Hopeing for a Dark Sector sequel

Best post-mortem dev interview in forever. SO TIRED of hearing Dyack and Jaffe and Factor 5 piss and moan about how nobody "gets them".
KRITISIZM! UR DOIN IT RONG! You can indulge in your art like the rest of us, when it doesn't have shareholders attached.

And yet Dark Sector is a shining light compared to Fall of Liberty: "Here's a great idea we have, and, oh what, it's time to ship already? Damn, thought we could flesh it out more." And then that other WW2FPS that I can't even remember because it was so awfully buggy... Compare that with Timeshift, which actually turned out pretty great because they let it cook for an extra year. Really publishers, you can't expect these devs to make us a cheesesteak if you don't give 'em any whiz.

Nothing has changed with unsuccessful development in 20+ years, just the teams and the budgets are bigger to cope with the technology. The failings in design are the same regardless of the technology or platform. Bad mechanics, bad control, bad storytelling. Good graphics won't keep your game popular 5 years from now.

I hate deadlines, but they're a necessary evil. Every time I hear about a game delay I'm thankful because it means somebody is not just thinking but in fact deciding "this could be better". And that makes Gaming better.

I liked the game. The story was stupid, though. But I loved how it controlled. It was like playing a not-as-scary Resident Evil...or a very actiony Silent Hill...it's just a mix of RE and Gears of War. Story sucks, but action is awesome.

I wonder how much this game cost to make including the new engine. This game looks like it's appealing enough to reach at least 350K units sold. That would make a revenue of more than $20M at an average price of 60 bucks.

Oh, and I actually bought the game, and I find quite good, with onlly major very distracting issues: a) the middle of the campaign is very blank, dull, sometimes the user has no idea about the relevance of the surroundings and what's taking place, and it feels like a pratice battleground for a major event, and not really like survival--in which every level should feel like it doesn't get any worst than that--RE4 had so many moments like that; b) Broken and laggy multiplayer, where it's only fun when you're kicking ass with the super suit.

So... you asked the Krull question, but not the Guyver question...?

Ah, very nice interview. Refreshing to see that sort of honesty from a developer who realised their game wasn't what it could have been. In this light (provided he learned from his admitted mistakes) I wouldn't mind a sequel either.

I was kinda looking forward to this one, but I just tried the demo and not only did the gameplay not thrill me, it gave me a motion sickness headache in under ten minutes...If the director himself is dissatisfied with how they handled the story, I think I'll just assume it's not worth the pain and take a miss...

I thought original concepts of the game, which was supposed to take place in space, looked more interesting than the setting they took up for the final game. But still, I want to try this game out, maybe a rental just to be safe. The degree of mixed opinions surrounding this game has me intrigued.

i like this game ,sequel will be good

its a good game but its too dark and its difficult to do a close combat

I liked it up until they decided to add new features, I mean duel wielding was just some lame concept. The gameplay seemed more balanced when you had just a pistol and more fun, the shooting looked so plain and just boring when shooting the pistol with the glaive. I think it has a lot of potential though and more work can be done with a sequel.

The game was flat, though it did have it's moments. The bosses were lame and the environments were largely uninspired. The glaive and the chase camera however were awesome, the repetitive death animations and target points were not. A sequel if done right could be awesome, but they have to do a lot of fixing!

THis game was all around bad

Dark Sector Sucked!!!

i liked this game a lot more the second time through and i hope that they do come out with another one and that they work on the story more with this one because there is nothing else major that they did wrong because the engine works great the graphics were good and it ran smooth on the ps3

I liked the game, but they really need to focus more on story next time. So how many units of this game were sold?

If they ever planned to make a sequel... I would definately say two things need to be worked on quite abit; 1) Hayden has to be alot mre agile in how you can control him... and 2) (which would be inevitably agreed on) the storyline needs much more depth and concept.

I wish in multiplayer you had pile o' Hayden's running around instead of those useless soldiers. The game could have toned down on the racism too. Other that it wasn't too bad.

@JohnnyNeat


DO you even know how many years Digital Extreme and epic games worked together?

AHH man id LOVE a sequel.......

cool engine, lame story, awesome final boss battle, too easy = good rental

they created the Evolution engine which runs silk smooth on 360 and damn near perfect on PS3 so id give them a badge just for that. and Dark sector was good. yes the way the story was told was a pile but the actual story itself is brilliant. so many possibilities come from it.
i hope they do a sequel and put more effort on the storyline and more creative uses for the glaive, that for me would be at least a 9/10 in my books. and no matter how gory, i will buy it. thumbs up to Digital Extreme, a superior dev!

