Unfortunately, wireless XBox gamepads tend to just stop working with it sometimes.
What a great game - and what a great release for GOG.com! Which makes me a bit sad, because till that moment i always thought it is a good NEW game. Did it age? Did i? Saboteur is a very stylish take on a GTA-clone from Pandemic studios that borrows its atmosphere from old adventure movies like Kelly's heroes and Guns of Navarone - a setting that is unusual for its genre. It is also a great mixture of stealth mechanics seen in many other games and vehicular-based open world, and that makes it - along with Death to spies and Hidden&Dangerous series - a game of choice for those who want an action variant of Commandos. It has numerous flaws - car handling and physics could have been better, wall climbing requires too much Space mashing, and graphics in the well-lit liberated areas of Paris just look considerably worse that noir-influenced palette of the ones that are controlled by Nazis, and some useful perks in the game require too much busywork. But cracking the tactical and stealth puzzles of the enemy bases' layouts to clear them out is extremely satisfying and addictive (wait, there is another watchtower near the road? Now i absolutely MUST stop and blow it out!), and the core concept is well thought and holds the mechanics of the game together tight - they are working in good connection and support each other. Races are especially good for the genre - they are big, finely scripted sequences with Messerschmidt squads passing above the tracks, and even for the side missions the tracks are well thought. All in all, it is a damn fine game made by a team that was, judging by result, took a great joy of making it, which you won't regret buying. The only things the release misses is the separate soundtrack - it is wonderful, if a little incorrect for period - and the official wallpapers that EA released, but i hope they will be added someday.
