Shattered Horizon
Shattered Horizon is an innovative game from Futuremark Games Studio that immerses you in the cold reality of combat in space like no other game before. This first-person shooter is played entirely in zero…
Shattered Horizon is an indie developed by Futuremark, released 4 December 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Shattered Horizon is
Shattered Horizon is an indie game developed by Futuremark and released in 2009. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shattered Horizon is an innovative game from Futuremark Games Studio that immerses you in the cold reality of combat in space like no other game before. This first-person shooter is played entirely in zero gravity. A catastrophic explosion on the Moon has filled near-Earth space with billions of tons of rocky debris. Join intense 32 player battles to control hollowed-out asteroids, huge fragments of Moon rock and the ruined remains of the International Space Station. With simple and intuitive controls, you have complete freedom of movement in the distinctive zero gravity environments. Not only can you use your rocket pack to fly anywhere but you can also land on any surface to attack your…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and stealth. It supports multiplayer for up to 32 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Shattered Horizon holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 / AMD Athlon64 X2 5600+, 2GB of RAM and 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Shattered Horizon launched on 4 December 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.
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