Horizon Forbidden West

 PlayStation 4
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7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1144 Ratings

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  1. Dzon117
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    game was pretty boring, hardly finished campaign, map is too big as it is popular right now, to make maps bigger then countries, dodge useless, melee attack is also useless
  2. ONEEX
    May 6, 2023
    1
    Повестка всё портит + скушное повествование. Будто бы основная цель игры это внедрить повестку!
    Мало того, что сценарий слабый да и постановка тоже - но всё ещё сильнее портит нездоровая фантазия Sony с повесткой.
    Вы сосвоей повесткой уже всех достали - нельзя свои фантазии принудительно принудительно внедрять в умы других!    Повестка всё портит + скушное повествование. Будто бы основная цель игры это внедрить повестку!
    Мало того, что сценарий слабый да и постановка тоже - но всё ещё сильнее портит нездоровая фантазия Sony с повесткой.
    Вы сосвоей повесткой уже всех достали - нельзя свои фантазии принудительно принудительно внедрять в умы других!
  3. Brendoopc
    Apr 23, 2023
    0
    You fail dude, choice the wrong side off This... We are gamers not militants
  4. yaminotenshi1
    Mar 9, 2023
    4
    OGM is a **** show.... the game is outrageously full of bugs, glitches and clips everywhere.
    the dialogues are cringe and shallow and the game got a super woke imprinting.

    is really redundant and tedious. The story struggle to keep you going ed explore the empty open world.
    really disappointed.
  5. Stratslinger315
    Feb 28, 2023
    1
    Don’t fix what’s not broken. The first game was incredible for the story and the combat. Why would you touch the combat? Anyways, I stopped playing during the first mission after probably the 4th cut scene. Sure I can skip them but I’m not wasting my time. The crafting is tedious. They force you to switch weapons more than the first game in combat and so you’re switching and crafting andDon’t fix what’s not broken. The first game was incredible for the story and the combat. Why would you touch the combat? Anyways, I stopped playing during the first mission after probably the 4th cut scene. Sure I can skip them but I’m not wasting my time. The crafting is tedious. They force you to switch weapons more than the first game in combat and so you’re switching and crafting and dodging and fighting. It blows. Zero Dawn did it well and is one of the best games I have ever played. I’m glad I tried Forbidden West for free and wouldn’t recommend it to anybody in all honesty.… Expand
  6. skckv
    Feb 27, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Количество негров в кадре больше или равно количеству белых. Элой дерзкая и неприятная.
    И кругом негры, я говорил, да? Плюс только за отличный звук.
    Ах да, и вырвиглазный нищенский интерфейс любого меню - эта замечательная деталь прямиком из первой части.    … Expand
  7. sejoita
    Jan 22, 2023
    4
    A lot of Bugs. The missión the wound in the sand cant start, the npc dont go to the correct place for start the misión.
    Objects remain floating, game loads where objects are lost or in wrong locations,...
    The BEST gráfics of PS4 games but this is a Game not a movie.
  8. h1ker
    Nov 21, 2022
    4
    Печально что в студии не поняли за что всем понравилась Zero Dawn, минимум изменений по сравнению с предыдущей частью, абсолютно проходная история да и игра по большому счету. Единственный плюс это красивый мир без претензий дизайнеры могут в пост-апокалипсис.Печально что в студии не поняли за что всем понравилась Zero Dawn, минимум изменений по сравнению с предыдущей частью, абсолютно проходная история да и игра по большому счету. Единственный плюс это красивый мир без претензий дизайнеры могут в пост-апокалипсис.
  9. Davor11
    Aug 19, 2022
    2
    Game have many bugs,on ps4 pro have bad graphic!! The game is too similar to old one, it is boring, repetitive, the story is not interesting and boring...Badly made game
  10. Qoo88039
    Aug 4, 2022
    0
    los graficos no lo son todo en un juego, para eso me veo una pelicula... hablamos de videojuegos, biedn pues este en cuanto a jugabilidad se queda en 2006
  11. Goober9000
    Jul 23, 2022
    3
    This game is awful compared to the first. Gameplay is worse across the board, movement and combat are flawed and frustrating. Tons of bugs and balance issues, and the story is *terrible*. Hard to believe this was made by the same company. Will definitely skip future games.
  12. ricardolaizo
    Jun 20, 2022
    3
    This is the opposite to the first Horizon: none innovation and a stuck and repetitive gameplay.

