The Sabotuer - review - ps3

What an drunk womanising foul-mouthed  Irish man doing in Paris during the middle of the second world war when the germans have occupied paris, well this is what this game is trying to figure out in a GTA esq sandbox game,

When playing this game i was often left in two minds wondering is this game aimed at 15 year olds who just love watch things blowing up killing Nazi's with ott dialouge in the similar way to 50 cent blood in the sand, or if the developers of the game i trying to go in a definite tongue in cheek look and after completing this game you know what im still not sure, I want to believe that it is tounge in cheek in this game there are loads of stereotypes that you could expect to find in any world war 2 movie, such as the british upper class spy, or even the main character is a stenotype on the drunken irish man stereotype 

 there are some hugely artistic aspects to this game for example when the nazi occupy an area the area is in black and white except of the slight of blood, when you liberate an area it then turns to normal colour, this game even won the E3 award in 2009 for artistic game so the box says proudly at me.

as for the game its self you are an irish man former racing driver called sean who has seen your best freind be killed by an evil Nazi after a race, you escape and seek your revenge and get information were he is hiding by helping and working for the resitance, the game plays very much similar to grand theft auto and other sand box tittles,  were you can ether go round having fun causing mayhem or choosing to do the missions, although id say this takes more from the grand theft autos were humour was used a lot and were the game did not take its self seriously.

there are of course things with this game that does get a bit boring or irksome mainly these would be some of the missions you are set are often repetitive and at times it feels like you are doing the entire french resistance by your self  and you do wonder what are all these other people doing. also i had some other problems with minor things such as at one point a tank blew a hole in a wall and yet i still was not able to shoot out of it

so in conclusion this game is fun as hell in the same vein as saints row and some of the ps2 gta's its not going to be a perfect 10 of a game but its a fun way of killing a couple of hours