As part of a Gameplayer preview on upcoming Digital Extremes shooter Dark Sector, the game's director, Steve Sinclair, drops an interesting quote about Unreal Engine 3. He claims that they decided against using the engine so they could hit their desired release date.
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Guys at Darksector are reaching out to you - Dark Sector fans, Forza 2 junkies and the gaming community at large - to make them a killer Dark Sector ride. And to reward, they will be giving out some limited edition XBOX 360 faceplates (like the one as shown in image)...
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D3Publisher of America, Inc. (D3PA) will showcase titles for gamers of all ages at this year's E3 Media & Business Summit, taking place in the Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, California from July 11-13, 2007. The company's line-up includes titles based on popular entertainment brands such as VIZ Media's hit anime series SHONEN JUMP NARUTO and Cartoon Network Enterprises' Ben 10, as well as innovative offerings for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Nintendo DS and Wii home video game system from Nintendo.

D3Publisher of America's Game Line-Up Includes:

Dark Sector
NARUTO: Clash of Ninja Revolution
Dead Head Fred
Ben 10: Protector of Earth
Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire
NARUTO: Path of the Ninja
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In response to the story of the ESRB's call for the removal of the Dark Sector trailer due to its "excessive or offensive content", Destructoid got in touch with them for an explanation.

Here is what ESRB president Patricia Vance wrote.

"The ESRB's Advertising Review Council (ARC) regularly monitors game ads and trailers to make sure that they adhere to industry-adopted Principles and Guidelines for Responsible Advertising Practices ( http://www.esrb.org/ratings/principles_guidlines.jsp), which were established in 2000. Since 2005, ARC guidelines have required that trailers for M-rated games on publisher websites be displayed behind an age gate to help restrict viewing to those visitors who are 17 and older. Game publishers are also required to use best efforts with respect to ensuring the presence of age gates on third party websites that display their M-rated game trailers. If a third party site insists on carrying a trailer for an M-rated game without placing it behind an age gate, our guidelines require the publisher to request that such trailer be removed and/or provide an edited version of the trailer to be used in its place.

However, the mere presence of an age gate does not permit a publisher to simply put whatever content it wishes into the trailer. All trailers must still conform to ARC's Principles and Guidelines, which prohibit the display of excessively violent content or any content likely to cause serious offense to the average consumer. When ESRB notifies a publisher that the content in a trailer is in violation of these ARC requirements, or that there is an age gate issue on a third party site, that publisher then must notify third party sites to rectify the problem. The notices issued recently by game publishers to third party websites are simply that - steps in a chain of publisher compliance with ARC guidelines and the ESRB enforcement system that have been occurring since their estab...
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In a recent preview done by PSU, they mention that a developer at the show talked about Digital Extremes tossing around the idea of having items for PlayStation Home becuase the game will release about 5-6 months after Home.

One of the items they mentioned was having Hayden's metal arm as an unlockable for your Home character to sport around.
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Publisher D3 has contacted numerous games websites requesting that two hosted "gameplay montages" for PS3 and Xbox 360 action game Dark Sector be removed after receiving a ruling from independent ratings body ESRB. A notification from D3 reads, "We recently received a ruling from the ESRB stating that the two officially released Dark Sector gameplay montages have been deemed to contain excessive or offensive content; and to this end are not to be available for download or viewing, regardless ...
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Coming straight out of Santa Monica from D3Publisher's pre-E3 event, PSU had the pleasurable chance to sit down and get hands on time with one of the best looking 3rd person shooters of this generation, Dark Sector.

Details include:
- Hands on Details
- Weapons
- Talk about Dark Sector items for PlayStation Home
- Screenshots and Video
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Today PSU was contacted by D3Publisher with the announcement that Dark Sector has been pushed back until early 2008.
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Dark Sector thrusts players into the role of Hayden Tenno, an elite black-ops agent sent on a dangerous assassination mission into Lasria ¿ an Eastern European city on the brink of ruin that hides a deadly Cold War secret. Attacked by an unknown enemy, he awakens to find part of his body altered by an infection that has granted him inhuman abilities.
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Excerpts Fromo Dark Sector Interview done by the frigging squad.

Story line:

Hayden(main Character) is introduced as a CIA cleaner who operates in places where his government agency needs to find plausible deniability for mistakes they have made. Sent into Lasria on an assassination mission, Hayden discovers a biological threat that turns people into horribly disfigured beasts¿and that he himself has been exposed to it. Hayden persistently continues his mission, but his strength, endurance, and morality is tested as this strange organic menace reacts with his body, giving him lethal, superhuman abilities. As the horrifying events in Lasria unfold, Hayden's physical transformation will progressively open new gameplay elements for the player, but his emotional and psychological evolution are equally important to character development throughout Dark Sector.CO

Combat:

You can certainly expect the visceral, bloody satisfaction found in other popular shooters to be present in Dark Sector, but Hayden's evolving powers correspond with an evolving combat system that challenges players to face enemies that are no longer just bags of hit points. Some enemies will need to be "puzzled-out" or "opened up" before they become vulnerable to the player's attack. The idea here is to expand combat tactics using the evolving context of the player's abilities to creating new possibilities for old situations.
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