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Watch Dark Sector video, our head a splode
Team Xbox has a new video for Dark Sector, and it looks oh, so sweet. It has commentary from a Digital Extremes developer, and the game looks gorgeous, and the gameplay interesting. It's got a very dark and moody atmosphere, and the circular blade you have is badass. The gunplay comes complete with a (gasp!) cover system, and stealth kills when you're up close and personal. It kind of reminds us of a modern Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, almost. Does it look amazing to you too, or do we need our eyes checked?
Dark Sector gameplay footage
All right, the Doerrman will admit (you know, that's a pretty common nickname given to me actually), he wasn't too excited about this game initially. It looked like a pseudo-Rygar meets Splinter Cell, and it still does. But this gameplay footage of Dark Sector really got him pumped. Decapitations, beautiful graphics, sneaking, slaughtering... and that Resident Evil 4 camera-style that seems to get adopted a lot more recently. Nick is pleased. Watch the video. Enjoy it. Expect a closer watch on this game... it might just turn out pretty good. Third person voice, out.
Dark Sector borrows from RE4
There is a new gameplay montage of Dark Sector floating around the web today. For those who don't remember, Dark Sector was originally a high tech stealth action game set in space. It has since become an alien tech stealth action game set in Eastern Europe. About the only thing we really know about the game thus far is that the main character has been dispatched on a mission and becomes infected with an alien, um, something. This particular infection is okay, though, because it gives him nifty super powers. Much better than your garden variety Earth viruses we'd say. The montage released today focuses mostly on the Krull blade you see our hero wielding above. It looks like you can endow the blade with elemental properties -- fire, lightning, etc. -- to help you in certain situations. The game also shares more than a passing resemblance to Resident Evil 4, right down to the perspective and laser sight aiming system. Check out the video after the break.
Dark Sector screens -- is it a sword or a glaive?
The sword or glaive joke might not make sense, but if you check out the translation of the Jeux-France webpage, the subject line will read either "Dark Sector leaves its glaive" or "Dark Sector leaves its sword". Sorry. Thought it was funny. Babelfish can't quite decide, so lady luck takes charge of that translation. So, we're just giving you a dozen or so screenshots of the upcoming Dark Sector, the game that likes to change faces. It doesn't really matter so long as the final product is good -- and at least visually, it delivers on that. Sure, the guy getting gutted in the picture appears pretty content with that fact, but let's assume he was spiked while daydreaming about some lovely lady. Not much else to report on this title right now, but it's moving along. Expect it for the PS3, PC, and 360 sometime in 2007.
Dark Sector faces the ch, ch, changes
Dark Sector has undergone some significant changes over the years. Way back in 2004, Dark Sector was revealed as the "first" next gen game. It was going to blow our minds whenever the mysterious "Xbox 2" finally showed up. A trailer for the game was released, featuring a man in a cybernetic ninja suit performing sneaking around on a space station. Later trailers revealed that the game was about man reaching the outer edges of our solar system, or "the dark sector." A new trailer is now available on Marketplace, and it's, shall we say, different. It looks like the developers have dropped the space theme altogether, opting instead for Eastern Europe. We know, we know ... space, Eastern Europe, what's the difference, right? Makes perfect sense. Oh, and apparently Dark Sector has something to do with the Cold War now. Oh, oh, and our hero no longer has a cybernetic ninja suit, but is instead infected by something that grants him special powers. He does have a new badass blade thing, though, and that counts for something.For posterity's sake, we have embedded both the old and new trailers after the break. Watch them both and see how much a game can change in two years.
A Dark Sector trailer for you to chew on
Don't actually chew your computer screen. That doesn't work out very well. But you can chew on a giant turkey leg and download the Dark Sector teaser trailer whenever you want. You may recall, this is the game that has changed itself many times over. Originally a futuristic sci-fi epic, it shifted to a casual American FBI agent assassinating foreign people. It had a third shift where the main character is no longer an FBI agent, rather an assassin hired by the American government (low profile, probably). Bah, just check out our earlier post to see the deal with the story. There isn't a lot of fighting mechanics explained in the trailer, but you can check out how pretty the game looks.
Dark Sector information update! It's changing shapes again...
This is a follow-up to our coverage on the new info about Dark Sector a while back. Hmm, it seems that isn't new info anymore. Steve Sinclair, the game's designer, offered up this info about the new new changes: "The essence of what we wanted to do hasn't changed, in terms that the character is still Haden Tenno, and he's still following this sort of messianic journey, but the setting has definitly changed considerably...The thing that we kept hearing from people was realism...realism, and natural enviroments, and plausibilty." Gone is the sci-fi/futuristic attributes and the main character is no longer rumored to be an FBI Agent. Now he's an assassin employed by the American government to investigate strange happenings in... Lasria.Now, we'd like to type up everything about the story, but you can just as easily read it over at the original article. What's interesting to note is the nod towards the classic Rygar games -- you have a bladed throwing disc from the start of the game, used to attack enemies, grab objects, etc. You've also got guns and other powers at your disposal (much unlike Rygar -- save those fairly useless summons from the PS2 version). No word on multiplayer yet, but it should be rockin', just like this game is starting to look and sound. Keep an eye open for more info later on.
After two years, info on Dark Sector emerges from the shadows
Digital Extremes released news of the next-gen title Dark Sector way back in 2004 and since then, we've heard very, very little except for the fact it will be on the PS3 and the XBox 360. Something wicked this way comes! What is it? Why, it's news! Seems a bit of the game has been changed on a conceptual level, even. Initially a futuristic setting, now it appears the game will be in contemporary (maybe slightly futuristic) Russia, behind the eyes of an American FBI agent. In a kinda-sorta similar vein to Farcry, our FBI agent is assaulted and wakes up with a sort of parasite giving him super-duper powers and a bionic arm. Does this sound like Bionic Commando 2?! No, no... it's Dark Sector. Is it Nero from Devil May Cry 4, with a crazy death-dealing arm parasite thingy? No, no... it's Dark Sector, and you know what? Forget the comparisons, this sounds pretty cool.So what else is new about this game otherwise? This is about the actual gameplay -- it takes the third-person view, a la Resident Evil 4 or Gears of War. This makes it more of an action game, not an FPS, which is extremely relieving. The game is scheduled for a Fall 2007 launch and at this rate... we'll get a giant truck of info right before launch. Keep your eyes and ears open!
