The Saboteur/Awesome

• Crowning Moment of Awesome: It's quite possible to generate many of these. The most notable involves 'Fightback Zones', which are areas that occasionally appear during high alert periods where the Resistance is rising up and engaging in open battle with the Germans. One of these will pop up at the Arc de Triomphe later in the game, and the player can help the Resistance defend the makeshift barricades there. This results in a massive pitched battle, with hundreds of Germans swarming in, bullets flying, explosions going off, rockets slamming into the sandbags, your comrades falling left and right, and through it all the massive arch above you and the French flags fluttering in the wind. If you successfully defeat them, you'll be treated to the sight of the surviving Germans turning tail and running while your fellow rebels cheer.
  • Near the beginning. After Dierker shoots Jules to death because Sean won't "admit" that he's a British agent (despite Sean repeatedly telling him he's not), Sean snaps the ropes holding him down, then grabs Dierker and headbutts him.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: In the final scene in The Eiffel Tower A Nazi general plays a rather depressing version of Feeling Good by Nina Simone, which is incredibly haunting and beautiful especially given the dark atmosphere. Dierker has gone nuts and has begun killing his Nazi pals. The ones he hasn't gotten to yet are passed out, committing suicide, or murdering the staff. All while he plays the same tune, over and over again.
• After Sean crashes an exploding car into a Nazi celebration at the Eiffel Tower on camera: "Put that in your fucking movie."
• The Saboteur, a World War II Wide Open Sandbox game, is not well-known, and it received middling reviews for basically being the love child of a poor man's Grand Theft Auto and Assassin's Creed. But that's only one of the reasons why the finale of the game is surprisingly powerful and emotional. Sean Devlin, having hunted Kurt Dierker for the entire game, has finally chased him to the Eiffel Tower. Through Sean's efforts, Paris is breaking into extremely violent riots, Resistance against Nazis, and Dierker himself has started to slide into insanity. As Sean climbs the Eiffel Tower to haunting piano music, he runs into several Nazi soldiers - several of whom are fleeing in terror. None of them attack him. One is playing the background piano music ("Feeling Good" by Nina Simone), some are drowning their sorrows, and another one shoots a prostitute and laughs hysterically before shooting himself. One of them tells Sean that Dierker is upstairs. Sean finally corners Dierker at the top. Dierker pulls a You Have Failed Me... on a nameless mook, and then turns to mock Sean, but it's clear that he has gone completely insane due to Sean's efforts. He tells Sean "See You in Hell," and Sean says "Aye, but you'll get there first." You can then shoot Dierker...or not. Either way, he drops off the top of the Eiffel Tower to a bloody splatter on the deck below, restoring color to the center of Paris, ridding the city of the Nazi influence. And after all that, Veronique approaches Sean and asks if it's over. He gives a Badass Boast: "No. It's not over. I'm just getting started.", indicating that, though he was Not in This For Your Revolution before, he's now ready to fight the Nazis to the death. In a game full of bad accents, melodramatic storytelling, and hilarious gameplay bugs, it was honestly surprising and pleasing to see that the game ended in probably the most compelling fashion it could have ended.