If you buy The Saboteur next week, you'll find in the box a card printed on one side as a ticket to "The Midnight Show". The back of the card has one of those tortured codes you have to enter using your gamepad. The card explains what the code does.

Enter code for in-game topless dances, a game of chance, and rewards for every risk.

Press copies of the game included a separate sheet labeled "NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED OR PUBLISHED PUBLICLY", so I'll have to paraphrase. Electronic Arts explains that the download code unlocks a setting to enable nudity in the game. It also explains that the game of chance is a minigame you play for more money. Also added are additional hiding spots around the city to make it easier to evade alerted Nazis.

It's all part of Electronic Arts ongoing effort to devalue used games by withholding content that you can only download when you buy the game new. Of course, your money is always good at EA Online, so you can purchase "The Midnight Show" for five bucks if you happen upon a used copy of The Saboteur or if you opt to rent it. Like Dragon Age, which did something similar by withholding one of its cooler characters, The Saboteur is a single-player only game, making it likely fodder for rentals and used game sales.

Since the game isn't live yet and won't accept download codes, I'm locked out of "The Midnight Show". La Belle Nuit, which I think is Spanish for "The Crazy Bell", is a cabaret/Resistance headquarters in the game. In here, a bouncer blocking a door tells me I need a ticket to enter. It's not quite as intrusive as the guy standing in my camp in Dragon Age with a quest exclamation point over his head, but it's clear that there's something back there I can't have until Electronic Arts gives it to me or I buy it. And I have to admit, I could use the money. But the nudity?

Please. The only difference is likely that the pasty textures are replaced with nipple textures. It's not quite as out of place as all the topless women strutting around in EA's Godfather 2, but not for lack of trying.