Dark Sector, is the latest installment from Digital Extremes which puts you in the shoes of Hayden Tenno, a super top agent sent to Lasria (a location in the USSR territory) for an assassination mission. Your mission is to kill a mad man named Mezner who's in possession of a powerful virus that can turn every living being into a freaking zombie. As you make your way through Mezner's soldiers, when you think you had him, his mutated bodyguard pins you down infecting you with the very same virus you were sent to destroy. This is where our story begins.

From that point on, your body suffers mutations, your right hand transforming into a glaive which basically is the game's center of attraction. Hayden can carry a pistol and one more weapon (by picking up dead enemies guns) which will replace the glaive for a short amount of time. After that time, the weapon is automatically dropped. Controlling the glaive is quite easy, as there is a whole tutorial on how to use it efficiently; and can be thrown in direct mode or player controlled. By player control I mean that right after the glaive is in air, pressing the glaive button again allows you to control it using the analog stick or the SIXAXIS feature.

The glaive also has normal or extreme (1 hit kill) damage. If you keep the throw button for about 1 second, the crosshair will turn yellow, ready to instant kill the poor bastards. But that's not all. The powerful weapon can assimilate different elements like: if you throw it in fire, you will light up the enemies, break some ice canisters with it, you will get the ability to freeze the opponents, throwing the glaive over some electrical wires will absorb energy. You get the idea. These proprieties are not just for the fun of combat, but to use them in different in-game puzzles. First, if you happen to come to a locked door, you can only break it with the extreme power throw. Or a door that requires power to open, hit it with electrically charged glaive and voila!

Around the environment, there are scattered boxes containing money or ammunition, also silver briefcases with upgrades are available. From time to time, Hayden will find Black Market locations where all these can be put to use. Buy new pistols, rifles, shotguns and upgrade them with the items found inside those briefcases. These upgrades consists in higher firepower, more ammo or faster reload time and are absolutely necessary as there are a lot of enemies that can only be hurt with weapons.

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