With the closing of Pandemic Studios, maker of Mercenaries and The Saboteur, and most of its staff now out of a job, things have been looking gloomy. But during such a sad time, you've always got to look on the brighter side -- this is exactly what's been done, as evidenced by the video up there.
Hopefully you have all seen the film Office Space by now, but if not, it's still fun to watch a few ex-Pandemic dudes beat the Christ out of a printer. The video, which was found by Kotaku, is supposed to be legit. As in, that was the company's actual printer.
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They want to ban us on Capitol Hill
Cause it's die motherfuckers die motherfuckers still
Beautiful Re-enactment. :D
They should have choreographed one of the guys kicking and punching the shit out of the printer and his boys holding him back.
Nice that they had the token Indian guy, too bad they didn't have him refuse to stomp it out at the end. It was funny, so I'll give it to them. Shame the company had to get the boot though.
Farewell Pandemic studios. Though their passing shall not be mourned, they will live on as a shining example of how you cannot make an entire lineup of horrible games and get away with it.
I know the games weren't appreciate by many, but I really did love their games. Mercenaries and Destroy All Humans were great games. Even the newer sequels.
I had a lot of fun with Mercs2, loved the Battlefront games, and The Saboteur is definitely on my list of games I'm buying in December. I was really hoping that The Saboteur would be a turnaround kind of game for the studio since they hadn't produced much lately.
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5:20 PM on 11.23.2009
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They want to ban us on Capitol Hill
Cause it's die motherfuckers die motherfuckers still
They should have choreographed one of the guys kicking and punching the shit out of the printer and his boys holding him back.
I give it 11/10 PC Load Letters
PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?
Now that's the way to go out.
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Good video, makes me feel sad about pandemic.
also DIE MOTHER FUCKERS! DIE!