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| View Larger Image | Dark Sector | Video Gameby D3 Publisher
| List Price: | $19.99 | |
| | Publisher: | D3 Publisher | | ESRB Age Rating: | Mature | | Platform: | PLAYSTATION 3 | | Model: | 15782781 | | Operating System: | Playstation 3 | | Release Date: | 2008-03-25 | | Legal Disclaimer: | Brand new and factory sealed game! Ready to ship. All standard shipping games ship via first class mail with free tracking and insurance! Expedited items are shipped via USPS Priority Mail. All of our games, new and used are backed by a solid 90-day warranty. | | Sales Rank: | 1,370st |
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FEATURES | - Throughout the course of the game, players will witness Hayden's transformation into something more than he was as he fights against the Technocyte Virus taking over his body and the effects it has on his psyche
- After infection by the Technocyte, Hayden gains incredible superhuman powers - including the deadly, bladed glaive that he can grow from his arm and use and throw with deadly accuracy
- Through the use of no HUD, intuitive controls and a 3rd-person over the shoulder viewpoint, you are immersed in the game at all times, focused on gameplay and not gameplay management
- Dark Sector features an innovative and exciting multiplayer gameplay that will allow players to utilize the skills they have learned in the single-player game to excel in a competitive environment
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| PlayStation: The Official Magazine (1-year)
by Future US, Inc.
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| Play
by Fusion Publishing
Magazine that guides consumers to the best electronic gaming in the industry. Electronic gaming has merged with both TV and film, including compelling storylines, innovative new genres, and realistic simulations making electronic gaming a genuine form of mainstream entertainment.
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| Tips & Tricks Magazine
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| Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
by Sony
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom sets the standard for next-gen action RPGs. It delivers an immersive fantasy experience through high-definition graphics, a dramatic storyline, and action-packed battles filled with heart-pounding combat. Brilliant visual effects create fantastic magical spells. Visceral action and RPG combat - Take complete control of every battle by using chained melee attacks, or an array of spells and special abilities Co-op and Internet modes - Adventure alone or with...
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Amazon.com
A new kind of weapon for a new kind of hero.Dark Sector is a third-person Action/Shooter that thrusts players into a sci-fi flavored nightmare scenario set in the post Cold War era. Playing in the role of Hayden Tenno, an unscrupulous covert operative sent on an assassination mission into Lasria – a fictional Eastern European city on the brink of ruin and rumored to be contaminated by a mysterious and frightening plague, Hayden takes out his mark, but before he can escape is attacked by an unknown enemy. Not killed outright as expected, he is instead infected with the virus that is causing the plague.New weapons, a new heroHayden Tenno and his glaive. View larger.Hone your skill with the glaive. View larger.Take on enemies the old-fashioned way. View larger.Duel-wield glaive & gun. View larger.The Technocyte Virus and Hayden’s EvolutionJust as with the other victims swarming the street of Lasria, the Technocyte Virus imbues Hayden with powerful, inhuman abilities. These abilities are not static and as they progress they cause severe, accelerated pain; pain that eventually drives their hosts insane, turning them quite literally into monsters of superhuman power. Hayden possesses an unexpected resistance to this maddening pain, but his body is not spared the mutations caused by the virus. The first of these are metal armor that grows from his body and a three bladed, throwable weapon called a "glaive" which explodes from his right arm and can regenerate if lost. But these are only the beginning. Eventually players may also gain the power of limited invisibility, the use of a bulletproof shield and an assortment of deadly melee attacks.As Hayden slashes his way through the mutants overrunning Lasria he stumbles upon a plot by a rogue operative and his private army of henchmen to harness the power of the strongest of these mutants for some dark purpose. No longer entirely human, but not a mindless mutant Hayden must make a decision whether to use his own new powers to stop this plot or look the other way. But regardless of his choice, he has become the target of both the blind rage of his fellow mutants and a shadowy paramilitary group that seeks to control them.Weapons: Glaive, Guns and the Black MarketDark Sector is far from the traditional third-person shooter. The glaive is the game’s signature weapon and as players gain experience they will come to see that it is not only a stylish weapon, but also much more versatile than the traditional firepower available in-game. It is of course deadly as a slashing weapon and can be thrown great distances, but as Hayden’s powers evolve the glaive can be used in unexpected ways, ranging from siphoning and focusing elemental features like fire and freezing cold on enemies, to opening doors and retrieving items from inaccessible areas. But this doesn’t mean that players can shun the conventional weapons scattered throughout the game, quite the opposite.To be successful players must successfully journey underground to the game’s ‘black market’ where they can purchase new weapons with scavenged rubles and also upgrade their existing weapons. Some of these upgrades include increasing a weapon’s firing rate, larger ammo clips, the ability to fire two simultaneous rounds and a ‘puncture ability’ that allows you to shoot through any enemy to hit another standing behind him. Finding the entrances to the black market are important because firearms in the game are biologically sensitive to mutant powers and unless altered to ignore the existence of altered DNA are useless to the mutated Hayden.Gameplay Modes and FeaturesNot only does Dark Sector contains a deep singleplayer story mode, but in addition it features multiplayer functionality allowing players to harness Hayden Tenno’s mutant powers in two different ways, both in awesome 10-person online multiplayer combat. The two modes include:Infection Mode: Think of this as ‘tackle the guy with the glaive.’ In this timed mode one player assumes the role of a fully-powered Hayden Tenno, complete with shield, invisibility and melee capabilities, while the other nine play as human operatives trying to kill him and take his place. The player in the role of Hayden receives a single point for each kill made, while the soldier that takes him down gets 2, plus the right to wield the glaive in the next go around. Players making assists in the slaying of Hayden receive one point as well. The player with the most points at the end of the round wins.Epidemic Mode: In this team-based mode, with a set number of rounds per match, two teams, each made up of one Hayden and a group of soldiers, battle to kill the other team’s Hayden. A single point is awarded to each team per kill of the opposing Hayden. Each Hayden begins at full strength and the team with the most points at the end of the round wins.Other features available in both multiplayer modes include voice chat and global leaderboards.The Birth of a SuperheroWhether in singleplayer or multiplayer modes the developers of Dark Sector have endeavored to link every action of the player to the mutant evolution of Hayden Tenno. This means that as players progress through the game defeating bosses as well standard enemies they increase Hayden’s mutant abilities and advance his disease. It’s a catch-22 that with every victory Hayden becomes less human, but one that the game’s storyline relishes as the one-time hitman slowly and unsurely morphs into a hero. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 49 reviews)
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darkSector by J. Pimentel  3 Stars
October 21, 2009
the game has its fun moment for the price u get it its worth it, and enjoyable
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the shipping is about$8 the game is only about6 cheating on us!!!!!!!! by Long Fei Xie (USA)  1 Stars
October 14, 2009
NO matter the game is good or bad, look at the shipping, about$8. what about the game. when you add them together that is 14 something. there is no any cheaper on this game. the seller is cheating on us. thus, do not buy it. you may buy it in any street store, and the price is about the same..
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Great game at a great price by Timothy R. Saylor (Birminghma, AL, USA)  5 Stars
September 10, 2009
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!
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Dark sector by jeremy a taylor (Morehead City, NC)  4 Stars
September 09, 2009
I have heard from a couple of people that they didnt care for this game because they had a hard time controlling the charictor. I personally dont have to much trouble and I am not a professional gamer or anything... I think that this game is pretty awsome especially when you consider the price. Also a pretty cool story and so far this game keeps me thinking and I love the gore...
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At this price? Buy it. It's cheaper than beer! by Bryan Savage (Westminster, CO) 4 Stars
August 30, 2009
I like this game.
I'd originally played the demo on Playstation Network a long time ago, but didn't buy the game until I realised I could get a new copy for around $12 on Amazon.
The gameplay is solid and the controls are spot on. My only gripe is that the left stick is a little sluggish. Meaning that when using the left stick to move the camera around, I frequently wish it would move faster. It's tough to track a fast-moving enemy when they can move faster than your camera can track.
Also, the perspective in this game is pretty much over Hayden's right shoulder. This isn't bad except that you can't switch shoulders. Meaning that you can't toggle which shoulder the camera is centered on. This can get annoying depending on which direction you're trying to peek around a corner with.
As of this writing, I haven't beaten the game yet, but the boss battles I've fought could be very difficult. I've been playing video games for a long time and I fancy myself to be pretty good at figuring them out, but these boss battles are tough to crack. It's not that they're tough because you keep getting killed, but they're tough because it's not always clear how you damage the boss. There's no health gauge for the boss (or even enemies), so you can spend fifteen minutes bouncing your glaive off their head only to learn that you're not hurting them. To a younger or less patient player, this could be a game breaker for them.
I've noticed, more with this game than others, that the character's path is extremely linear. If you look down a hallway and see _any_ obstacle at all, you can bet that you can't get by it. There's no jump button. Only a "action" button that lets you know when you can use it because you get close to something and it tells you so. It's ridiculous that the smallest pile of rubble becomes an insurmountable object. To say "Really? Hayden can't just walk over that?"
I'm not sure this game would be worth $59.99 brand new, but by this time, it's well worth a play. There's multiplayer too, but I haven't tried it.
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