Halfzware Shag

Let’s get this started: In the Saboteur you play the bullet magnet called Sean Devlin, who had to leave ireland after getting revenge on his fathers murderers. After this he started drinking and believes that he is a parkour professional, during his days off, or to be more honest, before his Irish luck got him into WW2 plagued Paris, he used to be a mechanic and a driver for some sort of a racing team.

Sean, while hiding from the Soldiers in the Eifel Tower

So, the story kicks off, with a race in Saar-land, where his race car is sabotaged (By another racer who shoots at his car during the race…). He decides to get revenge, but discovers that the German team is secretly also some-sort of a science HQ for the WW2 era German army. He and his BFF are captured and tortured. After his friend is killed he goes on a killing spree and escapes to France, where he is recruited to the Resistance. After this, the game gets very interesting for me, since You get a pack of explosives and you have to demolish certain German AA guns, propaganda towers, fuel stations, etc… The point is, you get to blow stuff up, in an open world environment.

Sure there are different areas where you can blow stuff up, but getting there is nothing more than driving violently though an Checkpoint or Jump from building to building, avoiding the Checkpoints or just swin through the channels, on a side note: nice to see that people in video games can swim… yes i’m talking to you Assassins Creed amd GTA 3, later on in the game, you get special papers (or “Papiere, zeigen sie mir ihre Reise Papiere” as the Germans point out at every checkpoint) that allow you to travel through those checkpoints without an hassle.

Another successful face-plant, after getting drunk and trying to jump off the Eiffel tower

Soo.. where was I. Oh, the game has has a certain level of detail, there are special areas, or to be more exact, the famous places in Paris where you get a special view of the surrounding area, like in Assassins Creed, if you’re too lazy you can just buy maps of the areas to find the special places that you can blow up. Another fine game play element is the color of the areas where the resistance is low, they are sort of black-and-white, to try show how depressing the war can be, after a few missions the areas get color and it also gets easier to escape the Soldiers in those areas.

The story is fun, but as any other game, or Hollywood/Bollywood movie you shouldn’t take it seriously, there is a certain love triangle between the two female protagonists and Sean (the British secret service chick is _very_ cute). Also Sean solves some of his daddy issues, with his wannabe-daddy and also the father of Jules (the BFF who got killed early in the game). The main story still seems to be about revenge. Sean is desperately trying to Kill one of the German scientist responsible of his BFF-s death, the same scientist, who during his free time is a professional driver, and also the one who sabotaged Sean’s car.

An Ubersoldier during one of Seans famous grill party's

Unfortunately there are aspects that i don’t like the in the game, like driving cars, they feel like soap boxes with wheels, i guess this would explain why EA tried to buy out Rockstar / Activision…

Another aspect is the introduction of Ubersoldiers to the game, it seems that halfway through the game, the developers notices how easy it was to kill the regular soldiers, so they introduces some guys who are pretty darn hard to kill, but it got easier, and more fun, once i unlocked the Flame Thrower.

One more thing that annoys me, is, what we see in almost all games that have come out lately, the fact that to heal your self you go into a corner like the emokid that you are and just wait until the blood drops off your face and runs away. What happened to ye good olde Med/Health packs that you had to carefully collect and use?

To sum it all up, the game is a lot of fun, if you’re a closet pyromaniac like myself then you’ll probably enjoy the game.

"BOOM!" -Michael Bay, director of the Transformers

It kind of reminds me of Quentin Tarantinos “Inglorious Basterds” where Lt. Aldo Raine said:

My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I need me eight soldiers. [...] We’re gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we’re in enemy territory, as a bushwackin’ guerrilla army, we’re gonna be doing one thing and one thing only… killing Nazis. [...] Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps.

Who could resist blowing stuff up in France, and by stuff i mean Zeppelins, amongst other things.

For you regular Joe’s out there, i bet you could get a few nice evening out of this game, you know to relax besides learning and mowing the lawn. I sure as hell did ; )

Thanks go out to Yahtzee from the Escapist Magazine, for inspiring me to use sarcasm and irony… and lot’s of it.

Click here if you want to see more random screenshots Removed pics, you can use google if you want to see the qual… just a waste of space for me : >

Lt. Raine would be proud