This game is very well done. Amazing graphics, smooth gameplay, great controls, and a great online experience. The campaign isn't as good, but everything else is well done. The only things I would like added would be anti-aliasing and a longer campaign.

Mainly MP game with a short, fun (except for the escort mission) campaign primarily intended as a tutorial.

The dev is out of business, all the servers are down, and the game is soon to be crippled by the imminent shutdown of GFWL.

Stay away!

A good game, not great but good.
And this is why of it, the gameplay is real smooth, really fun to play but the thing is it doesn't have servers to play online. It is clearly a title that screams to the multiplayer but on the reality it is dead, you will find not a single server. Don't get me wrong i loved play it on the campaign, amazing graphics on the cut scenes, really fun to use the jetpack, run like hell and kill bad guys, but i think the game was made with focus on the multiplayer and the campaign was just a bonus and now it is all we have.
I recommend this game, but if would buy it only for the multiplayer you should try another game.

This review was written on January 23, 2011.

The single player is a 3 hour long generic campain, and the multiplayer is long dead and there is no one to play with. Big waste of money even with a big sale. Some promising ideas but Section 8 ends up being way too generic with a dead multiplayer.

NOT recommended.

PROS

- Dropping from the skies instead of respawning is cool
- Somewhat good cinematics
- All things considered, multiplayer is good and has its own flavor.

CONS

- Campaign is 3-4 hours short, story is shallow, the whole single player aspect is unsatisfying.
- Below average level design. It feels too big most of the time, and even if the scenary looks good (the sky above and the smoke on the horizon), things that are immediately close to you like guns, armors, buildings, and such are generic.
- DEAD multiplayer. As I write this, there are exactly 5 multiplayer servers online, 4 of which are empty.
- Contrary to the cinematics, the art ingame is mostly bland.

REVIEW

There is not much to say about Section 8.

The campaign is short and shallow, only 3-4 hours long. When I beat up a mission and seen the credits roll, I was amazed as I thought i was barely 1/4th of the way and just finishing the introduction phase waiting for a greater, more interesting plot to surface. Very disapointed on that aspect.

If the multiplayer was still alive, I'd give this game a 7 instead of a 5. It has a single mode that is similar to domination (control areas), but it has a nice innovation that is the dynamic objectives. Escorting convoys, fetching intel, or either protection or killing VIPs at random keeps things interesting. But unfortunately it has been a while since the multiplayer fell from the skies and cracked its skull on the hard, cold concrete. Playing with 32 people is fun, but right now there is barely a handful of servers online, most of them empty, and the ones populated have barely a few players on and mostly bots.

CONCLUSION

Because of the dead multiplayer, right now there is no reason to buy this game anymore... unless you find it for 5$ or so, and even then it would still be a questionable purchase.

I'd skip this game entirely.

Total waste of money and time. This game needs a Games for Windows Live Server, this is installed still I am stuck in the main screen and can't get anywhere into this game. Press any key. I did but any key failed miserably. There is no support for this game, furthermore all these threads handling this problem end in the same helplessness. I've literally tried everything, deinstalled the game reinstalled it, deinstalled the needed tools and clients, reinstalled them. The video drivers are up to date, still it doesn't work at all. I think this game should be erased from Steam, because it is no good advert for a great overall system.

Worse yet, the game looks promising, and if you get it running it might be worthwhile, but with this troubles regarding Windows 8 users it isn't worth the money and time you are giving to it to troubleshoot it.

I really like this game.

Actually surprisingly awesome! The jet pack mechanic is not quite as good as Tribes but apart from that it does actually feel like a Tribes 3. The battles also feel very “Battlefield”-like which definitely goes in its favour.

Particularly love the 'burn-in' mechanic which always manages to make a respawn feel awesome. The sub-mission mechanic also really livens up the traditional area control maps. The building mechanic also works well. Certainly enough innovative ideas here to make this a must have.

Only downsides are that unfortunately the community is quite small with only a few servers. Can’t really blame this on the game though, it deserves a lot attention than it gets. The vehicles could be more interesting too, but they are functional enough. Furthermore inventory management certainly could learn a lot from Tribes

This game is brilliant at allowing you pull of cinematic manoeuvres that leave you feeling awesome.

Writing a review about Section 8 is rather difficult. I'm so conflicted with this game. I played the beta for it way way back and I told the developers that the game needed a lot of work.

To tell you the truth, I have not played the full version yet, but I can tell you that if you are looking for a good single player experience, you should look somewhere else.

Section 8 is a hard game to review. It has so many interesting and well executed mechanics, but it's broken by unbalanced fractions, obstructive objectives (DCMs) and maps that just fail.

That said, the running system is the best implementation of sprinting I've ever seen. It feels natural and looks amazing. Plus the ability to spawn anywhere isn't too bad. Multiplayer was a lot of fun provided your team actually did anything.

All in all, this is a game you should not pay full price for. It is not worth anything over $10 dollars (judging from the beta).

Verdict: PROBABLY

hahahaha... crap.
shooter without anything particular, just one drop in the sea.
I wish i played something different.
avoid it, single player is crap, multiplayer is crap, this game is crap.

Had some decent ideas but never really developed it's potential. The gameplay can be quite fun and the vehicles aren't bad. Consider it a poor man's Halo. All multiplayer servers have been shut down.

The campaign took me about 6 hours to complete on hardest setting. The only challenging mission was the escort mission. That mission took me so many damn tries.