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Boxart: Dark Horizon
USK-12+Pegi-12+ESRB-10+
Fantasy Violence, Language

Dark Horizon

Rating: 3 (33 votes cast)
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System requirements

  • Win XP
  • P4 2.4Ghz
  • 128Mb RAM
  • 2.5Gb of free space on HDD
  • GeForce FX 5700 with 64Mb or higher
  • audio card
  • 61%

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    Disaster has taken its harsh grip and the universe is slowly dying.
    Systems cease to exist and there seems to be no way of stopping the threat.
    But a rumour is slowly spreading through the galaxy of a weapon against this menace.

    The space action game Dark Horizon takes place in a breathtaking atmospheric universe with an epic storyline about the fight for survival.
    In this world you can choose play as the mysterious race  “Guardians”, among others, through 22 missions of space combats to save the humanity from the all-destroying hazard, the Mirk. Use the help of your allies: other Guardians will fight side by side with you, and biomechanical race bios will assist you with their high-tech devices and weapons.

    You cannot only modify your ships and weapons. Throughout your challenging space missions you can gather resources that can be used to create your own equipment and weapons between the missions.
    The new modes also allow you to decide between moving invisible through enemy lines, which results in weaker attacks or you can choose a stronger attack mode that weakens your shields.

    • Allows full customization of your spaceship. You can change your ship on a detailed level and alter hull, shields system, reactor, armour, weapons, missiles etc.
    • Gather resources and disassemble unused parts of your ship and use them to create your own weapons for supreme destructive power and improve your ship to create  the ultimate space vessel
    • Fight in team with other pilots trough fierce battles, give orders and use tactics to take out your enemies  (please note – no multiplayer!)
    • Choose between two different modes that will change your fighter’s performance according to your own demands: ‘shadow’ mode to stealth through enemy lines (yet it prevents using full power of your weapons) and ‘corter‘ mode that will level up the power of you guns at a cost of energy-usage that weakens your shields.
    • Game legth\time 6 parts in 22 missions (1-2 objectives each) and extensive

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    21st Apr 2009

    By CannibalBob

    Being a fan of combat space sims, I'm a little biased but feel Dark Horizon is a pretty good game. The graphics are top notch. The storyline, while a little confusing, is pretty interesting. First the game's engine. It has plenty of problems. It runs kind of slow on my crappy computer, but it's hard to attribute that to the game or my computer. Next, it's difficult to change your keys. I use a Logitech Freedom 2.4 Cordless joystick and had to manually edit some configuration files to get it to work, and I still could not remap ship roll to joystick twist, as well as strafing to the joystick's POV; for those, I had to use xpadder (a gamepad/joystick to keyboard mapping program). Next, regarding the game's engine/programming, I've had some weird save game issues but overcame them. For some reason, the last saved game is wrong (load the one before it). Be careful when choosing your ship loadout, because it seems you can't go back unless you replay the mission before it! The game's difficulty is next. It's hard. Be prepared to replay a mission multiple times! But that doesn't mean it isn't fun; it's quite satisfying to get through a mission. I found the most effective, yet tedious, method of completing a mission is to attack when you're not targeted and immediately run and dodge, while cooling down to "invisibility" mode, when you get targeted. The combat (which is basically all the game is), is quite fun and exhilarating. DH has an interesting mechanic, "Temperature", where you can literally heat or cool your ship which provides faster rate-of-fire or radar invisibility, respectively. Those come at the cost of shields or speed and ROF, again, respectively. As mentioned, you can customize your ship's loadout. I have no idea if there are resources or anything so I basically have been choosing the best stuff and going with that. All in all, I gave it 4/5. It has some issues but they've all been overcome. I wouldn't recommend this game to a non-space-sim fan.

    9th Apr 2009

    By Zxypher

    Bought the game as part of a package deal. I must say I'm glad it was only 3$, granted I would have rather spent it on gas at this point. The game is unplayable. It will not go past the Hangar without crashing my vid drivers (8800 GTS).

    27th Sep 2008

    By Darkhan66

    This is basically Tarr chronicles 2. It's multi-chapter mission based space combat. Same confusing "upgrade" system with 3 disassembles per chapter. Controls are confusing at times (but you can change the keys at least) and all enemy ships try to ram you (bad AI). The learning curve is steep as not much of anything is explained.
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