The Saboteur - The Last Pandemic Game 

During production of this video, a bunch of classic EA titles got launched on Steam. One of them in particular is The Saboteur. So now you can get it through Steam, the EA App, or GOG (which btw is $5 at the time of this comment on GOG).

There are two games I would do anything to see a remaster of. The Saboteur and Alpha Protocol. These games had such immense potential, fantastic ideas and frankly amazing content being pulled down by not enough time / horrible development etc

I think the protagonist Sean is supposed to be an ex paramilitary, it's kinda eluded to through the game if you know what was going on in Ireland running up to WW2, I think they couldn't just say it out because the Irish would see him as a freedom fighter and the English a terrorist. That would explain his familiarity with guns and explosives. Just thought I'd throw that in for context.

I really enjoyed this game at launch. It had just enough of it's own feel to make it unique, but familiar

Mercenaries 1 was an absolute blast. I really wish they had been able to continue that game series... Mercs 2 wasn't great, but it felt like they were being pushed to mimic Just Cause, and not continue in their own lane.

GLAD THEY ADDED IT ON STEAM EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY GOT IT ON GOG STILL MAD PANDEMIC PERISHED

KotOR walked so Mass Effect could run. The Paragon System is essentially just the Force Affinity meter redone. The companions system originated with KotOR. Pandemic was amazing during this era, but so was _Bioware._ Many of the series mentioned at the beginning (Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect series) were collaborative efforts with Pandemic. ...I just miss when game studios cared, man. There was charm to even the 'bad' games during this time. Also, Mercs 1 & 2 were fantastic. I used to constantly rent them from Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video, or Blockbuster (depending on weekly availability) just to be able to play both. I miss those days. That was how I ended up playing The Saboteur as well. If not for that, I probably wouldn't be watching this video with nostalgia. Funny how that works, in retrospect.

God… of all the games out there in need of a remake

i got so confused by the title, i was like "what does The Saboteur have to do with covid?"

When I was a kid I saw a review for this game somewhere. Although I was kinda late to the party since the game was already out for a year But when I watched it I was like "wow... Open world? Set in WW2 period? Count me in. Unfortunately I couldn't find it in any of the shops Fast forward 10 years later. I see this game on GoG. I bought it and... Wasn't disappointed. It was exactly what I expected and wanted back then. Then year or 2 later after I got it, it's been released on Steam. And I uhmmm... Bought it again. And i still don't regret it. Especially when I can play it on my steam deck

An ode to a devteam that could make greater things if EA wouldnt be so thirsty for the "Frachinsing", God i love Mercs and Saboteur, just such good experiences.

Honestly Helldivers 2 was giving me the pandemic nostalgia when I first started playing but now I know what to call it, I need to play sabatour again

One of my favourite games of all time, great video, I can see you going places

I absolutely loved this game and most of what pandemic made, mercenaries 1 had such a heavy and cool cold war era atmosphere to it and making your way through the deck of 52 really made you feel as if you were some military contracted mercenary operating where the powers that be couldn't. I think the ambience in the worlds they made was something they really excelled at. as you free areas from Nazi control seeing the city convert from a black and white landscape to a colourful city was a really cool metaphorical piece of visual storytelling that also made a compelling gameplay mechanic that made you want to keep pushing through the city on more missions. I remember finishing the game at maybe 10 years old and going back to replay it right afterwards just to experience the city completely under Nazi control, moving through checkpoints and feeling like a deep cover resistance member. Seeing EA dismantle them was one of the first times I really felt hatred for this mainstream, corporatized, triple A studios that seemed to run the show for the past 10 years. I'm happy to see a bit more life being breathe back into the gaming industry these days

Although the game's actual visuals didn't aged well (seriously you can feel the dated seventh gen visuals) The Black and White aesthetic art style with the emphasis only on Eye and Insignias Colors in non liberated zones REALLY made this game special and unique comparing to its competitors. Not to mention, the Gameplay itself while clunky still has a lot of tiny details for an open world game, Like how Sean picks up gun with his legs or if you time it right he can keep his cigarette while you can still shoot and has multiple unique animations for placing and detonating a bomb based on how Sean is holding on buildings etc. Seriously..Screw EA for caning Pandemic just because the game didn't meet their expectations.

