If you’re one of the free-to-play shooter ROG Citadel XV’s many fans, you’ll be delighted to discover that a brand new free-to-play episode has just dropped – and it’s the most ambitious yet. SCAR Runner is a brand new first-person parkour game that expands the Citadel XV universe with a unique blend of high-octane action and real-world puzzle solving.
SCAR Runner takes place in the sprawling metropolis of Goeman City, a place whose high-tech amusements can’t hide its distinctly criminal underbelly. You play as the mysterious X, racing against time to recover crucial information to share with the Republic of Gamers. As you soar and swoop across the city's rooftops and industrial zones, you’ll need more than just razor-sharp reflexes to survive. You’ll also need to solve a series of fiendish puzzles that’ll test your mental agility as much as your parkour skills.
In a world-first, hardware manufacturer ROG’s hidden the clues to some of those puzzles in a very unusual place. They’re hiding in plain sight on the chassis of a laptop. And it’s no ordinary laptop, either.
Hiding in plain sight
Alongside the launch of SCAR Runner, ROG is also unveiling the Strix SCAR 17 SE, powered by the latest Intel Core i9 processor. It’s a new ROG flagship gaming laptop with a unique ROG chassis that’s guaranteed to turn heads wherever you play – and that chassis’s also the key to some of SCAR Runner’s most fiendish puzzles. That’s because adventurous players will find hidden clues on it, hiding in plain sight under invisible ink. With SCAR Runner and the Strix SCAR 17 SE, ROG’s bridging the gap between the real world and virtual ones.
And there’s much more to the Strix SCAR 17 SE than its hidden secrets. Under the hood, there’s the brand new Intel Core i9-12950HX, a 16-core, 65W processing powerhouse with boost frequencies of up to 5.2GHz and the power to deliver rock-solid, ultra-high frame rates in even the most graphically demanding esports games. It features all of ROG’s intelligent cooling innovations, and its custom vapor chamber teamed with ROG’s exclusive Conductonaut Extreme liquid metal has been applied to both the CPU and the GPU. That means you can push your laptop further, faster, and harder than ever before.
Sounds good, right? Well get ready, because you can buy the Strix SCAR 17 SE right now.
ROG’s giant global giveaway
To celebrate the launch of SCAR Runner, ROG is giving away stacks of brilliant ROG gaming products including gaming monitors, gaming mice, gaming headsets, and more. The grand prize? The ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE gaming laptop with Intel Core i9 processor, complete with a full ROG peripheral bundle*. To enter, all you need to do is play the new SCAR Runner game on Steam between 30 May and 30 June 2022.
*Terms and conditions apply. Please visit https://rog.asus.com/event/scar-runner/ for full contest rules.
