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"So the big release season is just beginning, and those of you with deep wallets are rushing around pre-ordering every top game before each emerges onto store shelves.
"But what about those who can only afford maybe one or two new releases, or maybe none at all yet? There’s a global economic slowdown on after all.
"Well at OXCGN we’ve decided to put ourselves in the game Animus and go back in time to discover what titles we enjoyed this gen that you should be able to get for cheap (and..."
Game locations are everything, they add depth, color, and tension to games, so I decided to go over a few of my favorite landscapes from the past years. Two rules apply, 1. Only one selection per series, and 2. they're from current gen systems. What are yours?
Many games are roughly based off true stories or events, but just how close to the original source material are they?
Gamespy takes a look at a handful of games that are inspired by true events that aren't anything like the true events they're inspired by...
This is a weekly gaming podcast...Ronnie and Andreas are the hosts and talk about their personal games of the year.
They are also doing an Xbox LIVE membership giveaway!
"Well, here we are, it’s the last day of Christmas and the final instalment of Electronic Theatre’s special festive The Twelve Games of Christmas series. Every day for the twelve days of Christmas we have been looking back at each consecutive month of 2009 and revisiting the very best releases that that month had to offer. Today is the turn of December 2009, and being most recent, features games that will still be at the top of the sales charts now. If you are lost for videogaming material the..."
Gaming Target posts the fourth part of their weeklong look at their favorite games from 2009. Eight games will be posted every day with "The Best of the Best" appearing on Friday.
Despite corporate bungling at the 11th hour, The Saboteur was released to great fanfare. Icrontic takes a look at Pandemic's latest sandbox action game set in beautiful Nazi-occupied Paris.
"Welcome to the unique open world of Nazi occupied Paris set in the 1940's, where the missions are huge, the women are sexy and the killings plentiful. You take on the role of Sean Devlin, a hard drinking womaniser with a past who has fled his native Ireland to try his luck at race car driving in Grand Paris. Sean is out for revenge on the one man an Aryan named Kurt Dierker who killed your best friend. Take this delicious scenario and throw in a third-person style, free-roaming action-adventu..."
"Andreas and Ronnie discuss November NPD's, Dead Space 2 Details, Splinter Cell demo coming in January rumor, Javelin glitch fixed and much more in news! And for what we have been gaming its The Saboteur, Modern Warfare 2, NBA 2k10, and Farmville... Yes, Farmville."
The Kartel reviews The Saboteur, the last game created by Pandemic. The stylized game best summarized as a great concept that is tempered with modest gameplay innovations.
Icrontic's ceaselessly cheerful CB Droege introduces us to this weeks' featured new releases in the world of gaming, including The Saboteur, Hello Kitty Online, Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and Pixeljunk Shooter.
"The scene is a tavern, modest if not danky. Theres a clear tense division at the bar, one end a group of french, the other two irishmen. Everything goes well until a certain topic runs foul and a brutal, but fecking brilliant, brawl ensues. Now enough about the aftermath of the world cup qualifiers, let’s talk about Pandemic’s swansong; The Saboteur."
"Pandemic Studios, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc., has today announced that the open world action sandbox game The Saboteur will receive new Downloadable Content (DLC) packages from today. Console players can download a free DLC pack called The Midnight Show using the single-use code included within the retail package."
All Age Gaming's Phong Nguyen bring's us the 21st AAG "The Week That Was". This week he discusses hardware sales for the 3 consoles in the US, pets for your Xbox Live Avatar, even more game bans in Australia and more!
All Age Gaming's John Elliott takes a look at the newly released game from Pandemic Studios, The Saboteur. You play as Sean Devlin in this game that features an Open-world Paris filled with Nazi's. Is this WWII-set third person sandbox adventure game any good?
Well it seems as though Pandemic is trying to get alot of attention to their last game The Saboteur as the company closed, by releasing day one DLC for free to people who buy the game new but if you buy it second hand you will have to pay $4.99/400 MS Points to get it, and with this new DLC you will get some new hiding spots, a new mini game, the details are a bit sketchy but it will also allow you to enable nudity.