Underrated game

The scene of Sean refusing to execute Luc is one of my favorite ever. Luc finally proves that he is not a coward and that he earns his place as a leader, Veronique shows how much she grew to be Luc’s successor.

Excellent Verstappen reference (see nickname) to go with the video as a whole. You've got a new subscriber.

This was a pleasure to watch !

The music brings me back holy shit, I need a remaster of this game, if it's a shitty remaster, idc, I love this game

You do great video ideas and topics, i really enjoyed this video and now want to give the saboteur a try considering i bought it last week.

Actually, I think you’ll find that The Saboteur came out over a decade before the pandemic! (Great video)

Wow this has such high production value, good job dude :)

Finished this a few weeks ago, was awesome!

IF you can find it, and IF you can get it to run, you should check out a long forgotten title called Velvet Assassin. This is from an era when games had the freedom to experiment, including having the protagonist have an extended hallucination. Wow. That just brought to mind the only driving game I'll ever play. I think it was called Driver: San Francisco? I'd have to look it up to be certain, but I think that's right. Really the Golden Era of gaming. Those days are long gone, and nothing's gonna bring 'em back... (A little Grateful Dead, on the house.)

I almost forgot about this game me and my cousin picked it up for 20 bucks and played it non-stop for months I rember buying my own copy and doing everything you could do I love the grey to color transition and the random ability to just smoke plus climbing walls

I've played the game through several times over the years, and I'm still immersed with the ambience and amused with the stupid little things (button to light a cig? Check). The major annoyance for me is, that at some point Nvidia cards started to mess up the map, with its layers moving out of sync. It's nice to install every now and then. The Saboteur has a lot of good stuff that fell short with the development issues, as you said, and it just makes me sad that that happened. Thanks for digging all that info up. BTW. Before your vid, I didn't know you could gib cows... 🐄

Funny enough, i was introduced to this game by the wierdest way possible. I was 11 y.o and convinced my mom to buy me a bootleg copy of GTA San Andreas with pre-installed Criminal Russia mod. We didnt have fast internet back then, so the only way for me to enjoy those crazy GTA mods was to buy this cheap disks. When i booted it up, its turned out that pirates mixed up the disk, and it had not only afformentioned mod, but some more games as well, and i accidentally installed The Saboteur first. I've been lovin this game ever since

Absolutely loved this game! Soo needs a remake/part 2 ☺️

I love this game. I got my PS3 in November 2011. I'm not sure exactly when I got this but I know I first played it the day after Christmas 2011. Not long after getting the PS3 I left on a road trip I didn't get back from until Christmas Eve so I either got it before the trip, or t was one of the games I got during the trip. Edit: I always thought Greece or Poland might make interesting Saboteur 2 settings. Or go into some of the Japanese occupied territories in the Pacific. Or maybe have later games set in other conflicts because even if you limit it to World War II era or later 20th century there are plenty of wars with large enough swaths of occupied territory to use. I wish we had gotten a DLC showing just what led to Shawn having to flee Ireland though.

ughhh just played this again for the umpteenth time, easily my favorite game of all

I platinum’d this on PS3 back in the day and loved every one of the 80hrs I put into the game. The game was a buggy mess but my god, it was brilliant fun.

I LOVED THIS GAME AS A KID. No one else I knew played it, and most people I ask haven’t heard of it but this was my jam, I’d kill for a remake

While Mercenaries 1 will always be my darling, The Saboteur will always have a very snug hideout in my heart.

2:59 I'm actually surprised to hear that their LOTR game didn't do well. I played the game a ton with my dad when I was a kid and I had so much fun with it. I still play it here and there today.

I find it rather funny that the character voiced by the legendary John Noble is named Bishop, after his character from Fringe, Walter Bishop (best character TV and one of the best shows ever)

Im still waiting for mercenaries 3....

