Customer Reviews

Dark Sector

5 star:		(23)
4 star:		(26)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Ever since I saw the trailer for this game I knew I just had to have it. I'm not a fan of first person shooters so I was pleased when I saw this was a third person.

The overall idea of the game is a good one. No intro scene showing you how Hayden mutated into the hero he is, instead you play out the transformation. Level one being your training ground and introduction to the system, the black and white look was a great idea from the designers. Level two sees the start of the transformation and the game switches to color.

When you get to use the Glaive for the first time, it feels a little weak but soon you will earn new skills in using the weapon. Later on, you will get the ability to control the Glaive in flight and this is when it becomes valuable. The best way I found to get to grips with its controls was to clear an area of enemies and then spend some time throwing it around. Controlling the Glaive using the motion sensor was cumbersome so I switched that off and used the right stick. I found I was more accurate using this method.

Graphically, the game is awesome and a welcome addition to my game collection. My only complaint (and the reason for only four stars) is the annoying camera angle. When a number of enemies attack you from multiple directions, it can be hard to move the camera around to get a good shot. I had to redo some sections due to a soldier shooting me from behind and struggling to get the camera to swing around so I could take a shot. Camera angles can be an issue for some third person games but this one was particularly frustrating.

That aside, Dark Sector is a wonderful game to look at and fun to play. Trust me, when you start throwing the Glaive around and controlling its flight, you can't help but smile at the slow motion carnage.

I'm pretty sure I'm near the end of Dark Sector. Overall it's a real fun game, but it could use some work. I agree with another review I read where they said the glaive is too weak at times. Sometimes you'll toss the glaive right into a biohazardous creatures face and it will still be alive. Another thing they could work on is the close combat. There isn't enough variation in the melee "finisher" kills. Also, when your fighting an enemy at close range, hand to hand, the sense of impact and variety of moves seems limited. One other thing is the cover system, there are a lot of items that you just can't take cover behind or vault over, and it can be kind of annoying. All of that aside it's a fun game with some new elements of gameplay. The elemental charge for your glaive is very cool and unique. The aftertouch, although very similar to heavenly sword is very cool too, the elemental explosion is very cool too. The game also has a lot of boss battles that are very fun. Overall Dark Sector is a good game, it just could use some tweaking. If they took a little more time and refined it a little more a sequel could be amazing.

I really liked it. Lots of shooting, the glaive is really cool to use, and the storyline is pretty good. Graphics are great.

Here is what kept if from being 5 star:
- Only one difficulty level
- The story is hard to get into because you never really figure out what things are about
- Not nearly enough ammo
- Strange save points

I would definitely recommend, especially now that the price has dropped.

This game is way better than the 7ish scores it's been getting by pro reviewers. It plays like a mashup of Resident Evil 4/COD4/Resistance: Fall of Man(horror elements, shooter, Eastern European locale), Gears of War/Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (use of cover), and Heavenly Sword (use of sixaxis aftertouch). If you love those games, like I do, then you'll love this. The game looks amazing- people who came over to my apt. were greatly impressed with its look. I couldn't put it down once I started playing. I'm 6 levels in and can't wait to finish it and try online play. Absolutely no regrets about the purchase.

