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crimsonheadGCN · May 27, 2011

The 3 titles are a space shooter, a UFO title, and a cat game:

http://www.shacknews.com/article/68600/futuremark-teases-space-dogfights-ufos

E3 is almost upon us, doubtless with heaps of new game announcements in tow. For now, though, 'tis the season for cruelly teasing and hinting at new projects. Futuremark Games Studio, developer of zero-g FPS Shattered Horizon, is joining in the fun with a teaser showing off three new projects, including a spaceship shooter, a game apparently inspired by UFO B movies, and something with a microscopic cartoon cat.

The spaceship combat game looks especially exciting. Small attack ships are seen engaging each other in dogfights, and making attack runs to destroy parts of larger vessels. It appears to be multiplayer, not to mention quite gorgeous.

"In true teaser spirit, we are not revealing any further details today: no titles, genres, or release dates," the developer said. "If you like to categorise your news and trailers, however, you can tag this under PC, XBLA and iOS. We will leave it to your readers to guess which platforms apply to each game (there are only 343 possible combinations)."

For my money, the UFO shlock is probably headed to Xbox Live Arcade and possibly PC too, the spaceship-o-rama is for PC and maybe XBLA, while the cat game's on iOS.

"We will share more details with you soon," Futuremark says. Hey, E3's soon!

Video at link.

The space shooter is using the same theme song as Shattered Horizon.

iOS - cat game
XBLA - ufo
PC - space shooter, since it's using the same engine as Shattered Horizon.

Neuromancer · May 27, 2011

I didn't see any footage of the UFO game unless it was the black and white bit in the beginning... Was that it?

spicy cho · May 27, 2011

Shattered Horizon was pretty rad, it's too bad it's dead online.

Teknopathetic · May 27, 2011

I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

ghst · May 27, 2011

love this or i'll hate you.

raphier · May 27, 2011

Neuromancer said:
I didn't see any footage of the UFO game unless it was the black and white bit in the beginning... Was that it?

Looked to me like IronSky the Game. http://www.ironsky.net/

Enkidu · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if it's good yet, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

It's a damn shame and I was part of the problem

I was still on XP when the game came out so I couldn't play it until I got a new computer a few months later and by then the game was already abandoned.

crimsonheadGCN · May 27, 2011

Neuromancer said:
I didn't see any footage of the UFO game unless it was the black and white bit in the beginning... Was that it?

Yes, that black and white bit in the beginning was the UFO game.

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

I agree!

thetrin · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

Don't blame me. I STILL load up Shattered Horizon once in a while, and hope the community has magically grown back.

SneakyStephan · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

I think futuremark should go back to making benchmarks, it's all they 're good for.

Lonely1 · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

But every time I logged in there was none to play with!

ghst · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

activision have probably got a map pack lined up day and date just to make a point.

REMEMBER CITADEL · May 27, 2011

The space shooter is as good as bought, even though I won't be able to play it for a few more years since I doubt my PC could handle it in a satisfying fashion.

Dambrosi · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

I'd have loved to try it out during its heyday, but I'm still on XP.

I really need to upgrade soon. Can't afford to, though.

Oh well, at least I can still buy the XBLA game, right?

gregor7777 · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

I thought the trial played great and had some cool ideas, but I couldn't get the damn thing to stay above 30fps with my old hardware.

I've upgraded since, but this new game needs to scale a heck of a lot better.

jakershaker · May 27, 2011

Lets just hope that the space shooter has some kind of content except multiplayer. Then I'll buy it.

plc268 · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

I bought Shattered Horizon the day it came out (along with a few friends), and it was honestly the most boring MP shooter I've played. A few neat ideas, and I wanted to like the zero-g aspect, but in all honesty, it made me nauseous instead.

I tried it again recently, and while a few things changed, it wasn't enough to get me interested.

gregor7777 · May 27, 2011

jakershaker said:
Lets just hope that the space shooter has some kind of content except multiplayer. Then I'll buy it.

I disagree there. Completely.

They should focus 100% of their time on the MP. Don't half ass the MP to tack on some lame Sp campaign, that you know would be shit.

Make the MP deep and varied. Make it scale well. Players will come.

Vinci · May 27, 2011

I always wanted to play Shattered Horizon, except my PC at the time couldn't run it. Then it seemed like everyone stopped playing it, so... now that I have a system that may very well be able to run it... Is there anyone still playing it? Might give it a go if so.

jakershaker · May 27, 2011

gregor7777 said:
I disagree there. Completely.

They should focus 100% of their time on the MP. Don't half ass the MP to tack on some lame Sp campaign, that you know would be shit.

Make the MP deep and varied. Make it scale well. Players will come.

That is true. A great MP only will probably get a nice playerbase.

A great SP campaign is needed to draw in the space sim fans of old though.

Enkidu · May 27, 2011

Vinci said:
I always wanted to play Shattered Horizon, except my PC at the time couldn't run it. Then it seemed like everyone stopped playing it, so... now that I have a system that may very well be able to run it... Is there anyone still playing it? Might give it a go if so.

Well, there are bots... Otherwise it's a pretty empty game but it can be pretty fun even if you are mainly playing against bots.

Stallion Free · May 27, 2011

They took an awesome concept and executed it so poorly with SHattered Horizons. It was decent at launch but adding all the weapons just turned it to shit. They all were horribly modeled and were completely infuriating to use.

gregor7777 said:
I disagree there. Completely.

They should focus 100% of their time on the MP. Don't half ass the MP to tack on some lame Sp campaign, that you know would be shit.

Make the MP deep and varied. Make it scale well. Players will come.

