What do you get when you take the secret spy feel of the Metal Gear series and throw them into space? You get the PS3's Space Espionage game, Dark Sector.

Between the Metal Gear and the Splinter Cell series, we gamers have some quality titles to feed our sneaky hungers, but what makes Dark Sector stand out? First and foremost it's a Next-Gen title, so the graphics should be off the wall! "Should be" is the key word though. Checking out the trailer for Dark Sector, the first thought that came out of my head was "Is this really a PS3 game?" What I saw could have easily been a cut scene from any PS2 title. Secondly, the animation is very choppy at best. The character movements are not smooth and look very unnatural.

In Dark Sector, you will be playing as Hayden, space spy extraordinaire. Hayden is encased in a special suit of armor, which looks vaguely like a human sized Eva Unit (see Neon Genesis Evangelion), which grants Hayden special abilities. With the power of his suit, Hayden can complete many tasks. For added subterfuge, Hayden's suit can turn him invisible, ala The Predator. If you need some added defense, with the wave of a hand, Hayden's suit can call up a sort of deflector shield that can stop bullets. Hayden's suit also gives him the power to control machines, which will allow you to put them to use against foes in the area.

I'm not sure yet it is the suit, or Hayden himself, but telekinesis will come into play as you make your way to the Dark Sector. With the telekinesis powers, you will be able to snatch the weapons out of your enemy's hands. Whether you can use that power to arm yourself is a different story, but from the trailer it seemed to be more of a defense mechanism. The telekinesis can also help you get to those hard to reach places. No we're not talking about the cookie jar Mom put on top of the fridge. This feature will act more like a grappling hook or an ascension gun.

Like most of the Next-Gen titles out there, it will be interesting to see where Dark Sector goes from here. Hopefully the graphics tighten up a bit more and the animations become much smoother. It would be interesting to see how this game will stack up against the big spy games such as Metal Gear and Splinter Cell. We'll just have to wait and see.