I am almost finished with this game and found it to be average to really good, its like it fights to be a better game the whole time. I am going to review this game a little differently, I just wish I could not have a rating so people would not just blow by see the stars and then make their opinion.
*graphics- seem to vary some scenes and areas will be simply stunning then others not so much the in-game graphics are top notch especially the blood- love the intro back and white!
*gameplay- the gears of war style cover, run and vault are very very clunky(at least compared to gears wich truy defined that style of play) example- hayden will dive for cover but not actually take cover you have to press the button again but even thats not guaranteed, countless times ive been killed trying to get cover only to jump the opposite way. Triggered scenes are terrible! At some point you will get to a bridge and there will be endless amounts of enemies flowing at you(this went on for a solid 5 minutes!) until you go to a point and they "magically" stop coming. The melee system is terrible, too many times I will have to run in fear of getting one-hit-killed by the shield totin guys because hyden just cant seem to connect with a solid hit. The glaive is really cool, you can take down 15 dudes if you know how to use it, but I hate how your forced into using it by lack of ammo and goveners on the guns. The finishers are cool but there only a few and they get old real quick, plus you dont get rewarded for doing them which you should considering it is a pain to pull them off in the heat of battle. This game kinda copies off god of war in a way which could have been awesome if implemented correctly example- there is a big boss fight the whole time you do these mini gow sequences and at the end there he dies- no insane finisher, no great cutscene nothing he falls to the ground thats it I felt really disappointed for it to lead up to that. The atmosphere is great, I was playing with the lights off and at one point I wanted to turn them on. The sounds, look and overall gritty feel kept me jumpy the whole time. The gunplay is honestly one of my favorite things about this game it is on point, oh by the way the shotty is buck! The black market could take some cues from resident evil 4 and money is scarce making for some tough decisions but the killer for me is that you HAVE to have a handgun so my hopes of the ak-47 & shotgun combo was thrown right out the window. The puzzles were really simple and only seemed to drag the game down(not to mention they could be solved by a 2 year old), I feel if they had no enemies for a while kept the pacing slow and had something creepy happen in lieu of puzzles would have really bumped this game up a lot. Really this game is not about puzzles its about gunplay, scaring the crap out of you and lots & lots of gore. Now my buddy has already completed this game and was very disappointed by the fact you could not go through it with all the upgrades and such on a higher/ same difficulty- the powers are understandable but the upgraded guns thats a no no.
*story- not much to say but the story comes on strong then slowly fades away only explaining your mutation and the disease of your enemies. It has the foundation for a great story but barely has enough to carry its own weight.
*Online play- decent nothing special pretty much one person is hayden the rest are hazmat and who ever kills hayden becomes him but ive noticed if one person who is really good will eventually become him and dominate the whole time or two teams each with a hayden trying to take out each others hayden ect ect... No deathmatch with regular hazmat guys or any of the like wich would have been great- maby if you get 10 kills in a row you become hayden for 60 seconds that would make for some awesome online play.
Overall this game is a mix of %60 gears of war %20 resident evil 4 %5 god of war and %15 dark sector flavor. One thing though this game has many flaws but something kept me playing, maby because I spent $65? that too but something made me not want to set the controller down thats why I gave it 4 stars because normally I would just condemn a game like this but there was something special about this game. I am preying for a sequel with a story to fill in the gaps, tweaked melee & cover system and more gory finishers god of war style. Definitely a rent, rent it!

Dark Sector is an amalgamation of many great games, but it still culminates in a unique experience. There's a little bit of Gears of War, Resident Evil 4, Uncharted, Bioshock, and several others all wrapped up in an eery and exciting game.

You play as Hayden Tenno, a black ops agent sent into the fictional country of Lasria to bring down a mad scientist before he can unleash the "Technocyte" virus onto the world. Fortunately for you, you get infected with the virus early on and then benefit from the many abilities it grants you.

The infection transforms your right arm into this metallic death dealer that spawns the glaive, a "Krull-esque" 3-pronged blade capable of dismemberment, burning enemies alive, electrocuting them, and freezing them. As the game progresses, Hayden's abilities increase, which involves the ability to form a force field/shield and to detonate the glaive when it approaches a group of enemies.

The gameplay works pretty well as a 3rd person, over the shoulder view. There are times when it takes about 3 or 4 throws of the glaive to kill an enemy (I guess the virus makes monsters glaive-resistant). Also, some enemies require you to unload a full clip into them to bring them down (humans shouldn't be able to absorb that many bullets). It can be a little frustrating, but that's not half as frustrating as some of the melee moves. They are even less effective. And some of the finishing moves are a bit repetitive. That being said, Dark Sector still has some of the best graphics in a console game. The lighting and textures are about as good as Gears of War and Uncharted. The sound design is top notch. You are flooded with all these eery sound effects that totally creeps you out.

