Saboteur 95


Member name: Potatoe

Game Genre: Arcade

Review:


What could be better than a game with a ninja who has to sneak in to an enemy base? I’d say nothing could beat this, if the maker of the game is skilled enough. Saboteur95 is a very enjoyable arcade jumper. The game is nice and retro, but this might not be to everyone’s liking.

The game play is nice and simple.  You are a ninja and you can complete a primary objective, a secondary objective and escape. But as I said, you CAN. The missions aren’t necessary, you can just escape. This won’t be an easy task because the base is protected by bad guys, traps and locked doors. To harden your journey even more, you have a limited amount of “credits”. So if you die too many times, tough-luck, your mission ends there.

The area is absolutely huge. There are 400 rooms to explore. This can be either fun or infuriating. Since the game play is classic “move to next room, clear it, move on” type, the game can get boring. The hugeness of the area is also a annoying because there is no feature to save passwords, so if you don’t write them down you need to remember them  through your whole adventure. And what’s even worse is that you don’t even have a map of the base. So it’s easy to get lost. If you really need a map, you can download one on the official site though.

The graphics are borrowed from various old video games, so if you’ve played them all, the graphics will be nothing new. Even the main character(who’s appereance you can modify) is borrowed from old Mortal Kombat games. The backgrounds are nice and detailed, have nice variety, but what really gnaws on the mood is that they aren’t animated. So you will see flames that stay like that, and you don’t sometimes even notice that it’s a flame. I did not hear any music in-game, and the sounds consisted of: “Yeah”, “Shoot him” and “Unf”. The sound really could have added to the atmosphere of the game.

If we forget a few minor bugs(and I really mean minor), this game is a nice, solid arcade adventure game with a nice variety of enemies and backgrounds. I enjoyed the game and the highscore system is nice and smart. I recommend this to all ninja fans and fans of the old Dizzy games. People who hate big areas to explore will want to steer clear of this game.

Positive points:
Nice and simple game play.
Big area to explore.

Bad points:
Big area to explore
Passwords
Unanimated Backgrounds

Rating:
3.5

Questionable content:
Violence, Blood and gore.

Multiplayer:
None

Recommended Specs:

    500 Mhz Intel or Amd processor
    128 MB RAM
    GeForce2 MX with 32 MB
    DirectX compatible sound card
    Microsoft Windows 98 or XP
    DirectX8 or above installed.

Official site:
http://www.simion.co.uk/saboteur/

Download URL:
http://www.simion.co.uk/click.php?id=1



I couldn’t find the minimum system specs, it didn’t state it. The game seems like it can run on probably any CPU there is(windows only). You just have to tweek the options.

Also you might be interested in the map URL:
http://www.simion.co.uk/click.php?id=4

and walkthrough:
http://www.simion.co.uk/click.php?id=3


Both can be Downloaded from the game site!

Thanks.