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Dark Sector
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I am finding it hard to find a post concerning this game.
Is this game any good and what are peoples views on it.
Is this game any good and what are peoples views on it.
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Looks good, controlls well.
I have no idea what the story is, but I can control the glaive (ala Heavenly Sword) and cut people in two, so it is forgiven.
I had basically written this off, but I guess I could give it a shot.
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Anyone like the Blade thowing skilz.
Is it even out in America yet.
How is the fighting mechanics?
I have heard it can get frustrating fighting many enemies at once.
I didn't think the game was too hard, really. I even managed to finish it on the 'brutal' difficulty without too much trouble. That being said, you have to play it somewhat slowly as rushing will get your ass nailed to the wall.
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I'd just like to say that I really wish they had stuck with the sci-fi setting rather than the gritty, brown, ruined abandoned city like every other game released this gen. Seriously, I'm sick of it.
They were on track with a Sci-Fi theme?
I think they go for the gritty, brown, ruined city look because it makes the Graphics look a hell of a lot better.
Holy shit, I remember watching that movie as a kid but I never knew what it was called. Now I HAVE to find a copy!
On the upside, the "glaive" (the throwing weapon you get) is virtually all you need to beat the game. You can charge up (even in blindfire mode) for a quadruple strength throw and just go to town on 2-3 enemies at a time with the "aftertouch" (time slows down and you control the weapon's flight). You also get rumble feedback on the control so you can feel when you should throw the glaive. The extra powers are enough to be very useful at the right times, but there's only a couple (which is still good since you aren't swapping powers in the middle of a fight).
Yeah, the story is kinda meh, but it still makes more sense than something like, say, RE4. It's also got a couple twists and you get to exact some delightfully pointy revenge. Oh, and as far as enemies go, yeah, there a couple types that rush you. However, your shield power deflects hand to hand attacks (as well as deflecting all projectiles that hit the shield at whatever you happen to be pointing at with the reticle, which is pretty awesome) and a charged glaive throw through a mob usually ends up with heads coming off on the way out and torsos flying at you on the way back (the glaive kills stuff while flying away from you and returning to you, but you can only control the outbound flight). Your melee attack is pretty weak, though, and the glaive moves so fast that you're usually better off just throwing it at enemies instead trying to melee them.
The pace of the game feels a little slow, but that's largely because you're pretty screwed if you just rush out to attack enemies. You can take hits, but you're not invincible. Oh, did I mention the glaive can retrieve weapons and ammo for you? Because it can. If you're having a tough time with a fight, you can always steal a dead soldier's weapon by throwing the glaive at it and fire it until it self-destructs (all picked up weapons self-destruct after a brief time, but your own weapons last forever and you can never put them down).
I'd say the game is at least a 7 (maybe more for actually being a lot of fun with the glaive throwing, which really should get old but somehow never did), but it's a definite rental. I had a lot of fun with it, but I'd never drop 60 bucks on a game this short.
Now thats what I call "I AM GONNA GO BUY THIS GAME NOW" feedback
Yeah, you should watch the original trailer. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/5677.html
The developers said they decided to go for a post apocolyptic ruined city setting because it made the main character's abilities more unusual and unique as opposed to them in the sci-fi setting.
I think if they had kept to the original concept this game would have done better.
I kinda wrote it off after the complete redesign. It originally, years ago, had some sort of cyber-stealth-ninja-in-space thing going on, now it's just a guy in a warzone with some kind of flying blade?
Edit: So fucking beaten.
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Krull is actually my last name, and whenever someone mentions the movie it makes me do a double take.
I remember seeing the first trailer for this game a loooong time ago.
Also, (minor spoiler)
You do end up looking like the guy from the original trailer in the last couple of levels of the game
Overall I had a lot of fun with it and I'll probably play through it again as it's of a decent length (about 10 hours). Slicing guys in half never gets old. The multiplayer is kind of an afterthought.
Also this game has shades of The Guyver to its art direction, which I think is awesome.
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I hope some people from PA have this game cause I would LOVE to play some multiplayer.
Not at all. I typically back off and use the basic glaive throw. Or use the shotgun for real crowd-control or when I need to keep moving.
The only part that's been frustrating so far is a timed glaive-throwing puzzle in the middle of the game that went on for one or two rooms longer than it should've. And I got it on my 2nd try. The boss fights so far have been awesome.
It definitely feels like RE4 and Gears knocked boots and had what MC Chris would call a "fucked up flipper baby." The context button finisher is a touch from RE, some of the ambushes and levels have the same vibe, the plot is pretty similar but without the escort mission. (yay!) And the controls are nearly identical to Gears, except with an incredibly useful weapon bound to RB instead of an obsessive-compulsive reload mechanic.
