Dark Sector

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Plenty of 2008 cover shooters blur together, but Dark Sector is remembered for a single weapon. Hayden Tenno, a CIA clean-up operative sent into the crumbling Eastern European state of Lasria, is infected by the Technocyte virus, and instead of becoming another mindless monster he grows a three-pronged blade from his right arm: the Glaive. Throw it and it comes back. Steer it in flight with aftertouch and it curves around cover to find the soldier hiding behind a pillar. That loop of throw, guide and catch is why Digital Extremes' shooter still has a following.

The Glaive becomes more versatile as the infection spreads. It can capture fire, electricity or ice and carry that element into a firefight or into an environmental puzzle, such as burning away a web that blocks the path. New powers arrive along the way, including a charged throw, throws that cut through several enemies at once, a temporary shield and a short burst of invisibility, and the Glaive pairs with a gun in Hayden's other hand for combos that crack open shielded enemies. The close-range finishing moves were brutal enough that Australia initially banned the game over them.

Lasria is a grim, rain-slicked Cold War ghost town, and the over-the-shoulder camera and cover shooting drew comparisons to Gears of War and Resident Evil 4 when it launched. Critics gave it mixed-to-positive marks, singling out the visual design and the Glaive while knocking the patchy AI. The villain, ex-CIA agent Robert Mezner, wants to spread the virus worldwide, and an armored figure called Nemesis stalks Hayden through the story. The game also shipped with two multiplayer modes: Infection, which pits one player as Hayden against a squad of soldiers, and Epidemic, where two teams each try to bring down the other side's Hayden.

The bigger reason to own it today is what came next. Dark Sector began years earlier as a far-future science-fiction project before being reworked into a modern setting, and Digital Extremes later drew heavily on that original concept for Warframe, which carries both the Tenno name and the Glaive. Playing the 2008 original on the Xbox 360 is a look at where that idea first took physical shape, and a reminder that the studio's flair for bladework was there from the start.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2008
Publisher
D3 Publisher
Developer
Digital Extremes
Genre
Shooter
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

Dark Sector thrusts players into the role of Hayden Tenno, a covert operative sent on a dangerous mission into Lasria, an Eastern European city on the brink of ruin that hides a deadly Cold War secret. In the midst of this mission, Hayden is attacked by an unknown enemy and infected by the Technocyte Virus, a brutal bio-weapon that twists its victims into mindless killing machines. Surviving this attack, Hayden finds that the Technocyte virus has granted him powerful, inhuman abilities unlike anything he has ever seen. Now, he must evolve with his powers, survive and become a hero.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
Watch gameplayDark Sector on Xbox 360
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