This game ran, so Warframe could walk. 

Fun fact, the infestation in Dark Sector is called the Technocyte. Guess what the 1999 Infestation are called.

Dark Sector was initially going to be more of a Si-Fi ninja game than this, but DE didn't have the resources at the time to publish it themselves and no publisher would publish a Si-Fi game at the time. So we ended up with a militaristic game that follows the same gray tones of other western games at the time. If you don't like those aspects blame the publishers.

Bro don’t go back on his word, “I really want to play dark sector”

*this game covered so Warframe could Bullet Jump*

Dark sector looks very xbox 360 era, quite nostalgic actually

I think the sole reason for Dark sector not being canon canon is just copyright and studio issues. But yeah, the amount of drawback is clearly there, it´s a great piece of lore imo.

When the sector is dark or something. Also, in terms of cannon, "Dark Sector is not entirely cannon, but it's not not cannon." - quote from the devs. With 1999 coming up and the Scaldra using Efervon instead of Enferon, and with infested liches being 'Tennocyte Coda', it may be safe to assume that Dark Sector's canonicity is being ret-conned.

I love this game. I 100%'d the achievements on it back in the 360 days, had no idea it was connected to Warframe until years after when they released the "Proto-Excalibur" skin for an anniversary event.

Welcome to eternalism, the plot armor for all things related to Digital Extremes

If I remember correctly, Michael Rosenbaum (yes, Smallville's Lex Luthor) voiced Hayden. I got my copy of this game, from a Sams club store, the game had been sitting in the shelf from ages, it had discounted price over another, the case was slightly worn out... When in started to play Warframe and I remembered that game and went to buy it, the employees were looking at me like if I were out of my mind. I felt like I took the last puppy of the shelter, the one nobody wanted for being ugly, but I took home gladly, like I've found a jewel, very rough around the edges... but a jewel nonetheless. 😊

I'm so glad you're playing Dark Sector. Its legitimately still a pretty fun game, despite its age. Quite a bit of jank, but worth playing thru if you can stomach the jank. I think it stands on its own, and I honestly would love to see a genuine modern remaster of it, complete with enhanced power progression, skill trees, ect. I doubt that'll ever happen, but I've replayed this game a few times in the last couple of years (since I started playing warframe in earnest in like 2021, despite my account being made in 2014). The ability to power the glaive with fire, ice and lightning to solve puzzles, kill enemies and in general, interact with the world is genuinely an awesome feature. I love how the Glaive feels in DS. Its so cool seeing the roots of Warframe in DS, and how DE's revisiting a lot of those old ideas with 1999. Excited to watch this series :) (also longtime no speak, i've been lurking, but had to show up for Dark Sector).

It's like the prototype for the infested, what led to the research. They actually use it in the 1999, one of the enemies is a "Technocyte" monster, and this is the "Technocyte Virus" And just in case you weren't aware, the writing on Excalibur's right arm says "Hyden Tenno" The Proto-Excalibur skin with the Proto-Glaive skin are his from this game. The Proto-Nyx skin is the person who stabbed you.

I love how my fyp is now dark sector and warframe. Warframe reminded me of a game i played as a kid then some time ago i started playing dark sector again and now im addicted to warframe the game is just perfect you can change every aspect of the game on settings and make the build you love you have so much free roam its actually amazing and all the stuff you get after the story is just mind boggling

😊 it's a great game. played it in 2015. when I saw the Warframe , I knew I had seen that logo somewhere. thanks to you, now I know where.

16:04 charge your glaive by throwing it into electrical arcs

The original design for Dark Sector was closer to what today's Warframe is like, with more human-like Grineers, and played in space.

Nice you did get Dark Sector! Yeah, there are so many prototype concepts that got into WF in a more developed form. Tip for the future: When you run into enemies you can't hurt, don't forget you can charge the glaive with elements. I did, and damn I got frustrated before remembering it. 😅

Yoooo wait wait, that first "monster" which deflects the rocket THAT'S A NYX SKIN IN WARFRAME and also is like is using psychic powers... LIKE NYX, I guess is more connected to wf that I expected

Who remembers the very first Dark Sector trailer? The suit that the character wore in it was basically who would be known as Excalibur.

24:45 that is a jackal, my dude

I remember playing this on xbox 360 YEARS ago. It felt cool to guide the glaive into enemies faces lol. I knew Warframe had a familiar feel to it when I first started playing it and that Digital Extremes sounds familiar also, but It didn't click in my head as the same dev for a few weeks. Been playing off and on for years now.

