The Saboteur™

This was one of the earlier open-world games, and it really delivered the goods. Having each section of the city get progressively brighter and more colorful as you slowly liberate it works great and is very satisfying. Like the Just Cause series, the map is loaded with tons of interactive "events", and while they do get repetitive, many of them force you to consider new strategic possibilities. In the early part of the game, targets are easy to sneak up to, and hiding places are always pretty close. In the later game, many of the targets you encounter require some planning to sneak into and set charges without being seen. That said, it's perhaps a little too easy to just ignore stealth entirely and go in guns blazing, destroy the target, then run away and hide. I certainly found the game much more interesting by challenging myself to finish eash area without being noticed. Here and there I found targets that I absolutely could not figure out how to sneak into, so it's good that a "louder" approach still works. Overall, it's a less polished open-world game than more recent Assassin's Creed games, but it's still quite appealing. The milieu is great, the recreation of Paris is great, and there are plenty of cool things to discover and collect along the way. Well worth your time!

I love the concept of the game. But the stealth in the game is so difficult, even on casual difficulty, that it destroyed the game for me. I'm walking down a street, with no weapon, alongside dozens of NPC's. I walk past a couple Germans, and they almost immediately start shooting. It's a shame. I think the game could be fun, but the detection is broken, IMO. Sure, if I'm sneaking or acting suspicious, or even running, I could see the Germans getting suspicious, but if I'm walking along just like all of the other citizens, it breaks the immersion that the Germans just suddenly start shooting at me while other civilians walk by the same spot unmolested.

There seems to be a lot of love for this game, but I struggle to understand why. It's a pretty generic tale of revenge, in a generic open world, with generic nazies, and endless things to blow up. Blowing things up is satisfying but quickly becomes tedious; it's always the same. Place explosives, watch explosion, repeat. Blowing everything up doesn't have much impact, so the missions become the driving force of the game. It's a game that will take a long time to complete, repeating the same few tasks over and over. Began to feel more like a chore then a game.

Its so cool given its age, i really enjoyed it.

Great game!