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Shattered Horizon competition underway

Shattered Horizon competition underway

Shattered Horizon competition

After enjoying their recent success of a free-play weekend on Steam, Futuremark has launched a competition for players of their esteemed zero-G FPS, Shattered Horizon. Players can compete to fulfill challenges and gain entry into a random drawing for prizes.

A total of sixteen challenges will be presented over the course of four weeks, starting on February 22 and ending March 22.  The sixteen objectives are broken up to present a new wave of four challenges each week. For example, this week’s lineup is titled “Soldiering” and will run this week until March 1 and includes challenges such as racking up 1000 points, or scoring 10 kills off of higher-ranked players. Interestingly, the number of players who have achieved each individual challenge is made public, so your odds of winning are transparent.

Up for grabs are the following computer hardware and Shattered Horizon goodies:

  • Biostar TH55XE motherboards
  • FSP Group EVEREST 88PLUS 700W power supplies
  • Enermax Apollish 12cm cooling fans
  • Patriot Memory DDR3 Viper II ‘Sector 5’ Series memory modules
  • Shattered Horizon t-shirts, sticker packs and Arconaut memberships

Shattered Horizion retails for $19.99 and can be found on Steam. The official rules including the terms and conditions for the competition can be found here.

Comments

  1. _k
    _k I want an Arconaut membership!
  2. pigflipper
    pigflipper Sweet, will be jumping in for some chaos and carnage around 9 EST tonight for an hour or two. Will be using vent, so meet there.
  3. BuddyJ
  4. Bandrik
    Bandrik Finally, an series of achievements that yield actual prizes! I'm in!

    ...oh wait... I only have a DirectX 9 card?! Nooo! D:
  5. GnomeWizardd
    GnomeWizardd My 4670 1gb Card should play this on my lapper right?
  6. _k
    _k Minimum:
    OS: Windows Vista/7 (Does not support Windows XP)
    Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 / AMD Athlon64 X2 5600+
    Memory: 2GB
    Graphics: 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870
    DirectX®: 10 (Does not support DirectX 9)
    Hard Drive: 1.5 GB
    Sound: Windows Vista compatible sound card
  7. BuddyJ
    BuddyJ I've heard the minimum specs may have been set a bit high and that the game might run on lesser hardware. Find somebody with an invite and see if you can get a free play pass.
  8. GnomeWizardd
    GnomeWizardd Sweet I need to pick it up then
  9. _k
    _k It looks like you should be able to run it from comparing, thinking about how well it runs on a 8800GT and taking a SWAG at it. Do what buddy j said or try crying to Prime I don't think he gave out all the copies he had.

    A quick look: cola said he can run it and if it was on the gear in his profile it was on a 8200
  10. Ohmecks
    Ohmecks I checked the competition page and skimmed their forums for details on how to win t-shirts and stickers, but couldn't find anything.
  11. _k
    _k If you win the drawing you get them.

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