IGN can completely reveal that Darkish Sector, the 2008 third-person shooter from Warframe developer Digital Extremes, is now free on Steam for the following 72 hours in celebration of the upcoming free Warframe: 1999 enlargement that’s set to be launched in December 2024.
Except for a small variety of areas like Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, Steam customers can head over to Darkish Sector’s Steam web page and obtain the sport proper now and skip its present $9.99 price ticket.
For these unfamiliar, Darkish Sector locations you within the footwear of Hayden Tenno, a covert operative who should invade the fictional Jap European metropolis of Lasria that hides a really harmful Chilly Conflict 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 every thing.
In our Darkish Sector evaluation, we stated, “Darkish Sector’s enjoyable. Listening to guards scream for assist simply earlier than they take a glaive to the face, marching round on this Steel Gear-looking Jackal tank whereas rocketing unhealthy 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 comparable ranges and waves of opponents get too repetitive in the direction of the tip of the sport, Darkish Sector’s weak storyline may not be sufficient to hold the extra fickle fan to the end line. It is enjoyable, but it surely’s not good.”
As for a way Darkish Sector is linked to Warframe: 1999, the enlargement will take gamers to the yr 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, but it surely must be an thrilling one.
Chatting with VG247, inventive director Rebecca Ford shared that Darkish Sector was positively an inspiration for this enlargement and the crew regarded to the sport for its tone and a metropolis that felt European.
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