"Shattered Horizon" FPS in zero G. = Vista ONLY

[jefferiestubes8]

Shattered Horizon is a weird beast.

It's also the first game from FutureMark Games Studio—you may know them from the popular 3DMark benchmarking program. The game requires Direct X10
The $20 first-person shooter features four maps, one gun, and takes place in space. That means there is no gravity—you can attack from any angle by using your boosters. Turn them off and move with just your inertia to become harder to spot. It's a heady, tense form of combat.

No gravity, one gun, no problem: Shattered Horizon interview
December 13, 2009

3 minute video with in-game footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-2dZMDAGw&feature=player_embedded

Video looks cool, music is cinematic orchestral, though it is odd how the sound FX actually sound as if we were in an atmosphere. All we would hear in real life would be anything over a com system headset and vibration from your own gun. Thus you would never know where the enemy's gunfire sound came from in the vacuum of space.
Still it is an interesting look to a game that uses three dimensions and no gravity for movement.

 

[firehawk12]

Hah, I missed this when it first came out last month. The open space level makes it look like a space sim.

I'll probably pick it up if it goes on sale during the holidays anyway.

 

[Canadave]

Looks cool. Someone could probably make a badass Ender's Game mod out of that...

Also, combustion-based weaponry in space? Seriously? It's not hard to figure out why that's a bit silly.

 

[watermelony2k]

Originally the game was built to have no sound but your own breath and the vibrations within your suit, but playtesting results decided that it was too difficult for the player without sound element.

The story explanation is that the sounds are simulated by your suit - not a total cop-out cuz aparently when your suit gets damaged in combat, you lose the sounds.

 

[firehawk12]

Hah, it would be funny if there was a hardcore mode - no sounds and lasers that you can't see. I wonder how playable that would be though.

 

[Brikar99]

This looks pretty cool.

 

[firehawk12]

Steam has it on sale today for 5 bucks. I just picked it up.

 

[Yoda]

Picked it up off Steam as well, along with a million other things. My computer is probably to crappy to run this thing with a decent framerate... so it's an investment in the future, and will hopefully help force me to build a new rig already

 

[firehawk12]

Yeah, same here.

Oh, I also have a guest passes if people wanted to try it.

 

[firehawk12]

Random update - the game is 50% off on Steam and is also available for Free Play this weekend.