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Posted on: July 1, 2024
Trivelus
Verified ownerGames: 449 Reviews: 12
Evergreen
Its holds up perfectly graphically, runs great on modern software/hardware and one of the few great WW2 french resistance video games. Also using the offline GOG installer it runs better than the steam version so keep that in mind.
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Posted on: November 23, 2016
braxtonwise
Verified ownerGames: 704 Reviews: 8
Not a stealth game
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.
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Posted on: September 30, 2016
cthulhie
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 5
I do not understand the glowing reviews
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.
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Posted on: October 8, 2016
JMich
Verified ownerGames: 1581 Reviews: 2
Most fun I (legally) had with dynamite
The Saboteur is a game I really enjoyed playing, and a game that shows that the sum of its parts may be better than expected. The game has you flung in the middle of the Nazi occupation of Paris, shortly after it happened. The story is an average revenge one, though it does get points for not being the cliche one of "Repel the invaders" or "Protect your country". Your character doesn't care for the conflict, he just wants to kill a single man. In trying to do so though, he will use enough explosives to level a small mountain. The game itself is an open world one, even if the world is small (Paris and its surroundings). You are free to move around, accepting possible quests (though you'll have to unlock them first), looking for collectibles, blowing stuff up or just causing mayhem. The city is divided into zones, with each zone requiring proper papers to pass through the checkpoints, but you can always either ignore the checkpoints and look for a different way through, or run through them and attempt to evade the Nazis. It does sometime help to go through such a checkpoint, blow a few guard towers up and die (or load), since anything you destroyed outside a mission will remain destroyed once the mission is started, which can make your life easier. For getting around, the game has quite a few vehicles, though the driving isn't anything exceptional. It does the job, and that's all. Alternatively, you can always climb up to the rooftops of Paris, though again, the climbing and free running isn't something to write home about. Finally, the gunplay. You can carry up to two weapons on you at a time, as well as grenades, dynamite and RDX. There is a bit of variety for the weapons, though I usually found myself using a sniper rifle and either a silenced weapon or a rocket launcher, depending on my mood/target. Gunplay is the usual 3rd person cover based regenerating health style, which once more just does the job. Somehow though, a game where most of the mechanics are mediocre ends up being quite enjoyable. It could be all the nods and references you find in the game ("Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb" is a mission for example), as well as the planning of how to sabotage a group of targets without getting noticed, or the mayhem that ensues once your planning proves inadequate. The game unfortunately still retains a few bugs, though GOG is working on fixing those as well, and the price may be too high for a few people. All in all though, it is an enjoyable game that should give you quite a few hours of enjoyment.
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Posted on: November 6, 2016
craigdolphin
Verified ownerGames: 67 Reviews: 2
Surprisingly good.
Unlike some other reviewers, I really hadn't heard much about Saboteur when I saw it for sale on GOG. And honestly, it's not my usual game fare: I tend to really strongly prefer WRPGs and a smattering of strategy games. But I have to say it took me by surprise as being just....fun. The stealth and action is done well enough not to be overly frustrating. Although there are times where alrms are triggered in situations where earlier in the game they weren;t. And there are some occasional bugs and glitches that occur from time to time. This game is far from perfect technically, but I really never got aggravated with the bugs. There's something kinda fun about popping a nazi who's walking about on a long destroyed tower platform and watching his magical mid-air walking powers vanish. The core gameplay is what I actually enjoyed most about this game. The driving it also fun as long as you enjoy dodge-em cars. The ai drivers are crazy and slow. But it's fun to zoom about, slide through corners, and head-on collide with some oncoming lorry. And the soundtrack is just perfect for driving and very reminiscent of the era. People talk a lot about the visual grey versus color device that (does) set the mood, but not enough credit goes to the audio IMO. The story is pretty cliche, the voice acting is ocassionally less than terrific but with a few stronger performances mixed in as well. I enjoyed Skylar's (Kari Whalgreen) performance in particular. The personality of the protagonist himself left me a bit underwhelmed. Not really my kinda guy but adequate for the task at hand. Let's face it, sneaking around blowing up nazi's, and bombing their stuff, is always great. The only real critique is that while there's a TON of open-world saboteur work to do, it does get a bit repetitive after a while. I would have liked to see more story-style response to my activities but, C'est la vie. In any case, if nudity makes you want to run to your mother shivering in terror, this will likely not be the game for you. It has nudity. It's partly set in a burlesque club. You've been forewarned. I got probably 30 hours or so out of the game, and could have done more feeelance work had I felt so inclined. I paid about $20 for the game and felt it was well worth the price. The weapon loadout options are pretty good, although there are definitely some goons towards the end that take a lot more putting down even with your best kit. In all, I really enjoyed this game. It's not even in my preferred genre, and so it kinda surprised me how much I did enjoy it. Graphics are abit outdated these days (wish they had some higher res assets) Sadly, pandemic were shot in the back of the head by their EA overlords. Pity. Would have loved to see their next effort. Any ex-Pandemic devs that happen to see this: thanks for some memorable good times with this game. You deserved better from EA.
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