#Horizon forbidden west characters Ps4#
#Horizon forbidden west characters series#

People wanted to explore the vast world, not simply to check things off a list, but because every location they visited or enemy they overcame added new tidbits to the surprisingly rich and complete lore.

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.

#Horizon forbidden west characters Ps4#

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.

#Horizon forbidden west characters series#

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. It’s hard to imagine a bigger game than Horizon: Forbidden West.