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Not Bad to play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i bought the game but didn't played it ,till the demo released & i tried it ,well...they can do better than that but the graphic was great ,fun to play...if someone want to buy something else he/she should rent it ,if not u can buy it .

Extremely disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am surprised this game gets the decent reviews it does. The good first: Great graphics. The game looks stunning for what it is. It controls fairly good as well. However that is where it ends. The gameplay is utterly frustrating it takes forever to beat waves of enemies and even after you get the aftertouch for the glaive it is still an inefficient weapon. The story is essentially incoherent. There are random zombies. No explanation is given as to why zombies suddenly appear. it's as though the developers said "let's throw some zombies into the game just to spice it up, and let's make them really annoying" I gave Dark Sector a good 3 hours and just said screw it. Skip this if you don't like frustrating games.

OFF THE CHAIN GRAPHICS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME HAD ALOT OF GOOD ACTION AND ALOT OF COOL GRAPHICS,THE BOSS BATTLES WERE SOMEWHAT TOUGH BUT WORTH THE FIGHT.

Poor production quality with lack-luster dialogue and characters

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

need to start off by saying. RENT BEFORE YOU BUY. I was so excited for this game to come out and received a $10 off coupon from Amazon for being such a game crack-head. What could possibly go wrong... And the answer to that is oh so much.

The game starts off good with some nice water effects. Then enters Hayden which by my standards looks like a complete tool. How in the world did creative OK this character model? As we all know Hayden then becomes infected which might make the game awesome, but sadly it doesn't. The glaive is incredibly weak and has such a short range of attack. Hayden would have been better off with a mutated arm that shot orange Nerf balls.

A few more things set this game back. Crappy models and textures being a big deal. Extremely dark areas prevent you from going any further until you blindly stumble onto a pitch black web wall. And my biggest gripe. The WORST AI I have ever witnessed. Don't get me wrong, Resident Evil's waves of zombies are great but Dark Sector's zombies just become stupidly annoying.

Again rent before you buy, or just plain avoid.

Good but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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!

I Glaive At The Office

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

A Slave To The Glave

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely engrossing and amazing. This uses what Gears of War did for gaming and takes it even further. From level design, to controls, to AI, to difficulty level, to graphics, to story... it simply reaches a level of "near perfection" All weapons are well rounded, upgradeable and fun to use, however the glave is the coolest weapon in your arsenal and you will find yourself using it more and more often as you progress and upgrade your abilities. You will feel like an absolute kick a** with glave in hand.

I must say that most of my enjoyment of games is during the first half of playing... then I just play to finish... however this game is somewhat different. As the game progresses, so will your enjoyment. The storyline will move you to play on, as will the intensity. In my opinion, the only drawback to this game is that it ended.

My kind of game but 4 stars...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

Not a great game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is game is OK. It's not as fun as the other reviewers say it is. The glaive is pretty weak as a weapon. The level designs are nice and the graphics are OK. I would not really recommend this game. If you are looking for a much better game, I would highly recommend Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. I am a little disappointed with Dark Sector.

Enjoyable but needs minor fixing!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have to say, putting this game into my console then playing it on a sony 50 inch hdtv 1080p is pretty nice. I love the dark eerie, feeling it portrays. The combat system is a bit lame, not to many options with the moves. But overall this game is alot of fun, it has a nice gears of war run and gun type of style. It's worth the purchase!

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