Pandemic mark ‘very difficult week’ by The Saboteur going gold
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Getting your marching orders is never a pleasant experience at the best of times. (Unless you wanted to get fired and were planning to travel around the world anyway … or something …)
Spare a thought for the guys and gals at Pandemic Studios though, who, after being told by parent company EA last week that their merry tribe was to be disbanded, then had to go back to work and finish up WWII action title The Saboteur.
Chronicling recent events at the former Los Angeles studio as being “very difficult”, Sledgehammer70 posted on the official forums last Friday stating that the developer’s final game, the aforementioned The Saboteur, has gone gold.
EA have “absorbed” 35 members of Pandemic to support The Saboteur over its release period, the game launching on December 4th in Europe and on the 8th in NA.
We enjoyed the Mercenaries games here at PS3 Attitude, and though our review of The Lord of the Rings: Conquest was a mixed bag, we had some fun with it nonetheless.
We would like to wish the talented people who worked at Pandemic and are affected by the studio’s closure all the best for the future.
Gotta feel sorry for this crew. They were apparently forced to rush LOTR:Conquest (which, unfortunately, showed) and now I’m guessing they won’t have had the opportunity to make Saboteur what they wanted it to be (I could be wrong, but situations like this don’t tend to help game development). Here’s hoping they all pick up work elsewhere.