Game Information
Overall Rank: 3415
Average Rating: 3.5/5
# of Ratings: 1
US Release Date: 08/07/2020
Platform: PC (Steam)
Genres: Action (Sandbox), Role Playing (RPG) (Elements)
ESRB Rating: T
Multiplayer: No
Developer: Guerrilla Games
Publisher: Sony
Also Available On: PlayStation 4
Synopsis: Aloy has lived a sheltered life, but the hunter and archer is about to find out what the
world really holds. The future is lush with beautiful forests, grand mountains and clear
rivers. But the future is also filled with dangerous machines - machines that now roam
and seemingly control this vast world. The machines have the advantage, but Aloy has
the speed and intelligence to take them down. She will explore this world, the surviving
factions, ancient relics and mysterious buildings to find out how this world came to be -
and if there is any way to change it.
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The Plain Oatmeal of Open-Worlds
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/06/2022
When it released as a PlayStation 4 exclusive back in 2017, at the tail-end of that console’s lifespan, “Horizon: Zero Dawn” (“HZD”) represented a re-commitment from Sony to release big-budget, first-party titles on their own hardware that could compete with the biggest and boldest third-party titles that were taking the gaming world by storm. This affirmation of the importance of exclusives was a balm to people who still clung to the concept as a positive, and who had already bought-into Sony’s 8th Generation ecosystem.
For me, though, the fact that “HZD” was a PlayStation 4 exclusive was irritating. It meant that, if I wanted to play this game, I would have to blow several hundred dollars on a DRM-box, which would then proceed to harass me with prompts to take it …
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