Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn
Developer(s) Guerrilla Games
Publisher(s) Sony Interactive Entertainment
Director(s) Mathijs de Jonge
Producer(s)
  • Lambert Wolterbeek Muller
  • Samrat Sharma[1]
Programmer(s) Michiel van der Leeuw
Artist(s) Jan-Bart van Beek
Writer(s) John Gonzalez
Composer(s)
Engine Decima
Platform(s) PlayStation 4
Release
  • NA: 28 February 2017
  • EU: 1 March 2017
Genre(s) Action role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

Horizon Zero Dawn is an action role-playing video game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 4 and released in early 2017. The plot revolves around Aloy, a hunter and archer living in a world overrun by robots. Having been an outcast her whole life, she sets out to discover the dangers that kept her sheltered. The character uses ranged weapons and a spear and stealth tactics to combat the mechanised creatures, whose remains can be looted for resources. A skill tree provides the player with new abilities and passive bonuses. The game features an open world environment for Aloy to explore, divided into tribes that hold side quests to undertake, while the main story guides her across the entire map.

Development began in 2011, with game director Mathijs de Jonge considering it "the most risky" idea of those that were pitched at the time. The concept explores the contrast between the beauty and danger of the game's setting. Guerrilla Games emphasises trial and error as the basis for playing the game, choosing not to implement a tutorial. The game engine, Decima, was previously engineered for Killzone Shadow Fall and altered for Horizon Zero Dawn, the first new intellectual property (IP) developed by Guerrilla Games since Killzone in 2004, and also the studio's first attempt at developing a role-playing game.

Horizon Zero Dawn won the award for Best Original Game at the Game Critics Awards in 2015 and 2016. At release, it was well received by critics, who praised the open world, story, visuals, combat, the character of Aloy and the performance provided by her voice actress Ashly Burch, whilst giving criticism to the dialogue, melee combat and character models. It was the best-selling launch of an original IP on the PlayStation 4 console and, as of June 2017, had sold 3.4 million copies, making it the second best-selling PlayStation 4 video game.

Gameplay

Aloy using her spear in combat against a Watcher, one of the many robotic creatures found in the game.

Horizon Zero Dawn is an action role-playing game played from a third-person perspective.[2][3] Players take control of Aloy, a hunter and archer, as she ventures through a post-apocalyptic land ruled by robotic creatures known simply as "machines".[4][5] Aloy can kill enemies in a variety of ways, such as setting traps like tripwires using the Tripcaster,[6][7] shooting them with arrows,[8] using explosives,[9] and a spear.[10] Machine components, including electricity and the metal they are composed of, are vital to Aloy's survival, and she can loot their corpses to find useful resources for crafting.[8][11] Ammo; resource satchels, pouches, and quivers; resistance, antidote, and health potions; and traps are all amenable to crafting.[12] Weapons have modification slots for dealing more damage.[13] A small head piece that Aloy wears called a Focus allows her to scan machines to determine their susceptibilities,[14] identify their location, the particular level they possess, and the nature of loot they will drop.[5] One machine, the Stalker, can enable cloaking technology as a means of averting the gaze of Aloy's Focus scan.[15] Machines attack by way of defensive and offensive measures, and will in either case react to a perceived threat by charging at it with brute force or projectiles. As they exhibit the behaviour of wild animals, some machines are inclined to move in herds and others, possessing the ability of flight, do so in flocks. Unless hacked with the Override Tool, machines will not exert aggressive force against each other.[7] Aloy also engages in battle with members of the cult known as the Eclipse, who are occasionally flanked by corrupted machines.[16] Aloy may dodge, sprint, slide, or roll to evade her enemies' advances.[17] Aloy can also hide in foliage and ambush nearby enemies to ensure immediate takedowns.[8] Swimming can be used to reach enemies stealthily or places otherwise unreachable on foot.[7] Furthermore, she is able to hack a selection of machines with the Override Tool, turning them into makeshift mounts or travelling companions.[10][18] Explorable ruins called Cauldrons exist to unlock additional machines to override.[19] There are three categories in the skill tree—"Prowler" concerns stealth; "Brave" improves combat; and "Forager" increases healing and gathering capabilities.[20] To level up, Aloy attains experience points from individual kills and completing quests.[21] Upgrades in each category result in more adept use of the skills learned, with "Prowler" leading to silent takedowns, "Brave" to aiming a bow in slow motion, and "Forager" to enlarging the medicine pouch.[22][23]

