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"The Saboteur" Hands-on Preview - New Trailer & Screens
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-21 17:12:59 237
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Why Pandemic's vintage sandbox shooter is the Inglourious Basterds of World War II games.
By Alec Meer, IGN UK
The Saboteur does everything wrong. It shows a reckless disregard for historical fact, it doesn't think there's anything wrong with bloody shootouts in graveyards or the revered Parisian catacombs, it has an Irish guy as the lynchpin of the French resistance, it's full of seedy titillation, and its lead character ranks amongst entertainment history's least convincing Irish accents: file alongside Officer O'Hara in the '60s Batman TV show. You've probably already seen a video or two and thought "uh-oh." That it's coming out in early December, after the Winter games retail rush, even suggests it's been pushed into a graveyard slot. Oh dear. Except... from the few hours we've spent hands on with Pandemic's open-world World War II shooter, it looks as though there's something rather special hiding underneath this desperate-for-attention surface.
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