Of all of the PlayStation 5 games that were officially revealed at last-week’s PS5 reveal event, few are as highly-anticipated asHorizon: Forbidden West, a gamepoised to be the perfect PS5 game. As such, fans have been eager to know when exactly they’ll be able to play it, and luckily for them, Sony and Guerrilla Games have officially narrowed down the release window.
First off, the bad news isForbidden Westwon’t be out this year, which probably won’t be too surprising given that most of the first-party PS5 titles likeRatchet & Clank: Rift ApartandGran Turismo 7aren’t rushing to make the PS5’s holiday 2020 launch window. The good news, however, is that it won’t be much farther off, as it was confirmed in a new promotional video that Sony is targeting a 2021 release for Aloy’s next big adventure.
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“2021” is as specific as the release window gets for the time being, so it remains to be seen whether the game will be out earlier or later in the year. But while that remains up in the air, game director Mathijs de Jonge had more to say aboutHorizon: Forbidden Westitself in the promotional video.
Providing additional insight into what Sony teased during the game’s reveal trailer from last week, de Jonge promised that players will be treated to alarger, deeper, and more detailed worldthis time around, one full of new machines and tribes for Aloy to encounter. Furthermore, he stated that the game will take full advantage of the PS5’s quick-loading capabilities, assuring fans that there’ll be “virtually no loading screens.”
SinceHorizon: Zero Dawnis one of the most highly-acclaimed PS4 games, it’s no surprise that excitement is high for the PS5 sequel.Zero Dawnlaid a strong foundation for a franchise to be built off of, and while little has been shown ofForbidden Westso far, it nevertheless suggests that Guerrilla is taking extra care to build something just as strong, if not stronger.
Zero Dawncame out at an interesting time back in 2017, just a few weeks before one of the biggest open-world games of the last few years,The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, dropped onto the scene. It could be argued that that game stole some ofZero Dawn’s thunder back then, but rather than take offense at that, Guerrilla seems to betaking inspiration fromBreath of the WildwithForbidden West. Given how well that game was received, that could hardly be considered a bad move.
Horizon: Forbidden Westwill launch sometime in 2021 for PS5.
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