How awesome's that?
"In Saboteur, players take on the Third Reich in a fully interactive, open world with both story-driven missions and side quests using an arsenal of weapons and abilities that allow quiet movement and lethal efficiency. Any weapon, costume, or item can be manipulated – including military and civilian vehicles. Players can also scale buildings and move unseen across rooftops, or eliminate guards with a range of authentic weapons (or sometimes with bare hands)."
"the rumour states that almost all of the studio’s 200 or so employees within the Los Angeles-based developer will be let go with only a few to be transitioned into other EA development teams.
The news is unconfirmed at the moment, but with the report also stating that the Pandemic staff are to be informed at 11 a.m. PT today, we’d expect an official announcement sometime soon."
"The Saboteur is a story-driven game, focusing more on character development and storytelling rather than run-and-gun action. Much of the technology used in the presentation of The Saboteur is built around the story-driven nature. Subsurface scattering, for instance, is used on all of the flesh tones on the in-game characters. This technology was used to give flesh a warm, realistic look, rather than the typical plastic look that plagues many games. This helps drive the believability of th..."
"The Saboteur, if you’ve all been following (if not, feel free to start now!), is set in the World War II era. Stop right there. If you have any plans to spout the time old derailing troll story that there are “Too many World War II games…!” Well that is part of my aim in this preview, to displayThe Saboteur’s entrance into the ring to show the genre who’s boss. And I thank God for that, because I sure do love killing me some "Natzees"."
"Done? Good cause there’s now a lot more to talk about. In the older article, I mentioned how this would play out to something like a WWII version of Assassin’s Creed. Well today I still hold that view. Sean will climb and explore Paris much like Altair would. Leaping from building to building, crapping ledge after ledge, ploughing nose first into buildings and falling to his death. Oh yes it’s all there. Much of the mechanic’s are still the same as before, as in nothing really new has been sh..."
"Throughout the course of this past weekend, September 17th – 20th, the Paris Game Festival took place over on the continent, showcasing some of the best games of this year and the hopefuls for 2010. Big name publishers such as Microsoft, Sony, Activision, Electronic Arts, Nintendo and Square Enix were joined by a raft of development studios and accessory manufacturers, each attempting to wow their audience with their latest and greatest releases."
"In The Saboteur, Pandemic Studios invites you to 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 1940’s Paris, where the women are sexy, the missions are epic, and the revenge is satisfying."
Pandemic Studios' The Saboteur has had its release date pinned down today: December 8 (Dec. 4 for Europe). Being in the holiday season, we hope it hasn't been rushed...
If you're not familiar with the game, it is inspired by a true story in which you play a renegade of sorts in 1940s Nazi-occupied Europe; an open and progressively changing world is featured. To get a good idea of the feel, check out the E3 trailer below (hit the share button for a larger version) -- one of our favourite tr...
Ah, here we are, the first video footage of EA's The Saboteur, from this year's E3.
The game features a third-person perspective and adopts the stealth style of gameplay, and in it you play Sean Devlin, a man seeking revenge in Nazi-occupied Europe -- the first game of its kind (if only in plot).
Have a look-see at the trailer, then (fullscreen version on the game's profile below).
Over at the Game Developers Conference in Austin, Tom Abernathy, who writes for Microsoft Game Studios, explained how a character's wants and needs lead to better gameplay.
He used examples from the games Portal and BioShock, pointing out that they both wanted and needed something, which also led to drama.
Pandemic just can't seem to give it a rest, with Destroy All Humans 3 coming out and Mercenaries 2 just on the horizon you'd think they would give it a rest. But out of the blue comes this new title named Saboteur.
Set in World War 2 you are a Mercenary, Criminal Badass who calls France home. This all changes when the Nazi's invade so you decide to extract vengance and wage a gurellia war on them
![Box shot of The Saboteur [North America]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvUGxheXN0YXRpb25fMy9BY3Rpb24vU2hvb3Rlcg==/the_saboteur_frontcover_small_cncXGTUANzSE89f.jpg)