Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

The gameplay, the atmosphere, everything surrounding this game is great.

This is a very enjoyable and fun game.

The game is beautiful which covers up the lackluster gameplay. There are many cool things about the game even though every part of the gameplay loop has been copy pasted from another series. The biggest flaw is the horrible combat system which has a focus on bad traps that need to be crafted with resourses. The combat is bad but the enviroments and enemy design is great. If this games came out with a new combat system that was not trying to be Dark souls I could give it a 5 star rating.

This is undoubtedly a very well crafted game. Most of the gameplay is Assassin's Creed/Shadow of Mordor based so you have an open world that you explore. Originally I was sceptical about the lore (primitive tribes fighting advanced machines) but as you explore the story it all makes a very good sense. The story itself is very inspiring, thought provoking and original. It has this Fallout vibe in it. The combat is very good: Humans are basically no threat but any contact with the machines is (especially in the beginning) something you have to prepare for! Each machine has different weaknesses and behaviours so you need to learn to handle each one. With time things get easier due to certain acquired abilities. I played it on PC and I must praise the dev's for the way they ported the game. This is the rare example when the port was done very well. All the mouse & keyboard controls make sense and you don't feel hurt by too console-driven controls.

A few years ago I played Horizon Zero Dawn on a PS4 Pro and it became one of my favorite games of all time. To see it come to PC (and GOG at that) was unexpected and amazing. But unfortunately I had to stop playing after a few hours. Even after all the patches, the game still suffers from severe audio issues, which have been reported by players since launch. The audio for voices sounds extremly compressed and scratchy and there are high pitched audio artifacts. I suffer from tinnitus and hypersensitivity to high frequencies. Therefore listening to conversations ingame is painful and exhausting. I contacted the Guerrilla support multiple times, but never received an answer. It's heartbreaking to own a PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn and not being able to play it.