The Saboteur™

I've never played this before so getting to try it through gog has been awesome. A nice blend of assassin's creed and gta with some nazi punchin' to top it all off. Very good Pandemic game! Getting it to work on modern hardware can be a bit of a pain as there's no fullscreen/windowed options and controller inputs are wonky out of the box. So in case: For windowed mode: You'll need to navigate to your config file located by default in C:\Users\[user]\Documents\My Games\The Saboteur\SaveGames\config (this is separate from the install location of your game), open the file, go to the last line that says Windowed and change its value from 0 to 1. Video settings such as resolution and refresh rate can be changed by navigating to your game's install location, scrolling down to "VideoSetup" and running that. Adjust as necessary. For controller, in the same location as VideoSetup, navigate to "InputTemplates.txt" and copy all the text under the 360 Controller section and paste it under the Other Gamepad section. The one issue I was not able to fix when running windowed is that once it's there I can't move it around the screen like I want to, even using keyboard shortcuts. Additionally it takes an extra mouse click outside the window to register you're out of the game if you need to alt+tab to do something else.

If you liked Pandemic's Mercenaries, with it's open world destruction and gunplay, as well as Assassin's Creed's vertical and roof platforming this game is for you. !!XBOX CONTROLLER FIX!! - Go to the game folder and edit file InputTemplates.txt - Copy the test under "360 CONTROLLER" - Paste text over the "OTHER CONTROLLER" text. - Now change to lines on the new "OTHER CONTROLLER" text to "NONE" as they appear below: SOLDIER_TURN_LEFT NONE SOLDIER_TURN_RIGHT NONE Copy all the text in this file and paste it over the all the text in the same file located in C:\User\Documents\My Games\The Saboteur\SaveGames\ InputTemplates.txt. This will fix the triggers from spinning your camera and make the controls more responsive.

It has the "stealth" tag in the description, which is why I purchased it. There is no way to stealth most of the missions. This is a third person shooter, period. If you want stealth, I would not recommend this title. If you enjoy being shot at by endless waves of Nazis, this is your game.

I really like this game, the setting and the atmosphere are something special. Although the performance leaves something to be desired. A few glitches here and there, but nothing serious. Gameplay-wise, it's pretty much what you can expect from an old console port. So, if you like a bit of stealth, but mostly shooting your way out of bad situations, this game, with its somewhat cartoonish charm, might be worth a look.

Bland gameplay, bad writing, cardboard characters, muddy graphics and lighting, unconvincing physics, wooden animations, sloppy gunplay... this isn't the worst game I've ever played, but I can't think of a single thing it does that wasn't done better elsewhere--frequently in a handful of other games. Late XBox 360 is crawling with better sandboxes--my personal preferences run toward Saint's Row, but Mafia is probably a closer tonal and historical fit. L.A. Noir has more satisfyingly clunky driving. For better climbing and parkour, go for anything Assassin's Creed. For stylish WWII-era stealth, there's Velvet Assassin--not a great game, but not so aggressively bland. For better shooting Nazis, choose from any of dozens of shooters. For boring ethnic stereotypes of the Irish, French, or German... did you actually want a recommendation there? In all, this was a frustrating play. The thing is, not a lot of games try to do *all the things all at once*. Which you could laud this game for, if it succeeded at them or the synergies were more than the sum of their parts. Instead I played minigame after minigame where I thought, "Oh, this is just like [XYZ] title... only worse in every way." And then my character would say "let's show them how we do it in the old country!" or another pair of breasts would walk across the screen for no reason or a side character would spout some half-baked anachronistic nonsense. And after some point I could no longer ignore that I was spending my time on the worst possible interpretation of an interesting setting, game style, and story I've seen in a long time. If you're such a huge fan of sandboxes that you've played through all the GTAs and Saints Rows and Prototypes and Mafias and Just Causes and Red Factions and Assassin's Creeds and you STILL. NEED. MORE. ... Well then I still wouldn't recommend it. You'll be disappointed as all of the above games are a significant cut about this twaddle. No complaints about the price nor stability issues. Graphics options not available in-game can be found in a file in the install folder called VideoSetup.exe. Best of luck to you.