Dark Sector E3 Demo Shows A More Down To Earth Game

Remember that teasing E3 trailer from a year ago, showing Digital Extremes' first PS3 project Dark Sector? No? Good for you! Because if you do remember it, you might as well forget all about it! The game was only demoed behind closed doors at E3 2006, and although no new media was released as of yet, the presentation seemed to indicate that the game has suffered a major upheaval during the last year. What initially looked like a cybernetic sci-fi stealth action game taking place on spaceships and such, now turns out to be more of a down to earth kind of game. However that's not to say it won't have sci-fi elements anymore - on the contrary.

As one of the very few websites to have any E3 2006 impressions about Dark Sector, 1UP reveals an interesting scenario and a bit about the gameplay deriving from the "all-purpose super-weapon of choice" you'll have at your disposal. But first, here's the story:

"you play an FBI agent sent to a small Russian city to investigate what is ambiguously described as "a threat". Upon arrival you're attacked by a brain-drilling monster, which implants a parasite in your head, and then kills you.

In the finest of gritty sci-fi traditions you later wake up to find that your right arm has been replaced by a metal monstrocity, and the parasite within has given you regenerative abilities and super powers. Then things start to get interesting. As you stumble back out into the Russian landscape, you see that a war has broken out between "infected" locals, and an unknown miltary force which is attempting to wipe out the threat before it spreads further."

The article goes on to describe how the game has turned into an "over the shoulder" action title (much like Gears of War and Resident Evil 5), and how the first weapon you discover - the "mag disc" - will allow you to do all sorts of crazy physics stuff. There's still no word on the game's release, though, and the last we heard Dark Sector was to be launched by D3Publisher in the Autumn of 2007, on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

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