![]() Yet in spite of the open-world fatigue already setting in back in 2017, the original game provided something fresh - largely because of a highly original setting and story. Look at the map, go to a point of interest, unlock new quests and collectibles to get you to the next part of the map, rinse and repeat for about a hundred hours. HFW is the sequel to Horizon: Zero Dawn, a PS4 flagship title from Guerilla Games that adopted the now familiar open-world scheme pioneered and repeated regularly by Ubisoft. (Minor spoilers for HFW follow, along with major spoilers for the previous title.)īut I’m getting ahead of myself. ![]() When I finished the intro, I realized that what I thought was the intro was actually just the intro to the intro now I see that at that moment, I was only just beginning the real intro, and after 15 hours had arrived at The Game. Horizon: Forbidden West (hereafter referred to as HFW) is a game large enough that by the time I’d started putting together this review, more than 20 hours into it, I had not yet even encountered the things the review guidelines warned against including. And as a showcase of the “next generation” it’s a baffling mix of gorgeous graphics and decade-old gameplay concepts that haven’t been given so much as a fresh coat of face paint (unlike everyone else in the game). If you’re looking for something different, however, this definitely ain’t it. ![]() I’ll save you a little time with a TL DR: If you liked the first game, and the prospect of a lot more of it sounds good, stop reading and start playing. In an age of enormous games, this one attempts to be the most enormous of all - and whether it succeeds depends largely on your appetite for the type of game it offers up so very much of. The second in the open-world series following the adventures of Aloy, future cave woman, in a post-apocalyptic landscape populated by robot dinosaurs, it’s literally difficult for me to think of things the developers could include that they didn’t at least try to. ![]() Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.It’s hard to imagine a bigger game than Horizon: Forbidden West. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. There’s just no reason to pay $70 here other than an easier preload and skipping a few extra steps.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. I would probably just save the $10 and deal with the launch day upgrade drama. But it’s no wonder we keep running into confusing situations like this one, one that could play out again later with PS4/PS5’s God of War Ragarok, but I’m not sure Sony has talked about the potential upgrade process for that game yet. The sooner Sony straightens this out and perhaps admits that this was the wrong time for a global price hike of $10, the better, though they may be so committed to that at this point, they won’t reverse it. ![]() And even if you do buy games outright off Game Pass, Microsoft has not joined Sony in raising Series X game prices to $70 for their originals. This is of course, able to be contrasted with Microsoft, which not only offers simple upgrades through Xbox Smart Delivery, but launches all its first party games on Game Pass day one, so there’s no quibbling about price disparities. So why would anyone ever pay that $10 difference? But here, Horizon is coming out simultaneously on both platforms, and yet the promise of a free upgrade remains in place. As in, a free upgrade to the PS5 enhanced version of Ghost of Tsushima or something. Usually you see free upgrades offered for games that have already been released for a while. This shows how deeply weird the Sony games ecosystem is at the moment. There also may some complications with disc upgrades, where you will always need the PS4 disc inserted, and it could show PS4 upgrades waiting in your system even after you get the PS5 upgrade. ![]()
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