I really wish we got more games like The Sabeteur setting wise. Most WW 2 games are on the front with MAYBE a mission of stealth that is almost always in France. I would love to see settings in Poland for example, Belgium, etc. Places that are rarely shown in WW 2 guys.

My father grew up with two Irish born parents so his accent has a slight Irish lilt to it. I remember playing this back in the day, and my dad sitting there watching me play. After a few minutes of Sean taking my dad says “what a horrible excuse for an Irish accent! Was it too hard to find an surly Irishman with a background in violence and a love for booze and women?” There are parts of his voice acting and accent that are very good and other that are laughably bad.

This game is so underrated. I pray one day we get a remaster, i know its highly unlikely but it'd be nice. This game is so fucking good.

An absolute gem. Only Mafia 2 has a comparable atmosphere. Hoping that 1 day there will be a spiritual successor. The Developers planned to make this a series, visiting other occupied cities.

I still have this. Only plays on 360 it never got backward compatibility . Shame ton of fun

An amazing game that really needs a sequel

Yeah, this game is what I would call a forgotten gem. When compared to modern "triple AAAAaaaaa", the flaws seem trivial. There are few full budget games that even come close to this kind of imagination and quality.

wild.. they fumbled the SWBF Classic Collection, how they manage an older title to regress

17:28 Finaly a true CAR FAN. Yes the SILBERPFEIL had been the proud nd joy of the MERCEDES-BENZ COMPANY ::) You are the first one mentioning this in a Review and I have looked up a lot of reviews and Let´s Plays to THE SABOTEUR. 12:30 SEAN´S CLUMSYNESS: Guess the developers had brought it in because the French did a lot of War Movies about theat time and topic with actors bringing in such CLUMSINESS as an element of style. 18:00 WEAPONS: What disturbed me was THE REACH AND POWERFULNES of Pistol shots. rather unrealistic. 26:52 DLCS: good suggestions. I also had thought the scenario had been also perfect for a STAR TREK: YOYAGER DLC: FIGHTING THE HIROGENS ON THE HOLO DECK. :) 28:07 PRONOUCIATION It is not only SEAN whose Acting School IRISH comes over to hard but also the GERMAN, as long as those figures are using English - ok- but there so called German - impossible.

I LOVED lord of the rings Conquest

I enjoyed lotr conquest back in the day lol

I would like a game set in most of Europe, like it's the end of ww2 going into the cold war setting. like set in the late 40s and 50s and maybe even the 60s.

I've been thinking of this game forever. Need to find a copy

Played the sh*t out of this game when the released... barely remember a thing! 10/10 would play again

What a great game ❤❤❤❤

Your timeline is off. Ea didn’t buy BioWare until after Mass effect 1 which was published by MS. EA buying BioWare allowed series to go multiplatform

As a fan of this game we need mercenaries 2 world of flames on steam and a release of the original destroy all humans games 😁

Okeedoke we say “wet” like when you get water on ya , then we say “ta” like kiwis and Aussies saying thanks. “Ta mate” ok? Ok. So THEN we say it real quick like wetta. Wet. Ta. Not weyta or wheyta or anything else. It’s named after a giant insect who lives in New Zealand. A wetta. Wet. Ta.

Conquest was a fun game, I'll brook no argument!

The game was...is awesome. My favourite mission was the one at the cemetery. The issues were the game being too short and unfinished. I say unfinished because there were Luftwaffe airfield just behind Dopesieg Motorworks and a nazi occupied castle in Lorreane area in the map which was not accesable without cheats and even then there was nothing to do inside. And its clearly visible that in those places was meant to have very important missions. There is also not having missions to assasignate the gestapo commander and that, as Sean commented, the banshee bodyguard. A sequel never happened. The game story was finishable in one day. But if it had updates, adding more missions would have been spot on. Le Havre is beautiful place and there is nothing to do except that one short mission where you shoot your way through after infiltrating to board a zeppelin while chasing K.Dierker. Also when the resistance was ambushed in the catacombs, there was a clear sign that a certain key or explosive was supposed to be placed at the escape door and save the members, including Luc G. All of which were non functional due to game being unfinished/having no updates whatsoever. I was very sad when the game ended too quickly with no updates available.

