Been playing The Saboteur on the PC, and while it's really quite broken in some regards (performance is ABYSMAL, lapsing into brutal stuttering), I'm still really enjoying it. 
 
I think it's sad that it's gotten such meh reviews. It definitely has big problems, but for all its stealing of ideas it comes off as pretty fresh to me. Maybe it's the setting, or getting to play a WW2 game that finally thinks cackling mad Nazis are sweet villains, and that it's perfectly okay for a bombing Irishman to say "top of the mornin' to ya" to prostitutes.
 
It deserves to be played, and not just discarded for its similarity to more polished games. It pilfers from EVERYBODY, but the core play of rampaging through Paris and setting off bombs and carrying out inpromptu assassinations really works for me. The moment you settle into the role of a murdering dickish drunkard in an insane American comic book idea of Paris and let the cartoony bullshit fly, it comes into its own.
 
I recommend a rental, at least. It might surprise you. Surprised me a good  bit, and i didn't think Pandemic pulled off a good game since Mercs 1.

Been playing The Saboteur on the PC, and while it's really quite broken in some regards (performance is ABYSMAL, lapsing into brutal stuttering), I'm still really enjoying it. 
 
I think it's sad that it's gotten such meh reviews. It definitely has big problems, but for all its stealing of ideas it comes off as pretty fresh to me. Maybe it's the setting, or getting to play a WW2 game that finally thinks cackling mad Nazis are sweet villains, and that it's perfectly okay for a bombing Irishman to say "top of the mornin' to ya" to prostitutes.
 
It deserves to be played, and not just discarded for its similarity to more polished games. It pilfers from EVERYBODY, but the core play of rampaging through Paris and setting off bombs and carrying out inpromptu assassinations really works for me. The moment you settle into the role of a murdering dickish drunkard in an insane American comic book idea of Paris and let the cartoony bullshit fly, it comes into its own.
 
I recommend a rental, at least. It might surprise you. Surprised me a good  bit, and i didn't think Pandemic pulled off a good game since Mercs 1.

Agree with you. I've been enjoying this one quite a bit as well.

This is the vibe I've been getting from the reviews I've read. It doesn't get the highest score, but nearly everyone who's played it says that there's a major fun-factor. I'm in no rush to play it, but when I get some time I'll be sure to check it out.

couldnt agree more.. 12 hours in and im still only beginning

I really want to get this game. Hopefully will pick it up in the January sales.

I think I'm picking this one up after Christmas.  I've been hearing, above all else, it's a fun game, and that's all I really ask out of my games.

Or the fact that they did not even use a real Irishman to voice the main character. Such a shame, makes us true men from Dublin sad. ; )
 
Other than that, it's a great game.

Apparently it is a true irishman @CornontheCobbe