That's what they did with their last game... and they failed. I need singleplayer so that when the community disappears after the first week I do have something to play.

ClovingWestbrook · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

Ban everyone who doesn't buy the PC game. Proof of purchase required.

erpg · May 27, 2011

Shattered Horizon killed itself off for good with the Firepower update, if you ask me. I hope they don't pull the same kind of stuff with their new shooter.

Glad they're reusing the SH soundtrack though. That game had great music.

koji · May 27, 2011

Omg, was that like a real space shooter I saw there. 2011, year of the dead genre revival, B E L I E V E!

gregor7777 · May 27, 2011

Stallion Free said:
They took an awesome concept and executed it so poorly with SHattered Horizons. It was decent at launch but adding all the weapons just turned it to shit. They all were horribly modeled and were completely infuriating to use.

That's what they did with their last game... and they failed. I need singleplayer so that when the community disappears after the first week I do have something to play.

I don't think it scaled well at all.

Gully State · May 27, 2011

I'd be there day 1 for a singleplayer Shattered Horizon game.

Red · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

Hey, I got a good six hours out of it before the server list went almost completely dead.

gregor7777 · May 27, 2011

To clarify my comment against SP here.

I'd love a good, well crafted SP. I simply don't think FutureMark has it in them to do both well.

Akuun · May 27, 2011

A space shooter! Sweeeeeeeeet.

BobsRevenge · May 27, 2011

spicy cho said:
Shattered Horizon was pretty rad, it's too bad it's dead online.

Yup, game was awesome. Its really too bad that it died out.

Tain · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

I didn't stick with it forever, but I had my fun with Shattered Horizon. Pretty cool game.

Honestly, though? I couldn't get into Freespace 2 the last time I tried it out.

Teknopathetic · May 27, 2011

"Honestly, though? I couldn't get into Freespace 2 the last time I tried it out."

You, me. Outside.

Stallion Free · May 27, 2011

gregor7777 said:
To clarify my comment against SP here.

I'd love a good, well crafted SP. I simply don't think FutureMark has it in them to do both well.

I don't think they have it in them to craft a good MP either. Sadly.

TheOddOne · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
"Honestly, though? I couldn't get into Freespace 2 the last time I tried it out."

You, me. Outside.

I'm with Tain on this one, sorry.

Teknopathetic · May 27, 2011

That's fine, get in line after him. There's enough of the Teksauce to go around.

BobsRevenge · May 27, 2011

Lyphen said:
Shattered Horizon killed itself off for good with the Firepower update, if you ask me. I hope they don't pull the same kind of stuff with their new shooter.

Glad they're reusing the SH soundtrack though. That game had great music.

Yeah, Firepower was a big shock.

TheOddOne · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
That's fine, get in line after him. There's enough of the Teksauce to go around.

â Narayan · May 27, 2011

TheOddOne said:
I'm with Tain on this one, sorry.

Pffft. Freespace 2 was the shiiit!

Tain · May 27, 2011

I think the genre just doesn't work for me. I liked it more than X-Wing and I can't really think of something in the genre that's better, but I didn't wind up sticking with it. I'll probably go back some day.

also, no real controller.

Kintaro · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
"Honestly, though? I couldn't get into Freespace 2 the last time I tried it out."

You, me. Outside.

I got your back Tek.

Just little bit of Space Shooter from the teaser was enough for my wallet to demand I buy the game.

Haunted · May 27, 2011

Give me singleplayer or give me death. Reason I didn't play Shattered Horizon.

Tain said:
Honestly, though? I couldn't get into Freespace 2 the last time I tried it out.

rollingstart · May 27, 2011

Shattered Horizons is great. Shame no one plays it, but I occasionally jump into a bot match. Before they added bots, I'd go in solo and move around. The movement feels really nice.

This new space shooter shown off looks nice too. The flying controls look like what was in Freelancer. A separate hud elements for your mouse and the ship's forward point; moving the mouse cursor away from the center acts like a virtual joystick. That's a good way to have flight controls with a mouse, imo, but I'm hoping joysticks are fully supported as well. I have to go find my old one for Battlefield 3 anyway.

a single player campaign would be nice too. there seem to be a few space flight games coming out but they're all multiplayer focused (one is an mmo or something?)

BentMyWookiee · May 27, 2011

Ok, that space shooter game looks sweet. I'm in!

sn00zer · May 27, 2011

This has me kinda pissed....really really really wished they would do a game based on the water dragon and zepplin in their earlier benchmarks.

Cdammen · May 27, 2011

That looks a lot like FreeSpace. I likey.

ElyrionX · May 27, 2011

Tain said:
Honestly, though? I couldn't get into Freespace 2 the last time I tried it out.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Freespace 2 is easily one of the greatest games ever made. It deserves far far *FAR* more recognition than it ever got.

Zenith · May 27, 2011

Teknopathetic said:
I swear, if you motherfucking so-called "PC gamers" who are always talking shit about console garbage like Call of Duty and Bad Company abandon this space shooter like you abandoned Shattered Horizon, you lose all right to ever complain about consolization, you posers.

I don't even know if this will be good, but Shattered Horizon didn't deserve to go out like that.

AND IT'S A FUCKING SPACE COMBAT GAME.

It was multiplayer only. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?

Rodney McKay · May 27, 2011

&#8704 said:
Pffft. Freespace 2 WAS the shiiit!

Past tense.

low-G · May 27, 2011

I bought Shattered Horizon reluctantly. Some good ideas, but at least the game came a long way since launch.

They need to make this new game not so barebones. Make a full-ass game or don't charge very much for it.

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