{"id":115541,"date":"2017-02-21T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115541"},"modified":"2017-02-21T15:13:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:13:18","slug":"horizon-zero-dawn-review-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/115541-horizon-zero-dawn-review-round-up","title":{"rendered":"Horizon: Zero Dawn review round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from the team behind the highly-acclaimed Killzone franchise, Horizon: Zero Dawn is looking\u00a0to be one of the biggest games coming in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>While the colossal action-adventure game\u00a0is still a week away from hitting South African shores, the international reviews are beginning to roll in. Here&#8217;s what they have to say:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/20\/horizon-zero-dawn-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IGN<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 9.3\/10<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Across a vast and beautiful open world, Horizon Zero Dawn juggles many moving parts with polish and finesse. Its main activity &#8211; combat &#8211; is extremely satisfying thanks to the varied design and behaviours of machine-creatures that roam its lands, each of which needs to be taken down with careful consideration. Though side questing could have been more imaginative, its missions are compelling thanks to a central mystery that led me down a deep rabbit hole to a genuinely surprising &#8211; and moving &#8211; conclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/games\/horizon_zero_dawn\/b\/playstation4\/archive\/2017\/02\/20\/horizon-zero-dawn-review-game-informer.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GameInformer<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 8.75\/10<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;None of Horizon&#8217;s faults stopped me from sinking 55 hours into the game, or walking away supremely satisfied with the experience. Horizon may not be a revolution for the open-world genre, but it is a highly polished and compelling adventure that proves Guerrilla is more than a single franchise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Horizon Zero Dawn - Earth is Ours No More Extended Trailer | PS4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYD7era8u0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/reviews\/horizon-zero-dawn-review\/1900-759\/?clickid=12Jx6nW2OQtVzfz1%3AI21Y08iUkhzzVzhkWoCVE0&amp;ttag=27795&amp;vndid=27795&amp;sharedid=&amp;ftag=ACQ-09-10aag0a&amp;irgwc=1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Giant Bomb<\/a> &#8211; 5\/5<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Horizon Zero Dawn is familiar but also really refreshing. It&#8217;s not a short game (I spent around 30 hours with it), but the storytelling still feels concise and efficient. The combat has some nice options that make encounters fun, even when you&#8217;re just stacking up stealth kills from the relative safety of a bush. And the presentation end of the game holds up its end of things with a solid soundtrack, great voice acting, and a cohesive design that makes all its disparate parts fit together. All in all, it&#8217;s a great game, it&#8217;s Guerrilla&#8217;s strongest release to date, and I suspect I&#8217;ll go back in after the fact to clean up whatever side quests and errands I have remaining, if only to spend a little more time in that world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/horizon-zero-dawn-review\/1900-6416620\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gamespot<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 9\/10<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;This is first departure from the Killzone series for developer Guerilla Games, and though you might think the team took a risk by stepping out of its FPS comfort zone to create a third-person open-world action game, you&#8217;d never know it was their first rodeo. For every minor imperfection, there&#8217;s an element of greatness that recharges your desire to keep fighting and exploring Zero Dawn&#8217;s beautiful and perilous world. Guerilla Games has delivered one of the best open-world games of this generation, and redefined its team&#8217;s reputation in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14705 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Horizon-Zero-Dawn.jpg\" alt=\"Horizon Zero Dawn\" width=\"700\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2017\/2\/20\/14576092\/horizon-zero-dawn-review-ps4-playstation-4-sony-guerrilla-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Polygon<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 9.5\/10<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Horizon Zero Dawn thrums with the energy of a creative team finally allowed to explore something new. It builds on elements of open-world and loot-and-craft gameplay that we&#8217;ve seen before, but it does so within a context, a setting and a style that feel fresh. Horizon Zero Dawn discovers a stronger sense of its own personality in one game than Killzone ever managed across half a dozen. Guerrilla Games has long been developing some of the most buzzed-about games in the industry; with Horizon, it feels like it has finally found its own voice, one worthy of all that buzz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2017-02-19-horizon-zero-dawn-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Horizon: Zero Dawn is a work of considerable finesse and technical bravado, but it falls into the trap of past Guerrilla games in being all too forgettable. For all its skin-deep dynamism it lacks spark; somewhat like the robotic dinosaurs that stalk its arrestingly beautiful open world, this is a mimic that&#8217;s all dazzle, steel and neon yet can feel like it&#8217;s operating without a heart of its own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/horizon-zero-dawn-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gamesradar<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 4.5\/5<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Like a real ecosystem, Horizon: Zero Dawn is brilliantly balanced. Aloy feels like an inextricable part of it, halfway between prey and predator. Whether you\u2019re climbing cliff-faces with a weightless, fluid joy, hunting, or travelling through the landscape, Horizon: Zero Dawn takes you on a tour of discovery. An endless sense of wonder and awe push you onward no matter what you\u2019re doing. The more time I spend in Horizon: Zero Dawn\u2019s world, the less I want to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Horizon: Zero Dawn launches on PS4 on 1 March 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article\u00a0originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/games\/horizon-zero-dawn-the-ps4s-best-game\/\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"Permalink to Valve kills Steam Greenlight and introduces Steam Direct\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/115361-valve-kills-steam-greenlight-and-introduces-steam-direct.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Valve kills Steam Greenlight and introduces Steam Direct<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this PS4 exclusive the must-play game of 2017?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":77372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681,8],"tags":[2664,6658,14054,14388,1239,1853,1157],"class_list":["post-115541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","category-reviews","tag-gaming","tag-guerrilla-games","tag-horizon","tag-horizon-zero-dawn","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115545,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115541\/revisions\/115545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}