Horizon Zero Dawn

 PlayStation 4
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8.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12419 Ratings

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  1. FidelGastro
    Sep 5, 2021
    8
    This game surprised me a lot with its catchy story. The story was supported by a beautiful environment, especially I think nature. It is processed really beautifully. I´ve been playing this game on PS5 console and sometimes the views from hills to distance at sunset or sunrise were amazing.

    On the contrary, what disappointed me a little was the size of the map. I was expecting a    This game surprised me a lot with its catchy story. The story was supported by a beautiful environment, especially I think nature. It is processed really beautifully. I´ve been playing this game on PS5 console and sometimes the views from hills to distance at sunset or sunrise were amazing.

    On the contrary, what disappointed me a little was the size of the map. I was expecting a slightly larger playing area. However, this playing area is solidly filled with side tasks and challenges.

    Otherwise, I have to praise the game model, after a few minutes the control of the game will become completely intuitive.

    Unfortunately, the story of the game seemed a bit rushed to me. I finished the game for four in the afternoon, when I played after work. However, the characters are well written.

    I was a little bothered by the "jamming" of animations in cutscenes. Another thing that spoiled my impression of the game was the sometimes strangely behaving artificial intelligence (both allies and enemies).

    I enjoyed the game and rated it 8/10. I'm definitely thinking about going through the DLC.    … Expand
  2. bj0310
    Jan 19, 2021
    3
    All most all story is completely not interesting and very boring, all substories is just copy-past and only in the end it improves. Gameplay... nothing special and I was plaing this game just to finish it coz I paid for it.
  3. necrowizart89
    Jan 29, 2021
    8
    Bow aiming is pretty messed up, especially when it comes to fire at flying enemies, but gameplay is pretty satisfying. Great story, fantastic views. Fights are interesting, although not really challenging. Also, climbing sucks- it is much worse than in assassin’s creed series, no comparison here.
  4. RiseOfLuis
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Este juego es increíble, lleno de detalles hermosos mientras exploras los diferentes lugares del mapa, una historia original, personajes bien desarrollados, gráficos deslumbrantes y un gameplay adictivo. Uno de los mejores juegos para PS4. Yo recomiendo tremendamente este juego, mas aun con la secuela en camino.

    This game is amazing, full of beautiful details as you explore the    Este juego es increíble, lleno de detalles hermosos mientras exploras los diferentes lugares del mapa, una historia original, personajes bien desarrollados, gráficos deslumbrantes y un gameplay adictivo. Uno de los mejores juegos para PS4. Yo recomiendo tremendamente este juego, mas aun con la secuela en camino.

