Out of nowhere (apparently), from EA’s E3 conference, comes The Saboteur. Set in World War II-era occupied Paris, The Saboteur revolves around playing as Sean, an Irish freedom fighter out to boot the Nazis out of his lovely, lovely French zitee. Yes, Irishmen in Paris. Exactly.

It’s all super-stylised, too. The city is rendered in film-noir style black and white when Nazis occupy it, and is slowly filled with colour as your character liberates parts of the city to represent the rising hope of occupied Parisians.

To do this requires you to be sneaky, stealthy and spy-like, that sort of thing. This means cartoon-stylised neck-snapping and bomb-planting, and even some hiding out in the Parisian red light district. It’s all open-world too, and everything can be climbed as we’ve seen in Assassin’s Creed and InFamous.  Including the Eiffel Tower. Sweet.

This looks pretty good, and there’s probably been more about this game than I’ve heard. But if I ain’t seen it, it’s new to me. And new is good!

Check some screens over the jump.

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