The game features an open world environment with a day-night cycle and dynamic weather system which can be seamlessly explored.[11][24][25] The map is composed of forest, jungle, desert, and snowy mountain regions.[26][19] Mountainous terrain is traversed with the employment of parkour,[27] which is aided by the use of zip-lines installed throughout the world.[28] Corruption Zones constitute areas that heighten difficulty and are populated by corrupted machines that behave with more aggression.[10] To uncover more of the map, one must scale large giraffe-like machines known as Tallnecks.[29] Twenty-five robotic creature designs are present in the game.[30] Save points and fast travel can be accessed by interacting with campfires, once discovered.[20] The quest structure unfolds to accommodate the exploration of tribes, while the main story covers the entire world.[31] Side quests involve Aloy completing tasks, like gathering materials, coming to the aid of individuals in danger of being killed, solving mysteries, assuming control of bandit camps, eliminating criminals and more difficult machines, accomplishing various challenges at any of the five Hunting Grounds,[32][7] and obtaining an ancient armour that makes Aloy almost impervious to damage.[13] A dialogue wheel is used to communicate with non-playable characters.[14] Collectibles include vantages that offer visual information of the Old World; metal flowers, which when acquired contain poetry; and old relics, such as ancient mugs and tribal artefacts.[33]

Plot

Setting

The story is set approximately one thousand years in the future, in a world where humans have regressed to primitive tribal societies as a result of some unknown calamity. Their technologically advanced predecessors are vaguely remembered as the "Old Ones." Large robotic creatures known merely as "machines" now dominate the Earth. For the most part, they peacefully coexist with humans, who occasionally hunt them for parts. However, a phenomenon known as the "Derangement" has caused machines to become more aggressive towards humans, and larger and deadlier machines have begun to appear. There are three tribes that are prominently featured: the Nora, the Carja, and the Oseram. The Nora are fierce hunter-gatherers who live in the mountains and worship nature as the "All-Mother." The Carja are desert-dwelling city builders who worship the Sun. The Oseram are tinkerers known for their metalworking, brewing, and arguing.[7]

Synopsis

Aloy was cast out from the Nora tribe at a young age. As a child, she obtained a Focus, a small augmented reality device that gives her special perceptive abilities. After coming of age, Aloy (Ashly Burch) enters a competition called the Proving to win the right to become a Nora Brave, and by extension, a member of the Nora tribe. Aloy wins the competition, but the Nora are suddenly attacked by cultists. Aloy is almost killed by their leader Helis (Crispin Freeman). When Aloy awakes, a Matriarch explains that the cultists had gained control of corrupted machines. Aloy also learns that as an infant, she was found at the foot of a sealed door that the Nora worship, and was believed by some to be cursed, hence being cast out. An Oseram foreigner called Olin (Chook Sibtain) informs Aloy that the cultists are part of a fanatical religious group calling themselves the Eclipse. They worship a demon called HADES (John Gonzalez), who allows them to corrupt machines. Olin indicates that the reason Aloy was targeted by the Eclipse was due to her resemblance to an Old World scientist named Dr. Elisabet Sobeck (also voiced by Burch).[34][7]

Aloy locates the remnants of the company Faro Automated Solutions and discovers that the world was put into peril nearly one thousand years ago after Faro lost control of its automated "peacekeeper" military robots. However, the world was narrowly saved thanks to Project Zero Dawn, a top secret project spearheaded by Dr. Sobeck. Aloy is then contacted by Sylens (Lance Reddick), a secretive figure interested in uncovering what happened to the "Old Ones". Aloy eventually learns that Dr. Sobeck was sent to an Orbital Launch Base to complete Zero Dawn and Sylens reveals that the base is located under the Citadel, the centre of Eclipse power. Aloy heads for the base and inside, she learns that Zero Dawn was a vast underground system of databases, factories, and cloning facilities all controlled by a single artificial intelligence named GAIA (Lesley Ewen). Once all life had been extinguished, GAIA developed a countermeasure to deactivate all of the Faro robots and then build its own robots to restore the Earth's biosphere. Once the planet was habitable again, GAIA reseeded life on Earth based on stored DNA and taught the first human clones not to repeat their predecessors' past mistakes. It is also revealed that HADES was one of GAIA's subsystems designed to enact controlled extinction if the outcome of Zero Dawn was not favourable for human existence. Aloy reaches Dr. Sobeck's office, where she downloads a registry to give her access to the door from which she was born.[34][7]

