What happened to Dark Sector?

malcolm

Okay so I watched the video for this in like 2004 or something? And thought, great another fucking game in the dark where I have to use a shitty flash light and eat shit. Then I see this trailer for the game and everything is different, no space ship, no crap dark everywhere lighting and the main dude has the throwing star from Krull. Looks more interesting now and I will definately give it a try when it comes out. Did this game go through a complete redesign at some point?

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?type=wmv&id=15607

Joshua Stubbles

Well, I'm sure ~Austin and Strangefate can tell ya more than I can. But yeah, it was redesigned :P

ebagg

Personally I thought the original trailers from 2004 were badass! The dude with his ninja sci fi suit would've been awesome!

The new trailer looks kinda interesting...wonder how it'll turn out...the weapon seems silly.

Slainean

I for one was excited to see that this game was taken in a whole new direction. The over-the-shoulder camera style is very RE4.

Tulkamir

Damn, I don't remember the old trailer, but that looks baddass.

Chunkey

Aye, can't wait to see more of the game

arshlevon

hahaha this looks like a resident evil 4 mod.. even the animations are the same.. hmmmm

Husch

I think it´s the third game with the name dark sector about that digital extremes release some information or trailers.
Some years ago there were some concept drawings and renderings about an online game with the name dark sector on the website of digital extremes, then this splinter cell in space trailer and now this version. Personally, the space stealth action was the most promising game concept for me.

MoP

I seem to recall the visuals looking better in earlier iterations of the game than shown in this trailer.
Still, that might have been because the previous ones were all in the dark so you couldn't make out any detail

I recognised some of Strangefate's environment stuff in there though, cool

Fuse

I was kind of also to see this new, less bold design, at least from appearance the original trailer had a lot of unusual and exciting styling.

This one feel like it's been toned down quite a bit, and i feel a little heartbroken

It does indeed look like it draws a lot of inspiration from RE4 ..

malcolm

What the hell is this?

http://darksector.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/art.php

And here is the original, holy fuck it was dark I could never play a game where I can't see where I'm going, I did that in fear and doom3 and now I'm on strike, people should learn how to light with level design in mind or they should not make lighting.

http://www.ownage.nl/images/content/18190.jpg

fmnoor

Was there really a lot of information regarding Dark Sector at the time? I only recall the video and some claim of being the first "next-gen" title.

vahl

malcolm, those links are stuff from respectively 7 and 3 years ago, at least, that has been trashed, there was a reason for it... ^^

(edit : timeline corrected)

malcolm

Roger that. Being a little sarcastic here no disrepect to digital extremes I think they are nifty. Just having some fun.

ebagg

Malcolm, that Dark screenshot is from the cinematic trailer from old version two years ago, dunno how much it'd translate to gameplay, but you should check out the full trailer, it was pretty awesome!