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Aloy has lived a sheltered life, but the hunter and archer is about to find out what the world really holds. The future is lush with beautiful forests, grand mountains and clear rivers. But the future is also filled with dangerous machines - machines that now roam and seemingly control this vast world. The machines have the advantage, but Aloy has the speed and intelligence to take them down. She will explore this world, the surviving factions, ancient relics and mysterious buildings to find out how this world came to be - and if there is any way to change it.

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The Plain Oatmeal of Open-Worlds

When it released as a PlayStation 4 exclusive back in 2017, at the tail-end of that console’s lifespan, “Horizon: Zero Dawn” (“HZD”) represented a re-commitment from Sony to release big-budget, first-party titles on their own hardware that could compete with the biggest and boldest third-party titles that were taking the gaming world by storm. This affirmation of the importance of exclusives was a balm to people who still clung to the concept as a positive, and who had already bought-into Sony’s 8th Generation ecosystem.

For me, though, the fact that “HZD” was a PlayStation 4 exclusive was irritating. It meant that, if I wanted to play this game, I would have to blow several hundred dollars on a DRM-box, which would then proceed to harass me with prompts to take it onli...

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