The first review of the new year deals with a rather new and somewhat unknown FPS game Shattered Horizon, made by Futuremark Studios, the ones behind the very pretty Futuremark PC testing and benchmarking tools. Is their first venture into PC gaming a successful one? Read on to find out.

One thing you need to know abut Shattered Horizon right away is that it’s by no means a fully fledged game, it’s actually multiplayer-only, and serves more as a tech demo than a game — and this is also the biggest drawback of the “game”, as the pretty visuals come with steep hardware and software requirements, as the game doesn’t support Windows XP, and only runs on DirectX 10 and 11 (supported under Vista and Win 7). However, while this means that the game features somewhat gorgeous visuals, they’re aren’t justified by the hardware requirements, as it seems more demanding than Crysis at times, but certainly doesn’t look as good. Read the rest of the review