The Saboteur Comments by Ellie Gibson

Now this sounds interesting. Could be one to watch out for!

When it was first announced I thought it was going to be a remake of the old Durrell game. Anyone remember that?

not my type of game ;)

Sounds brilliant and like a load of fun. There's nothing like kicking the nazis in the ass.

Reminds me of this game on the Atari ST. You were in the resistance and had to ride a train through france and do sabotage action. Just can't remind the name of the game. Sabotage? Does somebody maybe know?

For which time is it scheduled? 2009? 2010? 2017?

This looks awesome. I'll keep my eye out for this.

Although my hopes that this was a remake of the classic Spectrum classic have been swiftly dashed.

There was a cracking game called Saboteur on the spectrum. side scrolling, large character sprites with grenades and dogs and everything!

I was looking forward to killing dogs with bricks and lead pipes.

Reminds me of this game on the Atari ST. You were in the resistance and had to ride a train through france and do sabotage action. Just can't remind the name of the game. Sabotage? Does somebody maybe know?

Hm the only thing that comes to my mind is "The Train: Escape to Normandy"

http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/train-...

Not sure this was released on the Ataris ST though.

The title sounded better when it was just Saboteur.

In Ballymena, every Saturday night is the Battle of Wetherspoons.

This sounds like the most ridiculous game ever.

What next, "Call of Duty: Jenson Button vs the Iraqis"?

Nice Beastie Boy reference in the tag line EG ;)

An ultimate showdown with Hitler or no sale.

This sounds great, which means it may be awful.

Still hoping for the great.

This looks brilliant - seriously can't wait to play it!

Does it only occur to me that whenever pop media is in a certain country it always takes these idiotic landmarks? E.G. Eiffel Tower = France? I can't help but think, and please do flame me for this, that it has to do with the pathetic geographic skills of consumers situated in the United States of America.

@ El Dev

Not so stupid as you think. There were two Grand Prix drivers who fought with the resistance during World War II. This book is an excellent read http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grand-Prix-Sabot...

and tells the true exploits of Benoist and Williams and Wimille who were all employed by the SOE

Damn. Nothing to do with the Spectrum/C64/Amstrad game then. I loved that one back in the day.

In Ballymena, every day is a struggle. ;)

Oh my god... The Train: Escape to Normandy... what a great game, gave me a good time!
Thanks for the tip.

"Imagine the love child of Colin Farrell and Rene from Allo Allo. "

LOOOOOL

French accent ON: "Listen very carefully... i shall say this only once"

This sounds like it could be a real stinker, but of course previews being previews, they are bloody useless. The guy talking about the game does manage a very good impression of someone talking complete guff about a game, though.

Wanted to make a different game about the war, then ended up with one shooting Nazis. But this time, not wearing a uniform!

Well done sir!

/golf clap

That's why i come to EG : the silly/clever captions.

This sounded quite interesting... until I read the name of the German team. Sorry devs, but if you meant to make a serious game, names like this don't help a bit. I literally Laughed Out Loud.

@notmyrealname:

So the Eiffel Tower isn't in Paris? Then you're right . . . my geography skills do indeed suck.

Apart from using the Tower as a vantage point to look out/down on the entire area . . . isn't that the point of iconic landmarks? A developer could make a block-by-block faithful recreation of a city, but unless you are personally familiar with the area it won't have any impact on you as a player.

"This area is an absolutely photorealistic remake of Southwest Denver. See, we've got the McDonalds right at the corner of Smithton Street and 123rd, and over here is Fred's house! Look at the detail! Now you know you're not in Huston, because the McDonalds would be on Geeber Avenue it it was. How's that for immersion, bitches?"

If the E.T. was due to the poor geography skills of the players (and no question U.S. geography skill levels are abyssmal), then that assumes the player wouldn't have known they were in France because of the French people, the story, the back-of-the-box, the instruction manual, etc., but as soon as they see the Tower they'd go "ooohhh . . . Paris! So we're not in Hong Kong, then?" It also assumes U.S. players know the Tower is in Paris, and that tragically may be giving many U.S. players too much credit -- when I say general geography knowledge in the U.S. is bad, I mean it's baaaaaaaaaaaaad.

I could swallow this if it weren't for the racing. What a daft conceit. I like the colour idea, an open world resistance game is a good idea, but honestly, races in occupied Paris? The very height of Stupid.

And the fact that they make a big deal about 'doing a different WW2 game' (which is a contradiction in terms), and then decide on picking a generic anti hero and a flimsy occupied France setting.

Honestly I have no idea about the colour thing and I think it's a massive gimmick.

"At first we found really Irish-sounding actors, but nobody understood them," says French.
Excuse me, Frenchie. I'm Irish and I have no problem being understood. So why don't you just stickyerbleedinleftbollickupyerholeankissmecrackyegicknahloa
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To be honest.. this doesn't sound too exciting to me. I hope I am proven wrong but this just sounds like Mercenaries 3. Plus all the talk about telling a true to life story on one hand, then the artistic licenses (Zeppelins) on the other and then the pretty suspicious black and white/ colour contrast that sounds more like Okami or Beyond Good and Evil than a game I'd expect from this developer. But I'll be happy to be proven wrong on all accounts.

This is actually what got my attention:

"We looked a lot of film noire, and it's definitely a darkly inspired kind of game."

It's actually film noir, not noire and, in addition this sentence sounds like it was google-translated from some other language.

Other than that, a usually fun and funny reading courtesy of EG (Ellie Gibson, that is).

Edit: Typos

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My thinking must be on the other side of the fence here because i think the colour idea is stupid and think the idea of racing through the streets of paris occupied is an excellent one!

Check this out it's an amazing video.

C'etait un Rendezvous
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqqa_fe...

If you want that, play Project Gotham.

I doubt there will be anything as exciting.

Mercenaries 2 was awful and I bet this will be too. The story sounds suitably ridiculous.

There are also zeppelins in the game - yes, in real life they were decommissioned before the war began, but Pandemic's decided to take a bit of artistic licence.

After reading about discoloured Nazi areas and the ludicrous story of a race-driver-cum-resistance-fighter it wasn't really that necessary to point out that they decided to take some artistic licence, was it?