Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn was one of the PlayStation 4's best-received games, which made a sequel inevitable. Five years and a console generation later, we have the $69.99 Horizon Forbidden West. It builds upon everything that made the first game great, with a new and bigger world that features more verticality thanks to superior climbing (and falling) mechanics. Horizon Forbidden West keeps the same open-world, spear-and-bow-wielding, machine-hunting formula, but its greater variety keeps the game interesting even after you sink a few dozen hours into it. The action-adventure game (available for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5) is a few steps better than Horizon Zero Dawn, and for that it easily earns our Editors’ Choice award. Horizon Forbidden West's Gameplay The game takes place a few months after Horizon Zero Dawn, and once again stars the lone huntress, Aloy. After the previous game's events, HADES is no longer a world-destroying threat, but there are still numer...
Horizon Forbidden West takes everything that made Horizon Zero Dawn an excellent action-adventure title, and adds more environmental variety and quest verticality to create an even better game.
Huge, dense world; Many entertaining missions; Improved climbing, and new tools that let you easily scale the many vertical environments; Looks fantastic, even if it isn't a revolutionary leap from the first game
Some stability issues even after day-one patch; The Cauldrons sidequests are a chore