 "The Saboteur")
I think it’s time to officially bid the World War II genre goodbye. Over the past few years World War II games have reduced to a mere trickle failing to make a significant impact on the gaming masses. This year we had quite a few WWII games like Velvet Assassin, Wolfenstein, and Death to Spies all of which sank without a trace. And now you have The Saboteur, the final game by developer Pandemic before they were shut down by EA.
Honestly speaking The Saboteur is not a bad game. Had Pandemic spent more time polishing up the game we could have had a really enjoyable action/stealth game on our hands. Unfortunately that didn’t happen and what we have is a game that brings a lot of ideas to the table but fails to execute them properly.
The Saboteur puts players in the boots of a hot headed, womanizing Irish driver (someone call the Clich
Nash, as he prefers being called, woke up to the wonders of gaming rather late but don't bring that up around him. It's a touchy subject. A self confessed Battlefield veteran, Nash spent a good part of 2010 on the Steam Battlefield - with Bad Company (see what we did there?). He has a zero tolerance policy towards RTS games but is currently showing an interest by picking up and moving people - who he refers to as units - in the office. Thank God he's not that enthusiastic about Angry Birds or we'd be seeing women flying all over the place. Bali... Bali, put the receptionist down now.