15 Severely Underrated Xbox 360 Games That Deserve A Second Chance
11. The Saboteur
It pretty much goes without saying that if you've heard of Pandemic Studios, it's probably because you played the Battlefront games. They also made a little known game called 'The Saboteur', but due to its mediocre critical and commercial reception it ended up proving to be the studio's downfall - an untimely one at that. The Saboteur puts the player in the role of a resistance fighter in Vichy France during the height of the Nazi occupation. Using a colour pallet heavily reminiscent of 2005's Sin City, noirish tones are supplemented by gashes of red in occupied areas of Paris - the colour only changing once areas have removed the swastika and dispatched the various Wehrmacht soldiers within. It's a very stylistic title, and one that still holds up graphically today. The TPS elements may not be the most refined or even the most innovative, but for what it is The Saboteur is an underappreciated gem that should've done much better when it released.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
