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One of the graphically impressive features of Section 8: Prejudice is the way that you spawn in multiplayer. Instead of magically materializing at a location you drop from a ship 5,000 meters (~16,000 feet, ~3 miles) onto the map. This is done in third person (pictured) so you can see all the cool streaking effects and how your battle-hardened avatar casually sways side to side as you plummet.<\/p>\n

But it not only looks good, there’s some gameplay in this mechanic beyond a respawn timer.<\/p>\n

After the jump, it’s not just for show<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you’re dropping in after about 5 seconds the altitude meter on the right side enters the yellow zone. If you decide to brake anywhere in the yellow zone your space marine acrobatically flips into a skydive position and you gain mouse control. Your travel time increases as you more soar than plummet but you can finesse your landing, covering quite a wide bit of the map if you brake right at 5 seconds.<\/p>\n

If you don’t brake then you hammer into the ground exactly where you selected on the TACNET map. You’re stunned for a few seconds and the camera swings back into first person which means you’re vulnerable during that transition.<\/p>\n

So you’ve got significant decisions that have some nuance to them even before you hit the battlefield. I usually choose drop points that are away from the action so I wait until the last possible moment to brake. It doesn’t give me the ability to change my landing point, but it gets me down the quickest and I can react immediately when I hit the ground.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the Anti-Air. You can’t drop in anywhere on the map. Each control point has an attached AA emplacement and everyone can call in their own AA deployable. I love AA. I love the idea that I can close off whole sections of a map from deployables as well as spawning enemies with one turret. I love hunting AA, opening up direct drops onto a contested capture point. You can even create a loadout that will survive a drop into AA coverage, but that’s an advanced move and you won’t feel to good when you hit the ground.<\/p>\n

It’s this level of detail, this combination of gameplay and graphics, that makes Section 8: Prejudice stand out above most other shooters. I could go on about the interplay of ammo types (concussion slows you down, EMP discharges your jetpack and overdrive), the strategies of building a base with deployables (chaining supply depots), and a dozen other things but I’d rather you find your own way and get the thrill of discovery that I did.<\/p>\n

Did I mention the game is $15?<\/p>\n

Up Next: surviving the swarm
\nClick here<\/a> for the previous Section 8 game diary.<\/p>\n

Paul “Rorschach” Tobia is a big fan of games. When he’s not taking care of his family or day job he runs websites about games<\/a>, podcasts about games<\/a>, and occasionally plays games.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-diaries"],"yoast_head":"\nSection 8: Prejudice: three miles in ten seconds - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/25\/section-8-prejudice-3-miles-in-10-seconds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Section 8: Prejudice: three miles in ten seconds - 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