Ars writes: "Shattered Horizon is a weird beast. 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.
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, meaning if you're running Windows XP, you're out of the game. It's a new engine with fully three-dimensional game mechanics, and you have to be running either Vista or Windows 7 to play. Clearly, there was some vision involved with the project."
Hardcore Gamer: Shattered Horizon is an FPS with a huge twist - you're flying through space. Also, going through corridors, but seriously, it's a zero-g FPS. Nuclear Dawn is a stealth-ish FPS, while Two Worlds II is more for RTS fans. Planets Under Attack has giant circles full of things doing things to other giant circles with things, but it's impossible to tell just what kind of game it is based on gameplay footage. It's got a neon-heavy color scheme, so if you've finished Blood Dragon and have a thing for that right now, maybe you'll dig it.
Well it’s a been a bundling good week but we’re starting off this fresh one with a fresh bundle, this time courtesy of the folks behind Steam. Very recent to hit the Steam registry is a “Space Bundle” and with it all the juicy details on the contents. Five games overall are included and each of them quite stellar in their own right; ranging from deep strategy to first person shooter and a couple of simulators thrown in for good measure too.
Headup Games today is announcing the release of the space action title Shattered Origins in their own online shop. The game will be available at a price of 8,99 Euro for two weeks.