Aloy helps the Nora tribe fight off the Eclipse and then enters the door beneath the Nora mountain. She finds a recording left behind by GAIA, revealing that a signal of unknown origin caused HADES to activate and seize control of her functions. As a last resort, GAIA self-destructed in order to stop HADES. Without GAIA to maintain the terraforming process, the entire system began to break down. As a contingency plan, GAIA created a clone of Dr. Sobeck in the form of Aloy, in the hope that she would find GAIA's message, destroy HADES, and restore GAIA's functions. Aloy learns that Dr. Sobeck sacrificed her life to ensure the Faro robot swarm would not find GAIA. Aloy manages to obtain the System Override necessary to destroy HADES. Sylens admits that he was the original founder of the Eclipse, originally tempted by HADES' promises of knowledge. Aloy surmises that HADES wants to send a signal to reactivate the Faro robots so that they can once again extinguish all life on Earth. Aloy kills Helis and stabs HADES with Sylens' lance, ending the war. Aloy then journeys to Dr. Sobeck's old home, where she finds her corpse, and has a moment of mourning for her predecessor. In a post-credits scene, HADES is shown to still be alive, but trapped by Sylens, who intends to interrogate HADES to find out who sent the signal that activated it in the first place.[7]

Development

Guerrilla Games began developing Horizon Zero Dawn in 2011, following the release of Killzone 3.[35] When conceiving the idea for a new game, about 40 concepts were pitched. Among these was Horizon Zero Dawn, which game director Mathijs de Jonge considered "the most risky" of the concepts[36] and was first pitched in 2010 by art director Jan-Bart van Beek.[37] When this concept was chosen, a team of 10–20 began building prototypes of the game; many of the elements featured in the prototypes remained in the game throughout development. Approximately 20 different stories were written for the game, exploring varying concepts for the game, such as different player characters. John Gonzalez, who previously acted as lead writer for Fallout: New Vegas (2010), was hired to write the game's story. The main elements of the story and the character of Aloy remained intact since early development.[36][37] Upon the completion of Killzone Shadow Fall in late 2013, the remainder of the staff began working on Horizon Zero Dawn.[38] Guerrilla also cancelled work on another title so as to allow the entire team to focus on the development of Horizon.[39] Sony would later admit to being reluctant about having the main character be female and conducted focus testing to see if such a decision was marketable.[40]

The game's concept explores the juxtaposition between the danger and beauty of the world, particularly analysing the concept of humanity not being the dominant species. The team aimed to emphasise the game's exploration element by featuring a quest system, as well as including items throughout the world that can be used to craft or replenish health.[36] The game does not feature any tutorials, instead requiring players to learn the methods of defeating enemies through trial and error.[41] The team wished for the game to have a simple user interface design, specifically avoiding complicated menus for crafting, and considered the game to be a technical challenge.[42] They felt that the game engine, Decima,[43] which was designed for games such as the Killzone series and was previously used for Killzone Shadow Fall,[44] was difficult to alter for Horizon, in terms of draw distance and loading. To discover how some game elements work differently in open world games, the team sought help from talent in the design, art and technical fields.[42] In extrapolating the game world, Guerrilla turned to anthropologists and researched the formation of tribal cultures as well as how building materials would decay over a millennium.[37] The game's quest system and narrative design took inspiration from other role-playing video games, ranging from the "Relaxed" quest design of RPG Maker games to the "Strict" quest design of hack and slash games. They defined "Relaxed" quest design as having few centralised systems for managing quest progression, and "Strict" quest design as having a rigid structure and predefined elements, with the team deciding for Horizon to lean somewhat more towards the latter.[45][46]

Joris de Man served as one of the composers of the game.

