The Saboteur

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 20 expert reviews

Excellent:

2
Good:

11
Average:

2
Bad:

5

Pros:

Fun with explosives.
Fast-paced action.
Black and white graphical filter.

Cons:

Huge ATI crash/vsync bug.
Weak third act.

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Last revision on September 25, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Fun with explosives
Fast-paced action
Black and white graphical filter
Huge game world to explore
Plenty of side missions and objectives
Cool perks system
Great story and excellent sound design
A massive and great looking world with a unique style

Reviewers Didn't Like

Huge ATI crash/vsync bug
Weak third act
Controls for driving, climbing and aiming controls isn’t great
Stiff character animation
Badly implemented cover system
The camera can be your worst enemy and the game feels rushed

Expert reviews and ratings

Dave One of the toughest things about buying games around Christmas is picking the quality from the chaff. Whilst most Christmas times have been light on major blockbusters due to a certain “800 pound gorilla”, there have been a few notable...

By Yet Another Review Site on March 18, 2011

'Cuz what you see you might not get Somehow, blowing things up never gets old—especially blowing up Nazis. Sixty-five years after the fall of the Third Reich, it’s still a gaming favorite. As the titular Saboteur, Irish mechanic turned...

By Maximum PC on March 08, 2010

GTA with Nazis, The Saboteur has a fresh take on the tired WWII genre....

By Expert Reviews on February 18, 2010

An unsophisticated but still diverse and enjoyable...

By Computeractive on February 16, 2010

Note: The PC version of The Saboteur has some potentially serious issues on certain PCs. Make sure to check the end of the review for details.Amazing. Ambitious. Avant-garde.These are reactions that The Saboteur, in concept alone, first inspires. When...

By Games Radar on January 11, 2010

If the Saboteur is to be believed, then during World War II the Nazis were so evil and so oppressive, that they literally drained the colour out of the surrounding environment using their evil Nazi magic. Furthermore, it was a pot-mouthed Irishman...

By Strategy Informer on January 11, 2010

The Saboteur is a third person sandbox action game set during World War II, and is the last project by the recently closed Pandemic Studios. This fact in itself is disappointing, since this is quite probably the best game from the developer in recent...

By New Game Network on January 07, 2010

Take World War II - a quite overused setting for a computer game, in my opinion - and blend it with a sandbox setting where you have some goals to achieve but are free to do them any way you like. What you get is The Saboteur, a WWII themed sandbox...

By BrightHub on December 21, 2009

Prancing along the rooftops of Nazi-occupied Paris, I spotted a German general flanked by two bodyguards loitering on the street below. Given that killing Nazi generals grants me extra contraband, I set my Scoped Steiner in line with the general’s...

By Hooked Gamers on December 21, 2009

For all its quirks, The Saboteur is a pretty fun open-world game. You might think that blowing up the same gun/tower/base over and over again would get a little dull, but somehow, even with the broken stealth mechanic (not broken… just needs...

By The Review Crew on December 10, 2009

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