    My score to this game isn't even lower in respect for everything the Horizon Zero Down built, but I had no fun at all playing it.
  13. Neb76
    Apr 25, 2022
    3
    NOT A REVIEW BOMB. HONEST REVIEW. Do these major critics who review these games even play these video games??? How can they give an honest unbiased review when the game comes out unfinished, leaving it up to the consumers to have to work as play testers for 59.99$ or more??? Are they even gamers??? Do they not see how much worse the game play is in this sequel??? That the systemsNOT A REVIEW BOMB. HONEST REVIEW. Do these major critics who review these games even play these video games??? How can they give an honest unbiased review when the game comes out unfinished, leaving it up to the consumers to have to work as play testers for 59.99$ or more??? Are they even gamers??? Do they not see how much worse the game play is in this sequel??? That the systems implemented in this are way worse than Horizon Zero Dawn??? Graphics are great...when immersion isn't broken by glaring buggy discrepancies compared to the Horizon Zero Dawn main game. Sound is not implemented well when you have to tweak monster audio to not drown out voice overs. Bugs and badly balanced gameplay. Bugs and bad gameplay balance wrecks this game currently. Guerilla games is doing to Horizon what they pretty much did to their other franchise Killzone. Just on a grander scale. And some of the developers got the nerve to negatively compare another tried and true franchise's systems to theirs. BUT MOST THE MAJOR REVIEWERS OUT THERE WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE THAT THIS GAME IS A MASTERPIECE. I GOT DUPED BY THESE MAJOR REVIEWS OF THE PS4 VERSION OF THE GAME.… Expand
  14. pakaraka
    Apr 17, 2022
    4
    As in Horizon Zero Dawn, Forbidden West is an okay game to play if you don't care at all about interesting characters or a plot with any depth.
    However, as a multi-decade gamer, I can only laugh in pain as Aloy, the main character of the Horizon Games has managed to become an even more obvious depiction of Mary Sue, she is neither interesting nor fun to play with while being able to do anything.
  15. MEOW0623
    Mar 31, 2022
    3
    those side mission was kinda repeat and boring, compare to witcher series.
    graph is great, but i just can't ignore that macho face of Aloy
  16. 187000097hgg
    Mar 30, 2022
    0
    los graficos no lo son todo en un juego, para eso me veo una pelicula... hablamos de videojuegos, biedn pues este en cuanto a jugabilidad se queda en 2006
  17. hakusenpaifu
    Mar 30, 2022
    0
    para bebes mentales no tiene ninguna gracia un juego asi hoy en dia, los desarrolladores literalmente tratando a su publico como burros.... si te va ese rollo................................
  18. Malef
    Mar 29, 2022
    4
    Too many pointless and annoying talking, commenting, chatting in background. Combat system as in first installment is clunky (camera is too close, field of view is too narrow, Alloy's movement is slow, machines are too jumpy), even though there is a plethora of new moves and abilities. I recomend to ease combat difficulty to negate pointless number crunching part of the game. More thingsToo many pointless and annoying talking, commenting, chatting in background. Combat system as in first installment is clunky (camera is too close, field of view is too narrow, Alloy's movement is slow, machines are too jumpy), even though there is a plethora of new moves and abilities. I recomend to ease combat difficulty to negate pointless number crunching part of the game. More things to gather and craft, what for? It's not a survival or immersive sim. Half of the map is a boring desert, as in Zero Dawn.

    Graphics is great. Exploring is fun, most of the time.    … Expand
  19. Sopranzzz_
    Mar 28, 2022
    3
    Horizon Zero Dawn was one of my favorite PlayStation exclusives, so I was really looking forward to this game. But oh boy this was a huge disappointment.
    After five years, this is really the best Guerrilla has come to?
    The graphics are the only real positive, which are the exact same as the first game. The story is a disaster: really boring, uninteresting, lame, and also plain    Horizon Zero Dawn was one of my favorite PlayStation exclusives, so I was really looking forward to this game. But oh boy this was a huge disappointment.
    After five years, this is really the best Guerrilla has come to?

    The graphics are the only real positive, which are the exact same as the first game.

