Shattered Horizon Quickie Review

[Calamity Gundam]

This game just came out on the 9th by Futuremark Studios - the creators of the GPU benchmark tool 3DMark. Rez convinced me to purchase it and for the most part its pretty fun. It has a combination of deathmatch play and many Capture the point style maps.

Completely 3-D, you can land on any surface, attack your enemies from above, heck even rocket boost and melee kill them from behind. Not to mention you can turn off auxiliary systems on your space suit, turning into a stealth-like state from which you can ambush your enemies.

Be forewarned that this is a graphically intensive game. I found at max it pushed my fps lower than Crysis on max overall. The game only works on Vista/7 and on Direct X10 capable hardware and above - Nvidia Geforce 8 Series +, ATI Radeon 3xxx series and above cards only.

Word on the street is that there is a lot of free DLC in the works too. For the price of $20, whats not to like? If you are getting tired of typical FPS' this might just be what the doctor ordered.

Pros:

• Very reasonable $20 price tag
• Awesome fully 3-D environments
• Solid fighting mechanics
• Potential free DLC coming
• Rifle can switch grenade types on the fly

Cons:

• Lack of guns, you start with one rifle/grenade launcher combo
• Could be more content available at release
• Requires a beefy system to run well
• No single player mode

Overall: 8.4/10
Metacritic: 74/100

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[Lopert]

I saw this awhile back and it looked interesting. I'm going to have to upgrade to windows 7 soon enough.

[aSydiK]

I don't like the fact that they're using bullets in space. I need mah lazors... pew pew!

[Derfel]

Dedicated servers?

[Calamity Gundam]

Dedicated servers?

That is 10-4. Futuremark have several and other peeps have a number of other servers up too.

[MoeB]

OMG IT"Z LIKE TRIBES!!!!!!!

[CdnAgent]

Mmmm... Tribes!

[Rez Prophet]

Its a pretty cool game, kind of disorientating at first but you get used to it. Its only 20 bucks and the download content is gonna be free.... woohoo

[fab]

sounds like a cool concept, but I won't have a computer capable of running it til this one dies. oh well.

[Rez Prophet]

If anyone is interested I have 3 guest passes for this game.