Luke wrote:Dark Sector
I picked this up for my PS3 because it was so cheap. I have not spent any time with it, but IGN wrote:
"There's so much blood you should probably dress like you're going to a Gallagher show."
and
"However, what sets this game apart from Gears is the glaive.
If you've never seen this jagged instrument of death, imagine an oversized ninja star that Hayden can throw like a boomerang. . . . You'll come around a corner, spot an enemy, hold L1 to switch to the over-the-shoulder aiming view, and be faced with a choice -- to glaive or not to glaive. You can pop the bad guy in the head by pulling the trigger with R1, but you can also tap R2 to throw your glaive and behead the baddie. . . . As you progress, the glaive just gets cooler. . . . All of this stuff is fun . . . but it pales in comparison to the supreme Dark Sector power known as Aftertouch. Here, you'll press and release R2 to throw the glaive and quickly hold the button again to make the camera follow the glaive in slow motion. Using your right analog stick or Sixaxis controls, you can then pilot the glaive as you see fit. It's awesome. . . . [O]nce I got to the point where I could power throw, switch to Aftertouch, slice off one guy's head and take out another dude's arm, I realized the feature is a thing of beauty. . . . Aside from the slicing a guy's leg off with the glaive and hearing him scream in pain, there are a number of different finishers for each enemy. These kill moves can be implemented when an opponent is injured and begins to glow red. That's your cue to rush in and tap circle for a finisher that can be -- but isn't limited to -- Hayden snapping a dude's neck, him slicing off the foe's arm and hitting him in the head with it, and Tenno burying the point of the glaive into a beast's forehead and watching the blue blood spurt out of it."
Also...the game was briefly banned in Australia. That fact - combined with the game's $2.99 price tag - was enough to warrant a purchase for me.
