The Saboteur
Published on: 16th January, 2010
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A Classic WW2 resistance game, set in Nazi Occupied Paris. The user plays as a car mechanic named ‘Sean’ who goes about freeing occupied Paris, after drowning his sorrows. If you liked GTA, then you’ll like this…. It features a 20 hour campaign, which sees Sean go from humiliating the Germans at the grand prix to destroying the main occupied Nazi Bases.
The story starts off in a brothel located in Montmartre, where after Sean drowns his sorrows he gets acquainted with a former member of the French Resistance who offers to help him rid Paris of the Germans. The story then takes a turn for the worst, as we see Sean lose one of his friends at the Palace of one of Paris’s most notorious villains. From then on, the user plans to seek vengeance.
In terms of graphics, the quality is astounding for a game of this calibre, and even more so because it’s a free play world, the highest quality is used through the game. You can hop in a ‘Beta Romero’ racing car, and go for a drive in the countryside whilst enjoying the houses and surrounding countryside in high definition. The user gets a real sense of nostalgia because of the one element that made this game so great, the colouring. The game starts off in black and white, and as you liberate more of Paris, the more the colour comes back… and what’s so amazing about this element is, the transition between black and white and Technicolor, its smooth. Ordinarily you’d think you would see patches that aren’t coloured properly, or when you go near a border of Germany, that you wouldn’t be able to see the rest of the countryside still in colour But You can! Overall 10/10, If you like blowing up tanks with bazooka’s or stealth killing Nazi Generals, then this is the game for you.