Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

Forbidden West is great also, but Zero Dawn is where my love of the series started. The story, the combat, and pretty much ebverything is great. My only real complaint is that in cutscenes the mouth movement often doesn't match the words people say.

The Short: A bit like Tomb Raider, with easier jumping parts, better and more diverse fighting system and a really open world where you can decide the progression. Remarkably well done. The gameplay: Very well balanced, many nice side-quests with majority much better than the usual "fetch X" style and even include nice plot twists. The story is well done too, even though I am not the story type. New players are guided the right amount into gameplay, many other games overdo that part. The world is huge. The leveling is done well too, it does not feel like an endless grind. The fighting style fits my playing style: "Archers Heaven". Since I am bad at typical Boss-fights, I like that they are challenging, but manageable. To compare: I fail at many boss fights in The Surge 1 and 2 and have to resort to "helpers". The look: Just great, I have nothing to complain, which is rare. If you play in 4K on a large screen the faces look realistic and not plastic. Though: Why does Aloy always have that concerned and worrisome look on her face? Yep, that is my only complain. And I do complain without hesitation when things are bad, I am German. The coding: Very well done, the performance is great, not a single crash, not a bug anywhere, never got stuck somewhere and could not leave. It is remarkable that the game keeps a good steady FPS with near perfect stutter-free gameplay, much better than most other games. Other things: You are not forced to listen all dialogs, you can skip them quickly. I can read the subtitle faster than they speak their parts. Even though the voice acting is well done. The savegame-spots are limited to fireplaces and some quest-autosave spots, but there are enough fireplaces around to avoid getting annoyed.

~ great chraracters ~ great story ~ great graphic ~ great gamemechanic The game still holds the rpg-crown with Witcher III If you don't own it, buy it now :D

Jestem świeżo po ukończeniu Horizon: Zero Dawn i muszę przyznać, że gra mnie bardzo pozytywnie zaskoczyła i poruszyła. Przede wszystkim twórcom należą się brawa za historię, logiczną, spójną, miejscami bardzo wzruszającą, która jest jednocześnie przestrogą dla współczesnego świata, coraz bardziej pochłoniętego robotyzacją i sztuczną inteligencją. Gra oferuje prawdziwie pasjonującą przygodę, a graficznie wygląda jak działo sztuki. Główna bohaterka łatwo daje się polubić, postacie poboczne nie przeszkadzają. Podobno ma film powstać na kanwie opowieści z gry. Mam nadzieję, że filmowcy tego nie zepsują. Świat w Horizon jest bardzo różnorodny, kolorowy i ciekawy. Ale opowiedziana historia jest tu zdecydowanie najmocniejszym punktem. Ocena maksymalna w pełni zasłużona.

Did a completionist through. Got a good 70hrs and thats before starting New Game +.