The role-playing features call to mind everything from Diablo to Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. It has survival elements culled from Far Cry, with story and missions reminiscent of The Witcher. Different settings clash, while gameplay elements cribbed from other titles are jammed together. Horizon is, in practically every way, the video game as mash-up. Everything from the combat to the missions to the map you use to find your way echoes another blockbuster of the genre. As I explored Horizon’s massive landscape of fauna growing atop a previous civilization, I was reminded of the other games upon which Horizon builds. These mysteries kept me pushing on through the game for dozens of hours.īut while Horizon’s setting feels exciting and new, actually playing it is a startlingly familiar experience.
The anachronistic humans and beasts clash in fascinating ways, raising numerous questions about how the world got into this state, why machines have largely replaced wildlife, and what happened to the civilization that came before. At times both futuristic and prehistoric, it’s a land beset by robotic animals - sinewy, chrome things resembling everything from horses to dinosaurs - where humans defend themselves with spears and bows. Horizon Zero Dawn takes place so far in the future that the Earth is virtually unrecognizable.
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