IGN can completely reveal that Dark Sector, the 2008 third-person shooter from Warframe developer Digital Extremes, is now free on Steam for the subsequent 72 hours in celebration of the upcoming free Warframe: 1999 enlargement that’s set to be launched in December 2024.
Apart from a small quantity of areas like Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, Steam customers can head over to Dark Sector’s Steam page and obtain the recreation proper now and skip its present $9.99 price ticket.
For these unfamiliar, Dark Sector locations you in the sneakers of Hayden Tenno, a covert operative who should invade the fictional Japanese European metropolis of Lasria that hides a really harmful Chilly Struggle secret. Throughout his mission, he will get contaminated with a Technocyte Virus that turns him right into a killing machine with powers and a lethal glaive that he should use to avoid wasting all the things.
In our Dark Sector assessment, we stated, “Dark Sector’s enjoyable. Listening to guards scream for assist simply earlier than they take a glaive to the face, marching round in this Metallic Gear-looking Jackal tank whereas rocketing dangerous guys into the air and wielding a pimped-out shotgun make the expertise one thing any motion fan can get behind. Nonetheless, when the actually related ranges and waves of opponents get too repetitive in direction of the finish of the recreation, Dark Sector’s weak storyline won’t be sufficient to hold the extra fickle fan to the end line. It is enjoyable, however it’s not good.”
As for a way Dark Sector is linked to Warframe: 1999, the enlargement will take gamers to the 12 months earlier than Y2K and a retro European-style metropolis of Höllvania to turn into Arthur Nightingale. That is clearly a far cry from the house setting Warframe followers are used to, however it must be an thrilling one.
Talking to VG247, artistic director Rebecca Ford shared that Dark Sector was undoubtedly an inspiration for this enlargement and the staff appeared to the recreation for its tone and a metropolis that felt European.
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