Who Is Harry Hawker In Sniper Elite: Resistance?

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The Sniper Elite games have always been at the forefront of accurate bullet ballistics. Combined with the classic WW2 settings, the series (and their Zombie Army spin-off) have been a constant go-to for those who love sniping games.

A photoof the main character in Sniper Elite Rivals aiming a gun.

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However, Sniper Elite: Resistance gives the series’ go-to protagonist, Karl Fairburne, a well-needed break from war. Instead, it brings in a new face to lead the charge against the nazi army. But, who exactly is Harry Hawker, and how does he fit into the Allied attempt at stopping the German war machine?

Who Is Harry Hawker?

Harry Hawker lies prone firing his sniper rifle, and the bullet is traveling through the air towards in unsuspecting Nazi, in Sniper Elite: Resistance.

Harry Hawker is a British sniper and recon expert. He is sent to France to help the resistance fighters fight back against the invading nazis and their Vichy government in 1944.

What Are His Goals?

As a commando of the British Expeditionary Force, Hawker is tasked with not only making contact with the French resistance, but also helping take down key Gestapo members and hunt down intel on the supposed nazi superweapon in development.

What Is He Good At?

A photo of a sniper aiming in Sniper Elite Resistance.

Like Karl before him, Harry is a master of the scoped rifle, able to take out targets from an impressive distance. He is also skilled at the other key facets of an espionage expert, from stealth, booby traps, and scouting.

He is more than well-equipped to take out nazis at close quarters too, with skills with various pistols, sub-machineguns, explosives, and shotguns. Not to mention the various hand-to-hand combat skills that he uses more often.

He also seems capable of applying various field medical equipment like bandages and first-aid kits at short notice, and is comfortable modifying his weapons with items at workbenches found in the field.

Where Has He Been Deployed?

A photo of the a player standing in Sniper Elite Resistance.

Players of the previous games will recognize Harry as an optional character that you can control in multiplayer and non-campaign PVE mode.

A photo of the a player standing behind an enemy in Sniper Elite Resistance.

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He has appeared in Sniper Elite 3, where he helped take on nazis throughout Africa, Sniper Elite 4, where he was deployed in Italy, and also Sniper Elite 5, where his tour in France first began.

It is hinted at through an in-game dialogue that the timelines of Resistance and Sniper Elite 5 overlap, as Harry references Karl fighting against the nazis to stop the Kraken super-weapon.

How Does He Know Karl Fairburne?

An image of Karl Fairburne standing in front of a collage of blurred out locations from the Sniper Elite series.

Both Karl and Harry have and do work for the British military as snipers and commandos. They being part of the same team means they probably are at least trained in the same places.

Due to their profiles and line of work, we don’t know much else about their relationship.

As well as being a commando, Hawker also technically holds the rank of Captain. Which, interestingly, makes him a superior officer to Karl (Karl is referred to as a lieutenant in most Sniper Elite games).

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