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Section 8 (PC)

GENERAL INFORMATION

GENRE/STYLE

Shooter/First-Person Shooter

RELEASE DATE

04/SEP/09

ESRB RATING

DEVELOPER

TimeGate Studios

PUBLISHER

SouthPeak Interactive

ALSO AVAILABLE ON

PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

TRAITS (member-attributed "LIKES")

THE SETTING #USES

sci-fi 44
The World Of Tomorrow 1

PLAYING AS #USES

PLAYING AGAINST #USES

HOW IT'S PLAYED #USES

GENERAL TONE #USES

Fast-paced 16
intense action-based modern day combat 13
intense 10

DESCRIPTION

Section 8 is a futuristic first-person shooter that finds two factions, the 8th Armored Infantry and Arm of Orion, engaged in war over the right to colonize planets. Embark on a single-player campaign as a member of the 8th Armored Infantry in missions taking place on multiple worlds. You can also engage others in 32-player online combat, with or without computer-controlled bots, and battle the AI in instant action scenarios. Section 8 lets you customize your armored soldier's equipment and allows you to call on a dropship to deploy vehicles or weapons at any time and in any location. The dynamic battlefield ensures no two games will play exactly the same way, as objectives are updated in the heat of combat instead of being scripted in advance. ~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide

Section 8 (PC)

GENRE/STYLE:

Shooter/First-Person Shooter
RELEASE DATE:

04/SEP/09
TOP TRAITS:

sci-fi, Online Multiplayer, Fast Paced FPS
DESCRIPTION:

Section 8 is a futuristic first-person shooter that finds two factions, the 8th Armored Infantry and Arm of Orion, en... more

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Section 8 (PC) by: karr1981

“good fun good release”

created 25/JAN/2012

Gilphe played Section 8 on 09/NOV/11

“Discovered Section 8, first play. Not very difficult, good for clean the brain. For the moment, there's no real challenge, I will see with the multiplayer.”

created 10/NOV/2011

CoreRemnant played Section 8 on 23/JUN/11

created 24/JUN/2011

Maybrick played Section 8 on 23/JAN/10

“Completed the game but the main game mode seemed incredibly short and they could have done a lot more with it. I got the game as it seemed a bit like Crysis which I loved but its completely...”

created 24/JAN/2010

Is Section 8 and Dragon Age Good? by: Linked713

“I am getting those 2 games right now via Torrent so I can try them out. God I hate when there is no demo. Is the online good for any of them?”

created 04/NOV/2009

vexx3o5 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“dude section 8 is horrendous ”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“How is that so?”

vexx3o5 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“you have to shoot somebody for like 30 seconds and reload like twice and my good sir there is a demo for shity 8 on live ”

vexx3o5 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“and from what i have seen dragonage is good but does not have a online component”

Pathard was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@vexx3o5 The only online Dragon Age has is a system that displays your stats to others and whatnot. I haven't really looked at it to much yet, the single player is fantastic though!”

vexx3o5 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“im sorry i thought u guys meant on 360 but yes pathard is right dragon age single player is awesome”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Nah PC Versions.

I like it when ennemies takes more than 1 shot to kill. Carebear FPSs are lame.”

vexx3o5 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“more than halo as well a lot more lol u will see let me know what u think about it”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Alright I will try it maybe tonight.

I am deceived by Dragon Age not being online though...
Dungeon Siege (first one) was the same style but had an Epic online feature as well as some secret levels. I liked how you could do any job too. I am tired of those "Select your char, spec and there you go stuck with this for 40 hours."”

Pathard was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Linked713 Dragon Age is going to be quite a long game from what I understand. I'm sure I'll finish it eventually, but Shattered Horizon comes out later today, and Modern Warefare 2 comes out next week.. gah!”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Shattered Horizon looked weird to me. Modern Warfare 2 is going to be good.. well my expectations are rather low.. IW made a great job ruining the title with servers and all. Borderlands is a BLAST. Also Playing DJ Hero... and Brutal Legend... mmh and Aion... lol

Too many games to play.. So far I think Borderlands > MW2 for me”

craigchamberlin was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“There is no online for Dragon Age...”

Fallout2Forever was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“According to several reviews Section 8 is supposed to be decent at best. I'd tell you that Dragon Age: Origins is supposed to be RPG of the Year material, but you'll hate it if you're looking for a shallow, mindless online game, because it's supposed to require a lot of strategy, and is single player.”

Avs was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Lol carebear fps = 1 shot kills. Slugfests are a better description of what you prefer. Dying in one hit is far from being anything close to a casual FPS.

As for Section 8, single player is more of a tutorial for multiplayer. If you get S8, make sure you are playing its multiplayer as singleplayer is what has given it a bad rep. But then again, there are a lot of other FPS multiplayer games out there like TF2.