I thought we was talking about covid tbh… but this cool too

I love this game. The history is very questionable (they pretend ww2 started in 1940) It’s small but my favorite aspect is if you blow something up and you aren’t in the area the enemy doesn’t automatically suspect you, so you could blow up an area to distract them before sneaking into an area.

it was good i mean after mercenaries 2 had completely destructive environment the saboteur felt lacking in that department and perk unlocks while not difficult were kinda annoying and with all the parkour and climbing it KINDA feels like that ww2 assassins creed people always wanted for some reason but as a ww2 game it's complete bullshit where no events make sense and setting is completely screwed - it's a game that simply is in ww2 inspired setting that's why cod ww2 and vanguard have failed miserably - they pretend to be THE ww2 and they aren't even good games to begin with the saboteur on the other hand is there to deliver explosions, bombastic story that finishes at the top of eiffel tower and actually nice render of france inspired region medic voice is now stuck with me forever

What's the game at @3:45 ?

Ooh hellblade 2 looks crazy

What is that song in the first few seconds of the vid?

god i loved this game as a kid. i remember bragging to my buddies that unlike gta 4 my new game has uncensored nipples in strip clubs for a low low price 😂

Not a Mercedes and Verstappen reference

3:50 Is that Blazing Angels ??

You said it mate, The same AAA Crap Coming out again and again, And for the most Part of this sad Afair, Most of these AAA games that are churned out are Rushed and Broken, most of the time with the Broken Promise Of A Patch Witch 8 Times out of ten Usually Brakes your game Even more than it was in the first place, And Worse Than that No Patch at all, Leaving you with a £50 £60 £70 Broken Mess of a game, Ok It's not always AAA Games that are left Broken, Look at Tourist Bus PS5, That was only a £25 Game. And that had two Patches one to fix the Black Paths Point is it was left Broken, To this day It's still in the same state it was when it came out. But at least Saboteur was made well with some love put into it, Ok it had It's faults, But Even with all It's Problems, They still made the game to a Far better standard then games Studios do today. And It's all down to stupid DLCs This Mods that, It's killing gaming but know one can see it My friend, I would rather have games made how they use to make them, They had to make them to a Certain standard cause they knew they had to get it wright Before Release, And sometimes if it wasn't, They would ask everyone to send all the Copies Back to put them right, There was a Certain Standard they had to reach in those days for the game to be acceptable to the gaming public. Where as now, FK it it don't Matter, We'll Just send them a Good for nothing patch and hope it goes away HAA HAA. Anyway, I love this game so much, It has a charm that a lot of games are missing Today. Overdose, Star Wars Battlefront Also A great game My friend, The original Mafia On the PC was Amazing for the day, And so on, Loved your Video Buddy on such an Iconic And Sometimes Forgotten Game.

Yk they're desperate when they flash some ass before the game even starts

Shame is delisted or at least thats what i heard , games less and less dont have a soul anymore

Ah, 2005, when EA was still buying studios instead of burying them. Good times.

I love pandemic but the fake avvents drove me insane ro the point of stopping

Currently playing thru this and it’s hilarious how many graphic glitches I am encountering. Game could have been incredibly but feels rushed out and an unpolished gem imo. Lots to do as well as the main story, bit of a completionists dream. Heavily stereotyped characters also add to the funny moments.😂

WHAT?! Are you trolling or something? The initial sean sounds like an american doing a fake irish accent :'D The actual sean sounds way more realistic what are you even talking about lad :'D I HATE games that use american actors for european accents its the most annoying thing, how can you possibly say the first sounds better are you actually insane??

Okeeeeee DOKEEE and “saboteur” isn’t “sab oh 2 were” unless you’re a Frenchman who’s had WAY too much Cointreau. It’s “SAB” right? Then “OH” ok? Then… and this’ll blow your mind… “TER” oK? Sab oh ter. Besides a very, very drunk Frenchman there is only one other kind of person who might pronounce saboteur the way you do but it’s a very unkind word so I won’t repeat it here.🤓

Mercenaries was legendary in my eyes. RIP Pandemic.