The Saboteur

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The Saboteur From Electronic Arts List Price: $29.99 Price: $7.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by SoftwareMI 49 new or used available from $4.85 Average customer review:

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Saboteur PC

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2761 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 19098
• Released on: 2009-12-08
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .40 pounds

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description

The Saboteur is a brand-new take on familiar World War II gaming. The first open-world, action game set in Nazi-occupied Europe, it contains a mix of single player stealth, third-person shooter and racing gameplay in which the player assumes the role of a hero obsessed with a personal vendetta against the Nazi regime. Utilizing a wealth of items, abilities, weapons and vehicles the player turns his private, stealth war into something much broader with the game's "Will to Fight" system which graphically reflects the will of the occupied peoples in the game, which can proves the deciding factor for all. Open-world WWII gameplay. View larger. A wide array of weapons and items. View larger. Fast-paced vehicular action. View larger. Restore color and hope to Paris. View larger. Fight for items for the black-market. View larger. Go anywhere in the game. View larger. Story Welcome to Nazi-occupied Paris, a unique open-world environment where you take on the role of street-tough Irish race driver Sean Devlin and eventually become The Saboteur. Although living in occupied WWII Paris, Sean is initially concerned only with the racing lifestyle and his friends within it. That all changes though when the Nazis kill his friends, and change his life forever. Seeking personal retribution on a Nazi officer and others involved, Sean's life soon becomes dominated by a need for payback, which is exacted with the help of the French Resistance, British intelligence, an arsenal of weaponry, and your own street smarts and brawn. Motivated by retribution and armed with tactics of sabotage you are a one man wrecking crew, blowing up zeppelins, derailing trains, imploding bridges, destroying armored tanks, and leveling enemy facilities in the name of vengeance. Open-world Gameplay The Saboteur in the first open-world, action game set in Nazi-occupied Europe, and combines a variety of different kinds of gameplay, including third-person shooter, stealth and racing. As in other open-world games, this means that although players will be tasked with completing an extensive list of set missions against Nazi units and individuals, they will also have the freedom to explore and fight throughout the game world as they choose. This world although set in Paris also encompasses the French countryside, as well as parts of Germany. Within it players will be able to use representations of actual landmarks — for example, the Eiffel Tower — for navigation, and a variety of vehicles for transportation and combat. In mission play, with each success players move closer to tracking down the particular Nazis responsible for the death of Sean's friends by putting the rewards that they receive for success to work on the black-market. They can trade for all sorts of items to help their progress, from weapons, to cars, maps and more. These all can also either be found throughout the game, or taken from defeated opponents, although the more commotion that is created and the higher the skills of the player, the greater the enemy response will be. The "Will to Fight" System Although built around Sean's desire for personal revenge, The Saboteur also contains a play mechanism through which the lives of the non-player characters (NPCs) are improved, and can even be manipulated. This is the "Will to Fight" system. Long known as the "City of Light," Paris as depicted in the game under Nazi occupation is a place dominated by stark black and white colors. These colors reflect the hopelessness of the people. But as the player collects victories against the invaders, a change will begin to be seen in the physical environments of the game, again reflecting the mood of the people. Where once there were only stark black and white colors and few civilians on the street, now players will see increasingly bright colors, reflecting the hope of the civilians and eventually incite an underground resistance among the Parisians to take up arms on their own, and even come to your aid when the odds are stacked against you. Key Features Explore Open-World Paris - Climb the Eiffel Tour, snipe from Notre Dame Cathedral, and brawl on the Champs d’Elysee as you sabotage your enemies. Fight, climb, and prowl through the dark alleys, rooftops, burlesque houses, and seedy streets of the City of Lights—the ultimate playground for The Saboteur. Be the Saboteur - Use a broad range of weapons and explosives to perform your blockbuster sabotage as you single-handedly hunt-down your enemies to dismantle and destroy the Nazi occupation. Stealth Gameplay - Use gameplay systems like Climbing, Sneaking, and Stealth Kills to infiltrate the Nazi occupation to perform acts of sabotage Once you've blown your target to pieces, leverage the intuitive cover system and assortment of weapons to blast your way to freedom. Vertical World - This version of Paris was designed to leverage the unique abilities of The Saboteur. Being a saboteur is all about surprise attacks and Paris' rooftops are the perfect path for your secret operations. The "Will to Fight" System - The Saboteur introduces a innovative new feature that is both an iconic visual style, and a compelling gameplay element. See and feel Paris change around you as you progress through the game. Go from a dark and oppressed black and white policed state, to a bright and inspired world where the citizens fight back. Jack Your Ride - From high performance race cars to military vehicles, as The Saboteur, you can drive any vehicle that comes along to escape your pursuers. System Requirements: Minimum OS: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7 Processor: 2.4GHz Core2Duo, 3.0 GHz Pentium D or better RAM: 2GB or more Disc Drive: 2x or faster DVD-ROM drive Hard Drive: At least 7.5GB of free space Video Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (card must be 256MB or more and contain one of these chipsets: NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX, ATI Radeon X2600 XT, or better) Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible Input Device: Mouse, keyboard or game pad

