The Saboteur Review
If you’re unfamiliar with this genre, it’s along the lines of recent Grand Theft Auto, Mercenaries, and Saints Row games. A lot of this game is similar to Pandemic’s Mercenaries 2, but you’re in occupied Paris during WW II instead of Venezuela in modern times. So if you hate those types of games, move along…
This game looks very good, but it does take some getting used to if you’ve been playing a lot of those other games and non-”sandbox” games recently. The game is fairly easy on the lowest difficulties, but it’s not a cakewalk. How it is on the more difficult levels is probably standard to that sort of thing, when such games even have variable difficulties in the first place.
There are a lot of fun things going on. The disguises and how your actions dictate the suspicion zone is very interesting, for example.
There are some quirks I’ve noticed so far. It might be because I’ve installed it to the hard drive, but after playing for a while the other day, the frame rates and voice/speech sync got way off. There also seems to be far too many switchovers from location to location, or at least I got the impression of clunkiness as the dissolve and loading goes on. The females hanging around in the club certainly look okay, if pretty similar, but they are very much certainly not mid-1940s style women — They’ve got that stripperific bust enhancement thing going on.
For those interested in such things, I got this used, so there was no Midnight Show code. The seller supposedly thought the game was not for their pre-teen, so it’s unclear if that’s just related to Nazis and blowing people up and blood spattering everywhere, or if the code was used. Used versus not having it, selling it separately, or thrown away due to its nature or lack of knowledge of such.
However, I myself did download the Midnight Show code. If you’re getting the game for that, or having to buy it separately, I’d say don’t bother. If that’s your sort of thing, you might as well buy Conan.
The add-on is not a “nudity patch”, it’s a way to remove the “pasties” (nipple-shaped and nipple-shaded covers) from the topless clones, who are basically already as nude as you can consider topless to be. It also unlocks some rather tame boring dances by these girls; these sequences are produced by somebody with no idea of how camera shots should be framed or how long they should last. It made me dizzy more than anything; luckily I was doing something else actually interesting while they were dancing. You also get a knife throwing game you can wager “contraband” on.
Overall, it’s a fun game so far.
The Saboteur Feature
- See and feel Paris change around you the innovative with “Will to Fight” system that changes a dark and oppressed black and white policed state, to a bright and inspired world where the citizens fight back.
- Fight, climb, prowl and race through the dark alleys, rooftops, burlesque houses, and seedy streets of the City of Lights¿the ultimate playground for The Saboteur.
- Open-world game design allows the player to go wherever he/she wants to in the game when not engaged in structured mission play.
- Use gameplay systems like climbing, sneaking, and stealth Kills to infiltrate the Nazi occupation to perform acts of sabotage, then use the cover system and assortment of weapons to blast your way to freedom.
- This version of Paris was designed to leverage the unique abilities of The Saboteur. Being a saboteur is all about surprise attacks and Paris’ rooftops are the perfect path for your secret operations.
The Saboteur Overview
The Saboteur for Xbox 360… 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.
The Saboteur Specifications
The Saboteur is a brand-new take on familiar World War II gaming. The first open-world, action game set in Nazi-occupied Europe, it contains a mix of single player stealth, third-person shooter and racing gameplay in which the player assumes the role of a hero obsessed with a personal vendetta against the Nazi regime. Utilizing a wealth of items, abilities, weapons and vehicles the player turns his private, stealth war into something much broader with the game’s “Will to Fight” system which graphically reflects the will of the occupied peoples in the game, which can proves the deciding factor for all.
Open-world WWII gameplay.
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A wide array of weapons and items.
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Fast-paced vehicular action.
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Restore color and hope to Paris.
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Story
Welcome to Nazi-occupied Paris, a unique open-world environment where you take on the role of street-tough Irish race driver Sean Devlin and eventually become The Saboteur. Although living in occupied WWII Paris, Sean is initially concerned only with the racing lifestyle and his friends within it. That all changes though when the Nazis kill his friends, and change his life forever. Seeking personal retribution on a Nazi officer and others involved, Sean’s life soon becomes dominated by a need for payback, which is exacted with the help of the French Resistance, British intelligence, an arsenal of weaponry, and your own street smarts and brawn. Motivated by retribution and armed with tactics of sabotage you are a one man wrecking crew, blowing up zeppelins, derailing trains, imploding bridges, destroying armored tanks, and leveling enemy facilities in the name of vengeance.
Open-world Gameplay
The Saboteur in the first open-world, action game set in Nazi-occupied Europe, and combines a variety of different kinds of gameplay, including third-person shooter, stealth and racing. As in other open-world games, this means that although players will be tasked with completing an extensive list of set missions against Nazi units and individuals, they will also have the freedom to explore and fight throughout the game world as they choose. This world although set in Paris also encompasses the French countryside, as well as parts of Germany. Within it players will be able to use representations of actual landmarks for example, the Eiffel Tower for navigation, and a variety of vehicles for transportation and combat. In mission play, with each success players move closer to tracking down the particular Nazis responsible for the death of Sean’s friends by putting the rewards that they receive for success to work on the black-market. They can trade for all sorts of items to help their progress, from weapons, to cars, maps and more. These all can also either be found throughout the game, or taken from defeated opponents, although the more commotion that is created and the higher the skills of the player, the greater the enemy response will be.
The “Will to Fight” System
Although built around Sean’s desire for personal revenge, The Saboteur also contains a play mechanism through which the lives of the non-player characters (NPCs) are improved, and can even be manipulated. This is the “Will to Fight” system. Long known as the “City of Light,” Paris as depicted in the game under Nazi occupation is a place dominated by stark black and white colors. These colors reflect the hopelessness of the people. But as the player collects victories against the invaders, a change will begin to be seen in the physical environments of the game, again reflecting the mood of the people. Where once there were only stark black and white colors and few civilians on the street, now players will see increasingly bright colors, reflecting the hope of the civilians and eventually incite an underground resistance among the Parisians to take up arms on their own, and even come to your aid when the odds are stacked against you.
Key Features
- Explore 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 Lights—the ultimate playground for The Saboteur.
- Be the Saboteur – Use a broad range of weapons and explosives to perform your blockbuster sabotage as you single-handedly hunt-down your enemies to dismantle and destroy the Nazi occupation.
- Stealth Gameplay – Use gameplay systems like Climbing, Sneaking, and Stealth Kills to infiltrate the Nazi occupation to perform acts of sabotage Once you’ve blown your target to pieces, leverage the intuitive cover system and assortment of weapons to blast your way to freedom.
- Vertical World – This version of Paris was designed to leverage the unique abilities of The Saboteur. Being a saboteur is all about surprise attacks and Paris’ rooftops are the perfect path for your secret operations.
- The “Will to Fight” System – The Saboteur introduces a innovative new feature that is both an iconic visual style, and a compelling gameplay element. See and feel Paris change around you as you progress through the game. Go from a dark and oppressed black and white policed state, to a bright and inspired world where the citizens fight back.
- Jack Your Ride – From high performance race cars to military vehicles, as The Saboteur, you can drive any vehicle that comes along to escape your pursuers.
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