History VideoGame / SniperElite5

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The game ends with Möller's assistant Vogel still on the loose, and Möller saying he's on his own to possibly face the wrath of Hitler.

* DropShip: "Liberation" has Karl Fairburne and a squad from the 5th Ranger Battalion drop into Normandy by glider.

** The mission "Liberation", which based upon Karl's narration is presumably the D-Day invasion, takes place on June 11th, 1944, with the air drops occurring after dawn. The real D-Day took place on June 6th, with most of the air drops taking place the night/early morning before, while it was still dark.

* SniperScopeGlint: Once again, enemy snipers are given away by the bright white glint of their scopes. When the player is spotted, a brief red flash, gray screen, and the white glint facing the player will indicate that the enemy sniper is already aiming and prepared to fire. In Invasion Mode and Multiplayer, player characters will also display white glints while aiming any scoped rifles in their possession, helping to warn others that they're at the risk of getting shot.

* RareGuns: Karl's default loadout is the SREM-1 and the Welgun. The former is a bullpup, pump-action sniper rifle that never got past the prototype phase, while the latter was a submachine gun that never saw mass production.

* ShoutOut: In the Spy Academy mission, within the spy academy itself, you can hear the Germans mentioning [[Film/InglouriousBasterds "three beers" and the proper hand signal for 'three' in the United States]].

* NonLethalKO: The game introduces the ability to silently knock-out any enemy instead of killing them. Wooden bullets are also available for your guns that do this.

* AbnormalAmmo: Setting up a proximity mine [[spoiler:at the end of Hitler's personal bowling alley causes a blast that [[https://youtu.be/TtejCp9k3QU?t=12 sends a tenpin hurtling at him with explosive force]], ''embedding the crown of it in his forehead'' like an enormous bullet]]. Even Karl is a little surprised that one worked.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Tanks can be destroyed by shooting at their exhaust cover with armor-piercing rounds or explosives until it breaks off, then shooting up the engine.

* SniperScopeGlint: Once again, enemy snipers are given away by the bright white glint of their scopes. When the player is spotted, a brief red flash, gray screen, and the white glint facing the player will indicate that the enemy sniper is already aiming and prepared to fire.

* BayonetYa: A new weapon attachment introduced in this game are bayonets. Not only do they allow for a faster MeleeAttack when your rifle is drawn, they're able to get around the blocks of [[KungFuProofMook Jager Troops]], who are normally immune to frontal melee attacks.

* AntiInfantry: Replacing the S-Mine and Trip Mines from previous games is the Schü-Mine, an anti-personnel mine that is designed to incapacitate enemy soldiers, rather than outright kill them. In the game, enemies triggering the device will be rendered unconscious instead of killed by the device's blast.

* NoScope: The player now has the option to remove the sniper scopes of their rifles entirely, relying solely on the rifle's original iron sights to shoot targets at long range.

* IdyllicEnglishVillage: The level "Festung Guernsey" takes place on [[UsefulNotes/{{Guernsey}} the island of the same name]]. Being a British island territory, several such villages and hamlets are scattered around the map, now occupied by German troops and surrounded by several German coastal defence batteries.

** "Atlantic Wall" has Karl Fairburne clearing out German coastal defences to soften them up for the inevitable D-Day invasion, as well as to divert German attention away from the actual landing beaches. Fairburne himself begins the mission stealthily fighting his way inland, while clearing out German patrols.

* StupidJetpackHitler: The reveal trailer shows an entire line of V2 rockets being lined up and later readied for launch. [[spoiler:It's revealed that they're to be loaded aboard modifed Japanese I-400 class submarines, and then launched at Washington D.C., New York, and Boston.]]

* VillainOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:Several Imperial Japanese Navy officers serve as antagonists and associates of Moller, with one Shinji Ishikawa serving as part of Karl's "Kill List". The Japanese themselves are busy fighting a war over in the Pacific and China-Burma-India Theaters, only agreeing to lend the Germans their newest and most advanced submarines due to Operation ''Kraken'' having the potential to bring the United States out of the war.]]

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The Nazi BigBad, Möller, seems to be modelled on controversial tech billionaire Elon Musk because reasons.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Möller, unlike Vahlen and Böhm before him, is a lot more openly terrified of Karl and insecure, than the two previous antagonists who were supremely confident and arrogant in their superiority and inevitability of their success.

