Because climbing is a thing in this game, as per the AC model, and ziplining from Parisian rooftop to Parisian rooftop, while blowing up Nazi gun emplacements is curiously entertaining. So expect there to be a LOT of jumping into pitch-black areas you can’t figure out how to escape from. The problem with this dynamic is that at night (the game has a day/night cycle) it’s impossible to bloody see anything. The black-and-white sequences look much like Brassai’s works: smeary and dreamy, though here there’s colour highlights (red for Nazi-related objects) instead of straight monochrome. The city is represented pretty well, and the game’s good/evil dynamic – monochrome for occupied parts, colour for liberated areas – is appealing. Mostly, though, the game is a revenge story, set in Nazi-occupied France – well, Paris and surrounds. Sean’s weirdly historically-inaccurate tale seems to paint occupation something of an unexpected stricture, and really on there to impinge on his racing career. It’s like flat cap-wearing version of Nathan Drake. He hangs out in a strip club (the free DLC for the game removes a lingerie layer, so the dead-eyed models in the game can dance with period toplessness, for your unending horror), double-fists whiskeys, sleeps with sassy British operatives and makes jokes to nuns. If they’d had him wearing a Kiss Me I’m Irish shirt and beer goggles they couldn’t have made it more obviously Irishness-as-perceived-by-people-who-think-drinking-green-beer-is-cool.

I understand a lot of these are random, idle-based things but COME ON. “Top o’the mornin’ to yer… or whatever time it is.”.“Jaysus, it’s like crawlin’ up a Frenchman’s arse.”.It’s based on the story of William Grover-Williams, except he’s been transformed into a fiddle-dee-dee Irish caricature called Shaun Devlin. The Saboteur plays fast and loose with history. But there was a reasonable mix of stupidity and decent gameplay involved – enough so that I was up until late last night, finishing all the random freeplay missions, something I usually only try to accomplish in an Assassin’s Creed game. It was pretty quickly forgotten, even by the standards of derivative sandbox shooters.

Luck of the irish game