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Amazon offering Borderlands for $40, The Saboteur for $20

by Griffin McElroy on Apr 7th 2010 8:30PM

If you've got a handful of twenties just lying around, then first, congratulations for staying so moneyed during trying financial times. Second, Amazon's got a couple new deals you should look at -- the online retailer recently knocked the price of Borderlands down to $39.99, further reducing the game's gun-to-dollar ratio to a staggering 1 to $0.0002.

If you're on a somewhat tighter budget, you can grab Pandemic's open-world swan song The Saboteur for just $19.99. Sure, it didn't receive as much critical acclaim as Borderlands, but if you pronounce its title with a hard "a," it turns into The Sabo-Tour, a sports simulator following the life of bespectacled Cincinnati Reds legend Chris Sabo. That's well worth the $20, in our humble opinion.

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Tags: amazon, borderlands, deals, gearbox-software, Microsoft, pandemic, sale, the-saboteur, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (55)

Saboteur is vastly under-rated, well worth $20 imo

Sorry to kind of jack the first post, but I found out about these deals first and sent the tip in to Joystiq, and I would like to receive some recognition for my findings.

Just a simple "[Thanks, Yingerman]" will suffice.

Fu*k off Yingerman, if the stiq wants to give you props they will do so in the post. However i will give you recognition for being a bashful fool, kudos sir. Kuuuudos!

Thank you YinzJagz. Finally getting some recognition around here.

Well I was gonna just rent The Saboteur but now I can admit I own it. Awesome deal

Sold. I just bought The Saboteur, for $20 how could I go wrong? Only $5 less than five MW2 maps!

*more?

Ya, more, haha, I deserve any down-votes I get.

I think you meant the next batch MW2 maps.

Grrrrrrrrrr.

Good prices, yes, but when you only have $10 you must deal with envy.

Just so everybody knows, if you haven't played the Saboteur, and you don't pick it up right this instant for $20...

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/Threddd/redforeman.jpg

Both of these games are pretty great actually. I bought The Saboteur when it was still $60.00 and I can't say that I'm mad I did. Same with Borderlands.... although even the crappiest game could win me over as long as it had a co-op story mode...

Want a crappy co-op story mode? Get Damnation for you and a buddy like I did. That game is so very boring. I have literally fell asleep in the recliner playing it online.

@SlyBeast: Why did you buy Damnation? Every review I saw for it said it was Atrocious, the Worst, an Abomination.

I'll let you envy me for $10. Just sayin'.

Tre has an apostrophe in his name, so you will be unable to reply to him. At least, it looked like you were trying to reply to him.

Send me a link to your account's wishlist at SomeoneisSneaky@gmail.com (throw away account) with The Saboteur on it. I will gift it to you. Seriously.

Doh, this was a reply.

Wow... that's pretty generous.

Wow, I'm happy I got in a four pack on steam last weekend! 18 bucks for borderlands :D

Send me a link to your account's wishlist at SomeoneisSneaky@gmail.com (throw away account) with The Saboteur on it. I will gift it to you. Seriously

Grrr, I can't reply to Tre, if you see this message me.

Seriously. +1 respect to you, sir!

Hey check your e-mail bud.

If I had a handful of twenties lying around, I'd buy FFXIII.

Or six 4/5 A NiMH cells for my Nomad PowerBack.

20 bucks for the saboteur is very tempting

I actually got Borderlands for 32 bucks yesterday at Gamestop along with AC2 for 29. I got some good deals.

It's an open world type game like GTA. You have home bases, can collect cars, earn weapons, etc... You go around getting missions to sabotage or assassinate Nazi targets. There are side missions and literally dozens upon dozens of side targets not directly tied to the main story line. Unfortunately there's no co-op, but IMO it's a very enjoyable game that is more than worth the $20 they are asking here. I highly recommend the game if you are a fan of the genre.

in Saboteur "teur" is more pronounced like "Ter"(Fighter) than "Tour"

I frakking hate apostrophes.

Oh, I forgot to add that the game also has some stealth elements. If you kill an enemy without shooting him you can take their uniform and use that to enter forbidden enemy territory without discovery. Run-n-gun is also a viable tactic in most cases too. Makes for some nice options when doing missions.

This is a little off topic, but is Lair worth $15?

I think so but only if you do yourself a favor and download the optional control patch BEFORE you start playing. The controls may make you hate the game otherwise.

Give the default controls a try at least. I thought they worked quite well other than the 180 maneuver not triggering all the time. It worked pretty good for for one of the first motion control games out.

In his rookie year with the Reds Chris Sabo lived a block away from me. He is one heck of a nice guy.

That being said I might have to go with the Saboteur. At less than 20 it's too tempting to let pass by.

Saboteur 20 bucks is pretty damn good deal. The game has a nice atmosphere about it. Too bad the controls are quite janky feeling (and the climbing). 20 bucks it is a steal tho. I liked the main character a lot tho.

Saboteur is a pretty good deal. Borderlands is $40 at Best Buy and Gamestop right now, plus the tax. Eww.

I actually just bought The Saboteur last week for $20 when that 50% off from EA.com coupon was floating around. I'm enjoying it, and apparently so are quite a few others on here, so it is definitely worth it, especially at this price.

I bought The Saboteur for $39.99 a week after it released and thought it was well worth that price. It's a steal at just $19.99.

I found the graphics and visual presentation to be pleasing to the eyes. It ran pretty well. The environments and rain were well done. And it has sme great setpiece moments that you usally don't see in sandbox games.

Get it,folks!

Whoa I actually caught this this morning, but Saboteur did so poorly I assumed it had been $20 for a while. It's worth a shot if only for the stylish black and white.

Au revoir, Pandemique

Borderlands is actually $36.99 on Amazon. Just want to clarify for everyone.

If you're a Gamefly member, you can rent The Saboteur and keep it for $17.99.

That's OK, I'll just make a quick trip to my local WalMart and buy those 2 games for the exact same price right now and save the time and cost of shipping.

Just for the record, Borderlands it $40 at GameStop all the time. Ans The Saboteur it $20 all the time. It's probably the same at any other retail store too. So save yourself the shipping and the waiting and just go to a local store to get these two great games.

Boooo....and I just picked up the Saboteur for $40 a few weeks ago. Oh well.

Nice find, jumped all over the Saboteur.

Borderlands sucks - worth $20 or less.

Ya.. ugh

lol i bought borderlands on day one from future shop for 40 bucks!

The Saboteur was a great game..just a shame it was their last :(

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