Electronic Arts and Pandemic Studios have given us a glimpse into the life of The Saboteur, their upcoming open-world action-adventure game set in Nazi-occupied France. In The Saboteur, players will step into the shoes of Sean Devlin, a street-tough Irish racing mechanic seeking redemption against the Nazis. With help from the French Resistance, British Intelligence, and a massive arsenal of weaponry, players will use street smarts and sabotage tactics to exact their revenge.
Some of the key features in The Saboteur:
- Live the resistance in an open-world Paris – Fight and sabotage your way through a stylized open-world 1940s Paris – from the top of the Eiffel Tower, to the riverbanks of the Seine, the cathedral of Notre Dame or the prestigious Champs-Élysées.
- Be the Saboteur –Use a broad range of weapons and explosives to perform your blockbuster sabotage as you single-handedly hunt-down your enemies to dismantle and destroy the Nazi occupation.
- Quiet In, Loud Out – Use gameplay systems like Climbing, Sneaking, and Stealth Kills to infiltrate the Nazi occupation to perform acts of Sabotage Once you’ve blown your target to pieces, leverage the intuitive cover system and assortment of weapons to blast your way to freedom.
- Vertical World – This version of Paris was designed to leverage the unique abilities of The Saboteur. Being a Saboteur is all about surprise attacks and Paris’ rooftops are the perfect path for your secret operations.
- Will to Fight – The Saboteur introduces a innovative new feature that is both an iconic visual style, and a compelling gameplay element. See and feel Paris change around you as you progress through the game. Go from a dark and oppressed black and white policed state, to a bright and inspired world where the citizens fight back..
- Hijack any vehicle – From high performance racecars to military vehicles, as the Saboteur, you can drive any vehicle that comes along to escape your pursuers.
Known for their work on the Star Wars: Battlefront series, Pandemic have a great deal of experience crafting open-world environments and hectic gameplay. The World War II setting may be overdone, but The Saboteur will be the first to explore it in the open-world action-adventure genre. While The Saboteur may not re-invent sandbox gameplay, it has a chance to make it feel more natural. Inaccessible areas will simply be blocked off by Nazi control, side-missions will be delivered by members of the Resistance instead of random citizens of the city, and the evil presence in the city will be a very realistic one.
The Saboteur will sneak its way into our homes this Fall for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms.
Richard Mitchell is a video game addict living in Toronto. He has been gaming for more than two decades, and despite multiple interventions, continues to game today. He has an Xbox 360, a PS3, a Wii, a Nintendo DS, a gaming PC, and a life, and does his best to juggle them all.