I’ll say this up front, I’m a huge Pandemic sympathiser. Despite a lack of critical acclaim and commercial success, most of their titles have had a real charm that isn’t found elsewhere. The Mercenaries series and its goofy explosions are a huge guilty pleasure and their Star Wars stuff always captured the delight of huge [...]

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Electronic Arts used to be THE most evil gaming empire in the whole of gamingdom.  EA may have lost that title to Activision in recent years, but it seems EA is seeking to reclaim that title.  With a series of unpopular press statements commenting on the need to focus on existing franchises, mass world-wide redundancies, [...]

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Take the open world environment of  Grand Theft Auto 4, take a pinch of Red Faction: Guerrilla insurgent style gameplay, toss in a half of cup of Sin City black-and-white-with-splash-of-color art direction, two and a half cups of awesome and a metric ton of dead Nazis, and you’ve got a good taste of The Saboteur, [...]

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What you may know is that I’ve covered this ground before, news of Pandemic’s next outing “The Saboteur” was one of the very first topics that I wrote about here. Rightly so given the game’s interesting setting/protagonist/art style/time period… basicly everything we’ve seen so far. All the promotional materials have been enough for the title [...]

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Out of nowhere (apparently), from EA’s E3 conference, comes The Saboteur. Set in World War II-era occupied Paris, The Saboteur revolves around playing as Sean, an Irish freedom fighter out to boot the Nazis out of his lovely, lovely French zitee. Yes, Irishmen in Paris. Exactly.
It’s all super-stylised, too. The city is rendered in film-noir [...]

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