darkSector

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Publisher: D3 Publisher of Europe

Platform: Xbox360

Category: Shooter

Rating Info

Release Date: 04/04/2008

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Number of Players: 1-10

darkSector Description

It's been a long road getting to the publication of Dark Sector. It was announced by Digital Extremes way back in the heady days of 2004, back when the Xbox 360 was still the Xbox 2. It's been that long coming. Four years on, and the year 2008 sees the release of the game in partnership with D3 Publisher of Europe. This third-person shooter has much in common with Gears of War in its cover system, forcing you to run from one spot to another or watch your brains decorate the wall. If you're going to spend your hard earned cash on Dark Sector, however, it won't be for just another third-person shooter. Nope, you'll be buying it for the glaive. 'The what now!?' you may well cry. Probably best for a bit of plot at this point. Players take on the role of Hayden Tenno, a special agent dispatched to a small former-USSR country named Lasria to take care of a nasty chap going by the name of Mezner. Mezner, you see, has gone and got his paws on a chemical weapon that has folk into all sorts of nasty, monstrous types with strange abilities. Not far into the mission, however, he gets exposed to the weapon and finds himself with a metal-like arm. A bladed disc grows out of his arm, and lo and behold, you have the glaive. The glaive can do all sorts of wonderful things. As well as being thrown for a spot of decapitation, it can be used for things like stealing fire, ice and electricity and then hurling them at your opponents. As you progress through the game, the number of abilities the glaive gives you will keep on trundling upwards. As you'd expect from any shooter in the age of the wonderful Interweb, Dark Sector comes complete with a multiplayer mode, supported either online or over LAN.

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Reviewed by: razorsharp	Date: 26/05/2008	Rating:
fun game, easy achievements too

Reviewed by: zreham30	Date: 16/07/2008	Rating:
Awesome game, if you loved resident evil 4 and gears of war and your wanted to see a amalgamation of these titles into 1 game then dark sector is your game, i negative point though is that the story line is virtually nonexistent and there?s a few bugs, mostly notably with the achievements. However these do not distract from the awesome game play, check it out its well worth a rent

Reviewed by: Devilman	Date: 25/04/2008	Rating:
Feels like a poor-mans version of Gears of War. Almost identical grey/dreary backdrops but somehow loses the ambience. A glaive through the head will get a giggle once or twice and skewering 4 zombies in a row. I had it 2 days tops before i gave up with it..

Reviewed by: Paul Todd	Date: 08/06/2008	Rating:
Reading previous reviews people commented that they found this as a replacement for Gears Of War. I must have been playing a different game. Poor game play and nothing really to keep you interested. VERY repetative.

Reviewed by: Wayne Frostick	Date: 26/06/2008	Rating:
Darksector is a disapointing game which delives little. It starts of as a semi-interesting game which promises alot. Soon the game becomes repetative and borring and the story line seems to stop. The combat system work fairly Gears of War way, but doon get borring and the Glaive only makes it fun for an extra 2 minutes. Overall a dissapointing and poor game.

Reviewed by: chris2988	Date: 14/07/2008	Rating:
Not bad. Not great.

Reviewed by: goldbad	Date: 16/05/2008	Rating:
RETARD-

Reviewed by: moseynic	Date: 01/10/2008	Rating:
really looked forward to getting this game started playing it and BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reviewed by: JonBoy	Date: 23/04/2008	Rating:
Slow and boring, played it for 15 mins and turned it off, Gears of War wanna be, except without the fluid control system and nice graphics. Very disappointing.

Features

Dark Sector is a third-person shooter
Players assume the role of the protagonist, Hayden Tenno who gains the ability to morph into dramatically different combat forms.
Set in the crumbling infrastructure of a fictional Soviet-bloc country in the near future
Features both single and multi-player action
Players work their way through a world where bio-weapons are no longer science experiments, but a hellish nightmare let loose on an unsuspecting populace.

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