Another video here, showing some more interesting stuff in the second half. Tragic.
Honestly the only time I found myself using the glaive is during puzzles/battles that required it, and when I ran out of ammo which was sadly quite often.
So after drudging through the whole game and hitting levels 8-9 the game started to pick up but then came crashing down again for me on the last one where I ran through the whole section (minus the boss fight) only using the glaive due to the oh too often occurrence of an empty gun.
Don't get me wrong, once the game really got going it was fantastic it just suffered a bit to much repetitiveness and it seemed like the game was originally designed to be more focused on shooting, thus when you hit those zombie levels it kind of threw a wrench into things with no dropped weapons and lack of ammo crates.
Personally story wise, I think mixing the two would have been fantastic. Keep the "Metal Gear Solid goes to space" idea, but also throw in the "Deadly Zombie Virus". Lets not kid ourselves here, if someone made a zombies in space game you know you would be all over that shit.
But what really gets me is actually acquiring the ammo inside. First you have to look directly at your feet, then you have to use the annoyingly long kick animation to break open the crate which if not lined up right can miss, and then on top of it all you have to stand there for a few seconds holding down a button while your character picks it up? Are you kidding me?
Call me lazy, but for gods sakes its a faced paced shooter. I should be able to run over those ammo crates and have my character absorb them through his feet like every other action hero out there. I dont want to take a five second break from an intense fight sequence just so I can acquire a few bullets!
EDIT: I feel it needs to be said that people need to produce games with a color pallet consisting of more than several shades of dog shit and rust.
They went from something so unique and slick to what essentially looks like a Gears of War ripoff with a decapitation weapon. Not buying their excuse for the switch either. They tried to appeal to the GoW people for money.
I found myself using it heavily specifically to conserve ammo, and because the basic throw owns rushing zombies in close quarters. Also, using it to flank the shield guys and scout around corners worked great. The biggest problem I had with the glaive was that many ambushes and weapon emplacements were a little too conspicuously juuust out of range. I know why. Some sections would be way too easy if you could clear them with aftertouch power throw decaps. But they could've been more subtle.
The one reason I haven't finished this yet is, I'm getting really really bored with sci-fi zombies. Bored with flood, plagas, headcrabs, notzombies, husks, mind-controlled colonists, borg, and now technocysts. That entire fucking cliche needs to be buried in a time capsule in the Nevada desert for a decade or two. So that a future generation can dig it up and see what shitty, unimaginative writing in games was like before the Great Purge.
Hey! Fuck you.
We're already scheduled to start taking your nuclear waste. We don't need cliches too.
I don't wanna create a new one
Anyway, I just got past the stalker and damn, that was hard. I kept forgetting about the shied and so it ended up taking 6 months
Obiviously I kept leaving the game and coming back to it a while after but still 6 MONTHS! Pay-off was nice though.
I made the mistake of picking up the PC version during the Steam holiday sale because it was like no dollars. Turns out it has a major bug in widescreen which causes the screen to stretch vertically, distorting the image and cutting off the top and bottom of the screen. Only happens when running full screen widescreen. Windowed widescreen and anything 4:3 will work fine. Pretty much no hope of ever seeing a patch for it, so on the off chance someone decides to look into the game now, stick to the PS360.
That part right there. Right after the stalker. That's where the game gets so good.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Perfect summarization. I rented it, enjoyed it. But it's just not a keeper. It's dirt cheap at GameStop too if you so desire. Multiplayer is dead, so you'll only get so many achievements out of it.
But mostly it's there to look badass.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
I think I paid about $9 dollars for it, which was made up when you
Also I didn't really use the shield either except for rockets maybe. It seemed easier just to spam dodge.
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Also,I am happy to see this thread on the front page because as everyone who saw my LP knows,I loved the shit out of this game.
I did have a major fuck up where I sold all my weapons for that bad ass revolver, Hammer or something. Turns out there's very little ammo for it and because I previously had been buying shit, I didn't get much money from that same stuff being sold. So I had to play from chapter 3 to 7 using the Glaive for the vast majority of it. I came across a few Black Market sewers, I just didn't have the monies to buy anything worth buying because of my early stupidity.
Bot now I got the Korblov or whatvever its called. It is a meaty bastard.
edit: And now I'm booting up Dark Sector. Jerks.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Klyka, may you have a great many children. Your LP was a huge help toward the end. I didn't die once on the last boss and the luckily, I stopped watching your LP just shy of the big reveal at the end of the second to last boss. So it was still a big WTF!? moment.Cheers my European homie.