Is Shattered Horizon any good? Heard the multiplayer was dead or dying.
Guess it was a bit flawed from the start, the high level graphics are usally better reserved for single player where you can best observe them. Not multiplayer where things like bloom and freinds are a small disadvantage.
That's that strange space game, right? I played that during a free weekend, and honestly, I wouldn't recommend it. Totally-confusing level design was the first issue - imagine a standard FPS, except every bit of terrain looks exactly like every other bit. Then remember that, since you're in
spaaaaaaaaace!, you might end up viewing said terrain from upside-down. Navigation becomes a crap-shoot unless you've got a
really good memory.
Then, realize that the 'awshum grafiks' really don't matter when they're mostly just rendering large gray asteroids, or large, shiny metal walls, with the odd person twinkling in the distance.
Then, realize that said person twinkling in the distance has a Counterstrike-style sniper rifle and will happily peg your head from halfway across the map. Hence, navigating the hard-to-visualize interior structures is pretty much mandatory.
Oh, and it was up for a free weekend at the time, which generally means the game is in trouble. That was, oh, at least a year ago. So, yeah, I wouldn't count on an active community.
Long story short? Skip it. At the very least, wait until another free weekend comes around. I have to give the devs credit for trying a strange new idea; I also have to fault them for totally failing to live up to it.
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