![]() The frame rate can be unlocked for some blisteringly fast refresh rates, far in excess of the 60fps of the console version. ![]() The game comes with the full gamut of graphical settings, allowing players to tune their experience according to the specs of their PCs. Additional touches, like vegetation that reacts to Aloy’s movement (something that bugged me on the PS4) are sorted out and included for PC players. The character animation and attention to detail, plus the amazing environmental effects in the game are all present in the PC version. Horizon Zero Dawn looks amazing on PlayStation 4, but even better on PC. The game features the staple role-playing game skill tree that allows players to unlock abilities as Aloy levels up. This is handy when hunting the creatures as a stealthy approach is often the best way to attack. As an adult, Aloy can use this device to gain information on her prey, such as vulnerable areas and patrol routes. Whilst wood and plant can be used to construct arrows and health remedies, the good stuff comes from the robotic creatures that roam the land.Įarly in the game, as a child, Aloy finds a device that enables her to scan the world. Resource collection and crafting play a major part in progressing: for constructing ammo for the weaponry as it is unlocked. It’s a storied and believable world that it both interesting and exciting. The settlements and outfits of the tribes-people repurpose relics from the past as building materials and trinkets. ![]() The game takes players though a variety of different lands each with their own tribal cultures. Her journey allows us to take in the amazing landscape pocked with ruins of human civilisation for us to explore. The plot follows Aloy as she seeks to find out where she comes from and unlock the secrets of her origin. The world building is superb and really feels alive. This is not surprising as the human share the world with aggressive animal-like robotic creatures that roam in packs. Relics of the old world are feared and shunned by the Nora people. Nature has reclaimed the earth with human society having regressed back to a tribal level. Aloy’s world is a future 1000 years after the fall of civilisation. The game follows Aloy, a 19-year-old girl, raised as an outcast by Rost, who is a fellow outcast of the Nora tribe. The vast post-apocalyptic open-world of Horizon is a far cry from the developer’s futuristic shooters.I was blown away by Horizon Zero Dawn and it’s DLC The Frozen Wilds when I played it on the PS4. On its initial PS4 release, back in February 2017, Horizon Zero Dawn was a major departure for Guerrilla Games, more famous for their Killzone first-person shooters. I’ve already mentioned Hideo Kojima’s former PS4 exclusive, Death Stranding, which is now available on PC.But it’s the upcoming arrival of Horizon Zero Dawn on PC that could open the door for more of Sony’s superb PlayStation 4 back-catalogue finding their way onto our monitors. Well, whilst we may be waiting a long time before Naughty Dog’s opus graces our monitors, Sony Interactive Entertainment are starting to take PC gaming rather more seriously than they have in years. We laugh at console owners salivating over their measly 60 FPS and primitive screen-space reflection, whilst we bask in the glory of 144hz refresh rates and real-time ray-tracing.Īll the while wishing we could play The Last of Us Part 2 on our $3000 games consoles. Here we are with our massive boxes humming with fans, cooling cutting-edge technology that’ll only see the light in the next-gen of games consoles. Looking down on this playground battle, like smug school prefects, are the rest of us. ![]() The console war: kamikaze fans of the two heavy hitters, PlayStation and Xbox, duking it out in an eternal battle for gaming supremacy, whilst Nintendo cleans up, quietly in the background. Hopefully Sony is taking notes, because the best way to play PlayStation games would seem to be on PC. Following on from the stunning-looking Death Stranding, it’s the turn of Horizon Zero Dawn, another former PlayStation 4 exclusive to get a PC overhaul.
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