saboteur posts

While Replay Games and Southpeak get ready to release their WWII stealth action game Velvet Assassin next week, the long-in-development WWII title The Saboteur is still several months away from completion. This week its publisher Electronic Arts released some new screenshots from the game that sometimes show off some non-stealthy (and bloody) shooting

The new shots from developer Pandemic Studios give a sense of the game's open world setting of Nazi-occupied Paris. As the character Sean Devlin, you have to be able to both sneak around Paris and fulfill missions. The game itself shifts from black-and-white to color as more and more of Paris is liberated. At the moment there's no set release date for the game.

It's been a long, long time since any news has come out about Pandemic's WWII stealth action game Saboteur. The game was first revealed via an Game Informer print magazine article in 2007 but since then info about the title has been hard to come by. The game was under development before Pandemic's purchase by EA in early 2008 and ever since then.

This week Pandemic has finally launched a full web site for the game and also revealed that the title has changed slightly. Instead of just "Saboteur" they have added a "The" before it. Hmm.. Anyway, The Saboteur's web site has some new screenshots and a little more info about the open world action game set in Nazi occupied Paris. Pandemic and EA plan to release the game sometime before March 31, 2010.

Yesterday we started our look at the PC games of 2009 with a ton of various upcoming action and FPS titles. But there are so many of these type of games due out in the next 12 months that we had to split that preview up into two parts. This entry not only contains a number of traditional action titles but also has some fighting games and flying action game titles as well.

Check back on Monday as we will next take a look at the various strategy-RTS based games due out in the next year.

Click on the picture above to read more on the 2009 PC Game Preview: Action-FPS Titles Part 2

Electronic Arts execs have completed their quarterly conference call with financial analysts following the rather huge news that despite a massive revenue growth they still had a $310 million loss for the quarter. The bad news was compounded by word that Saboteur, the long-in-development WWII open world action game from developer Pandemic, has suffered yet another delay.

The game, announced before Pandemic was purchased by EA, has pretty much stayed under a cone of silence for some time with little info on the game aside from one Game Informer print magazine preview. EA has planned to release Saboteur in their current fiscal 2009 year but now they have pushed it back to their fiscal 2010 time frame which actually begins on April 1, 2009. Yes, we know it's confusing.