Sniper Elite 5 Season Pass One (DLC)

Sniper Elite 5 Season Pass One is a content expansion for Rebellion's 2022 tactical shooter, adding two additional campaign missions alongside a set of authentic World War II weapons and a collection of character and weapon skins. It is not a standalone product - you need the base game, and you need to enjoy the base game, before this is worth a second of your attention. The two extra missions are the headline here. Sniper Elite 5's campaign already does a solid job of handing you large, sandbox-style maps and asking you to find your own path through them - whether you prefer crawling through tall grass picking off officers silently, or kicking in the front door and using the chaos to grab intel. The season pass missions follow that same structure, which is either reassuring or disappointing depending on how much life you still have left in the core loop. If the X-ray kill cam still makes you grin after a long-range headshot, these maps will give you fresh reasons to line one up. The weapons are the more interesting value proposition. Rebellion leans hard into WWII authenticity - weapon feel, reload animations, and sound design are a genuine strength of the series - so adding more period-correct rifles and sidearms to the arsenal does matter for players who actually customise their loadouts. Whether the specific additions here shift your approach to missions in a meaningful way depends on where your kit already sits. The cosmetic skins, by contrast, are purely personal. They look fine. They change nothing about how the game plays. Multiplayer and co-op support from the base game carries into the DLC missions, which is a real plus if you have a regular co-op partner. Sniping across a map and having a friend handle close-range cleanup is one of the more quietly satisfying co-op rhythms in the genre, and new maps keep that fresh for a while. Cross-platform multiplayer is supported, which reduces the friction of finding a partner. The honest summary: Season Pass One is competent, safe DLC. It does not stretch the formula or introduce mechanics that change your read on the game. If you burned through the base campaign and wanted more, this delivers exactly that - two maps, more guns, some new outfits. If the base game left you cold, nothing in this pass flips that. Buy it for the missions if you are still actively playing, skip the skins unless you care about that sort of thing. Alex, Scout Team