darkSector

Publisher: D3 Publisher of Europe

Platform: PS3

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 PS3 was a glimmer on the horizon. 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: e8ufo	Date: 17/04/2008	Rating:
An excellent game well worth playing.

Reviewed by: Thomas David Burton	Date: 25/05/2008	Rating:
Good game but not great. I'd recommend it as a follow up to Uncharted.

Reviewed by: Rincew1nd	Date: 23/06/2008	Rating:
Very average. Interesting from a strategic perspective but on occasion just too frustrating to invest a lot of time on.

Reviewed by: Compton	Date: 01/07/2008	Rating:
Boring and dull. Don't bother with it....

Reviewed by: littlesummermage	Date: 29/06/2008	Rating:
I would not recommend this game to anyone! It is frustrating, too dark, and just a complete mess. To compare it to Unchartered is wrong; Unchartered is a very good game, nothing like this one

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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