We've told you about the upcoming space combat game Dark Horizon before but now we can actually show you a little about what the game looks like. The publisher, Paradox Interactive, has sent out the first screenshots of the game developed by Quazar Studio and due for release sometime in the third quarter of 2008.

As we previously reported, Dark Horizon is set in the same universe as Quazar Studio's previous space combat game Tarr Chronicles but is an all new title. Paradox also sent over the first story details of the game which we will reproduce here in full:

At the boundary of the known galaxy, a deep-space exploration probe begins its transmission to a star-base, light years away. Before the signal is prematurely cut-off, the base's central computer receives numerous images of a disturbing nature.On examination, they provide a tantalising glimpse of sinister alien spacecraft flying amid monstrous sized space stations.Could these belong to the race responsible, for the disaster afflicting the universe? Take your first step into a universe in terminal decline, towards the Dark Horizon.