The Saboteur Review

Welcome to Nazi-occupied Paris, a unique open world where you are The Saboteur. Play as Sean Devlin, a street-tough Irish racing mechanic seeking personal redemption on a Nazi officer that has taken everything away from him. Now, it's time for payback - with the help of the French Resistance British intelligence, an arsenal of weaponry, your own street smarts and brawn, you must exact revenge on those who aimed to destroy your life. Motivated by retribution and armed with tactics of sabotage, blow up zeppelins, derail trains, implode bridges, destroy armored tanks, and level enemy facilities in the name of vengeance. This truly is the first open-world action game set in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Features:

1st Ever Open-World Paris - Climb the Eiffel Tour, snipe from Notre Dame Cathedral, and brawl on the Champs d'Elysee as you sabotage your enemies. Fight, climb, and prowl through the dark alleys, rooftops burlesque houses, and seedy streets of the City of Lightsthe ultimate playground for The Saboteur.
The Art of Sabotage - Being The Saboteur is all about attacking while staying unnoticed. Get your mission intel at underground clubs and cabarets. Eliminate your adversaries with stealth attacks, disguise distractions, and explosives. Master a variety of weapons, automobiles and skills to sabotage enemy operations.
The Will to Fight - An action-packed experience and thrilling storyline are made even more engaging by an innovative visual style, characters and the new "Will to Fight" technology. Experience how the city reacts and changes around you as you free it from Nazi oppression. Only you can restore hope and grandeur to Paris.
French Resistance Strikes - Call in for support from The Underground in the form of getaway cars, weapon deliveries, distractions, and much more!

Review :

Covert ops Commander personal log: Just some minutes ago I found my old Tommygun model and I immediatelly remmembered about the good old days that I would shoot some nazis of rooftops while throwing grenades around destroying tanks and cars all over Paris and all those while listening to ACDC music...

Saboteur takes the player back to the second world war in the bright (even in black and white) city of Paris, France. The main hero is an Irish guy who works as a car mechanic and have forgiven the Germans for all they took from him for many years but when they tried to took his car he couldn't forgive them, because what is a man without car in a nazistic France !? So he tried to stand up to them but his pal died, horribly, so he decided to kill the big bad general of the German army, and some thousands of soldiers till he reached him but who counts :D

Gameplay: Almost as good as Assassin's creed in moving around the town. It reminds me a bit of the latest GTA games in the fights, targeting system and driving but the whole environment, missions and voice acting is taking the player so deep in the WW2 era that he/she can't recognise the similarities. I got really obsessed with collecting guns and vehicles, well, because big guns and smooth cars rule ;)

Graphics: Very very good ingame graphics. It can easily compete with the other big graphicsharks out there and the coolest part is that they get better on the cutscenes. That makes it of course a very demanding game by the hardware perspective but even on low settings the graphics are still pretty good. Also very exciting is the greyscale effect that makes everything in the Nazi territories of Paris appear in black and white colors except some details and once the area is liberated the color returns to normal.

Story: The story is not really amazing, it's the classic story of revenge against the guy that tried to take a man's car, and murdered brutally his friend in the process but who cares about him, but the really great part is the voice acting, the really cool non player characters the player meets and the tour around the Paris. I even climbed the tower of Eiffel and starting shooting people with my sniper rifle.





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