The Saboteur - a pc game
Release Date: 19 November 2009
The Saboteur is a 2009 open world action-adventure video game set during World War II in German-occupied France. It was published by Electronic Arts and was the final game developed by Pandemic Studios. The BlackBerry and iOS versions were developed and published by Hands-On Mobile.
The game is set in 1940, and its protagonist, Sean Devlin (based on William Grover-Williams) is a hard drinking Irish race car mechanic, and a regular among the racing groups of Paris. He arrives in Saarbrücken with his mentor Vittore Morini, best friend Jules Rousseau, and Jules' sister Veronique. Sean is set to race in the Saarbrücken Grand Prix, and quickly meets up with his on-again, off-again girlfriend Skylar St. Claire.
He starts a rivalry with Kurt Dierker, an infamous racer and champion of the Nazis. During the race, Dierker cheats by shooting out one of Sean's tires. For revenge, Sean and Jules plan on breaking into Doppelsieg, the automotive factory that Dierker works for, to sabotage his car, despite Skylar warning them that Dierker is not what he seems. At the factory, Sean and Jules are captured and tortured by Dierker, who reveals himself to be a Nazi SS Commander and believes them to be British spies. Dierker tortures and murders Jules before Sean's eyes, before Sean manages to escape only to witness the German invasion of France. Sean manages to rescue Vittore and Veronique before they escape to Paris. Sean tells Jules' family what happened to him, and promises to take revenge on Dierker.
Months later, Sean is living in La Belle Du Nuit, a cabaret owned by Jules' family. Sean is approached by Luc Gaudin, a local writer, love interest of Veronique, and leader of a resistance group against the Nazi occupation. Sean is talked into joining the resistance by Luc, and is tasked with disrupting Nazi operations by killing high-ranking officers, and destroying military installations. He also gets involved with other resistance leaders and members including Father Denis, a defrocked Catholic priest; Duval Mingo, whose lover betrayed him to a high ranking Nazi; and Margot Bonnaire, who seeks to preserve French culture that the Nazis aim to destroy. Through his work, Sean builds a reputation as a member of the resistance. The growth in resistance activity in Paris as a result of Sean's work does not go unnoticed by Nazi command, and soon, elite Nazi terror units are called in by the German administrative commander in Paris who is revealed to be Dierker.
Sean meets up with Skylar again, who reveals herself to be a British spy with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and she takes Sean to her superiors. They task him with a series of jobs, including stealing an unknown treasure from the Nazis. Sean and Skylar are soon tasked with rescuing a defecting German scientist named Dr. Kessler. It is revealed that the Doppelseig factory is a front for an atomic weapons project that they were forcing Kessler to create. After Kessler is rescued, he refuses to work with anyone unless his daughter Maria is saved as well. Sean soon rescues Maria from her captors and takes her to the resistance headquarters, which is immediately then attacked by the Nazis, forcing the resistance to flee into the catacombs. During this raid, Veronique is captured and prepped for execution at Notre Dame. Luc, not wanting to expend resistance resources to save one prisoner, denies Sean's request for an organized raid to rescue Veronique. After this, Sean is forced to rescue Veronique by himself, which he succeeds in doing.
Luc comes up with a plan to topple the Nazi leadership, who are set to host a race, by having a driver blow them up with a rigged car. While Sean successfully wins the race, and wipes out most of the leadership, Dierker survives and takes control of the remaining Nazis. In retaliation, the Nazis destroy La Belle Du Nuit, killing Veronique's parents and Vittore. Sean races to the catacombs, where the resistance is being attacked by the Nazis. While Sean is successful in fighting them off, Luc is found to be half-buried under debris, forcing Veronique to kill him so he doesn't get taken alive when the next Nazi attack occurs. Furthermore, during the attack, the Nazis succeed in capturing Dr. Kessler and his daughter once again.
Sean, Veronique, and Skylar team up to raid the Doppelseig factory and rescue the Kesslers. Once Dr. Kessler is rescued, he and Sean go on to dismantle the weapons and set the factory to explode as they escape. With the factory destroyed, and the Kesslers rescued, Sean and Veronique return to Paris where the people have risen up against the Nazi power. Veronique takes on the duty of becoming the new leader of the resistance. After sharing a passionate kiss with Veronique, Sean tracks down Dierker to the Eiffel Tower, where he is found to be executing his men for failing to subdue the civil uprising. Sean finally confronts Dierker at the top of the tower, where Sean can either shoot Dierker off the tower, or wait and witness Dierker jump off himself. With Dierker dead, Veronique asks Sean if it's all over, to which Sean replies he's "Just getting started."
System Requirements
Minimum system requirements
| CPU | Core 2 Dual Core 2.4 GHz or AMD equivalent |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Video card | Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX or ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro |
| VRAM | 256 MB |
Recommended system requirements
| CPU | Quad Core running at 2.8 GHz or equivalent | |
| RAM | 3 GB | |
| Video card | NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT | |
| VRAM | 512 MB |
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