    The story is a disaster: really boring, uninteresting, lame, and also plain ridiculous at some point. Halfway through, I wished it was over because it was really THAT unbearable. No spoilers, but it wasn't good at all. Also, why there's a one-hour-long tutorial?!
    The new characters introduced in the story were really not that interesting; thankfully, we get to see some of my favorites of the old game. Aloy's character also worsened, being more "bossy" and know-it-all (even while playing she tells you every 5 seconds what to do and what not, incredibly irritating).

    To make it worse, every cutscene is dragged for far too long, it really gets tiring real quick. Everyone in this game talks so much that it gets super boring to listen to, and this was also in the side quests, by the way.
    I'm not even going to touch on how the current people of this world are talking and expressing themselves like living in 2022 and not in a post-apocalyptic setting. That ruined most part of the atmosphere for me to the point that I skipped every dialog not related to the main story.

    Gameplay-wise, it's almost identical to the first game, which isn't a bad thing. They also added the option to swim underwater and fly on robot birds. New weapons and new abilities.
    Great, isn't it? Obviously no, because the somehow made the combat experience even worse. For example, every time an enemy hits you, you get knocked down and stunned for almost three seconds, making the combat really frustrating and not fun. The melee combat, which was already clunky in the first game, ended up being EVEN MORE clunky, and this really shows up in the Melee Pits.

    The new overworld things such as "Machines strikes" or races were added, in my opinion, just because to. They all look pretty eh, not interesting but not terrible either.

    Finally, optimization speaking. Now, this game was probably (and rightfully) made to be played on PS5. But the optimization for ps4 is terrible. The game crashed my PlayStation 2 times and I had multiple times frame drops, especially while fighting rebel camps. Not to mention, also incredibly long loading times.

    All in all, this game was a super disappointment. I'm really saddened that the prequel was miles and miles better than this one. There are probably even other bad and boring things i have not touched on right now because i got tired of writing this essay.
    This is easily one of PlayStation's worse and forgettable exclusives. At full price, I would recommend this only to the die-hard fan of the first game. But for everyone else, just wait for a discount, or don't play it at all, it's not that big of a deal honestly.    … Expand
  20. GamerPro08
    Mar 27, 2022
    4
    The graphics are outstanding in this game. The combat is fine just like the first game. Repetitive quests, too many cutscenes, and the story are kinda bland. You need to grind in this game which isn't a problem if you're doing different activities to earn but in this game, you keep doing the same thing.
  21. Maxmynerv
    Mar 25, 2022
    1
    Compare with Mass Effect 2, are you kidding?
    This game is a pure mixture of Assassin and Rise of the Tomb Raider ....
    Constant hints of the main character and in general her constant empty conversations. Stupid dialogues and a plot on the verge of insanity. Grind. Permanent cutscenes. Moans, oohs and aahs, of the main character. And a lot of grindage and gathering. Only Lara has    Compare with Mass Effect 2, are you kidding?
    This game is a pure mixture of Assassin and Rise of the Tomb Raider ....
    Constant hints of the main character and in general her constant empty conversations.
    Stupid dialogues and a plot on the verge of insanity.
    Grind.
    Permanent cutscenes.
    Moans, oohs and aahs, of the main character.
    And a lot of grindage and gathering.

    Only Lara has hunting, corridors and caves, and here the hunt for robots, corridors and the Assassin constantly wakes up with his grind in the open world and the stupidest plot dialogues and history in the open worlds of ubisoft.
    With all the titanic work done with models and animations = a terrible boring, dull and stupid game with absurd dialogues and just stupid dialogues.

    All open-world games have turned into gum for idiots.
    Not one new idea or something, so that after half an hour it doesn't get boring. Modern AAA games are wasted time.
    And only Indies are sometimes surprised, but they lack elaboration of details and quality.

    All the screenwriters are extinct, like dinosaurs.
    There were only "effective managers" and "character designers" or "clothing designers" - I don't know.
    But definitely not game designers. They didn't even touch this game, didn't even see it, and didn't even pass by to give the developers a slap on the head.
    Play ENSLAVED Odyssey to the West or Genshin Impact instead.

    But not in this **** which is not even 10% the level of Sony and PS.

    There is no limit to my indignation. With all the typical beauty
    of "HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST", the eyes get used to it after 10 minutes and the game does not even try to surprise.