    This game is amazing, full of beautiful details as you explore the different places on the map, an original story, well-developed characters, incredible graphics and addictive gameplay. One of the best games for PS4. I highly recommend this game, even more so now, as the sequel is on its way.    … Expand
  5. Morrigan99
    Jun 20, 2020
    10
    This game is something really special. I came for the cool Robo-Dinosaur and stayed for the fascinating world, the combat, characters and the wonderfully written story which keeps me thinking about it even years later. The story drew me in like nothing else in a long time, the twist and turns were heart wrenching and epic as they can be. Aloy is also a great protagonist and the combatThis game is something really special. I came for the cool Robo-Dinosaur and stayed for the fascinating world, the combat, characters and the wonderfully written story which keeps me thinking about it even years later. The story drew me in like nothing else in a long time, the twist and turns were heart wrenching and epic as they can be. Aloy is also a great protagonist and the combat system is one other big highlight of the game. It's so divers, fast an exciting. I would recommend this game to anybody who loves a great story and engaging combat and an absolutely beautiful open world!… Expand
  6. Svetlendrius
    Jun 20, 2021
    7
    Неплохая игра с хорошим геймплеем и очень интересной концепцией мира. Отличный визуальный стиль и красота мира. С интересным изучением лора этого мира. На этом главные плюсы заканчиваются. Основной сюжет игры не связанный с предысторией мира очень слабый. Не лучшие анимации и иногда странно-забавная постановка кадра. Обыкновенный и невыразительный саундтрек и порой некачественная озвучка,Неплохая игра с хорошим геймплеем и очень интересной концепцией мира. Отличный визуальный стиль и красота мира. С интересным изучением лора этого мира. На этом главные плюсы заканчиваются. Основной сюжет игры не связанный с предысторией мира очень слабый. Не лучшие анимации и иногда странно-забавная постановка кадра. Обыкновенный и невыразительный саундтрек и порой некачественная озвучка, хотя ее наличие уже большой плюс. Главный, но возможно субъективный минус, это совершенно не интересные и отталкивающие персонажи игры.
    Заключение: если хочется красивой игры с неплохим геймплеем и вас не раздражают картонные персонажи дикари, то игра для вас.    … Expand
  7. SPARDAs
    Aug 12, 2021
    8
    ГЕЙМПЛЕЙ ВСЕМУ ГОЛОВА
    Хороший экз, который лишь одной, великолепно сделанной, баллистической боёвкой и физичными локонами Эллой в 30FPS затмевает собою многие из недостатков.
    Направление взято, НО сраный пустой/открытый мир с банальщиной в сюжете задушат вас 100%. Надо исправлять!    ГЕЙМПЛЕЙ ВСЕМУ ГОЛОВА
    Хороший экз, который лишь одной, великолепно сделанной, баллистической боёвкой и физичными локонами Эллой в 30FPS затмевает собою многие из недостатков.
    Направление взято, НО сраный пустой/открытый мир с банальщиной в сюжете задушат вас 100%. Надо исправлять!
  8. Nick_Scratch
    Feb 12, 2022
    7
    Finally dredged this out of my backlog, and glad I did. Well-crafted world, excellent enemies, good story. The combat got repetitive enough after about 10 hours that I sped through the rest of the game just to complete the story. Hopefully Forbidden West improves upon what it built here, especially with more combat options, melee especially.
  9. Keav
    Feb 25, 2023
    0
    Juego sin gracia ni gloria, otro simulador de mundo vacío, en un contexto totalmente ridículo con la come hamburguesas de prota, pasa si no quieres desperdiciar dinero y aburrirte, ideal para curar el insomnio.
  10. Toast-King
    Jun 20, 2020
    9
    A beautiful experience with twists and turns. The map design is some of the best as it slowly opens up in a swirl, allowing you to slowly explore more as you progress. Aloy is a fantastic character and her theme is some of the most stirring music in the current generation of gaming, even if not all the music is on it's level. A true standout on the PS4 that does incredible at blending openA beautiful experience with twists and turns. The map design is some of the best as it slowly opens up in a swirl, allowing you to slowly explore more as you progress. Aloy is a fantastic character and her theme is some of the most stirring music in the current generation of gaming, even if not all the music is on it's level. A true standout on the PS4 that does incredible at blending open world fun with a tight narrative story far better than many others.… Expand
  11. opor
    Aug 14, 2020
    1
    The gameplay gets really repetetive after a while, the lack of weapon variety doesnt help either....
  12. TheDeacon
    Oct 7, 2020
    1
    Standard open world RPG. Nothing really innovative. If you’ve played other open world RPG’s this gen then this one will just induce fatigue. I think a lot of people said it was visually impressive, but in 2020 it’s not as attractive as other games in the genre. I can’t recommend HZD unless you’re not already burned out on open world RPG’s.
  13. CauzeMythical
    Jul 19, 2020
    7
    this game is good but thats it the combat is fun buts get repetitive after awhile the climbing is the best ive played. a new ip and it played off well the main protagonist was amazing Rost was a good charcater the story and side quests came off weak for me i dont expect a revolutionary story in games but a decent one but this didn't phase me cant wait for the 2nd one
  14. orodri1
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    Es un juego hermoso. Me encantó. Es un juego con unas gráficas y unos escenarios impresionantes, y la jugabilidad es muy entretenida. Aloy es un personaje interesante y agradable, hace la historia muy cómoda.

    Es uno de los mejores juegos que he jugado, sin duda.
  15. Scoutty
    Aug 25, 2021
    6
    A história só fica interessante um pouco depois da metade e depois fica chata de novo, o sistema de diálogo e os diálogos são ridículos assim como a modelagem de personagem, sistema de progressão ruim, e a missão final junto com a conclusão do game são tão broxantes que perde o sentido o vc jogar a campanha inteira pra terminar dessa forma ridícula, com uma missão final chata e umaA história só fica interessante um pouco depois da metade e depois fica chata de novo, o sistema de diálogo e os diálogos são ridículos assim como a modelagem de personagem, sistema de progressão ruim, e a missão final junto com a conclusão do game são tão broxantes que perde o sentido o vc jogar a campanha inteira pra terminar dessa forma ridícula, com uma missão final chata e uma conclusão pior ainda, mais pelo menos o combate não é dos piores… Expand
  16. Bohdanlast
    Jul 22, 2020
    10
    Masterpiece, music, gameplay, atmosphere, open world, theme of the game, graphics and design. These facts alone are the reason why it us the masterpiece, the combat is soo good and flc the frozen wilds is very interesting. The only bad things are charachters and plot, but it is goid for thier first rog!
  17. piuscorvus
    Apr 6, 2021
    8
    This is a nice and very good looking open-world game with RPG elements. You play as a girl who lives in a wild world inhabited by different human tribes and full of dinosaur-looking machines. You are discovering the past of the world that once belonged to a different civilisation. The story is not really a masterpiece but it is a fairly interesting story about another, sort of,This is a nice and very good looking open-world game with RPG elements. You play as a girl who lives in a wild world inhabited by different human tribes and full of dinosaur-looking machines. You are discovering the past of the world that once belonged to a different civilisation. The story is not really a masterpiece but it is a fairly interesting story about another, sort of, post-apocalyptic world.

