Dark Sector Review
- Posted March 25th, 2008 by
- 35 Comments
Review Score
- PSU Review Score
- 8.5
- Avg. user review score:
- 8.0
Summary
Dark Sector adds a nice element of play to the current market of third-person shooters that are becoming stale with repetitive gunplay. The glaive is a great addition into the genre and will help keep things interesting throughout your playing experience.
We like
- Glaive is solid
- Fantastic Visuals
- Solid voice acting
We dislike
- Slight visual tearing
- Enemy AI is skitzy
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“It’s time for heads to roll.” Digital Extremes’ latest title, Dark Sector, which is being published by D3 Publisher, decided to take that quote and make it literal. Their new sci-fi, action packed, third-person shooter seems to do everything right and very little wrong. From the look and feel of the game to the emotion behind each character’s voice, Dark Sector is something to be revered and enjoyed by anybody old enough to pick it up and play. Based around the perfectly coined Evolution Engine (formerly Sector Engine), Dark Sector evolves the third-person shooter genre to what it should be.
You’ll start out having to install a bit of the game to the PlayStation’s HDD. This will roughly take about 3-4 minutes; so don’t expect to get bored too soon. The result of this is faster load times - not quite up to par with Devil May Cry 4’s, but only a tad slower nonetheless. Also, make sure you’re signed into the PlayStation Network upon booting up the game. This will allow you to be prompted with the 23MB update that has already been released.
Dark Sector revolves around a world where biochemical warfare is expected but not always prepared for. The Technocyte Virus is described as a bio-weapon that turns the infected into mindless killing machines; that is, as long as the virus doesn’t kill the host first. The United States has sent in a man named Robert Mezner, a scientist who willingly puts his life on the line for science and research. After all contact is lost with their operative, the government is left with no choice but to send in a psychotic, unstable, ruthless killer, Hayden Tenno. Not only has Hayden spent the last countless years in a prison cell for past crimes but he also happened to be Robert Mezner's protégé.
Due to the relationship between the two, the government feels that releasing Hayden into the world again may help their negotiations with Mezner. They’re also well aware that Mezner will potentially try and recruit Tenno into the grand scheme of things. You won’t learn any of this throughout the game, but we figured we’d give you a little more history in regards to the plotline that was provided to us through Dark Sector Zero, a comic book that discusses the past history of Dark Sector.
The game begins with Hayden Tenno being deployed to the Eastern European city of Lasria. Lasria is a Soviet state still around after the end of the Cold War and is not only on the brink of ruin, but is also home to the secret Technocyte Virus. Tenno is sent in as a third-party operative in order to take out one of his comrades, Viktor, along with the task of blowing up the facility that Viktor is being held captive in. Upon arrival, Tenno begins to question the mission and his participation within it. After being told that he’s already past the point of no return, he must push forward to carry out his task. Along the way you’ll learn that Mezner is alive and well and plans to release the virus from its holding vault.
Thus you push forward to seek out Mezner while walking into your first real challenge of the game, taking down a helicopter looking to pulverise you with a hail of machine gun fire and rockets. Upon completion of this dogfight, you’ll have your first run in with the unoriginally named villain, Nemesis. Not much is known about Nemesis at this point, except for that it looks as though it is from another planet or seriously infected with the Technocyte Virus in an extreme way. After being knocked out, you’ll shortly awaken and return to consciousness with Robert Mezner standing above you. He’ll go over some things and you’ll enjoy some light banter, however, once you reach for your weapon off to the side, Nemesis will puncture you with its weapon, slowly causing the Technocyte infection within your body and the start of your journey through the world of Lasria and Dark Sector.
Digital Extremes has given the impression that they’ve put a ton of time into the ... (continued on next page)
Comments
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Acid-Hippie2007 |
Acid-Hippie2007- 12:10am GMT - March 25th, 2008
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From what I've seen so far, this game looks well worth the buy. I can't wait to play it and the graphics are pretty top notch stuff. Plus ever since the 80's after the Sci-Fi fantasy movie Krall came out I've always wanted to play a game with a glaive as one of the weapons.
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-CroatianMetalMan-
- 12:19am GMT - March 25th, 2008
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My next game for sure.It will be fun to play it.and then comes GTA4 !!!!
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ThAGRiZZ45 |
ThAGRiZZ45- 12:47am GMT - March 25th, 2008
- 5
Sounds Great!
The cons really aren't that bad and the visuals look amazing. I'm buying this game based on PSU's decision.
THX!
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edward_moffet |
edd- 1:26am GMT - March 25th, 2008
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tight i want this game but i just got cod4 and final fantasy crisis core so this not to mention viking and gta4 is coming out soon damn too many games and not enough money lol
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Undying_Darkness
- 2:13am GMT - March 25th, 2008
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im forsure getting this game, i also need to get condemned 2, i was going to get viking but i doubt its actually going to be good. the reveiw i just saw had it as a 6.... aww well i still have GT5P, couple new ps3 controllers and GTA4 to buy soon.
than i have haze, metal gear solid 4 coming up to, along with others...
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seedaripper1973 |
seedaripper1973- 4:41am GMT - March 25th, 2008
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is it just my browser...or is most of the review written in a very dark grey over a black background??? i have to highlight it to read it??
p.s good review...RSV2 goes back today!!!! :(
sick to death of the blo0dy lag..so might get this instead ;)
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Ishimaru Kaito |
Kasu- 6:22am GMT - March 25th, 2008
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yeah, i knew it was a good gamecan't wait to get it tomarrow
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electricmine |
cookiehour- 8:14am GMT - March 25th, 2008
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It looks freakin' awesome. I may just get this one.
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TekkenLord |
HitMan00- 11:36am GMT - March 25th, 2008
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what is the screen tearing? Must buy on day one.
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Deusthousand |
Deusthousand- 9:30am GMT - March 26th, 2008
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IDK about this game.Xplay gave it 2stars out of five.And the cons they spoke of seem like its something thats possible when lookin at the gameplay. Not every game is worth $60. Mine went towards HSG and Im happy.
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BlueRevolvuR |
BlueRevolvuR- 7:49pm GMT - March 26th, 2008
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@Deusthousand
Yea I heard the same, I usually average all the scores from most game websites then average them. So far an avg. of 6.5.
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maverick6611
- 2:30am GMT - March 27th, 2008
- 33
for some reason my game doesnt have any audio at all if anyone has any answers hit me up!!
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MasterOfDark |
Kurai-Meijin- 9:53pm GMT - February 5th, 2010
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Simply a good game with some sticky stuff!
Visuals are truly beautifull!';)
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