Sure, our heroine can chew the fat with the supporting cast of (we have to admit, largely forgettable) characters she meets in settlements dotted around the map, but as with the limited customisation options afforded outfits and weapons, it feels like lip service to genre expectations. But in truth, there’s no real freedom here to play any role other than that proscribed by the game’s writers.Ī still from Horizon Zero Dawn. Likeable protagonist Aloy might share some of the moves and survival skills of the rebooted Lara Croft, but she also has the green fingers of Charlie Dimmock.Ĭrafting is one of a handful of familiar tropes that mark Horizon: Zero Dawn out as a modern action RPG – others include optional side quests and errands being doled out by non-player characters with exclamation marks above their heads, or Aloy’s ability to use an augmented reality device to follow tracks in a manner ‘borrowed’ from The Witcher 3. Regardless of how big the game’s world is (and honestly, it’s big and unique enough compared to other games who just bloat their map size for the sake of quantity), Horizon Zero Dawn is a phenomenal experience that should be experienced by every PlayStation 4 owner out there.One thing is certain in this game – you’ll spend an awful lot of time foraging to survive, harvesting ridge wood to craft arrows, gathering medicinal embers to brew healing salves, and searching for the various leaves and roots required to concoct offensive weapons, not to mention collecting the various protective potions aligned to the game’s elemental status ailments: fire, ice, electricity and corruption. It’s just one of the many ways game developers approach and optimize their games to achieve the best possible result. So even if the game creates the illusion of the world being bigger that it actually is, it doesn’t mean that the map size is smaller. It must be noted that much of game development requires technical wizardy along with a few shortcuts to achieve a desired target. It’s better to let them experience the world, than to define it in figures,” he explained. If people knew how big it really was, they’d be disappointed. “We never say that, because it will destroy the illusion. When asked about the size of the world, Jan-Bart van Beek revealed the reason why they were not comfortable talking about the same. It always feels bigger than it is,” he said. So it works, and you can go through it rapidly, but it feels big.
If a mountain is 3000 m high we make it 300 m. Talking about the game’s word, he revealed that the development team used techniques to make things look big than their original size, thereby creating an illusion effect. In a recent documentary released on Youtube, Jan-Bart van Beek, Studio Art Director at Guerrilla Games revealed why this was the case. Given the size of the open world is one of the game’s many strengths, one wonders why the developers were uncomfortable in revealing the same. Featuring a vast open world and a unique science fiction setting, Horizon Zero Dawn managed to steal player’s hearts with its amazing cast of robot enemies and a story that will suck you right into it.ĭespite featuring a massive open world, Guerrilla Games never mentioned its size. Horizon: Zero Dawn is one of this generation’s most breathtaking open world experiences.
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