    Combat and exploration is pretty balanced and I never got tired of any of it. The only thing that lacks creativity is melee combat; it just does not look that great as firing arrows, which you will mostly be doing. Higher difficulty can give you a pretty challenging combat and if you are into exploring the world and following the main quest without having stressy fights all the time - the developers took care about it too.

    Weak spots in this game are side quests. They are typical RPG side quests (go there and kill 5 things, then go there and stealth kill another 5 things). Some of those quests will reveal more background to certain parts of the main story but most of them can be totally skipped.

    Another weak spot are face animations of side characters. They are not that good as face animations of the main characters. Here and there you will spot the same faces (there was some “copy-paste” work…).

    All in all, this is indeed a nice adventure game that might become a great franchise.    … Expand
  18. shadowsweet23
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Excelente juego, es muy entretenido y sus paisajes son hermosos, su historia es muy enganchadora y sus misiones de lo mas entretenidas y retantes, me pareció un juego muy innovador y su jugabilidad es lo mas cómoda con 0 cooldown entre cada pelea.
  19. DVers
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    I loved this game. I don't get obsessed with a lot of video games (I get bored and move on quickly) but this game had me hooked. I finished the whole thing and then did the expansion pack.

    I cannot wait until part two.
  20. ChadGrand
    Feb 22, 2022
    1
    ugly characters, boring generic Assassin's Creed story,painfully generic story and boring combat

    only good thing about this is the graphics but if all you have going for you is pretty lights you dont deserve a 8.4
  21. hakiros54
    Mar 26, 2021
    8
    very good story and well-created world. Multiple original weapons and varied, epic enemies. But i cant give more than 8 with this fu... iritating birds.
  22. jonkexe
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Потрясающе хорошее начало того, что наверняка станет заветной серией PlayStation. Блестящий материал.
  23. Bangsi
    Mar 22, 2022
    7
    Horizon Zero Dawn is a uniquely crafted world filled with "machines" that are now the dominant species on earth. Aloy the main protagonist tries to figure out how this world came to be and discover her true origins.

    When this game came out in 2017 I had little to no interest in it, however now with the release of the sequel and all the hype around it, I decided to check this one out.    Horizon Zero Dawn is a uniquely crafted world filled with "machines" that are now the dominant species on earth. Aloy the main protagonist tries to figure out how this world came to be and discover her true origins.

    When this game came out in 2017 I had little to no interest in it, however now with the release of the sequel and all the hype around it, I decided to check this one out. Horizon Zero Dawn is a really beautiful world that has been excellently crafted, it's very unique to have machines/robots completely dominate the earth, and those machines are definitely the highlight of the game. I love the designs of these machines from the Watcher to the Rockbreaker, they're all very cool and also a huge variety of them.

    Gameplay is both a hit and a miss, when it is at its best it's absolutely incredible, this is usually when fighting huge machines like the Stormbird or the Thunderjaw, these fights were amazing. However when the gameplay is at its worst, it can be incredibly annoying and frustrating, this was usually when fighting human enemies as I thought fighting humans didn't have nearly as much depth as fighting the machines. The camera can sometimes be pretty annoying as well, and can really mess you up in combat. However the combat overall is pretty good, nothing groundbreaking but it was overall fun and didn't bore me for the approx. 40 hours i played. Exploring was for the most part pretty fun, however the climbing was really boring as the only thing you do is point to where you want to jump and the game does it for you, but the visuals did make up for the climbing parts. The side quests were often interesting, some were forgettable and some were memorable, but considering I finished them all before finishing the main quest means they were definitely not boring.

    The story, similar to the gameplay was pretty good, the idea is very unique however I think the execution was pretty predictable, not bad necessarily but just pretty predictable. I like Aloy as a character, and some side characters were fun, but on the other hand some side characters were really forgettable and had really no impact on me, some side characters' death were so incredibly badly executed that it was honestly kind of funny, and some just didn't have enough impact. However despite all that the story was overall pretty good, and kept me intrigued for the most part.

