10 Best World War 2 Video Games Of All time

6. The Saboteur

The Saboteur
Pandemic

One of the few World War 2 games that offers a genuinely different perspective on the conflict, The Saboteur has you playing as a guerrilla rebel agent in Nazi-occupied France. Casting you as a regular everyman rather than a suped-up military soldier, the game focuses on stealth and improvised tactics more than it does pure shooting as you attempt to thwart the German regime.

Boasting a beautiful open world that boasted an inventive colour scheme, where Nazi-occupied areas would be entirely in black and white with the exception of a few key colours, there was a real sense that your actions were bringing hope back to the city as the world slowly began to light back up.

Adopting an open world structure that let you approach objectives however you wanted, liberating different zones eventually got a little repetitive and the mission structure rarely ever changed, but even that couldn't stop The Saboteur's brilliantly creative beating heart. EA could though, and unfortunately there are no plans to revisit the unique title anytime soon.

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