This TPS plays in Paris, its neighboring villages and in the countryside, also has some areas in Germany too, and this all set in the WWII era, which is quite a unique setting especially for an open world game. You play as a racing car driver and mechanic named Sean Devlin, and in the game with his friend named Jules gets caught up with a German colonel named Dierker, and later the German executes Sean’s friend which he don’t want to let it go, he wants to take his revenge on him with the French Resistance in Paris. The story surprisingly has its own twists and characters, I didn’t expect to be this interested in the whole thing, but it is done right. The game has its own charm with the dialogues, most of the time the characters act casually to each other, but the game does have it’s serious tone, which is pretty good. Gameplay wise is also really surprising as The Saboteur is a mix of games basically: you have the GTA like mission lines, you have a parkour system from Assassin’s Creed, gunplay from Freedom Fighters and the atmosphere from Mafia 1-2. The shop system, missions to liberate the districts on the map and doing certain actions to get perks is well made. Getting the currency for the shop is also cool, because you either take out German objects or locations, get collectibles or do the missions to get the currency. You can drive around the map, but you can also parkour, climb building as well. The game gives you the option to do stealth and take uniforms from the enemy, you have multiple ways of engagement. The atmosphere is very good, also the visuals for occupied territories is iconic in this game. Difficulty is alright, although if you want it to have a decent challenge, you need to get the highest difficulty.

One tip before you start playing the game: when you downloaded it, go to the installation folder and start the Launcher first, because in it you can set up the graphics properly and the resolution, which can be even full HD or higher. You can’t set up these settings in the game normally.

However, for me it was difficult to get started in the game at first. After you have done the prologue and you are in Act 1 you start to do your first real missions, in which if you don’t realize how to deal with the Germans or what are the best strategies to do in certain cases, you are going to have a hard time. The beginning is quite hard until you don’t learn the game’s mechanics and you might lose interest if you can’t get over them. Also, the stealth could be finicky as the Germans like to detect you through walls or foliage and some of them can be paranoid as well and they can notice you from 30 meters, because why not. In the game it’s quite inconsistent when the character wants to catch a ledge or a ladder. Sometimes I can walk through them and will catch them but other times the character just ignores it and falls down to its death. I don’t want to forget about the driving, which is quite bad. It’s not unplayable, but basically when you drive it feels like that gravity is 20 times stronger and the cars get sucked to the asphalt, also making them a little bit slidey in some cases, it just feels weird, but you can get used to it. Not even mentioning that some props like certain lamp posts or bushes are not destroyable in the world and it can make your vehicle stop completely, which is funny when I can take out massive gates or radio towers even with my car, but not those. Difficulty can be varied, I have played through the game on the highest difficulty and certain missions can be painful, but not impossible to beat. And occasionally the engine sound can just get off randomly, although it’s not that big of a deal since they are mostly annoying to listen to anyway.

Most issues I have against this game are not that serious, it’s really done right and it’s fun after you learn how to get used to it and if you get into the game’s atmosphere. I can definitely recommend this game to get, even for 10€.

parfais sur steam deck !! vo pour l'audio mais vf pour les menus et ss titres

good game. Still holds up in 2024