Section 8 Single Player Preview:
The story, for what it's worth, centres round the titular Section 8 – the 8th Armoured Infantry who are renowned for the do-or-die missions they engage with. Their tour of duty takes them throughout Earth's far-flung colonies, which are being terrorised by rebel faction the ARM of Orion, a group who goes around disconnecting each planet's communications and thus maintaining a veil of secrecy. Again, so far so generic, but Section 8's plot is little more than the flimsiest of excuses for some seriously hardcore gunplay.
Developers TimeGate may not be the most renowned studio in the industry but the Texas outfit has been quietly churning out some solid genre entries. 2001's Kohan pumped some fresh air in a stagnating RTS market and was followed up by an equally impressive sequel. F.E.A.R Files may have not shown off the developer in the best possible light, but now it has been freed from the shackles of following in someone else's footsteps, it's making the first-person shooter it has always wanted to make.
Essentially, Section 8 is a game that's born out of a million multiplayer matches played by its creators. It's a game that, as we mentioned before, borrows freely from genre greats such as Battlefield 2142 and Tribes, but one that shows a shrewd understanding of its inspirations by only borrowing the very best bits.
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