User Reviews

I've had high hopes for this game since the very first time I saw the trailer. And I must say the game did not disappoint.

In the mid 2060's a rich, businessman called "Ted Faro" created a swarm of "Peacekeeping" machines meant to protect the world from wars, however the code was corrupted and the swarm began destroying everything, they learned how to replicate themselves by feeding off of Living Biomatter, In a little over a year the entire world will be completely destroyed, just a floating rock in space. But in a last attempt to save the earth A brave Woman named "Elizabet Sobeck" creates The most advanced AI "Mother Nature" AKA "GUIA" all but 2 machines you discover are created by "GUIA" to re-construct the world and bring its vast plants, animals, and water back, over hundreds of years, and when it's balanced humans would be released into the new, fresh world with the knowledge of their old ancestors Via a program of "GUIA", after around 12-13 months a breach in a vent was going to call the "Swarm" to the base of the creators of "GUIA" Elizabet Sobeck decided to take things into her own hands and repairs the breach before the swarm can destroy "GUIA" and the remaining human survivors. However, "Ted Faro" destroyed the program that would teach future humans about the past and killed the remaining humans living on the doomed planet hoping that humans in the future would never repeat his mistakes. Thousands of years later, One of the primary functions of "GUIA" called "HADES" took over and destroyed "GUIA". in a final, desperate attempt to save the humans and the world "GUIA" created a genetic clone of her creator, Elizabet Sobeck, called Aloy. Aloy was created to stop "HADES" from calling The swarm from hibernation to destroy the world all over again, after succeeding in destroying HADES, Aloy finds the remains of Elizabet Sobeck and learns all she can about her ancestor. Thus ending the game's Story.

I thoroughly enjoyed this game, and its beautiful scenery and I am far from done with discovering and completing the game's collectibles. This game is definitely worth purchasing and I look forward to a sequel game. Overall I had no issues in performance and found the game very smooth. If your looking for a good game to blow a week or 2 exploring and having a blast this is definitely your game!

This is the kind of game you need to put time into, you need to upgrade Aloy to the max before the final mission.

There are 50 levels of XP, i have completed the main story in under 44h, i still have lots of side missions to do and the new game plus upgrade with new weapons and more.

Tips for casual gamer. Take your time, there are lots of things to do, boost Aloy xp, also buy the best weapons and upgrade. You do not have to fight all monsters in the game, you can hide in bushes and herbs. You can find 5 power cells true out the game that will give you access to the ultimate armor. You will be almost invincible. Do not go fighting big monster at the start of the game wait until you are fully upgraded.

The graphics of the game are amazing there is slight lagging in some part. The voice acting could have been better, and the game does have a bit of repetition.

Near the end you get plenty of monsters after you and that can get annoying, the flying ones are a pain.

But all in all this game is well worth the price of admission, its well over 50h to complete if not 60 and there is a DLC coming out soon.

The platforming could have been better, you don't feel in full control in these parts but granted, you don't have to spend lot of time doing it, like in Uncharted and Tomb Raider.

There is aim assist but its really not good, you do have access to slow motion that really helps. And there are tones of upgrade to look into.

I've been waiting to play Horizon: Zero Dawn ever since I first heard about it, and after months of anticipation, I finally purchased the game last night. I'm writing this review after 4-5 hours of gameplay, and man do I love this game.

This is a complete game, packed full of amazing features. It has an interesting/emotional story, complete main character, fun gameplay, stunning graphics, useful tools, and amazing creatures.

This game has lots of videos, but I think it adds to the game rather than take away.

One exceptionally cool feature is that you can chose how Aloy, the main character, responds in conversations. You usually have three to four choices; either responding or asking a question. I really feel this adds greatly to the game.

The only thing I don't like is the worship of the 'all-mother.' I really wish it wasn't mentioned all the time. I even skipped a video of a ceremony with some kind of chanting. Now I know a lot of you think that's dumb, but I have to write a review for everyone, and there may be some parents who don't want their children watching that kind of stuff.

Anyways, thanks for reading my review and I hope that if you get Horizon, that you will like it as much as I do!

Let's start off with saying that I agree with all the critique. This game is absolutely marvelous. Now that we got that out of the way, I'd like to focus on what could have been done better.

Graphics 10/10: Uncharted 4 class. Not much to add.

Music 9/10: The OST holds some very enthralling tunes, and some less impressive parts too, but the game does a very good job of playing the good stuff where it matters, and it mostly creates the right feeling.

Voice acting/motion acting/animation 10/10: Let's get these three out of the way since they're top notch.

Story 10/10: While it may not be unique in all ways, and a bit predictable to some, I must say the story was very enthralling. Once you started doing the main quest you really wanted to go on and find the next piece of the puzzle, even if you suspected what it was.

Storytelling 9/10: While the story is fantastic, the way it was told could have been done better. A huge portion of the story related information is gathered through voice and text logs. Now I wouldn't have any problems with that if it weren't for two things. 1. It often intervened with active events like characters communicating, making you miss parts of conversations. 2. You are more than likely to miss at least a few logs unless using a guide. There also is no in game way to track the locations of these story related pieces, unless you are in the very same room they are located.

Gameplay 7/10: This game is advertised as an RPG, which it by definition is. However, it feels more like a Zelda adventure in many ways. From level 1 to max level, I never really felt that my character experience and gear improvements meant that much. The only time I felt like I was getting stronger was when I unlocked a new ammunition type or an exclusive armor, much like Zelda. The combat system was great, although a bit repetitive, but my success felt like it was 95% depending on my skill with killing stuff and 5% was about character strength. Collecting crafting materials was interesting in the beginning, but after a very short part of the game you had more of everything than you needed. Same thing with gear modifications. It would have been interesting to have another tier of loot that was extremely rare and required you to be either very lucky or very persistent in exploring all parts of the game.

Side content 7/10: The side quests are an excellent addition to the main story, and really enriches the game. I wish there were more of them. My problem with this category is that apart from the side quests, there isn't a lot of interesting exploration to do. One part of the game is to collect a bunch of stuff, as canon in games like this. Usually there is a reward for this like a story revelation or a great piece of gear. There is one such reward for one of the collectible tasks, but the others were very meager at the point of completion.

Replayability 3/10: my main problem with the game, and connected to earlier mentioned problems. I don't feel any urge to redo all the exploration and collecting, mainly because it was so unrewarding. Even just playing through the main story, you would have enough points to unlock most of the skills so there is no way to diversify your gameplay style, even if the skills felt impactful. The only standing reason to replay this game would be to relive the immense story and well defined characters.

And that's why this game does not receive a perfect 10/10. Because I don't feel like I will be playing it again in at least a year. Don't get me wrong though, the 40+ hours were absolutely amazing the first time around, and I would recommend this game to anyone with the slightest inclination towards the genre.