The involvement of Lance Reddick and Ashly Burch was revealed in January 2017.[30][47] Burch voiced Aloy,[30] whose likeness was portrayed by Hannah Hoekstra[48] and motion capture was performed by Amanda Piery in London. Following an auditioning process in 2014, Burch was called in to do the E3 2015 trailer and worked on the game for two years, providing facial motion capture as well. Her work was done in Los Angeles, with the Dutch developer brought in via Skype.[49]

The game's soundtrack was composed by Joris de Man, The Flight, and Niels van der Leest, with vocalist Julie Elven serving as the primary performer.[50] Lucas van Tol, music supervisor and senior sound designer, provided the composers with a game design document, insisting on an intimate sound for the score. For the tribal theme, they experimented with bows on piano wire and resonator guitars (with layered tracks of harmonicas on top of the latter) and playing cellos with plectrums or the back of a bow to convey how contemporary instruments would be played by someone to whom the instruments were unknown; de Man also used a contrabass flute and made synth pads from blowing on a Thai bamboo flute, noting "distant pads and ambiences, and wide, spread out chords seemed to work well". Circuit-bent synthesizers and percussive loops, run through impulse responses of metal and iron being beaten, were devoted to making a thematic identifier for the machines based on technology and metal. Van Tol required that the music be supplied in stems so that different pieces could be combined. The positive response to the first E3 trailer's main theme led it to be included in the main menu. The composers also did the motion capture for diegetic music vignettes, portraying in-game tribal musicians.[51][52] The game's soundtrack, featuring 80 tracks that span over four hours, was released digitally via Spotify in March 2017.[53][54]

Release

The concept art as well as the game's codename, Horizon, were leaked in September 2014.[55] Horizon Zero Dawn was officially announced during Sony Interactive Entertainment's E3 2015 press conference.[56] The game was featured as the cover story in the September 2015 issue of Edge and the October 2016 issue of Game Informer.[57][58] At E3 2016, Sony had a life-sized cosplay version of one of the machines greet the trade show attendees.[59] Originally set to be released in 2016, the game was later delayed to February 2017 so as to give additional time for the development team to polish the game.[60] It was released to manufacturing in late January 2017.[61] The game launched to North American markets on 28 February 2017, in Europe on 1 March and Asia on 2 March for the PlayStation 4.[62] Horizon Zero Dawn is forward compatible with the PS4 Pro,[28] allowing it to run up to 4K resolution.[63] In April 2017, a 47-minute documentary about the making of Horizon Zero Dawn was released by Dutch public television.[64] By March 2017, a story expansion had already been set in motion.[65] New Game Plus, an Ultra Hard difficulty mode, additional trophies and aesthetic features were introduced with a patch released in July 2017.[66] The expansion, The Frozen Wilds, will launch in 2017.[67]

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic89/100[68]
Review scores
PublicationScore
Destructoid7.5/10[69]
EGM9/10[27]
Game Informer8.75/10[70]
GameSpot9/10[71]
GamesRadar[72]
Giant Bomb[73]
IGN9.3/10[74]
Polygon9.5/10[75]
VideoGamer.com8/10[76]

Horizon Zero Dawn received "generally favourable reviews" according to review aggregator, Metacritic.[68] The open world exploration, the story's depth, the visual aesthetics, the challenging combat, the character development of Aloy and voice actress Ashly Burch's performance were acclaimed by reviewers, while contradicting dialogue, aspects of the melee combat and character models faced the most reproval.

Game director Yoko Taro listed Horizon Zero Dawn as one of his favourite PlayStation 4 games.[77]

Destructoid's Chris Carter commended Ashly Burch and Lance Reddick for their performances, with the character of Aloy receiving credit for maintaining a "captivating" and "interesting" consistency in the narrative and action sequences. Carter also lauded the focus on exploration and discovery, which he said grew more effective as he traversed more of the land. The game world itself was subject to compliment for its "beautiful" day-night cycle and weather system. According to Carter, the challenging nature of the machines and varied methods with which to battle them brought a real sense of fun to the combat.[69] Matt Buchholtz of Electronic Gaming Monthly likewise praised Burch as well as the game world, which he found to be mesmerising. Thought as the most powerful part of the game, the Focus feature gained approval for complementing the combat in a way that "forces you to become a hunter".[27] Writing for Game Informer, Jeff Marchiafava opined that, unlike with other open world video games, searching for audio logs and emails provided the plot with a "remarkable sense of discovery". He was thankful that story-based missions dominated the overall experience, arguing that they worked to detail the game world and inspired the gameplay with the proper amount of variation.[70]

