order, 2nd part is true, one surly will not play a level a second time as it's just to boring. -Real tactical choice – Adapt to any situation. Use stealth, distraction, traps and sound masking . If things go hot, use the new Relocate mechanic to slip into the shadows and start the hunt again on your own terms. --> means that one can get away with the most stupid moves, as long as one is fast enuff with relocating, this takes the edge off totally. -Revamped human X-Ray Kill cam – The acclaimed X-Ray kill-cam is back and bolder than ever, including a detailed muscle layers, 3D mesh particles and the complete human circulatory system. -->probably the only thing that works, bloody, gruesome and detailed. Not much different from the old bulet cam though -New X-Ray vehicle takedowns – See vehicles disintegrate in intricate detail with X-Ray vehicle takedowns. Multi-stage destruction allows you to take out armoured cars, trucks and Tiger tanks piece-by-piece.--> exaggerated, basically a bullet cam for vehicles, nothing we haven't seen here before I recommend to get the 2nd part of the series for little money, Sniper Elite 3 is not worth the amount of money as it's not delivering on the developers promises. If you like CoD-style shooters with some sneaking and sniping this here might be for you. If you like tactical choices and a sandbox-level design with you deciding the course of action and real tactical posibilities stay away from this one. Addendum: Now i have been playing some more hours, I admit there are some levels that are better then others - so one get'S a glimpse of what the game could be! Those rare levels are really nice, maybe they will deliver some better DLC. I'd change my recommendation in sofar, that I would give it a try when it's been out some time, has received maybe some DLCs and is available for a reduced price.Show moreShow less
Excellent game I played the other 2, the game gets better and better with each new version. V3 being the most fun I had in a game in a long time. Played on realistic mode you have to pay attention to wind and bullet drop. Stealth is a must in certain areas, while accuracy is a must every shot. Taking out tanks by shooting the gas tank is far from realistic. All in all the game is far from realistic, but a very enjoyable play none the less. Multiplayer is very fun especially with a group of guys/gals you know. In multiplayer some maps have a CoD feel while others are strickly for sniping. If I was you I wouldn't pass this one upShow moreShow less
Sniper Elite 3? More like Sniper Elite 2.01. Seriously 8 missions for the campaign Rebellion?! Ultra short game, no way that's worth the asking price. The same stuff that's wrong with Sniper Elite 2 is pretty much also wrong in this game. Enemies still have magic bullets with super killer sniper aim. Come on Rebellion the AI is just as bad as Sniper Elite 1! You've done nothing to improve the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ AI. And DLC already ? That stuff should be in the release. I'd expect this from someone like EA, but you guys really topped it this time. Sorry but I cannot recommend this game. Conclusion: DO NOT BUYShow moreShow less
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