    Absolutely everything in it is done on the dump, probably except for the model of the main character and animation. Only Ubisoft can do worse.

    So a new fashion has also gone, when the games are completely different for the first 2 hours and after 2 hours. The first 2 hours of the game may even be interesting, but not later. All so that you can't get the money back.
    This game shows right away how lame it is and you realize that 100 hours of repetitions are waiting for you.

    Oh, yes, all over the world of the game, everyone knows who the heroine is and what she did in the last part. Are they sure they don't have SMS there?

    And I'll add 1 point for the fact that this game runs on PS4 at all.    … Expand
  22. 124vvlaad
    Mar 22, 2022
    0
    Забагованый кусок кода, вечные чёрные экраны, вылеты,
  23. Keav
    Mar 21, 2022
    0
    Juego mal hecho, con bugs terribles y ni siquiera esta terminado, malas físicas, la vegetación no se mueve, exceso de niebla para tapar el Pop-in, en fin no desperdicies tu dinero en esta basura.
  24. SilexEco
    Mar 18, 2022
    4
    The real name of the game should be Horizon II Forbidden MIST... Or West Silent Hill xD

    It's amazing how poorly polished the game has come out, everything is full of fog to cover up the pop-in and some mechanics are very annoying, the game is still boring as the first part was, I hope at least that this game is released on PC as soon as possible to fix graphical problems, because the    The real name of the game should be Horizon II Forbidden MIST... Or West Silent Hill xD

    It's amazing how poorly polished the game has come out, everything is full of fog to cover up the pop-in and some mechanics are very annoying, the game is still boring as the first part was, I hope at least that this game is released on PC as soon as possible to fix graphical problems, because the PlayStation consoles do not give for more.

    Again another proof that the videogame press is entirely bought by Sony.    … Expand
  25. Timley
    Mar 11, 2022
    2
    Its just bland honestly. Nothing really new, or anything really interesting about the story. It's just bad.
  26. FunkyBear89
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    This is the worst game I've ever played. The world is boring, the mc is ugly and looks like a thumb, and the quest and UI are so stale and formulaic.
  27. dllizhiyang
    Mar 8, 2022
    0
    nothing but graphic, waste of money and time. nothing but graphic, waste of money and time.
  28. TheGoodStuff76
    Mar 7, 2022
    2
    While the original was awesome Guerrilla Games released this shinning turd way to early. The game is littered with craptasitc crashes that make it frustrating in the beginning and unplayable in the later games where battles last longer. Guerrilla should focus on their QA department. I have stopped playing and I am sad to say that I likely have lost all interest in playing now due to crashWhile the original was awesome Guerrilla Games released this shinning turd way to early. The game is littered with craptasitc crashes that make it frustrating in the beginning and unplayable in the later games where battles last longer. Guerrilla should focus on their QA department. I have stopped playing and I am sad to say that I likely have lost all interest in playing now due to crash every 5 mins I get while attempting arena fights. Save your money or at the very least don't buy until at least another year has passed. Maybe they can patch it but at this point I'm not holding my breath.… Expand
  29. onepiece255174
    Mar 6, 2022
    0
    Probably the biggest disappointment in awhile. I had very high expectations. The story is bland and unimaginative, the game play is very boring. Even the lauded graphic are underwhelming. Really dropped the ball here.
  30. sheep455246
    Mar 6, 2022
    0
    worst sequel of all time. bad story. repetitive gameplay. filler sidequests
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 19, 2022
    81
    There’s nothing wrong with learning from your competitors, but what’s the point of copying stuff that’s mocked even by Ubisoft fans? Hopefully, next time Guerrilla will focus more on Horizon’s own strengths: unique world and mechosaurs that are so fun to take apart. [Issue#259, p.72]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Apr 28, 2022
    65
    If you liked Zero Dawn, you will probably enjoy Forbidden West, even though the sequel lost that pioneering spirit and Aloy stopped developing as a character.
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  3. RPGamer
    Mar 18, 2022
    90
    Horizon Forbidden West embraces everything about its predecessor and makes strides in producing an even more compelling world to explore, with intense combat and story moments, and shiny new robo-dinosaurs to punch in the face. I cannot wait to see where Aloy and her companions’ story goes next.
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