When I seen the boomerang in Warframe and any weapon like it I immediately remembered this game

I always thought this game was the closest game we ever got to be an actual video game of the Sci-Fi movie Guyver.

There was a lot of assets and ideas that got reworked for warframe over The years from this. The Excal proto and the male Nyx proto skins, the glaive and gun proto mechanic attempted in this, how the grineer looked originally in their full battle garb during the early days of warframe, the mechanoid bosses in dark sector were also used as basis for the design of some. Then the base lore/plot development and environment that seems to be re-conned for the 1999. Some regions were also called Dark Sectors out of nothing better back then as well. I’m feeling old now. Dark sector is a ok game. If DE had the budget and a cooperative publisher to let they get their way with what they had in stock they could have done a lot more than a byproduct of Metal Gear era of games. So yeah, it’s going to grayscale throughout because of that and the aim and controls are as clunky as one would expect from that time. The “I thought I could do it and I did” thing was pretty much one of the reasons DE had such a hard time finding a publisher for the game (and how warframe struggled in its first steps too). Too many cool ideas, too many cool mechanics. It’s never gonna sell, they said.

Okay now I'm 100% convinced that 1999 is a Dark Sector tie-in.

13:36 The food in the microwave 😆

You got the turn of phrase backwards bud, darkSector walked so Warframe could run XD

The Glaive throws is so satisfying.

The graphics aren’t good in todays standards but at the same time looking at this and when it was published it still looks quite decent to this day kind of insane

if 1999 touches base on this- best believe I’m gonna play this entire game.

The main character is named Hayden Tenno. I used to play this waaaaay back when. His girlfriend was literally Nyx proto skin with a giant blade. I loved this game so much that I played PVP and it was funny as shit. I dumped 2000+ hours on this game.

you might have swapped the phrase because i think warframe did the running, when I searched it, it did say both phrases work but i think this game did the walking so warframe could run

The scientist looked abit like albrecht entrati

I think it deserves a remaster. Its such a good story and it explains stuff for 1999

Wow this is a throw back haven’t played this in years.

it might just be an earlier strand of infested, different but similar to the current infested

Awesome video, I LOVED this game!!! I wish they would reboot it and add it to Warframe. This is what had me excited about Warframe before it even launched. This actual Glaive needs to show up in Warframe too.

man, I love when a Tenno plays darkSector. you can feel when the "oh, is THIS is where that came from???" unlocks in their heads. But yea, I think WF1999 is the "remaster" of dS, but like, through the Eternalism filter... meaning that DE is making an alternate, idealized, and WF lore-compliant version of dS that doesn't necessarily make this version obsolete. And I think that's beautiful.

I love the screaming if enemies and the way they get slightly launched by the glaive so much 😅 Man can DE not implement this in Warframe. More agony in the screams of enemies 😂❤

[inhales nostalgia, exhales desire to rip owned XBOX360 copy off shelf to play again] good times. That glaive was so intuitive to me. I'm not surprised people might have a little trouble with the guided throw, but damn, I started feeling physical pain for you.

My first taste was a beautiful game. The gloomy and tense atmosphere was delicious. It was the stuff of horror games.

this is the first ive ever seen gameplay of dark sector

6:30 that's the "Nemesis" skin for Nyx in Warframe.

you can throw your glaive behind cover and control it instead of standing everytime you throw it

Wow this is same level of resident evil with different game play. Really like to see this to learn pass of warframe Can't wait to see another episode bro.

ngl, the technocyte character at 6:42 with that scythe throw thing looks very much like the armor in "prototype" Alex Mercer gets all infected up anmd it looks alot like that.

I'm really enjoying it. The similarities to Warframe are way more present than expected as well as the game itself looks better than I thought.

20:54 "The DE-tail" :P

there used to be a game on the app store during the ipod touch era that look exactly like warframe and came out before NOVA but its basically lost history like tap tap revenge

Holy crap I haven't played this game since I was little but watching you this game is cracked lmao

This is like the first ever Warframe game I remember playing it when I was younger

It really ran though. I loved every moment of this game.

Dark sector isn't linked to the warframe universe at all, but they did reuse assets and concepts for warframe since its the game they intended to make in the first place. Grineer used to use the same voice lines as the enemies here for example, but were changed to being its own thing later. The infected here is called Technocyte specifically, rather than infested. Which is why its interesting that they decided to call the infested in 1999 specifically technocyte, i guess because its another nod to the infected in dark sector.

