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E3 2009 Demo: The Saboteur

An up-close look at the brothels and bombshells of WWII Paris.

Jun. 3 2009

Posted by: Drew

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The Saboteur

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Edited By goodwood

I am now interested in this game.

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Finally, a demo. It looks really good. I love the visual style.

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I wasn't expecting him to just climb up the side of the building like that...
Looks cool, as I knew it would. 

Only thing that bothers me is... why did the Nazi's attack him?  He was dressed up in full Nazi attire, and they didn't even pay him any mind when he approached the tank.  Not to mention, he wasn't anywhere near it when it blew up.  I would think he was discreet enough to not have been noticed in that situation...

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Edited By McQuinn

Black and white is a cool art style, but I think it is starting to become a bit of a trend that go very wrong.  We will see.  We will see.

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Edited By John

Can it get better? yes, the animation when climbing the wall looks a bit janky (I think it's because AC has that shit nailed), but killin' some nazis, blowing shit up and getting some tail at the end of the day make it all good again.

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Still not liking this game.

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Edited By Thunder

im officially interested in this game now it became a must have for me after seeing that

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Edited By Curser

hopefully this pans out

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sexysale? im interested.

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@Artemis_D:  I completly agree, it should have the option of being careful and not get caught. The frantatic chase should not be mandatory. 

The game also feels a little bit like the Merceneries series, which is not necesserily bad but not a good thing either.
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How many more games do we need where you climb up buildings?

I'm going to say.. SHIT LOADS!

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Edited By kallistosprom
@Artemis_D said:
"I wasn't expecting him to just climb up the side of the building like that...Looks cool, as I knew it would.  Only thing that bothers me is... why did the Nazi's attack him?  He was dressed up in full Nazi attire, and they didn't even pay him any mind when he approached the tank.  Not to mention, he wasn't anywhere near it when it blew up.  I would think he was discreet enough to not have been noticed in that situation..."

I wondered that too, I guess thats the difference between a computer game and what would actually happen. So much for a completely thinky game.
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Edited By Lotan

The animations look pretty good, but it was weird that when the bomb blew his clothes changed.

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Edited By Dreamfall31

hope this turns out to be great!!

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Edited By showtimefolks

this game is still atleast 9-12 months away so by than this should be a very polished game: from what i heard the game is done now they are fixing the bugs this been in devolpment for almost 4 years so you know it has gotten enough time let's waite and see how it turns out

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Edited By danielkempster

I am now officially interested in this.

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Edited By Redfield
@goodwood: Same here, just seeing him scale that building and seeing the Eiffel Tower in the background made me want this
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This looks really interesting

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nazis and brothels make for an interesting game

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Edited By Gigaman

Interesting. Let's hope this doesn't screw up.

But... how does he switch out of his uniform so quickly after the fuel depot is blown up?

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Edited By ch3burashka

The climbing is way weird; I'm sure they'll fix that, but the brothel stop, aka Paint Shop for your car, is way too reminiscent of GTA and the thirds limits. It seems a little too easy to escape heat.

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Edited By GeekDown

Looks great and I really want to climb up the Eiffel Tower.

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Edited By SneakyPenguins

where did the nazi costume go???


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Why did he change back to his normal clothes?

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Edited By Nogert

Why does the explosion trigger the enemies to atack him? They still don't know who it was.. that one little niggle actually hold me back from buying that game, that's just annoyed me.

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Edited By darkjester74

Sandbox game + Stealth + WWII setting = very interesting to me.  This one is now on my watch list.

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Edited By MeatSim

This is looking good I'm keeping a eye on this one.

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Edited By The_Dude_Abides

Meh...Looks great, incredibly stylish. But the gameplay looks like nothing more than anything from  The Godfather games.

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That's the game I like :D

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Edited By Fubar

Really like the art style. The black and white seems popular with Sin city and Mad World, but this has enough of its own take on it, that it doesn't seem like a ripoff. Don't know about gameplay, but would like to try a demo - killing and blowing things up is always nice.

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dose anyone know when this is coming out?

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@Nogert said:
" Why does the explosion trigger the enemies to atack him? They still don't know who it was.. that one little niggle actually hold me back from buying that game, that's just annoyed me. "
Yeah I agree. Also the fact that the uniform disappeared. But nevertheless it looks like a neat game... perhaps they will fix those things before release if people comment on it.
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@Artemis_D: He seems to have reverted to his normal clothes after the explosion.
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Edited By Canberra

The climbing animations look really stiff. Oh and the Nazi uniform was missing because heat from the blast made metal expand, thus changing his costume.
 Simple.

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looks like mercenaries meets GTA meets medal of honor...

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@Canberra said:
"

The climbing animations look really stiff. Oh and the Nazi uniform was missing because heat from the blast made metal expand, thus changing his costume.
 Simple.

"
hah! awesome.

Also though, regarding this observation combined with everyone elses derisive comments about the stupid parts of this video - just how the hell did the think this was appropriate gameplay to show at e3? i mean, the ONLY people who care about E3 are gamers.....which are....the only people who would notice those sort of dated, mechanical gameplay limitations......i...i just.....i dont understand why!

Nonetheless, i still find this game mildy interesting.

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It looks incredibly stylish, but in its current state I doubt it'll get much praise for gameplay.

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@Artemis_D said:
"I wasn't expecting him to just climb up the side of the building like that...Looks cool, as I knew it would.  Only thing that bothers me is... why did the Nazi's attack him?  He was dressed up in full Nazi attire, and they didn't even pay him any mind when he approached the tank.  Not to mention, he wasn't anywhere near it when it blew up.  I would think he was discreet enough to not have been noticed in that situation..."

I really could not of said it better myself.
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Love the art style and the climbing didn't look that bad. AC is just so good in that regard, not too much can be quite like that.

Really interested in this game, if the whole thing turns out like that, I'll be getting it for sure and hopefully enjoying it!

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Looks good

climbing looks unnatural

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im sold!

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@SneakyPenguins said:
"where did the nazi costume go???

"
This also annoeyed me (where did his uniform go?) it takes you out of emersion when they make game mechanics like that. 

@Nogert said:
"Why does the explosion trigger the enemies to atack him? They still don't know who it was.. that one little niggle actually hold me back from buying that game, that's just annoyed me."

yeah that was auto aggro  since no one saw him do it this.  best Saboteur is silent in silent out. not silent in loud out  if you are loud out then you have not done your job right.
 
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Edited By DystopiaX

the silent in loud out thing really detracts from the game, IMO. I like stealth games where you can be quiet in, quiet out, and this demo seems to show that you can't do that.