shattered-horizon review (A game by Futuremark)...

The game review of the first game by Futuremark game studios......The Shattered Horizon...




Source: ATI Forum

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the game is pretty good, actully the game is better then the left 4 dead 2 demo. imo.

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I'll wait for an English language review, trying to decipher the German to English translation felt like reading LoL cats quotes.

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The game might look nice but the system requirements will keep this game from being popular, without a big community the game will die a lot faster then it would if the game supported DX9. If you take a look at the hardware survey on steam you will see 50% still use WinXP.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

I just bought this game and took a chance and I have to say it's pretty dam awesome. It runs good maxed out at 1080P on my rig and wow it's fun as hell. I am pleasantly suprised guys, seriously. If Fm supports this game like they said they will and add maps and other goodies, wow it might be great. For 20 beans? Worth every penny imo. It's a good time and a fresh change of pace and not to mention a PC EXCLUSIVE and it feels like it too. I almost forgot what a NON port feels like.

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Wow no interest in this game ehh? Give it a shot guys, it's only 20 bucks and i mean FM is a PC developer. Let's support a true PC dev. Good idea no? Unless you guys dont mind playing ****ty console ports constantly?

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THERMALRIGHT, Ultra-120 eXtreme 1366 RT CPU Cooler w/MX-2 High-Performance Thermal Compound
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I bought it on release day and have played it constantly ever since. I love it. Assault mode is the best IMHO.  I've already maxxed out on rank though which kinda sucks.
I have faith that futuremark will support the title considering their interest in the PC community.

As far as the XP thing goes I could care less. I'm already running W7 and I think the XP users need to catch up with the times. XP was a great OS, but game developers aren't going to support it forever. I predict more will follow suit sooner rather than later.

Next time you fire this game up to play you will care about the WinXP/DX9 not being supported. When MW2 came out the small player base for this game died. its not even on steams players per game list, if you do catch it on there you will be lucky to see 130 users playing it.

They had to know it was a big risk making a DX10 only game. over time this game could do better but that will depend on how much support they can give it. (new content to attract more players)