HORIZON ZERO DAWN 2: FORBIDDEN WEST REACTION / PS5 Event
Channel: Marc Show
Date: 12/06/2020

HORIZON ZERO DAWN 2: FORBIDDEN WEST REACTION / PS5 Event  


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Horizon Forbidden West announced for PS5

Aloy returns to save Earth in Horizon Zero Dawn’s sequel

By Samit Sarkar 

on June 11, 2020 5:19 pm

 

Horizon Forbidden West is the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, the hit post-apocalyptic open-world action game starring a fearless young heroine. It’s in development at Guerrilla Games on PlayStation 5, publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Thursday during a livestreamed presentation featuring first looks at PS5 games.

Aloy (Ashly Burch) and her associate Sylens (Lance Reddick) will return in Horizon Forbidden West, which will take the characters westward to explore a new frontier of America. The original game already took place in the West, in present-day states like Colorado and Utah, and the sequel will head to the Pacific coast. The trailer features footage of Aloy swimming around; the extant towers of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge are visible in multiple screenshots (see gallery below); and there are new machines based on animals such as boars, turtles, and woolly mammoths.

Developed by Amsterdam-based Guerrilla Games, Horizon Zero Dawn debuted in February 2017 on PlayStation 4 and ended up being one of the console’s bestselling games, with sales of more than 10 million copies worldwide. It tells the story of Aloy, a young woman on the verge of adulthood who strikes out from her village to track the people who attacked her tribe and tried to kill her. The game takes place in the 31st century, in a world where humanity is living a primitive existence on Earth — with life having been reseeded after it was wiped out entirely during the 21st century by a plague of killer robots.

Earlier this year, Video Games Chronicle reported that Sony has greenlit a trilogy of Horizon Zero Dawn games, which would make the upcoming PS5 sequel the second of three planned entries in the franchise. A Windows PC port of Horizon Zero Dawn is coming this summer. The trailer gave no release date for Horizon Forbidden West; the PS5 is scheduled to launch during the 2020 holiday season.

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COMMENTS

They could have saved themselves a lot of effort by just showing this. Sold.

By Qhue on 06.11.20 5:27pm

THIS is what should have opened the show, not GTA Freakin’ V.

By RagingCeltik on 06.11.20 5:36pm

Yeah, I was excited for a split second when I saw the Rockstar logo and then… I was stumped. GTA V came out on the PS3, they released an improved version for the PS4 and now they’ll just do the same thing with the PS5? How many times do they think we’ll buy the same game? How about GTA VI? Damn…

By ak-blanc on 06.11.20 5:45pm

I think they’re competing with skyrim to see how many times people will buy the same damn game

By Phantastiko on 06.11.20 5:52pm

Unless their writing vastly improves and Ashley Burch’s performance is night and day better than her performance in the original base game, this is a huge pass for me.

Horizon is easily the most overrated game of the current generation. Great world building and mythos, but the writing, acting and gameplay were all thoroughly mediocre.

By IndigoAK on 06.11.20 5:38pm

Thats just like, your opinion man.

By Burning_Cactus on 06.11.20 5:42pm

The writing and gameplay, sure, but considering that anybody can go on YouTube and watch 40 hours of Burch’s monotone vocal delivery, her shitty performance is objective.

By IndigoAK on 06.11.20 6:11pm

Yeah, yeah, ha ha ha, good one. Nice joke, "the more strongly I feel about an opinion, the more objective it is."

By CageyHM on 06.11.20 6:17pm

lmao dude, it’s not objective. It’s your opinion, and that’s fine. I really enjoyed Ashley’s performance and I’m looking forward to more.

By virtualmang on 06.11.20 10:21pm

It’s not GOW level on story and acting, but it’s still pretty high level.

That, and that’s like 10%, I want to ride or kill that SOTC turtle thing. Wade through the woods. Looked amazing,

By Menage on 06.11.20 5:46pm

Different opinions and all. I disagree with both takes. GOW was the most overrate

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