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Customer Reviews

Explosive fun An Irish dynamiter, blowing up Nazis. In an "open world" Paris of the 1940s. What could go wrong? Well, not much, actually - apart from a slight lack of polish in a few places (the enemy A.I. for instance, although on the PC that's fully adjustable at the file level). This PC game is a lot of fun for someone who's never played GTA or Assassin's Creed (both games which The Saboteur borrows from). The art direction is excellent and is consistently imaginative, although the lack of forced PC anti-aliasing and the chunky on-screen interface both detract somewhat from your view of the beautiful game-world. The sharp and funny script is written in the style of a 1940s pulp novel (think Doc Savage), and the black and white graphics and art-deco models certainly help to evoke the period. Period 1940s cabaret and jazz music is used. Dialogue is suitably hammy and over the top, but some of the accents can be strained. The game's "open world" is genuinely large (12 square miles in total, with 1940s Paris recreated in about 3.5 square miles) and genuinely free-roaming. The game installed perfectly and ran perfectly for me on Windows 7, with excellent frame-rates even when all eye-candy was set to maximum. Talking of eye-candy, there's plenty here of the young female variety - this is a game that's resolutely targeted at a male audience. Your hero hides out in a classy brothel, venturing out for a wide variety of stealthy "quiet in, noisy out" missions. Hardcore gamers may have seen all The Saboteur's elements before, but for those who have never played GTA or the mass of me-too WWII shooters, and who have been attracted to The Saboteur for its novel premise and unusual visual aesthetic, the game is an engaging and genuinely fun experience. An amazing game that absolutely DOES work on ATI cards Just a quick note for those worried about picking this game up to play with their ATI card. It absolutely DOES work once you download the 1.03 beta patch. In fact, it works so well I've been playing it every waking second since I picked it up last week. It's so immersive and addictive it's actually cutting into my work productivity. I did have to turn some of the video settings down to run the race portions, and I've had a -very- occasional crash (once per 48 hours of solid play, on average), but that's better than some recent games with full support. I'm not usually a fan of sandbox games. The only GTA game I could finish was 4, because the idea of a hoodlum protagonist just didn't appeal to me. I was drawn to the game for the stealth action aspect, which has not disappointed. This game is much more forgiving than Hitman or Death to Spies, but is no less fun. The use of color and environment really adds to the atmosphere. In short, if you're at all a fan of stealth action or sandbox play, this one is definitely worth checking out. And if you have an ATI card, just google "saboteur beta 1.03 patch." It's a small, fast and easy to find download. One click install. What a blast this game is!!!!! I bought this game and the strategy guide together at Best Buy and before I started playing the game, I went through the book to see what it was all about. Inside the book is a map of the entire game on both sides of the map. It shows where certain things are that you need to collect as you go along. I bought this game about a week ago and I have not finished playing it yet, even though I have spent at least 5 hours a day on the game. For the critics of the game, I have not had any problems with the game locking up (freezing) or anything like that. It has to be computer/video card issues in your computers. I have one of the top NVIDIA video cards that are on the market and the sound is coming from the motherboard. Like I said, it has to be your computer because I have not experienced any problems at all. There are missions to play to get the game from black and white (this shows that the Nazis are strong in that area) but when you succeed in the missions and take the main objective, this game has one of the coolest effects I have ever seen in a video game as it shows the effects of the color coming back into the area (getting rid of the Nazis in power in that area). I have not had to download any patch to make this game work. My dad's General Manager was watching me play the game and he went and got it as well. He also reports nothing wrong with the game and loves the graphics as I do too. He has yet to finish the game too and he has had it for as long as I have. The book will help you with the tough spots, and there are tough spots. Especially when you get a level 5 alarm against you (which makes the game more intense) and I finally got the achievement of getting to the safe spot to beat that alarm!! That opened up more perks in the game (better weapons and maps). I would highly recommend this game as well as the guide. Believe me, you will be glad that you got the game, that's how much fun the game is. Not only do you play the missions, but the freelancing is what makes it even better. Buy the game, you will not regret buying it. Be sure that your computer meets the maximum requirements. The minimum will work, but for the lack of freezing up or whatever else the few people with negative complaints have said, the maximum requirements will make the game more enjoyable. Have fun when you start playing!!