5 reviews
The Saboteur
Experience the ultimate open-world action/adventure as The Saboteur. Fight, climb, and race your way through a uniquely stylized version of Nazi-occupied France, and hunt down your sworn enemies who have taken everything from you. Enter the seedy underground world of a saboteur living in 1940s Paris, where the women are sexy, the missions are epic,...
Details
- Released
- December 3, 2009
- Developer
- Pandemic Studios
- Genres
- Shooter · Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical · Adventure
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
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The Saboteur Reviews
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A new open-world environment stealth-action thriller, The Saboteur is set against the dramatic backdrop of occupied France and based on a true story, the personal tale of one man's fight to find and kill the Nazi thugs who murdered his friends.
The Saboteur is sabotaged by bad controls and level layouts that will have you playing the same stages over and over. It’s too bad because the ideas at play here such as rushing through a chain reaction caused by an explosive are good. Perhaps those explosive sequences re-imagined as a Canabalt-style running game would have been a better way to go.
The World War II setting is merely window-dressing for the revenge story of Sean Devlin, a bitter Irish mechanic who has watched his friends fall in front of him.
The Saboteur can be both addictive and engaging, but also rather stale, all at the same time. Serious issues such as the nature of a resistance campaign, terror tactics, victory at all costs, etc… are fairly buried underneath the game’s lighter tones. Still, it’s in line with Pandemic’s other works so it’s not like you should expect a moral masterpiece. If you want to put in the effort, than the rinse/repeat actions won’t seem as boring as they should be. It’s good to see that P...
Despite World War II as a setting for games becoming as old and as used as Hugh Hefner, Pandemic Studios have at least tried a fresh approach for the setting. One that feels fresh and fairly unique. Most of that can be attributed to the fact that a.) We have a 1940’s Paris here in sandbox form, and b.) Pandemic didn’t set out to retell the stories of old, instead, they’ve opted for a fictional story in a fantastic setting with a unique art-style. Whilst on the one hand The Saboteur deli...