    Horizon Zero Dawn is clearly a well made game, that has its issues, but the good outweigh the bad, and the result is a fun game with a very interesting concept.

    7/10    … Expand
  24. TheMrLacky
    Mar 29, 2021
    6
    In short, the game is good and fun, however I felt disappointed by the story and the charachters which I felt anonymous and I didn't care much for them. Hopefully the sequel will be improved in this aspect
  25. intra
    Jun 25, 2020
    7
    Solid 7/10. This game is very good, but falls flat through it storytelling imo. The plot is interesting, with plenty of potential, but somehow not that engaging and forgettable. Simply put I was not personally drawn into this games story as I have been with other games, despite it having one of the most well developed worlds ever seen in a game.
    Gameplay is good, nothing amazing, but    Solid 7/10. This game is very good, but falls flat through it storytelling imo. The plot is interesting, with plenty of potential, but somehow not that engaging and forgettable. Simply put I was not personally drawn into this games story as I have been with other games, despite it having one of the most well developed worlds ever seen in a game.
    Gameplay is good, nothing amazing, but still fun and fresh enough for a playthrough. You can approach enemies in multiple ways and the robots/mechs in this game are very well designed.    … Expand
  26. Nobiak
    Jun 25, 2020
    7
    Très beau, mais très répétitif. Un gros point noir aussi sur les dialogues, difficile d'apprécier ces visages inexpressif après the witcher 3.
  27. GhostKill
    Nov 27, 2022
    9
    I bought a Playstation just to play this game..lol And to be honest, it was 100% worth it. This game and Days Gone makes it worth it to have a PS. HZD is a beast. So much to do and one of the best looking games of its generation. Such a great game!
  28. tommydlbass
    Feb 21, 2022
    6
    A fun game that suffers A LOT of the repetitive open world and meaningless side quests, but with a good lore (NOT STORY) with empty side characters that have no personality and decent combat. For what it is, it's a decent game with a good scifi lore out of the conventional, sadly the story is just bad with tribes that nobody cares.
    The original review said the game needed to improve a lot    A fun game that suffers A LOT of the repetitive open world and meaningless side quests, but with a good lore (NOT STORY) with empty side characters that have no personality and decent combat. For what it is, it's a decent game with a good scifi lore out of the conventional, sadly the story is just bad with tribes that nobody cares.
    The original review said the game needed to improve a lot on the sequel but they actually made most of the game exactly the same and worst on some parts, so I decided to lower one point my review.    … Expand
  29. texfli
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    It's a quite good game I've appreciated the setting but I don't like the RPG system because of you must level up to end the plot. The "story" mode help a lot with that. The holograms aren't so expressive and a little bit boring. After all it's a good game but it can definitely be improved.
  30. anna9
    Jun 30, 2020
    7
    The plot itself is very pleasant, I liked most of the characters, but the gameplay didn't satisfy me. A bit too much walking and poor fast travel system. And it annoyed me that it was impossible to pass the machines without attacking them or bypassing them from afar. They were too "aggressive". And side missions are supposed to be side, but you can't go the main path without them, becauseThe plot itself is very pleasant, I liked most of the characters, but the gameplay didn't satisfy me. A bit too much walking and poor fast travel system. And it annoyed me that it was impossible to pass the machines without attacking them or bypassing them from afar. They were too "aggressive". And side missions are supposed to be side, but you can't go the main path without them, because Aloy's level will be too low for the main missions.… Expand
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#4 Best PS4 Game of 2017
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#1 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2017

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89

Generally favorable reviews - based on 115 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 110 out of 115
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 115
  3. Negative: 0 out of 115
  1. Quarter to Three
    May 22, 2017
    60
    The unfortunate fact of Horizon is that most of what it does well, other games have done better, and they did it with a compelling who and where. This is the game you play after you’ve finished The Witcher 3, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, and Far Cry: Primal. It is the greatest hits compilation of open-world games. Yeah, sure, you might want to own it, but the real connoisseur has the original albums.
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  2. App Trigger
    Apr 21, 2017
    95
    Horizon Zero Dawn has an unforgettable protagonist, world, story, visuals, soundtrack and gameplay. Due to minor issues with inventory management and quest selection, I cannot call it perfect but I can say it is absolutely worth your time.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Apr 10, 2017
    75
    There is enough spectacular action to keep you occupied for a couple of weeks, but Horizon is not the hot new killer app for PS4.
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