Dark Sector
by D3 Publisher
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Video Game Reviews of Dark Sector
Customer Review: Very Good!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The gameplay is awesome, the story may be weak, but you will have a great time playing it, thats for sure. give it a tryCustomer Review: Completely underrated, worth buying
Summary: 4 Stars
The game is really good for 20 bucks, it's like Gears meets RE4. The only downside is that there seems to be no other difficulty levels but the defualt one which seems to be set to medium. I like a game to be challenging and this is not the case with this game, but it certainly has that fun factor. I'm currently on chapter 5 and the claive seems to be getting stronger as I go on, which in turn is making me unstoppable. Just to let you know I tried playing online and it seems no one plays anymore. A definite buy for $20 or less.Customer Review: Enjoyable 3rd Person Shooter
Summary: 4 Stars
In this shooter your guns are just not enough. You need to master the glaive or you will run out of ammo very quickly. As you progress through the story you unlock different skills for your glaive.
I have played through this game twice (once on the hardest setting Brutal) and unlocked all the awards for single player. I actually really enjoyed playing this game. I did however wait until the price drop. At $20 you will be very happy with the game. Paying full price you may have been disappointed.
To really appreciate this game you will have to play it on Brutal. On the normal setting the AI of the enemies isn't the greatest and you can almost just go charging into situations and come out victorious. Once you go to Brutal, you will need to plan your strategy because the AI adapts to the surroundings better and the creatures charge you much more violently.
I did not play around with the multiplayer aspects of this game so I will not review that portion.
Overall I did enjoy this game and like I said before, paying $20 makes this title a great addition to your PS3 collection.
Customer Review: Cant beat this for the price you pay
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a review coming from a gamer who is coming off of a hiatus from gaming. I had originally planned on buying another PS3 title but as the title I wanted was sold out I figured for 20 bucks I would give Dark Sector a try.First off I want to state that the games storytelling leaves something to be desired. Much like Gears of War the story is very vague so if your looking for a deep emotional experience look to Metal Gear Solid 4 for your fix. For anyone who has played Gears of War and Resident Evil 4 you should feel right at home with this game. The camera Angle is always behind you which makes aiming a breeze.Shooting in this game is essential and its always fun to get into firefight when you use your guns and glaive. The real charm of the game comes in the form of what is called a Glaive. Essentially a oversized throwing star killing soliders and mutants alike never gets tiresome with the glaive,expecially once its abilities start increasing. Youll go from having a basic throwing weapon to a weapon that you can throw hard enough to cut soliders and mutants alike in half. Later on in the game you also gain other abilities such as maneuvering the glaive to precisely whereyou want it to go,and using elements such as fire, ice and electricity along with your glaive that can result in some pretty fantastic looking fight sequences on your screen. The puzzles that are througout the game will take basic use of your glaive and applying it to what you see on screen. The enmies can be quite smart in this game. Im on my second playtrough right now and have noticed the soldiers flanking hiding behind cover quite a bit. On a technical not the game looks great. With great lighting effects, and with some really fantastic textures Dark Sector will be sure to impress. There are some minor issues with textures looking muddy when your first enter a new area but other than that I was always pleased with what I saw.I did have some flaws with the game. Althought in the beginning of the game there are hints of what might be a really interesting story it seems that the developers thought you might be aware of all the characters backround information already so your can be left very puzzled after the games cinemas. There is also a feature throughout the game that is called The Underground. Essentially this isa place where buying guns,ammo, and applying upgrades to your weapons can be done for a price. While this sounds good the weapons can be very expensive and because of the lenght of the game your are not given adequate time to aquire all the weapons you can. I found myself purchasing only 2 weapons throughout the game,and thats all youll really need.While this game might not be on everyones "Must Have List" its certainly game that will put a smile on your face as long as you love over the top violence and for the cheap price its deffinitely worth picking up to hold you off untill games like Far Cry 2,Resistance 2, and Gears of War 2 get here.Customer Review: Needs Some Polish
Summary: 3 Stars
The most important things in a game to me are graphics, gameplay, controls and consistency. I could care less about a story. You want a good story watch a movie or read a book. So I wasn't bothered much by the fact that the game has a terrible story.
The graphics though are impressive. Very slick. Good lighting, textures and particle effects. Some of the rocks formations that should have a rough flat texture appeared as glossy plastic though and some of the textures were repetitious, but that is forgivable.
The gameplay is ok. The game is supposed to be focused on the use of the glaive though I found it difficult to use and underpowered. 9 times out of 10 I was walking around with the shotgun.
The controls are terrible! This is what really did it in for me! They are terrible. Using the sixaxis for controlling the motion of the glaive is pointless. A novel idea but ineffective. What I found worked best was to use the analog stick. Unfortunately I couldn't always use it. For some reason half of the time I was forced by the game to use the motion detection of the sixaxis.
Second beef with the controls is when enemies get too close and latch on, you have to shake the sixaxis to get them off. The sixaxis motion control is a wii rip off and is pointless. I wish developers would stop using it. Then once you shake the enemy off it's near impossible to aim at them to shot. Shooting from the hip never seems to hit them and even if you are pointed right at them and you zoom in for a shot the camera angle always sets you looking away from the target. By the time you get a shot off you are dead or seriously hurting.
Last but not least, consistency. This was ok. The game got progressively more difficult and seemed to keep the same level of quality throughout the game, until the final boss battle. WTF??? The game jumped from hard difficulty to Extreme Ridiculously Hard. It was like one last slap in the face by the developers. Nice guys.
Bottom-line, it's worth $20 that it's selling for. Not much more though.