Everyone loves free games, and every PC gamer loves Steam, so it's always good news when a title is given away by the storefront. The latest game being given away for free is Dark Sector, from Warframe developer Digital Extremes.
Dark Sector is currently 100% off on Steam in celebration of Waframe: 1999, the latest expansion for the looter-slasher. You don't have long though, as the game will only remain free until November 29 at 9 am PST/November 30 at midnight EST.
The game was originally released in 2009 on PC receiving mixed reviews from critics. Digital Extremes later took the ideas and lore presented in Dark Sector and incorporated them into Warframe, its most successful and still ongoing game.
"Honestly, Dark Sector was and it's a very interesting inspiration because I wasn't actually ever involved in the Dark Sector," said Rebecca Ford, creative director at Digital Extremes in an interview with VG247.
"But some people on the Warframe team were of course. So we were looking at how we could make an outdoor, vaguely European feel, but for Warframe now. How do we use procedural levels, how do we get outside. Then all the streams converged on that fact we'd have motorcycles, and we'd have two factions out there. Let's just build some streets and sewers and see what happens."
Ford went on to say that there won't be any direct ties to Dark Sector in Warframe: 1999, but its aesthetic will definitely remind fans of the 2009 game.
In it, players take on the role of Hayden Tenno, a "covert operative sent on a dangerous mission into Lasria, an Eastern European city on the brink of ruin that hides a deadly Cold War secret."
Dark Sector is available on PC, but you can also play it on PS3 and Xbox 360 if you own one.
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