Sean Devlin’s School of Hard Knocks
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If your knuckles haven’t had a bruise since last Sunday and you want to take some liberties with a Nazi officer’s face, you’ve come to the right game. In The Saboteur, you play Sean Devlin, a rough-and-tumble bloke who joins up with the French Resistance to put a hurting on the Nazi regime that has taken up residence in World War II Paris. Sean escalates from boosting cars and brawling in bars to assassination runs and top-secret sabotage missions. It’s always more fun to punch, shoot or blast your way through the Resistance missions than to sit back at HQ and read intel reports, so here are five tips guaranteed to cause maximum mayhem in the streets of Paris.
DYNAMITE DESTRUCTION: Normally you plant your explosives on a prime target, light the fuse and run for your life. You only have a few seconds to escape the blast radius, so you can’t always set up the ideal explosion. However, you can set your dynamite without a fuse and detonate it from long range with a well-placed bullet. It’s precision damage, except just remember that if your bullets can detonate the dynamite so can the enemy’s.
BURN, BABY, BURN: Once you get your hands on a Terror Flammenwerfer, you’ll turn the Nazi’s book-burning flamethrower against them and spark up a few unplanned BBQs. It underscores the meaning of “friendly fire,” so watch it around allies, but you don’t even have to hit enemies directly to kill them. Spray the area and watch as pants, coats and gloves burst into flame and send the bastards screaming to their charcoal graves.
SMASH-UP DERBY: Stolen vehicles help you cruise around the city in style, and you can also transform them into weapons. Besides running over errant Nazi foot soldiers and crashing through roadblocks, you can accelerate to full speed, aim at a target, then jettison out of the vehicle before impact. If you strap some dynamite to your speeding projectile, it’s an even bigger boom! Though you’ll need to earn that ability.
JAWBREAKER: Soften up enemy combatants with a couple of quick punches and follow with a strong punch to the kisser. Even bulky Nazis go down quickly with a flurry of relentless jabs. Throw in a hefty kick once in a while, or really punish an enemy once you unlock the Haymaker perk.
The Saboteur: Prima’s Official Game Guide is now available in print and digital download http://www.primagames.com/guides/display.php?isbn=9780761559566. You’ll get maps of all mission areas as well as an overview map of the entire game world, with labels for tons of hiding spots, pick ups, and more!