* ArrowCam: It wouldn't be a ''Sniper Elite'' entry without it, with the first shots of the reveal trailer showing Karl sniping a German spotter, with the bullet shown leaving his rifle and then hitting the German smack dab in the head. In addition, returning features from ''4'' are the melee and booby trap cams, which show deaths from melee and explosive kills in slow motion as well, now in more detail. Leaked gameplay footage reveals the addition of bullet cam kills for both secondary weapons and pistols, provided that the player manages to shoot an enemy in a creative or efficient way.

* AntiInfantry: Replacing the S-Mine and Trip Mines from previous games is the Schü Mine, an anti-personnel mine that is designed to incapacitate enemy soldiers, rather than outright kill them. In the game, enemies triggering the device will be rendered unconscious instead of killed by the device's blast.

* BigBad: SS-Obbergruppenfuhrer Abelard Moller. He's the man responsible for Operation ''Kraken'', a top secret German weapons project said to be able to turn the tide of war back in Germany's favor. In addition, he's also responsible for killing hundreds of civilians and French resistance fighters in a brutal campaign of slaughter in the French countryside.

** "Occupied Manor" takes place in a large French Chateau that's been turned by the Germans into the headquarters of the BigBad Moller. [[spoiler:The location becomes relevant again during the epilogue mission "Loose Ends", where Karl must kill Moller just as he flees from his headquarters.]]

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:The achievement "Brains of the Operation" requires the player to shoot Moller in the head.]]

* DirtyCoward: Moller is established to be one by the game's ending. [[spoiler:Rather than come clean to the Fuhrer and the German High Command about Operation ''Kraken'''s failure, he decides to flee and lay low, at least until Karl kills him during his escape attempt.]]
* EliteMooks: The Jager Troops from ''VideoGame/SniperElite4'' return here, now with more variations. In addition to the standard Jagers and Support Jagers, there's now the Vampir Jager, who use night-vision equipment on their weapons, the Jager Officer, an elite version of the regular officer, the Elite Sniper, an elite version of the regular sniper wearing better camouflage and armed with silenced weapons, and the SS Jagers, who are the SS counterpart to the regular Jagers.

* {{Foil}}: The French Resistance to the [[VideoGame/SniperElite4 Allagra Partisans]]. Both are [[LaResistance resistance groups]] established to fight against the Axis Forces occupying their countries, are led by a female RebelLeader, and prove vital in helping Karl Fairburne and the Allies take down the latest Axis war plans. However, that's where the similarities end. The Allagra Partisans' main tactic is to launch open attacks against Axis positions, attracting their attention and forcing Karl to either use them as a distraction or help them. These tactics ultimately [[spoiler:cause most of them including their leader Sofia to get killed when they fall for Bohm's false intelligence.]] The French Resistance, meanwhile, operate much more lowkey, performing quiet assassinations and scouting for vital intelligence. While they do end up getting hunted down like their Italian counterparts, they manage to remain one step ahead of their foes, and escape with minimal casualties. Ultimately, they survive largely intact, [[spoiler:with Marie herself even aiding Fairburne directly in killing Moller.]]

* GetBackHereBoss: [[spoiler:The final mission has Karl assassinate Moller just as he flees his headquarters, with small windows of opportunity to either snipe him or the staff car he's riding in.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Almost every appearance by Moller is him freaking out as Karl uncovers and destroys Operation Kraken. His final intercepted transmission is Moller raging that he's going into hiding as he doesn't want Hitler to hang him for his failure. [[spoiler:It doesn't matter as Karl kills him before he can get away.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The game ends with Moller's assistant Vogel still on the loose and Moller saying he's on his own to possibly face the wrath of Hitler.

* AntiInfantry: Replacing the S-Mine and Trip Mines from previous games is the Schu Mine, an anti-personnel mine that is designed to incapacitate enemy soldiers, rather than outright kill them. In the game, enemies triggering the device will be rendered unconscious instead of killed by the device's blast.

** A new anti-tank weapon added to the game is the Panzerbuchse 39, a German anti-tank rifle.

* BigFancyHouse: "Occupied Manor" takes place in a large French Chateau that's been turned by the Germans into the headquarters of the BigBad Moller.