As for Dragon Age: It requires a lot of tactics, even more so on nightmare mode. Challenges like that (besides depending on just gear/items to win), will make this game interesting.”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Avs "Lol carebear fps = 1 shot kills. Slugfests are a better description of what you prefer. Dying in one hit is far from being anything close to a casual FPS."

No, you're way off. You just didn't get what I said. Dying in 1 shot (ie: Rainbow six 3) is fine and more of a challenge. HOWEVER, according to what vexx3o5 said about 3 hours ago, "you have to shoot somebody for like 30 seconds and reload like twice" thus my reply "I like it when ennemies takes more than 1 shot to kill. Carebear FPSs are lame. "

In other words. If you can kill a NPC in 1 shot in a FPS game, it's lame.

As for my prefered type of game. I'd say Call of duty on Veteran difficultyis awesome. Killzone 2 also have some nice and tough ennemies.”

Avs was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Oh, thought you were referring to pvp combat in FPS, since section 8 is primarily based around multiplayer. But that still doesnt change the fact that shields + jetpacks will make those fights a lot longer than what the weapons can do.

Speaking of Call of Duty, are you getting MW2? I'd like to know since theres a boycott and what going on.

As for Section 8, if you can find a good community the game is decent like the reviews say. ”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“IW is totally bringing MW2 down the line with some less than appealing features. As a CoD Console Player, the matchmaking isn't my biggest issue... but Many other things are making me sick of IW in general. I will get it, but might not play as often as I played MW1.

I was trying to get Section 8 for single player. I don't really intend to play on multiplayer with that game.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Man Linked, you're pretty brazen about piracy. Not saying I haven't done it, but making a topic telling others, wow. ”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@EarthboundX I am getting those 2 games right now via Torrent >>> so I can try them out. <<<

I prefer pirating a game to try it than buy it for nothing. I am considering buying the one im going to play with like the other games I have.

Even my windows 7 is legit and retail.”

danblu3 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Linked713 Hear Hear!”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Linked713 Yeah, but I just don't think it's the best idea to mention stuff like that, you never know, you could be reported.”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@EarthboundX I know. lol.”

Ashbelthor was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@EarthboundX and then what, EA will sue Linked for all of the piracy losses they will have for the game?
I seriously doubt anything would happen, it's just not worth anyone's time.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Ashbelthor Nah, I hear stories all the time.

The newest thing they do, is make your internet provider ban you. I've been hearing a lot of that.

So make sure you use a client like uTorrent, that blocks your IP, haha. ”

Ashbelthor was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@EarthboundX Or just don't use a crappy internet provider.
BTW uTorrent doesn't block your ip.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“From what I hear it does, it has a built in proxy.”

Ashbelthor was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Weird, since when I use torrent stuff and there are clients which use uTorrent, it shows me their ip.
But I donno, maybe it doesn't show their real one.”

hellgast was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Linked713 Those carebear FPS are closer to reality than the FPSes you have to shoot 4000 bullets at. I mean, irl you're dead with one, maybe two or three shots at max. So is your opponent. The only thing in most of the FPSes is that it takes only one bullet to kill your enemy, but you can handle like 100 bullets and still not die. ”

Ashbelthor was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@hellgast and that's why CoD's Hardcore mode is so good.”

hellgast was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Ashbelthor Totally agree. But, to get back on topic. Dragon Age is nice. But it's a bit slow-paced and long. ”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@hellgast What I call carebear FPSes are FPS that you never die and can 1shot pretty much your opponents even at hard and above. I like killzone2 cause they are hella hard to kill BECAUSE they are armored and it's not just for the look and feel. I mean yeah some games have their hard and easy mobs.. but since when you put your butter knifed armed soldiers in front line?”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Dragon Age might be game of the year.”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@EarthboundX wastched few movies from Youtube, I bought it... Doing the 12gb steam download as I type this. Should be playable tomorrow.”

Clidante was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“My internet is buggered at the moment for at the rate ot 89kbps I doubt i'll be getting Dragon Age preloaded any time this week :(”

Avs was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Lets settle this:

Multiplayer:

Carebear FPS are fps that require a lot of shooting to kill people with because it makes it so that even people will superb aim cant off someone without the other getting a chance to run or shoot back. There aren't a lot of these.

Everything else (TF2, CS, anything with a headshot system, anything with a hardcore system or 1-4 bullets = death like AA, is normal FPS), where you can get instagibbed.

Singleplayer:

All FPS games because of either difficulty settings or the fact that the game would suck if you died every 5 feet. I dont think anyone actually talks about "carebear" fps (this term isn't common to most FPS gamers) in a singleplayer environment, simply because Singleplayer is singleplayer, your opponents arent you, and you are some super soldier.

