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The Saboteur
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The Saboteur is a action-packed, free-roaming sandbox game that takes place in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Drive the Nazis out of Paris through whatever means necessary as Irish mechanic-turned-race-car-driver-turned-soldier-of-fortune Sean Devlin.
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"Pandemic brings some pulpy flavor to this open-world WWII game, but its stylish charm doesn't quite overcome the rough edges or the sense that its best tricks are borrowed from other, better games."
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The Saboteur Review

The Saboteur is a third person sandbox open world game set in Paris during World War 2. You play as an Irish mechanic and race car driver named Sean Devlin, whose friend was recently killed by Nazis.… Read more

Killing Nazis has never been more fun

Pros: -Large open world to freely explore -Lot's of mission and gameplay variety -Great amount of content that provides countless hours of gameplay -Great and stylish soundtrack -Black and White effec… Read more

Typical Pandemic Mess, But Fun as Hell

I was huge fan of Pandemic's 2006 sleeper hit "Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction". While it wasn't perfect, it certianly was ambitious and a great deal of fun to play. I eagerly awaited the day w… Read more

Fun pulpy Nazi-face-punching action

I'm finally returning to do video game reviews, with a look at Pandemic Studios last game, The Saboteur. So, I bring up William Grover-Williams in the review - an article on wikipedia about him can be… Read more

He's Oyrish. I'm Gamer. What's New?

I felt very excited upon the purchase of The Saboteur, given my two full go-arounds in Fable 3 and Saints Row The Third when it came to playing open world games. I was hoping for another fun adventure… Read more

Is This World War II Satire Worth Playing?

As I raced across rooftops in Paris, I kept thinking about what had gotten me to that point--my choice to snap a Nazi’s neck in front of his commanding officer. If I had only been more stealthy, I wou… Read more

Rough around the edges, but fun enough to make up for it.

The Saboteur takes a lot of obvious inspiration from other games. You could say it borrowed the climbing from Assassins Creed. You could say it took it's stealth sections were inspired by Hitman. You… Read more

Indiana is quick with his whip, but Sean's quicker with Whiskey.

Cherry blossoms are regarded as being at their most radiant, right before they fall off the tree. A belief that shows that even though the end is near, leaving a mark on the world is the best thing to… Read more

Overly Ambitious, but Almost Great

Yeah, not exactly a new game, but as a fan of Pandemic's work before their demise, I felt I had to complete the game. And it was, completely, a Pandemic game. High level of aspiration with some bugs,… Read more

Finding pleasure in a time of war

The Saboteur is a game I should have purchased at release. It wasn't until one year later did I pick up the game from the "bargain bin" and, boy, was I impressed. A fantastic story, a familiar video g… Read more

Pandemic's swan song

Forget everything you know about World War 2 because pandemic have rewritten the rule book when it comes to the German occupation of France, the saboteur won't have you storming the beaches of Normand… Read more

Good game with great stealth elements.

The Saboteur... Where to start? Well, the first thing that grabs you when playing this, is that it playes very much like a Rockstar, Grand Theft Auto Series game. You run around, get missions off peop… Read more

A confused game that cannot hold my attention

The Saboteur in short is a game that is just confused about its identity. As mentioned in other reviews it takes bits and pieces from other open world games and mashes them together, but never achieve… Read more

The Saboteur Review

It is a shame that EA short-sitedly closed Pandemic Studios, because this game maybe better than any other shows their creativity in all it's spendour and what they were capable of creating. Set initi… Read more

Great Ingredients, Lackluster Execution

The Saboteur should have been much better. All of the ingredients were there; Pandemic Studios (the group behind Mercenaries ) developed the game, it has a brilliant art-style, and the story is pulpy… Read more

The Saboteur Review

The Saboteur takes place in Nazi occupied Paris with you in the shoes of Sean, an Irish race driver with a talent for scaling buildings, playing with explosives and making life miserable for the Nazis… Read more

BORING

This game was so below my expectations. By seeing all the videos and gameplay shots, this game looked pretty fun and interesting as a nice way for pandemic to go out in a bang, Well the game is just p… Read more

Charming but flawed

Well, I’m so far just around two hours into playing Pandemic’s swansong, and I have to say, it’s been a real thrill-ride so far. They’re well-known for their Mercenaries franchise, and having never pl… Read more

The Saboteur

The Saboteur is a third person action - adventure game set in World War II. The game follows the story of Sean Devlin. Sean is a race car driver, born in Ireland but is in Paris to compete in the race… Read more

The Comedy Of Errors.

Let me start off by saying that I love a good yarn of a story. It doesn't have to be realistic, nor be without plotholes, no, a good yarn has to be a fun and enjoyable story. Something which Pandemic'… Read more

Resist the resistance

Momma always taught me not to speak ill of the dead. Besides being rather disrespectful, trash-talking the deceased could result in a poltergeist occupying your residence. The last thing I need is a g… Read more

Very Disappointed

I had some time to play this game a little. I like the whole black and white and then color video. But i started to notice its a lot like Grand Theft Auto but with a little twist. I am so sick of thes… Read more

Another open world game, but that’s not a bad thing.

The Saboteur takes place in Paris under Nazi occupation in WWII. This third person, open world game is not top of its class, but its different setting makes it worth playing. VENDETTA AND A RESISTANCE… Read more

Old school sandbox greatness....

To begin, I have to say that I absolutely love The Saboteur. I know there are a ton of issues that could be considered when reviewing this title, like some minor gameplay mechanics issues, camera issu… Read more

The Saboteur: Some notes are out of key in this swansong.

The Saboteur Review (360, PS3, PC) Taken from my blog: http://numbthumb.wordpress.com With the massive layoffs that hit Electronic Arts in November the company confirmed that Pandemic studio’s is no l… Read more

Va va voom.

World War II games have saturated the market for many years now. They’ve focused on the front lines of war from the view of various Allied forces and an aim to recapturing those jaw dropping ‘Saving P… Read more

Whiskey in a wine cellar

Pandemic sends it's last regards and makes a WW2 game. Not a usual shooter though. It's a stealth-action based on Paris resistance member's story (who somehow turned out to be irishman) and on a pair… Read more

A Diamond in the Rough

If your the kind of person who needs their games to be absolutely flawless, you may have trouble enjoying The Saboteur. It's got issues sure and at times it can feel like your playing an unfinished ve… Read more

A Fun, Albeit Flawed Ride Through 1940's Paris

Games taking place in World War II are nothing new. We’ve all stormed the beaches of Normandy and pushed into Berlin countless times. But how often do players get the chance to sabotage the Nazi’s pla… Read more

A jack of all trades (The Saboteur)

Let's talk about The Saboteur. After roughly 10 hours in with 50% story done and 14% freeroam done, I have a few things to say. I'll just cut them up so you guys can browse. Stealth. The mechanic in t… Read more

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