by Dan Cheer

12:17 pm Wednesday 22 July, 2009

The Saboteur gets release date

Today Pandemic Studios announced that its open-world sandbox action game The Saboteur will be available worldwide on December 8, 2009.

The Saboteur has recently won various art awards, including Best of E3 2009 for Artistic Design for Xbox 360 by IGN.com.

Inspired by a true story, The Saboteur stars Sean Devlin, a street-tough Irish race car driver trapped behind enemy lines in 1940s Nazi-occupied France. Motivated by personal revenge, Sean fights, climbs, and races through open-world Paris, sneaking into the heart of the Nazi operations and sabotaging their every move.

“The Saboteur is an entirely new take on WWII action gaming. Instead of putting players in the role of a soldier, they’ll experience one man’s quest for vengeance through an incredible story and an epic range of explosive action. Every street of Paris is alive with options, every block is teeming with action” said Josh Resnick, President of Pandemic Studios.

The Saboteur will be available for the PS3, Xbox360 and PC. For more information on The Saboteur, check out our E3 Hands On, or the official site.

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EvaUnit02

28 Apr 2009 11:33 pm

Sounds interesting. From Pandemic Studios, developers of Full Spectrum Warrior, Mercenaries 1&2 and Battlezone 2.

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Xbox 360®, PLAYSTATION® 3, PC

Pandemic Studios invites you to experience the ultimate open-world action/adventure�as The Saboteur. Fight, climb, and race your way through a uniquely stylized version of Nazi-occupied France, and hunt down your sworn enemies who have taken everything from you. Enter the seedy underground world of a saboteur living in 1940s Paris, where the women are sexy, the missions are epic, and the revenge is satisfying.

Play as Sean Devlin, a street-tough Irish racing mechanic seeking personal redemption in the first open-world action game set in Nazi-occupied Europe. Now, it's time for payback�with the help of the French Resistance, British intelligence, an arsenal of weaponry, and your own street smarts and brawn, you must exact revenge on those who aimed to destroy your life. Motivated by retribution and armed with tactics of sabotage, blow up zeppelins, derail trains, implode bridges, destroy armored tanks, and level enemy facilities in the name of vengeance.

Key Features

* Live the resistance in an open-world Paris � Fight and sabotage your way through a stylized open-world 1940s Paris � from the top of the Eiffel Tower, to the riverbanks of the Seine, the cathedral of Notre Dame or the prestigious Champs-Élysées.
* Be the Saboteur �Use a broad range of weapons and explosives to perform your blockbuster sabotage as you single-handedly hunt-down your enemies to dismantle and destroy the Nazi occupation.
* Quiet In, Loud Out � Use gameplay systems like Climbing, Sneaking, and Stealth Kills to infiltrate the Nazi occupation to perform acts of Sabotage Once you've blown your target to pieces, leverage the intuitive cover system and assortment of weapons to blast your way to freedom.
* Vertical World � This version of Paris was designed to leverage the unique abilities of The Saboteur. Being a Saboteur is all about surprise attacks and Paris' rooftops are the perfect path for your secret operations.
* Will to Fight � The Saboteur introduces a innovative new feature that is both an iconic visual style, and a compelling gameplay element. See and feel Paris change around you as you progress through the game. Go from a dark and oppressed black and white policed state, to a bright and inspired world where the citizens fight back..
* Hijack any vehicle - From high performance racecars to military vehicles, as the Saboteur, you can drive any vehicle that comes along to escape your pursuers.

bradc

30 Apr 2009 12:46 pm

Looks interesting, although the previews I read indicate the historical setting could be a bit irrelevant.

metz

30 Apr 2009 1:09 pm

interested to see how it turns out

snowflake

30 Apr 2009 1:31 pm

looks sweet

JvJ

22 Jul 2009 12:20 pm

Release date announced.

Slayer

1 Dec 2009 6:06 pm

even tho pandemic is r.i.p, ive picked up this game and decided to go with the ps3 version today, has anyone else got this yet, getting this or looking forward to it...

i will give u a small impression later -worth it or not

iamaelephant

1 Dec 2009 6:13 pm

Saw a 10 min video of this, looks really ****ing weak.

Cloaker

1 Dec 2009 6:32 pm

after watching the 'hands on' from gameplanet at E3,.. i'm rather tempted

Maddmatt

1 Dec 2009 7:08 pm

The game looks kinda cool but the combat doesn't come across as exciting. I worry it will get boring quickly.
I'll see what people say about it after it's out.

Slayer

1 Dec 2009 10:12 pm

ok quick impression without adjudicating too much

- pandemic really tried to incorporate ww2 era in this game
- stealth kills are implented a few ways, increased with weaponry
- some small similiaritys to AC2 [ scenic points ]
- climbing is done with a continual press of the X/A button
- black market weapons are cool
- driving mechanics are ok, expected worse
- the game is very stealth based with a hint of GTA-esque circles of escape if krauts provoked
[ which are a number of ways, even seen 'sneaking']

besides shooting, brawling, driving and climbing, the game does offer black market service for weaponry and collection of vehicles which can be summoned through a number of garages, hideout points indicated by a green icon when alarms have been triggered and a number of nazi-based landmarks/icons etc that can be 'sabotaged' earning you 50 or more points/monies for use in said blackmarket.

so far its a mix of ac2/gta meets wolfenstein with a touch of meh.

early days

onscreen

1 Dec 2009 10:27 pm

I'm def looking forward to it :-)

EvaUnit02

2 Dec 2009 8:34 am

Slayer, can you climb the Eiffel Tower?

keelhaul

2 Dec 2009 11:35 am

Slayer wrote:

PC version

I am really dissapointed with the driving mechanics. horrible.
Sound track is good.
Game has epic amounts of nudity. ( make sure you turn nudity filter off )
texturing can look pretty bad especially in the grey areas of the game ( before you liberate that area ).
perks etc seem interesting, havent really got to far into them tho..
combat is fluid enough and quite fun.

overall so far its not perfect but pretty damn enjoyable. ( just finished the prologue so not that far in. )

Last edited 2 Dec 2009 at 11:46 am by keelhaul

enigMa

2 Dec 2009 5:59 pm

Looks really interesting..

Slayer

2 Dec 2009 9:14 pm

EvaUnit02 wrote:

Slayer, can you climb the Eiffel Tower?

sorry i havent tried that yet Eva, i heard that you can and its one of the many reasons i purchased this title

sweet, climed it got a trophy, took me about a minute, about to jump off to my demise.

Last edited 2 Dec 2009 at 10:23 pm by Slayer

metz

3 Dec 2009 4:49 am

this looks so great, just hope the PC version isn't a bad port
my local gets this on the 6th, 2 days earlier than the release

DiRT 2 and this on the same day

edit, found this on gamespot, suck

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My main gripe with the graphics is no anti aliasing option (as far as I can see). I normally wouldn't complain, but there seems to be a good amount of jaggies in this game.

EvaUnit02

3 Dec 2009 8:41 am

Force AA from the GPU driver then.