He may have keyboard warriors taking him down in the comments section of his columns, but Charlie Brooker now has a new army of aggressors to face: the players of forthcoming video game Sniper Elite 3.

Brooker will appear as a character in the latest instalment of the world war two shooting game, after the game's creators offered him the chance to be immortalised in pixels. His exact character is being kept under wraps, but he underwent full motion capture – complete with ball-covered Lycra suit – to recreate his likeness for the game. His voice was also recorded for the character, which can be shot and killed.

Jason Kingsley, the creative director of the game's developer Rebellion, said: "We really appreciate Charlie championing a British-made game series. We had a fun time doing his motion capture scenes and in return have promised to give him one of the first copies of the game in June so he can shoot his character with a sniper rifle to his heart's content."

Brooker's career began as a games reviewer on PC Zone, and he also presented one-off video game TV shows such as Gameswipe and How Videogames Changed the World. Rebellion reached out to him after his vocal support for the earlier titles in the series. "I will never tire of hiding in the mountains, blowing people's heads off from a distance with a high-velocity rifle," he wrote in the Guardian in March last year, calling Sniper Elite V2 "the Rolls Royce of sniping games." Here's what he hoped for in the third instalment of the game:

Hopefully for Sniper Elite V3 there'll be an even more comprehensive kill sequence in which, after an even more explicit close-up of the bullet boring a path through some Nazi intestine, the camera hurtles to the other side of the world and shows his sweetheart's expression as she receives a telegram announcing his death. And then it shows his crestfallen kids being told daddy won't be home for Christmas. And then the camera follows them through their entire lives, in real-time, depicting them growing up despondent and angry and unfulfilled, and eventually all killing themselves in atrocious ways on the 50th anniversary of pop's murder. And then the camera whizzes back through time, back to the battlefield, back to the point where you're about to pull the trigger. Just so you can pull it again.

Brooker isn't the first fan to subsequently get snapped up for some behind-the-scenes work. The comedy actor Peter Serafinowicz was asked to voice a character in the forthcoming Dark Souls II, after he became hooked on the original title which he describes as "the best game ever"; he was given the role after asking the developers if he could be involved. He also ended up voicing the various death rattles and exertion noises of the lead character.

Sniper Elite 3 is released on 27 June, and will be available for PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360.