Comments on: Sabotage Sabotaged: Now Velvet Assassin

By: James T

James T — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:06:26 +0000

To be fair, it’s not meant to be out until the end of the year, so I’d imagine there’s a fair bit left for them to do; that said, I’m not putting any money on it being the Second Coming either, dot dot dot.

By: luminosity

luminosity — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:29:08 +0000

Frame rate issues aside, the art style at least had me interested until they showed some combat. I’m sure I’m not the only one put off by how… unreactive enemies looked. Especially in a stealth game I expect people to die reasonably quickly, rewarding you for, uhh, being stealthy and taking the advantage instead of charging in.

Well, that, and the nazi who just keeps trying to charge past after being shot at… hmm.

By: Dracko

Dracko — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:47:13 +0000

Taking shots point blank without blinking is exactly what I want to see more of in gaming!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:52:05 +0000

I think I watched all the trailers for this and wow was I unimpressed – I love stealth games but it looked spectacularly bad…

By: Willy359

Willy359 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:07:27 +0000

For a stealth game, there sure seemed to be a lot of shotguns and exploding barrels. I’ve always felt that a good stealth game should give you the ability to play all the way through using only the blackjack or the fibrewire, preferably without being seen by anyone on your way to the target. I wonder if that will be an option here.

By: Elyscape

Elyscape — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:15:21 +0000

Speaking of name changes, what about the name of the game developers? A name like that just screams at me, “We are too juvenile and/or clueless to deserve your time or respect.”

Assuming you’re talking about Gamecock here, they’re actually named after… gamecocks. Gamecocks are roosters bred for cockfighting. So it’s not like they were thinking, “Let’s name ourselves Gamepenis! Hur hur hur!” That was, at most, a secondary thought.

By: James T

James T — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:14:35 +0000

Sweet lord, my PC can manage better frame-rates than that!

Actually, this ties into what someone said in the Mirror’s Edge thread — with female protagonists inevitably rendered as tiresome, nakedly sleazy T&A displays, it’s enough to make one pine for more male heroes…

(…nice lingerie skin though.)

Anyway! All that aside, if this makes up for Double Agent shitting in the Splinter Cell nest (not to mention the collapse of the Commandos franchise), I’ll be one happy PC stealthy person.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:46:06 +0000

Just like to point out that this is on the front page here, was mentioned on Kotaku and in some print magazines. So if this was a pulicity boost it worked.

Also, titmonsters. I’m havin’ that.

By: Yhancik

Yhancik — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:41:07 +0000

The best thing I’ve read about that name is that it sounds like a Prince album :p

And quite frankly, the “logo” doesn’t help much. There’s something so NOT WWII about that goey dripping shiny V behind the ultra curvyclassy typeface.

It looks like they .. quite invested themselves in the R&D for the main character ;)

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:58:39 +0000

Phew, for a minute there I thought Saboteur had taken a rather bizarre turn for the worse.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:10:02 +0000

Don’t they usually get someone to demo the game who can actually play it? All the way through the trailer I was thinking ‘It looks like I’m trying to play the game. On someone else’s computer. While drunk.’
And the nightie shots? Well, as a boy they work for me, but I don’t need pr0n in my games thanks very much.

(edit, that auto replay on reload thing is fucking annoying, pardon my language)

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:29:34 +0000

You mean the publishers, GameCock? Replay Studios isn’t so bad.