If GTA and Assassin’s Creed had a baby, with some cummies from Just Cause slipped in there, this is what would come out. An open-world, stealth game set in Nazi occupied Paris during WWII that gives you a choice to approach any mission like either a guns-blazing nazi killing machine or a silent assassin.

It has a very similar climbing mechanic from Assassin’s Creed that let’s you climb any building by hanging on the edges of windows etc and quickly making your way up, in cities there’s sometimes cables hovering over buildings that let’s you quickly slide down some distance across the street. The only thing that’s missing is a quick way down like jumping into a stack of hay like in AC.

The world consists of city of Paris, including iconic places like Eiffel Tower that you can climb on, Notre Dame cathedral etc, as well as country surrounding Paris area that takes most of the available map and each area has a tons of Nazi installations, towers and armored patrols to blow up. The cities are comically filled with nazi stuff to blow up like in some Ubisoft games with white dots filling your radar when cruising through city. But destroying at least some of it is necessary as it’s one of two ways to earn contraband which serves as a currency in this game to buy weapons, ammo and upgrades from Black Market (the other way of earning contraband is completing missions). And there’s a good reason to kill and blow up nazis outside mission’s other than earning contraband. This game has a “wanted” system similar to GTA IV where if you get spotted planting explosives, killing nazis, trespassing without disguise or just acting too suspicious you’ll get chased and a red circle will appear on your radar and keep centering on you until you lose your pursuit and stay outside the red circle for 2 seconds or enter one of the hiding spot scattered through cities without. I often failed to loose pursuit because of a single tower around the corner and once got blown up by a tank on a street that I could have taken care of during free roam.

One thing I really liked is how every area has a black&white filter on it where nazis have strong presence, the city is literally black&white with only red (nazi), blue(resistance) and yellow(searchlights, street lights) colors enabled. But once you finish a specific mission for each region, a huge blast wave will run through the area, bringing colors back!

The gunplay is ok-ish, some stronger weapons have a nice kick to them like revolver which sounds and feels very powerful, tommy gun spits bullets and has manageable recoil. You can carry only two guns at a time + explosives and grenades. You can have pistols, machine guns, shotguns, sniper rifles or carbines, later on you get access to stuff like flamethrower, silenced MP and panzerfaust, which is a real beast. I’m not really a fan of having only two weapons restriction, you can have 16 dynamite sticks and 16 RDX (Remote detonator) AND 10 grenades AND a freaking Panzerfaust hidden under a coat as a second weapon but I can’t have more then one weapon with this Panzerfaust?

The story is a simple revenge story, on nazis and one specific SS torturer that killed your friend. Sean the Irishman as most characters call him, the protagonist we play as, is a blunt irish jock that loves beautiful women, fast cars and killing nazis. And tells brits to fuck off, which is always good in my book!

Overall the game is fun to play, story mission’s are sometimes repetitive but you get something different every now and then, I was only disappointed with the very final story mission, it has a great build-up where after fighting with the French resistance through the Paris you reach the top of Eiffel Tower but the very end is just…bad. I can’t really say much more without spoiling :/

And how’s the game working on modern systems? It worked fine for me on Windows 10 64-bit with constant 60fps on maximum settings at 1080p. Though to be honest it doesn’t look that good, it didn’t aged very well. The Origin version comes with latest official patch HOWEVER they fucked up on one thing. You cannot change the resolution and graphic settings from in-game menu, the game comes with a launcher and that’s where you can change visual settings but in Origin it launches the game .exe directly thus skipping the launcher. Also the map is broken in this version if you play on resolution 720p or greater. I can’t explain but you can see for yourself here.. This was fixed in GOG version from what I read. There were also few weird bugs with physics and I saw few times how water turned clean white during night, but that was all.

The good:

• Lots of fun stuff to do outside missions
• Great music, atmosphere and aesthetics
• Sean <3
• Lots of nazis to kill
• Bringing back colors to the Paris
• Story & side missions and good enough variety between them

Meh:

• Gunplay
• Driving

The bad:

• Disappointing ending
• Broken map (Origin version)
• Visually it didn’t aged well

Favorite tracks from the game:
Feeling Good - Nina Simone
Don't Do Me Wrong - Kacee Clanton
Koop: Koop Island Blues (Featuring Ane Brun)

Would I recommend this?
Yes! I would recommend this to anyone, unless you really don't like open-world games. However make sure you grab GOG version for the best experience. Be wary though that it’s more expensive than Origin version.