Whilst Dark Sector isn’t the most graphically powerful of games, there are times when the game’s environments, lighting and enemy designs all come together to create that all-important sense of immersion, making the general lack of plot and background feel that much more of a shame. (Plus, being able to bisect an enemy in slow motion just never ceases to be fun.) Secondly is the art direction. One is the glaive itself, which unlike so many other gimmick mechanics in other titles manages to integrate itself into the core gameplay in a way that feels both fluid and natural. Its biggest letdown is its paper-thin plot, which was likely the result of Dark Sector going through so many iterations. It’s at its best when it’s introducing a steady stream of new weapons, enemies, and abilities for the glaive, after which gameplay ceases to innovate much and becomes fairly by the numbers. The gameplay, though competently executed, is hardly unique, revolving primarily around fairly generic cover-based shooting and purchasing weapon upgrades.
No one’s going to call Dark Sector any kind of cruelly ignored horror masterpiece. Though not a true horror title, the game featured enough rundown environments, mutated enemies, and bloody kills to be worth a mention on this list.
In addition to being a potent throwing weapon, the glaive gives Hayden a number of abilities such as temporary invisibility and being able to generate a bulletproof shield for short periods of time. The infection allows him to manifest ‘the glaive’, a metallic Krull-like blade that serves as the game’s USP. Hayden’s plans go awry when he gets infected with the virus himself, which slowly begins mutating him into a biological killing machine. The game follows Hayden Tenno, a CIA agent sent into a fictional Soviet satellite country to investigate the outbreak of a mysterious pathogen known as the Technocyte virus. Initially a sci-fi shooter set in space, it was drastically reworked at some point around 2005, before eventually being released in its final form in 2008 for Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. Dark Sect or had an extremely convoluted development, having been originally announced way back in 2000. Dark Sectorĭark Sector is a third-person shooter brought to us by Digital Extremes, makers of the popular free-to-play Warframe. But there are many more forgotten fright fests out there, so this time we’re taking another trip to the past to find five more titles of terror lost to time. In a previous post, we’d listed off five horror games that had – unfairly in our view – been left behind by gaming history. 5 More Horror Games That Deserve not to be Forgotten
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