The game is pretty linear, but you never quite know when the monsters will jump out at you, so it keeps you on your toes. There are 10 chapters in the game, which makes for a medium length story (I'm currently on chapter 7). Despite a few minor setbacks, I'm thoroughly enjoying this game. I think if you enjoy survival horror or shooters, you will find Dark Sector eerily pleasing.

I have played just 2 levels of this game, and so far, it is pretty fun. I love 3rd person shooters, and this game adds a new twist to it, the "glaive". it is awesome to use it. The only negative point of this game is the cover system... sometimes, you can shoot through the walls. I will see how the game continues, but so far, I would recommend it.

PSN ID GremDUDE. Well, to be honest I did not finish this game. I was one well placed glave hit from finishing it and was killed for the 10th and last time by Mezner--the final boss of the game. After that I pulled the disk out of my PS3 and smashed it to bits!!

I still feel that this is an excellent game worth playing once. Since there is no Game Plus feature(from what I hear) there is really no reason to play it again. And with no trophy support, it is not worth my trouble to do everything required to get that last Glave strike again to beat this game.

With that one thing out of the way, let me tell you why this is still a game worth getting(even at the original purchase price and especially at the price it is now... Gameplay, gameplay gameplay!! Everything that could be done right from the beginning to the end with regard to gameplay is done just right. The guns have good weight, nice power and cool look and feel. A limited weapons upgrade system adds further to this. The use of the glave is excellent--especially the aftertouch and some of the other cool powers you get as the game progresses. The cover system(ripped right from Gears of War) is done very well. No blind fire but overall is exactly as good as you want a cover system to be.

Graphics are sharp(although by the end all the areas really end up looking the same) Load times are NON-EXISTENT. In fact, several times after finishing a hard stage, I was not ready and the game is ready with the next area!! Very well done. Checkpoints are for the most part well spaced. Shame they didn't split that last boss battle into two parts. I probably would have kept going if they could have done that for me.

THe other bosses have just about the perfect balance of puzzle solving and coolness that it is quite satisfying to take them down. To be honest, this would be a 4.5 star game even with the cheap last boss.

There are a couple other negatives though. One, why not have some kind of Game plus? This game would have replay value and it would have given me a another incentive to finish Mezner. Second, there is no story really to speak of. Just kind of a cheap Resident Evil rip off story about world domination and destroying all humanity--yady yada yada.

Now I know I am going to get some flack about not finishing Mezner but seriously, he takes the cake of the most ridiculous cheap boss that any game has had ever. Infamous had an annoying last boss but he had a couple checkpoints in the battle. The last button pressing mini game of God of War 2 was pretty annoying but it can't hold a candle to Mezner. Even that annoying constantly talking boss of Uncharted 2 is a welcome party I will go to daily for month if it meant I would never have to see Mezner again!!

In conclusion, buy this game. If you like shooters with smooth graphics, nice framerate, no load times and non-stop action, this will fit the bill with about 9 or 10 hours of enjoyable gameplay!! Warning, the disk may not survive after you get killed by Mezner a few times...

While the controls are imperfect, from the standpoint of how you take cover, the gameplay is still fun albeit repetitive at times. I have seen several reviewers mention that the storyline is a bit cliche, and it is, but so what, if it's fun, it's fun. I enjoyed the glaive and it's variety of uses, as well as the weapons in the game, the environments just seemed a little on the repetitive side.

Who should purchase? Hardcore gamers may find this game too short and easy, but I believe casual gamers will like this title. I happen to be a fan of 3rd person shooters versus first person shooters since to me, seeing what the character is doing in action adds another element of fun to the game.

I received an amazon gift card for my birthday, and searched for an inexpensive PS3 game on which to use the card. I found this slightly older game for sale for just $5, so I thought "what the heck." When I received the game, I was very pleasantly surprised. Pretty cool graphics, neat battle scenes, interesting cinematic interaction with a couple of sideline characters and decent weapons. The Glave weapon is neat to use, and upgrades along with interaction from on-screen elements make it even better. The final battle was tough, and some of the timed phases were difficult, but for the small price it was well worth it!