Peter Brown at GameSpot reflected on Aloy's character development with amazement, adding that the process matured Aloy and grew her confidence. One constant thrill to Brown came from combatting the machines, which he said took the spotlight and never lost its flair. He appreciated also that the main quests encouraged one to explore the environment.[71] Zoe Delahunty-Light, writing for GamesRadar, was fascinated with the intricacies of the game world and found integral value in the lore scattered among the ruins. She echoed Brown's view that fighting machines maintained excitement throughout.[72] Giant Bomb's Jeff Gerstmann declared Horizon Zero Dawn as "a near-perfect story" with a satisfying conclusion, and emphasised that it contained substantial depth.[73] Lucy O'Brien at IGN admired its weight in meaning, while welcoming the charm of the protagonist's personality. A considerable impression was made with the combat, which was stated as the game's most compelling accomplishment.[74] Writing for Polygon, Philip Kollar applauded the game as what he dubbed the "refutation" of Guerrilla Games' past work, a change of pace he described as "refreshing". Aloy was observed to be perfectly coupled with the story in that she offered the curiosity to seek out its many mysteries. Kollar perceived the Focus as "key to combat" and the machines as engaging foes in battle.[75] Colm Ahern of VideoGamer.com wrote in his verdict, "Destroying large robot beasts while frantically switching between weapons is intoxicating, but the strength of Horizon Zero Dawn is in Aloy's engaging quest to find out who she really is".[76]

Conversely, Carter saw the characters beyond Aloy and Sylens as uninteresting and bland in their designs. He also disparaged the human artificial intelligence as being worse than that of the machines.[69] To Buchholtz, the weapon system in relation to ammunition appeared convoluted; the ability to only purchase one item at a time "a massive oversight"; and Aloy's ability to only grab marked ledges was confusing for a "parkour master".[27] Marchiafava's only major criticism was that it held too familiar roots with established open world formula.[70] Although Brown drew enjoyment from other aspects of combat, he disparaged the melee for its ineffectiveness and simplicity.[71] Delahunty-Light concurred that the melee fell short of its potential, and also took issue with the jumping mechanic.[72] O'Brien felt the dialogue occasionally contradicted the otherwise intelligent narrative.[74] Kollar bemoaned the character models as Horizon Zero Dawn's one visual shortcoming.[75]

Sales

Horizon Zero Dawn was the best-selling game during its release week in the UK.[78] It surpassed No Man's Sky as the biggest launch of a new intellectual property on the PlayStation 4 and is the most successful launch of any kind on the PlayStation 4 since Uncharted 4: A Thief's End,[79] as well as Guerrilla Games' biggest debut to date.[80] The game sold close to 117,000 copies in its first week in Japan, becoming the second best-selling game that week.[81] Horizon Zero Dawn was the second most downloaded game on the PlayStation 4 US store for the month of February. Because its launch day occurred on the last day of February, only one day of sales was counted.[82] It was the best-selling game in its week of release in Australia.[83] For the month of March, it was the second best-selling game in the United Kingdom and the highest selling PlayStation 4 game.[84] Horizon Zero Dawn was also the best-selling game on PlayStation Store that month.[85] As of 13 March 2017, the game had sold over 2.6 million copies worldwide.[62] It was ranked number one in the UK sales chart of 22 April 2017, and took eighth place in the Japanese chart of 16 April.[86] 3.4 million copies had been sold by the month of June 2017 – of which, 915,000 were digital.[87] The week ending 17 June saw the game return to the number one spot on the UK sales chart.[88]

Accolades

Year Award Category Result Ref
2015 Game Critics Awards Best of Show Nominated [89]
Best Original Game Won
Best Console Game Nominated
Best Action/Adventure Game Nominated
2016 Game Critics Awards Best of Show Nominated [90][91]
Best Original Game Won
Best Console Game Nominated
Best Action/Adventure Game Nominated
Golden Joystick Awards Most Wanted Game Nominated [92][93]
The Game Awards Most Anticipated Game Nominated [94]
2017 Develop Awards Animation Won [95]

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