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Shattered Horizon closed beta finishes
Brian Ambrozy
October 19, 2009 12:21 PM ET in Gaming
Futuremark, a company most well-known for their 3DMark suite of benchmark software, has been working on a zero-gravity FPS called “Shattered Horizon,” which has been in closed beta for seven months now.
Today, new screenshots and in-game footage were released for the game.
If you’ve ever benchmarked your computer using 3DMark, you have probably wondered “Why don’t they make a game? I’d play that!” whenever you’ve seen one of their “fake” games during the benchmark run. Watching the footage for Shattered Horizon, one realizes that they have finally made that game.
Set in a near-Earth space of forty years in the future, the game pits ISA astronauts against MMC (Moon Mining Corporation) guards in an armed conflict surrounding a catastrophic mining accident.
Multiplayer mode will allow 32-player maps, with extensive online leaderboards and stats tracking.
The game is PC only, and will run on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Futuremark are known for their punishing, boundary-pushing benchmarks; could this be the next “Crysis”?
The website reveals some details about weapons and gameplay, but one worrisome thing is that it appears there is only one gun available to the players, in addition to grenades. The gun has ranged, close-up, and melee modes, but the lack of variety could become tiresome very quickly.
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