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Futuremark has always been known for benchmark programs but they are branching out as they have announced their first game called Shattered Horizon. The game`s a FPS taking place when the moon is shattered into a million pieces and you`re taking the role of one of the survivors. The game takes place in zero-gravity so this might present a new dynamic in FPS games. Game development`s tough so let`s hope Futuremark can parlay their experience in developing benchmarks that look like games into a real game.
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Wow, for me, that teaser certainly accomplished what it set out to do. I'm hooked now. The "breaking news" vibe is well-executed, especially with the barely-curbed concern coming from the news anchor. I also like the present-day immediacy it's given by seeing an astronaut in a regular ol' present-day astronaut's outfit; no hyper-stylized future, this.
Of course, that's bound to evolve to a degree, because obviously the reporter's asking about survivors on the moon, but yeah.
No offense to FPS fans, but I hope this is more of a Mass Effect-y action-RPG than a straight up shooter (which is the genre that usually gets the graphical envelope pushes).
While having virtually nothing to go on: Me likey.
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Well with the suggestion of a nuclear reactor malfunctioning, the game taking place (presumably) on the moon, and the knowledge that it is a FPS I would guess this will be more akin to the horror/scifi genre. However this doesn't mean that the game play will be boring. Prey had a horror sci fi vibe and it had some mind bending gravity puzzles to go along with the run and gun. Of course the best part will be getting to walk across teh surface of the moon in first person, especially if they get the physics right and achieve visuals close to Crysis level.
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So, do you think with Shattered Horizon, being produced by a company that makes benchmarking tools, are we going to have another future-proofing fiasco with this game -- same as the Crysis folks had to suffer through?
I mean, yeah, I understand that these Shattered Horizon guys aren't going to put out a 2-D platformer or nothin', but how's about achieving those proverbial face-melting graphics that can actually run on a mid-range machine? That'd be a greater graphical feat (in my sordid book) than just proving that, yeah, you *can* make a video game with tough enough graphics that no one can play it. Whoop-de-frickin'-doo.
Or, is this game trailer trying to hint at my worst fears, and that we're not going to just see that moon busting apart on a news screen, but we're going to actually be out in space, watching this immense celestial body breaking apart from randomly-placed explosions (no two moon explosions are the same, kids!,) with PhysX bounding pieces off one another, some asteroid pieces turning into meteorites as they enter the Earth's atmosphere (the world's population dodging and stumbling around the cacaphony of carnage with the Euphoria engine), with gravity metrics calculating their trajectory, while other debris starts to form a Saturn ring around the Earth that casts real-time shadows on the planet's surface?
Just speculating.
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