Since everyone is "equal" relatively in multiplayer, if you can headshot an opponent, they can headshot you. Anyways, all cleared up.”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Avs Auto-Regeneration = Carebear FPSes. I can't see a point where you ccan recover (like in Call of duty) from 2 clips of SMG alone without any medic or health pack... Come on... this is LAME.”

Avs was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Linked713 Hmm, what about health packs then? So would counterstrike be a non-carebear FPS compared to COD4:MW (because of autoregen)?

Or are we talking Tom Clancy's FPS shooters being non-carebear vs TF2 because TF2 has health pickups and Borderlands has health/takes a lot of hits to kill you. I think casual FPS would be a better term. Carebear sounds so negative!

In Call of Duty MW, we always played with a realism mod that meant 2-3 bullets of any gun = death. I never really played in the normal gun and run, spray and pray servers because of that.”

fteneq was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I think the definition of carebear is largely being used here to describe what you want to describe the gaming environment and functionality you're favoring.

If there is a level playing field then there should be no stipulation to the quality of the encounters. All you are really entitled to is your opinion and if it is a non-favorable you use the term carebear loosely to describe why you don't find it appealing to you.

Overall it's just a definition argument and the fact that you would rather have it another way.

I personally prefer the shield/health pack style play because we are playing a game and I don't want it to be, one shot, one kill. I want to have a chess match in a few short seconds. This is obviously my opinion conversely to yours. ”

fteneq was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“As your example said two clips from an SMG, but we're relating this to reality, the weapons we're talking about are reminiscent of realistic weapons but are used basically as a X thing that does Y damage to Z person. Fill in the variables with anything you like. ”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@fteneq No, its called opinion and anyone can call something carebear if their reason fits. The best FPS I've played was Rainbow six 3 Raven Shield + Athena Sword that I still Play with my friends from time to time in Deathmatch. It is the best example of a hardcore FPS in multiplayer, at least.”

fteneq was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I said it's an opinion. In more words obviously. ”

Zedo-P-Mann was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“You're getting them via torrent? Isn't that a little illegal?”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@ZedoMann Yes it is. I did not like Section 8, so I deleted it. and as for Dragon Age I liked it a lot so I bought it on steam. I am glad that I have tested them before.”

IrishGeek was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Section 8 was horrible, I mean multiplayer wasnt so bad I suppose, but it didnt live up to it's hype at all. I played for a few hours and then went back to other games.

Dragon Age is pretty fun though, and it's nice how they've been speed loading DLC for the rest of us.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Yeah, Section 8 lived up to nothing.”

Linked713 was the last to comment - over 3 years ago... show previous hide previous

“Woah the topic died 2 months ago (I bought dragon age, which I never really got into, sadly I think I am more of a JRPG type)”

Section 8 (PC) by: robocop

“Boring.”

created 27/OCT/2009

Section 8 (PC) by: WEsLeY666

“Section 8, a game that works as sort of a futuristic Battlefield 2, and it does this better than 2142 in my opinion. The special abilities (Lock On, Jetpack etc) add some much needed variety into this otherwise mildly bland shooter, while the...”

created 20/OCT/2009

danblu3 played Section 8 on 18/OCT/09

“Not a bad little game, was quite fun to play just messed around on it and amazingly my pc runs it quite smooth! ”

created 18/OCT/2009

Torinir was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Agreed. UE3 is one of the better engines, imo, for gaming.”

Section 8 (PC) by: shiverczar

“A good idea, but not very well done. It tries to combine too many game types together and takes the parts of each that clash with the others.”

created 12/OCT/2009

Sonnbra played Section 8 on 02/OCT/09

“I feel like lightning video here http://www.xfire.com/video/1541f7/”

created 03/OCT/2009

Hi-Res Section 8 Hotness by: tekchip

“http://www.wegame.com/watch/Section_8_Gameplay_Session_28Sept09/ Have to say for the purposes of non-live broadcasting I see virtually no frame rate loss while recording in game video through the...”

created 28/SEP/2009

milinko played Section 8 on 25/SEP/09

“Tryed it out for the first time and liked it”

created 25/SEP/2009

Daniellynet played Section 8 on 21/SEP/09

“Played some online matches.!”

created 27/SEP/2009

Section 8 (PC) by: acJTK

“Fast & good looking Online Shooter that includes some Ideas from BRINK that will be released in spring 2010. The Game is a good alternate to BF 2142.”

created 19/SEP/2009

Section 8 on Hulu!! by: tekchip

“Was just getting caught up on some of my ep's of the shows I watch. What I watch isn't important. What showed up on one of the commercial breaks was pure awesomeness. A section 8 commercial which is...”

created 17/SEP/2009