Pandemic Studios, scene of deep job losses and the effective closure of the studio earlier this week, pumped out one final piece of happy news – The Saboteur has been gone to gold master - with an apropos and semi-ironic signoff.
Is it too soon for referential Hindenburg humour? I can never tell.
See if you can tell the difference between the screenshots and video depicting The Saboteur’s Belle De Nuit night club, and try not to get fired, as a couple of the screens are slightly NSFW.
Sean Devlin is one sneaky man, making it deep into the heart of enemy territory for Gamescom in Germany and then sneaking out again with only these screenshots as evidence that he was ever there.
Pandemic’s art director Chris Hunt found the inspiration for The Saboteur’s main character at a concept artist convention, but not how you’d think.
There is a game that will let you shoot Nazis, fire rockets at zeppelins, hang out in a brothel, climb the Eiffel Tower, oh, and try to maintain your career as a race car driver during all this. Sound good?
The Saboteur is set in France. During the Second World War. You’re fighting Nazis. During the Second World War. But developers Pandemic would like you to know, this isn’t a game about the Second World War!