Saboteur reappears with new website

By Robert Purchese Published 2 April, 2009

Pandemic's war game back on the radar.

A new website for Pandemic's attractive war game Saboteur has appeared. There are pictures to look at and some scene-setting text to read.

And it's all we've heard of the openworld WWII game for around two-years; Saboteur surfaced briefly last year after being officially delayed by EA. The publisher, incidentally, had nothing further to add this afternoon regarding a date; somewhere between now and 31st March 2010 remains the most recent estimate. And we'd lean towards the latter end of that.

Saboteur casts players as Sean Devlin, a street-tough Irish racing mechanic living in Nazi-occupied Paris during the early 1940s. His personal mission is to wreak vengeance on a Nazi officer who "took everything from him", according to the website. But, with the help of the French Resistance and British Intelligence, he soon becomes far more important.

Saboteur's most obvious draw will be its use of colour; Nazi-occupied parts of France are drained and appear black and white, whereas liberated parts burst with colour. Pandemic has made particular mention of the setting, too, which broods with dark alleys, seedy night clubs and sexy burlesque cabarets.

And these are the locations you as Devlin will frequent, gathering intelligence to strategically plan your sabotage missions to cripple the German war effort. Then, by using a mixture of stealth and distraction, explosives can be planted on all manner of targets: trains, tanks, buildings, zeppelins and more.

Saboteur had, in April 2007, been in Xbox 360 and PS3 development for two years. Let's hope poor releases Mercenaries 2 and The Lord of the Rings: Conquest haven't derailed Pandemic too much.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Kenshin001 #1 3 years ago

    Game looks like GTA set in Nazi occupied Paris. Could be kinda cool.

  • sadakos_fury #2 3 years ago

    gah. I was hoping this would be an update to the Durell game for me auld speccie.
    I long to kill the faces off dogs with shuriken again.

  • Monkey_Puncher #3 3 years ago

    After Mercs 2 I have absoloutly no faith that Pandemic can deliver a good game anymore.

  • scowat #4 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 16:41:01 08-02-2012

  • GreatUncleBaal #5 3 years ago

    Is one of the missions a quest to recover the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies? :)

    Incidentally, a remake of Durell's Saboteur would also be fantastic, as would nearly any other Durell game - Thanatos, anyone?
    Edited by 1 at 02/04/09 @ 18:51

  • psousa #6 3 years ago

    @GreatUncleBaal:
    For a Thanatos remake you've got Lair for the PS3... Well, sort of :p

  • abject_rage #7 3 years ago

    I don't understand all the negativity around Mercs 2, it's a brilliant game IMO. Only gave it an hour or two first time round, then tried again after completing GTA IV and the multiplayer is way, way better in Mercs 2. There are rough edges, but the missions, or at least how they play out, are considerably more interesting than GTA. Better vehicles, better weapons, more freedom to complete the tasks..... Sab, to get back on topic, looks promising.

  • IronCladChicken #8 3 years ago

    Everytime I see an article about this game I think it's going to be about a remake of Durell's title - & I'm always a little gutted when it turns out not to be :)