Dark Sector has shown a lot of progress and maturation recently, compared to the vague details it had contained initially from its 2004 announcement to the Tokyo Game Show of 2007. There was a lack of information to go on, but now as we near the release an abundance of details have been revealed. The character and the storyline have mutated over the development cycle, in a similar fashion to the way Hayden Tenno, the covert operative you control, undergoes himself. In its current form you are headed into the European country called Lasria, where a strange disease has been manifesting itself and a fellow operative has disappeared. Your immediate mission is to investigate this deadly virus called the Technocyte and the Soviets who seem to be in control of it, but along the way you end up contracting the disease yourself, dramatically altering the storyline and gameplay from then on.
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"ZL: Before we knew of the Xbox 360, or anything concrete about the PlayStation 3, we had heard the name Dark Sector. This was a time when what would become the Wii was known only as the mysterious “Revolution.” The 7th Generation of video game consoles hadn’t even begun and we already received a taste of what was on the horizon with a video released by Digital Extremes."
Great article. Great game. Man I wish they'd make a sequel or just re release it or something.
OPM: Digital Extremes’ game director Steve Sinclair has, “lifted the kimono” (his words) on the history behind Dark Sector and how publishing pressure took the game away from its original vision. A vision that the set to return with the free-to-play Warframe on PS4.
That's interesting, They approached Sony with ideas several times, since they are independent, I wished Sony would have published one of their ideas as an exclusive! I loved Dark Sector, even the original concept of the game! Going to see about Warframe at launch.
I don't know why I want this game so bad, maybe it was that string of interesting developer videos they released that really cemented in how hard they're working.
Anyhow, this game looks better and better every time I see it.
Hopefully it will be the sleeper hit of 08'