The Saboteur
Experience the ultimate open-world action/adventure as The Saboteur. Fight, climb, and race your way through a uniquely stylized version of Nazi-occupied France, and hunt down your sworn enemies who have taken…
The Saboteur is an adventure developed by Pandemic Studios, released 4 December 2009 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 18 hrs to finish.
What The Saboteur is
The Saboteur is an adventure game developed by Pandemic Studios and released in 2009. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Havok Physics.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Play as Sean Devlin, a street-tough Irish racing mechanic seeking personal redemption in the first open-world action game set in Nazi-occupied Europe. Now, it's time for payback -- with the help of the French Resistance, British intelligence, an arsenal of weaponry, and your own street smarts and brawn, you must exact revenge on those who aimed to destroy your life. Motivated by retribution and armed with tactics of sabotage, blow up zeppelins, derail trains, implode bridges, destroy armored tanks, and level enemy facilities in the name of vengeance.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Saboteur holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 192 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 18 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 40 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.99, that works out to about $0.11 per hour of the main story, or $0.05 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Dual Core 2.4GHz or AMD equivalent, 2GB or more of RAM and Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX with 256MB of VRAM or ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro with 256MB of VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.99 at GOG, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Saboteur launched on 4 December 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Saboteur yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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