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Hitting the Nail on the Head: It’s Basically Sniper Elite 5 DLC... But That’s Not a Bad Thing
If you enjoyed Sniper Elite 5, then this is an easy recommendation. It’s essentially more of the same—new missions, a new main character (who has technically appeared in previous games but still feels fresh), and technically new settings.
The Good: Fun, Well-Made, and True to the Formula
The game is fun, plain and simple. It sticks to what works and doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel—which, honestly, I respect. If it ain't broke, don’t fix it, and they followed that philosophy well. The missions are engaging, and the gameplay feels just as satisfying as ever.
The Bad: Some Bugs and the "DLC Feel"
That said, it’s not perfect. There are definitely some bugs—I've had issues where throwing bottles, grenades, or even shooting in certain areas hits an invisible wall. At one point, I threw a sticky grenade, it got stuck on one of these invisible barriers, and, well… let’s just say it didn’t end well for me.
I do wish it had a bit more uniqueness to set it apart from SE5, but overall, it’s still enjoyable. I just hope we get more missions down the line.
Replayability and Content Length
I haven’t finished the game yet because I’ve been taking my time, exploring, and just enjoying myself. However, I can already tell that if you just rush through the main objectives, it’d probably feel short. But in my experience, Sniper Elite games are meant to be played multiple times, trying different strategies, so as long as the missions are fun and replayable, that’s not really an issue.
Denuvo and Anti-Cheat – The Good News
Denuvo is, unfortunately, still here, but at least the anti-cheat portion of it is optional. As far as I know, you only need it for multiplayer, so if you’re just playing solo, it’s not a problem.
Final Thoughts
If you’re the type to complain that this is just glorified DLC, fair enough—but this probably isn’t for you
For everyone else, this game is beyond fun.

SE: Resistance feels like a SE5 DLC, and that isn't a Bad Thing (mostly).

SE5 was a great game, there were some things I liked from SE4 that didn't make it through so well, but I'll make that a footnote later of Things I Liked about SE4 that got lost going to SE5.

First of all, let's not play pretend, everyone likes cool new guns in a sequel. SE: Resistance delivers in a really cool way that would make Jonathan Ferguson and Ian McCollum (especially) blush with the cool and cruel selection of Nazi-deleting apparel. I was very excited to see the Lebel and Berthier especially as starting weapons given that the game is based around the pre D-Day Free French.

In terms of gameplay, Resistance does nothing different, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. SE5 worked pretty well in terms of gameplay. Were there things I would love from SE4 that should have been adapted? Absolutely! Did they happen? Unfortunately, no. One of the biggest things I really loved about SE4 was that the lighting level helped hide you, so paying attention to shadows and being silhouetted actually mattered. SE5 threw that away and made the visibility system absurdly simple, which made some missions frustrating, where you'd hug dark areas and avoid the light to no avail.

All in all, Resistance feels like a (very expansive) DLC of Sniper Elite 5. There's a lot of new content, and most importantly, Rebellion continues to hit the ball out of the park making absolutely stunning and immersive environments to fight in.
The unfortunate part is that it doesn't iterate or improve on SE5 much. There's a few quality of life changes here and there, but past that, it just feels like you're playing SE5 with a new mission pack.

End verdict: If you want a mission pack for SE5, get it on sale.

If this is your starting point, play Sniper Elite 5 instead.

Vive la revolution, ils ne passeront pas.

50 bucks for a standalone DLC for SE5

If you like SE5, then just get this one via gamepass, there's no point for paying 50 bucks for something that was already sold to you three years ago.
Other than that it's literally SE5 with its own missions and different set of weapons, some of it is better, some of it is worse but it doesn't inherently change anything meaningful from its base proudct.
To reiterate
What is the same:

The engine itself, exact same features from a product that was already late to the party back in 2021. No temporal anti aliasing, no raytracing, nothing.
Animations, sounds, models, textures - vast majority has been built from assets already made for SE5.

What has changed:

Texture resolution has been increased noticeably, in essence nothing that couldn't be a free DLC to SE5.

What is new

Weapons
Campaign and story (shorter than similarly priced on launch SE5)
Main character
New voiceovers
Some music?
Some multiplayer maps (whilst others are reused from SE5 but have different time of day)
Gestapo and SS enemies but they have no real functional difference from commanders/soldiers from SE5 besides the model.
Separate propaganda mission mode

Quite sure that the spinoff deliberately focused on separate character to somehow justify it being a separate product but all it boils down to is a new main character that looks like the chinese gopher meme, starring in grand total of 2 visibly hand animated cutscenes.
This does not mean it is inherently a bad game, it's about as good (or bad) as SE5 is but it's clear it's not worth 50 bucks when it's free on gamepass. Unless you're hardcore series fan, there's no need to spend this much money on something that probably costed pennies to produce and was mostly built off an older product that you have already bought.