Dark Sector, You Confuse the Hell Out of Me

Dark Sector is a game that came out on March 23 for those of us on the PC. And, while it has been around for some time, it wasn't until recently that I got a chance to play it. And, after no more than a few hours, a love/hate relationship was born.

To those of you that haven't played the game, but plan on doing so, stop reading. I'm going to be throwing out some spoilers.

*Ahem* So, with that out of the way, let's continue on this journey, shall we?

The story is pretty standard: you're a military badass sent deep undercover to complete a job that never existed: a high value assassination. Of course, things go wrong and you find yourself on the ass end of an ass kicking, and you're all but left for dead.

In the midst of all this happening, there's an outbreak of a vicious virus that turns anything it comes into contact with into a zombie with metallic skin, that just so happens to be resistant to bullets. So, like any self respecting military badass with little to lose, you manage to get infected, but not too infected (infected enough that you're classifiable as a super-weapon all on your lonesome, though).

Now, while that all makes sense (within the context of the game), there's one gigantic, substantial, huge (and any other words in your thesaurus next to the world "big"), issue that stood out to me. The enemies? The zombies that are made out of metal and have managed to take over most of the futuristic Soviet-bloc that controls the world? They're extremely veunerable to fire and ice. Two things that I happen to know we have a lot of.

Sure, the game is filled with a lot of pure, run and gun goodness -- so don't let this clerical issue deter you from picking up the game if you haven't. It's fun, it genuinely is!

But, as someone that tends to think things through, this really got me squeezing my mind grapes. You'd think that if you've got a rash of Russian romping zombies that have had little issue infesting (what I assume is) most of Eastern Europe, you'd think that someone would have tried throwing a lighter at them by now. Or heck, perhaps someone will spill a slightly chilled drink on one (rude, but it'd get the job done).

At any rate, you'd hope that in a game filled with paper zombies you'd at least get your hands on a flame thrower at some point. Sheesh.