So, I wonder when we're getting that RPG in Warframe, eh? The movement of your character with a handgun, reminds me of Resident Evil 4, they look very similar.

The phrase is X walked so Y could run, because running faster and more helpful to get your destination. DarkSector is technically not related to warframe in any way , DE just reused assets because they wanted to use the budget in a smart way, so they didnt sink the company in dept,but lore wise Darksector has absolutely nothing to do with warframe, just like SoulFrame will be it's own thing.

Everytime DE wa asked whether Dark Sector is canon or not they kept saying NO its not Canon, I knew they plan on bringing this back into warframe

Who knows, this may still be canon to warframe's lore

In the menu there's an option to put colors back. Playing it with desaturate grey tones it's optional.

just wait till you get in to late game and get THAT skin for hayden. will be interesting if 1999 eventually has more hints at DS being canon since arthur is pretty much the new hayden

So happy to see a Let's Play of Dark Sector!

I think you meant “this game walked, so Warframe could run.”

I've been meaning to watch a playthrough of this, thank Lotus it's you playing it!

i had this problem when if i died wile walking on a certain direction my controls would bug and i would be always be walking in said direction even after reloading a save,I LITERALLY HAD TO RESTART THE GAME,leaving that aside it was a cool game thought

The original Grey Strain

I remember l liked playing it and hope you do too. Wanted t9 always play the multiplayer but.. that was not going to happen anytime soon it seemed.

That robot boss is just a jackle

Looks like the grittiness the gears trilogy had

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! edit: the thing that attacks hayden after the heli fight i think is like the "stalker" of the game

i wish games were like this again.

I never noticed that the O in sector has the Lotus Sigil in it.

Why do I feel like this city is what we saw in 1999 trailer it looks so similer

Wow I see Tenno and Teshin both coming from that design. Very cool, honestly!

6:40 now I know why the Nyx Nemesis skin is 200p

Good, underrated game.

I still got the 360 disc lmao loved the hell outta this game

So soulframe could crawl

You made that joke about the glaive prime but its currently up during the prime resurgence lol I it has about 87 more days from now till it gets vlauted again so you all should get on that aya farming now!

I could've swore I played some of this game back in the rental days, but the intro doesn't look familiar at all. I wonder if maybe I played some later part at a friends? I dunno...I do wonder, if DE had been able to make the game they wanted instead of what this wound up being, would we have Warframe? Considering Warframe was something of a hail Mary, probably not, right? I certainly does make me even more interested in 1999, mind you!

It looks like Leon s Kennedy from re 4 came in ninja like apperance

21:32 lol that's great

Dark sector isnt canon ,easy answer is they didnt have the rights to it but still its like a spiritual prequel. A lot of recycled material from the game is in warframe Hayden tenno Lotus symbol The arm is a skin Nyx Frost Tennocyte virus The guns Theres more but these are just some

Well surprised that you used the control glaive for a switch yet never tried it on the enemy. Awesome game good nostalgia vibes seeing it again.

Someone message DE to release their DarkSector game out for new consoles, I want to play this

I think the title is backwards in my opinion. Warframe has definitely taken off since its release and Dark Sector is a thing of the past. When something runs it takes off, goes far. Walking doesn’t get you very far which is exactly what happened to this game. It didn’t get very far.

Finally someone else sees where it all started so many years ago.

Warframe 99 trailer ad on this video..... Coincidence...?

that is an awesome title screen

So is Dark Sector Warframe? The glaive is right there

I wish there was a PC port for this game. I had a hard copy of this game in which I ended up losing and I still hate myself today for losing it. Edited: Just found out there is a port. Instant cop.

i remember playing this with my brother as kids! Lol. Edit: I also no-life warframe now lol

Damn this is heavy ps3 nostalgia

I loved this game and always wondered why they never remade/ remastered it or why no sequel happened.

OK I might have to try to play this

The real Excalibur Prime

Dark Sector is not exactly cannon per say to warframe but there are theories that, due to similarities with 99 content released thus far and the certain skins for excal, nyx, and the glaive (which can be wielded with a single pistol just like in this game), they are going to try and pull some multiverse of madness type shenanigans and make the Grey Strain of the infestation (the specific type used to make the Warframes) originate from the DarkSector universe and "Wally" be the conciousness of the strange Doctor Mezner your chasing the whole game

That weapons in warfram also.

More like so Warframe could super jump

I thought this game was a myth

I found a darksector on disk in a thrift store but the disk was super scratched up

more like "this game walked so warframe could run".