This game is nothing more than a rental.

I rented it and I think it's not polished or fun enough to have been released. I guess all the push backs killed the team's motivations.
Forget Multiplayer and totally disregard anything to do with having no fun achievements on the 360 version.

Note to any Devs, STOP with the annoyingly ridiculous achievements.
Didn't Epic's 10k kill Gears of War achievement teach you anything of annoyance? You guys over at Digital Extremes and D3Publisher of America, for examples, obviously rubbed some of that Gears' style on to your work, which is fine, but why not learn from their annoying mistakes? Most of your achievements feel like after the fact forced homework. Couldn't you have seen how IW's lack of online achievements in Call of Duty 4, if anything as an example, show how no online multiplayer achievements are a possible option in avoiding forced lame achievements and in allowing any enjoyment or lack of in playing with perfect strangers?
If you have to add achievements to online play make them reasonable, jeez.
Oh and please, no more insanely annoying gamerscore achievements that take months upon months to acquire. I also don't think anyone loves playing for achievements geared at forcing us to play your one trick pony, one time through type of games. Good example, GTAIV's kill a Rockstar dev online achievement. Are they serious?

Well nobody can expect perfection in a game (yes this includes the likes of Halo). Now consider that they developed a pretty good game AND Created the Evolution Engine at the same time. And for all that effort I commend them in the way I would commend the likes of Blizzard,and Insomniac

I may rent this game or wait for it to show up in the bargain bin.

The game was good not great just good

the game was still pretty decent. some good sp moments in there

' We didn't have time to try it out on people who were fresh'

Sorry,but 4 years isnt time!! Bol!*x Wasnt this one if not the first Next Gengame to be revealed!

Iet's hope the online gameplay is better in the sequel.

I hope the second time round they can concentrate purely on the game rather than the engine they built all at the same time.

The first was really quite enjoyable and I think they'll learn from their mistakes.

Dark Sector definitely had its fair share of problems, but the overall game was very good and it's definitely worth a look if you dig 3rd person shooters. I hope Digital Extremes will turn this into a franchise, so we'll see a sequel that improves on the issues and makes the story a more important part of it.

most of the time i dont even pay attention to the story in action games. i didn't notice that anything was missing. it was a lot of fun to play. beat it in two days and returned it to my friend. a great rental. not worth buying.

It's good to see developers with a grounded view of gaming. That means we can expect a lot of improvement from these guys in the future. I only played the demo, but everything seems pretty accurate thus far - pretty good gameplay with the sweet glaive, great visuals, but an expectedly weak plot.

If they made the story-telling a lot better, the game would have been less repetitive. Through out six chapter of the game, there wasn't a single cut scene. It was the right moment to demonstrate more about the story, but sadly the developers didn't have time.

I sort of feel bad for these guys. They worked their asses off on a beautiful engine and had go through a reptitive process of trying to develop a game, only to see that their sales for Dark Sector to be very low. Time Shift went through the same thing, and I am quite puzzled on how these two developers are able to continue on to fix their flaws.

i love it that Sinclair knows and can admit to what was wrong with Dark Sector. Here is hoping that they can improve on an already great game if there is sequel.

THE GAME KICKED ASS.....HAIL FROM GREECE

stoopid aus government denying me my rights to some gore!!

I thought the game was OK. Chopping people in half with a power throw from the Glaive, preferably while steering it with Aftertouch, was fun for the duration of the game. But, it's really shallow. It's a one-trick pony. Outside of the Glaive and the violence, there's really nothing to distinguish it from other games. And, yes, the storyline is pretty weak.

I thought the game was great, don't know why so many criticism. The only thing I would like is the briefcase like RE4 and upgrade weapons by money not by finding items

I loved the game, I thought it was great. I agree that the story-telling was kind of vague and passive, but the gameplay was a lot of fun.

Demo was cool but seems like it'd get repetitive. Glad to see developers listening to the criticisms though.

rented got to like lvl 5 or 6 got bored easily.

Wouldn't mind a sequel. Sinclair sounds like he knows what he's doing and is aware of what was wrong with the first game so a sequel would be fine in my book.

A sequel good be great just some little things got on my nerves but im sure if they had the time they could make a great game !

BL1NDS1DE great game, very underrated
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yes indeed,it was one of those sleeper hits.heres hoping to a sequel.

Decent game, would like to see what could be done in a sequel.

great game, very underrated

I want a sequel as well.

Hey, I wouldn't mind a sequel.