Dark Sector

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The Simple Booth Companions

D3Publisher, the folks behind the delightful Simple Series and the not so delightful Dark Sector, have Tokyo Game Show booth companions. Six of them by our count. That's a very conservative number for a company that releases not so conservative games.

The above woman is holding a back for The Simple Series 10th anniversary. That's nice of her.

3:00 AM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
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Dark Sector Review: A Difficult Journey

Digital Extreme's Dark Sector is meant, it feels, to be the beginning of something, a game that serves as an origin tale and set piece for what could become a franchise. In the game you play as Hayden Tenno, a black-ops agent sent into Eastern Europe to assassinate someone. Things go astray, as these things often do, and Tenno is infected with a virus that gives him evolving and deadly powers; chief among them the ability to boomerang an organic three-bladed knife at people, lopping off appendages.

Digital Extreme probably had a no-brainer hit when the decided to let people lop off body parts with a deadly Frisbee, but in their pursuit for something more they may have missed the mark this time around.
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1:00 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Brian Crecente
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Latest by Snake726: I think it's sad that this game would have done better if it came out before Gears. It "copies" more »
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Dark Sector Launch Trailer
Here's the launch trailer for D3Publisher's Dark Sector, and while the gameplay still strikes me as a bit unexciting, the cutscenes certainly seem to pack a punch. This is one of those releases that is going to have me extremely conflicted. Not so much interested in the single player, but the multiplayer sounds nifty and the storyline and voice acting might be just enough to tip me over to the purchase side of the fence. It's one of those games that will have me at the game store on the 26th, endlessly picking it up, getting halfway to the register and then putting it back down again. The GameStop employees absolutely love me.

9:20 AM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Mike Fahey
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Dark Sector's Chromas

I really wasn't that impressed with Dark Sector when I saw it at the Tokyo Game Show last year, but this look at the Chromas sorta makes me think that maybe I was wrong. Of course, I probably wasn't, but there's always a chance.

7:57 AM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Brian Crecente
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Dark Sector's PS3 Entitlements?
What's this now? The D3 folks just sent us a press release with the full break down of Dark Sector's Xbox 360 achievements and... Playstation 3 entitlements? More and more frequently we're starting to see knock-off achievements rear their addictive heads in Playstation 3 versions of games that show up on both the PS3 and Xbox 360. Maybe they've decided that since they've gone through the trouble of creating a list of "achievements" for the 360 they might as well rename it and use the same list on the PS3. More »

4:00 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Brian Crecente
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Latest by merebito: Entitlements? How dorky. They Should use something that doesn't sound like it is licking the 360's boots. Something like "Badge more »

DARK SECTOR - I played Dark Sector at TGS. Thought it sucked. Anyway, word's come through that the game's been refused classification in Australia, mostly because it's a "violent and sometimes gruesome game with a sinister storyline and ominous outcome. The violence and aggression inflicted upon the protagonist is of a high level, naturalistic and not stylised at all". It's expected the game will be edited and resubmmitted for classification at a later date. While the loss of Dark Sector itself isn't going to cause too many sleepless nights, it is troubling that the OFLC have found it unacceptable, since while violent, it wasn't particularly more violent than something like, say, Gears of War.

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Lex Luthor Voices Dark Sector
The least sinister Lex Luthor of all time (including Gene Hackman) has got himself another video game voice over gig, as actor Michael Rosenbaum is announced as the voice of Hayden Tenno, the cold-blooded protagonist of Digital Extremes Dark Sector. No stranger to VO work, Rosebaum has provided voices for Jackie Chan Adventures, Justice League, Static Shock, and Batman Beyond, as well as video game roles in Gladius and Yakuza.
"We are thrilled to work with Mr. Rosenbaum on Dark Sector," said Suzanne Sutton, PR and Marketing Manager for D3PE. "His experience in portraying tormented characters on-screen translates incredibly well to the tortured character of Hayden Tenno in Dark Sector, a true anti-hero who makes no excuses for his actions."
Sutton of course is referring to Rosenbaum's darkest role, Adina in Sorority Girls. Still can't believe he didn't see Oscar gold that year. More »

8:20 AM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Mike Fahey
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Dark Sector Discovery

I was not very impressed with Dark Sector when I briefly checked it out at the Tokyo Game Show earlier this year. This video almost makes me want to give it a second chance... almost.

10:00 AM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Brian Crecente
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Dark Sector Impressions

I had about 15 minutes to play around with D3 Publisher's Dark Sector today and while I loved having the ability to arbitrarily and capriciously lop off limbs and heads with a Krull-like throwing blade, the shaky controls and spastic graphics just killed the game for me.

When not in motion, or under any taxing special effects, the graphics aren't really that bad. In fact, I initially kind of liked the look of the game. But once I started taking fire and jumping stuff, things nose-dived. In one scene I dropped down from a ledge, at the request of the game, and the animation showed my character float out off the ledge and then drop straight down, his legs never really bending. When explosions hit near the character the entire screen turns red, I don't mean like a red tint or a blood effect, I mean an ugly red that blanks out the entire screen.
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9:20 AM on Thu Sep 20 2007
By Brian Crecente
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Latest by Witzbold: I was still having fun with the game running around and meleeing people along with lopping off arms and legs. Although more »
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Unreal Criticisms Totally Out of Context

Hold it right there, buster! Cross platform third-person-shooter Dark Sector developer Digital Extremes is claiming that its criticism of the Unreal Engine 3 was taken way out of context. Word has it that Digital Extremes picked its own custom engine due to alleged problems with Epic's Unreal Engine 3. In an interview with Australian website Gameplayer, Dark Sector director Steve Sinclair said this:

A lot of promises were made about the Unreal 3 Engine, particularly on PS3. But as we see now, the time frames haven't been met and now a lot of games using it are being held up.

To which Digital Extremes were taken out of context within the conversation. How do you take a quote like that out of context? CEO James Schmalz now says: More »

10:00 PM on Tue Aug 21 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
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