Section 8

[Freshman]

Today, I was over at a friends house and while waiting around for somebody else to show up, we started playing a game his rental company sent him called "section 8." It's kinda like star wars battlefront meets space marines. I liked it alot. Only got in 2 games though before the other guy showed up, so my infatuation with the game may have been just the "OOOOO something new and shiny" response.
so the question:
What does the community think of this game, if anybody has ever heard of it? should i rent/buy/never think about again?

 

[k3v1n]

I played the demo, and found it...eeeh Ok, at best. it's not bad, it just didn't add anything new except for the "orbital drop" thing. but if you like it, may I suggest a rental?

 

[Drakmeire]

I remember it was a hot topic of the game industry when it Came out, some loved it and others hated it, much like killer 7 and Deadly Premonition.
I've yet to try it, I was never an FPS fan.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I played it at release, the game is great and the drop in spawn system is a nice feature. My only problem with the game is Games for Windows live which completely ruined the game, I played the open Beta and it was fine and then the release version had all the GWFL crap on top and it just totally ruined it for me.

 

[Amnestic]

Played the demo. Pretty average to be honest. The orbital drop feature as a nice idea, but other than that I didn't feel it did anything stellar enough to warrant actually purchasing. Haven't even bothered renting it.

Space Marines meets Battlefield. Two old premises rolled into one to create a thoroughly mediocre dish.

 

[Irridium]

It was actually not bad.

It had a neat spawn mechanic, being able to drop in from the sky and call equipment from orbit.

Generic as all hell though. Shame.

 

[SamuelT]

I played through a bit of the single player and a few rounds online. It was very unsatisfying. Big burly man-suits running around taking as much hits to their hitboxes as their health bars deem sufficient and then die in a 'oops i am dead' animation.

The weapons are all unsatisfyingly pew-pew lego manufactured, and nothing had enough oomph behind it to properly be called a weapon.

It gets stale after an hour. I'd say rent it for a day. If you're not tired of it by then, you might want to concider getting your brains checked out buying it.

 

[Nouw]

Its pretty mediocre to be honest. And generic. So I don't like Section 8.

Worth a rent

 

[Jamieson 90]

I wouldn't say its generic, its no more generic than the COD clones that keep being churned out. Like I said my only complaint with the game was GWFL. I thought the fact that you didn't die in 2seconds was a good thing, I play ETQW and its similar there, if you get 3 headshots you can kill someone in like 2-3 seconds otherwise it takes like 5 or more in section 8 I remember it taking longer because of the shields/health and armor perks and the fact that you had to fight at certain ranges to be effective, very tactical game.

That doesn't make it bad but I guess most people just want COD and the OMG i just ownedz you!!!

 

[pirate64]

I got the game and liked it but the problem was GFWL rained it for me. Something about my code or something meant I couldn't play online.

 

[Moccamonster]

I thought it was incredibly mediocre and generic.
Not bad enough to be considered shit, not good enough to be considered a game I'd recommend.

 

[Sephychu]

Eh, not for me. I found it samey and, as has been said, generic.

Not a fan.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I got the game and liked it but the problem was GFWL rained it for me. Something about my code or something meant I couldn't play online.

I know what you mean, I hated GWLF on it to, had to use a GWFL tag and if you wanted to change it you had to pay MS points or real money if you had never used it etc, I remember the forums after release, loads of people with your compliant that could never play the game, apsolute nightmare and it ruined the game.

 

[PurpleSky]

Are people playing it still? It's one of those common cases of games that go under the spotlight really fast after release.

 

[Freshman]

I wouldn't say its generic, its no more generic than the COD clones that keep being churned out. Like I said my only complaint with the game was GWFL. I thought the fact that you didn't die in 2seconds was a good thing

yea one of the things i was liking was the space marine aspect. i could take more than 2 bullets and still be alive, but without the obnoxious amount of health and shields in halo.