Dark Sector

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Dark Sector

Developer(s)	Digital Extremes
Publisher(s)	D3 Publisher of America
Engine	Sector Engine
Release date(s)	September 4, 2007
Genre(s)	Third-person Shooter
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Rating Pending (RP)
Platform(s)	PS3, Xbox 360
Media	Blu-ray (PS3), DVD (Xbox 360)

Dark Sector is a PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game currently (as of 2006) under production by Digital Extremes. On December 26, 2006, GameSpot reported that the planned PC version has been canceled ^[1].

Numerous tech demos featuring the game's engine, the "Sector Engine", have been released by Digital Extremes. An in-game cinematic has also been publicly released, giving viewers a brief look at potential storyline and environments, as well as the graphics of the game. Digital Extremes has specifically stated that the clips are not pre-rendered and are actual in-game footage. Dark Sector is slated to be released on September 4, 2007. Set in the crumbling infrastructure of a fictional Soviet-bloc country in the near future, the game features both single and multi-player action, with players working their way through a world where biological weapons are a hellish nightmare let loose on an unsuspecting populace.

Many of the intrested fans following the game development since its early media releases, feel that the current development has turned the design for the worse. Dark Sector was originally intended to take place in a science-fiction environment, notably in outer space, with players taking the role of a player character with the ability to make and throw glaives, as well as inhabiting a sleek mechanical suit. Many of the intrested fans following the game development since this stage, feel that the current development has turned the design for the worse.

In 2006, major overhauls to the game were revealed, showing a completely different looking main character, and a noticeable less sci-fi setting. The developers (according to the November 2006 Game Informer issue) cited a shift in focus by other gaming companies as the reason for the change to a more modern setting and reducing its sci-fi elements. An interview with GameSpot has also revealed that the change in setting is intended to make the main character stand out more, as well as making the story more relatable.

The game's main character is a man named Hayden Tenno, a morally ambivalent clean-up man employed by the CIA. On a mission in a fictional former eastern bloc nation, he is exposed to a biological compound which mutates him, dramatically changing his right arm, and giving him the ability to spontaneously grow a three-bladed throwable weapon called a glaive.