Upon learning about rumors of a new Nazi SuperWeapon, 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.