Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4) Review
THE SHORT VERSION Gorgeous post-apocalyptic vistas, unique creature designs and an engrossing, personal plot combine to forge one of the best games of the last decade, and certainly the best exclusive offering for the PS4. It's pretty, it's got a good story, and you fight robot dinosaurs with a spear. THE SLIGHTLY LONGER VERSION Horizon Zero Dawn 's concept ultimately boils down to a strong, intelligently-written female protagonist killing bandits whilst battling mechanical beasts in a tribal, "Mad Max by way of that post-apocalypse story in Cloud Atlas " setting. I've certainly heard worse elevator pitches. Humanity has slowly grown in the shadow of an apocalypse, now living in segregated pre-medieval tribes across the world. These tribes are threatened by deadly robot creatures, which infest the wild and spawn from an unknown source. Aloy, a motherless, martially-proficient young warrior born as an outcast to the Nora tribe, sets out into ...