

Fairburne sabotages the search lights, and the anti-aircraft guns and calls in a bombing raid to destroy the dockyard. After blowing up the viaduct and destroying the gun, Fairburne is sent to investigate a dockyard, and learns that the Nazis are using the dockyard to ship the weapon's guidance system. Distrustful of the OSS who allowed her father to be kidnapped by the Nazis, the Angel enlists Fairburne to destroy a railway gun at Regelino Viaduct in order to prove himself and convince the group to join forces.

Fairburne is sent to the village of Bitanti to find Sofia "Angel" Di Rocco, leader of the local Partisan resistance group, by OSS agent Jack Weaver. After eliminating Schmidt, Fairburne searches his corpse to find that the missiles are being made by the Nazi scientist Andreas Kessler, who is under the the protection of the brutal Nazi general Heinz Böhm, a high ranking Nazi general, whose reputation is well known, but the Allies have no idea what he looks like. SOE sniper Karl Fairburne is sent to the island after the sinking and tasked with assassinating General Tobias Schmidt along with several other officers who oversaw the attack, filming it to use as propaganda. The ship is quickly sunk by the new weapon – a radio guided anti-ship missile under the development of the Nazis. Upon learning about rumors of a new Nazi weapon, the Royal Navy sends a freighter, the Orchidea, (a captured Italian freighter, with the latest radio intersection technology) to the island of San Celini to investigate. Sniper Elite 4 is set in Italy in 1943, in the immediate aftermath of the events in Sniper Elite III. And having to face the Italian resistance leader who distrusts the Allied forces, and a faceless enemy. As well as that, Karl must stop the Axis forces from deploying a new weapon that could stop the allied resistance against the Axis Powers, before it even begins.

In 1943 Karl Fairburne is sent to Italy, in order to save the country from the grip of Fascism.
