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2017 video game

2017 video game

Horizon Zippo Dawn
Developer(south)	Guerrilla Games[a]
Publisher(southward)	Sony Interactive Entertainment
Managing director(southward)	Mathijs de Jonge
Producer(s)	Lambert Wolterbeek Muller
Programmer(s)	Michiel van der Leeuw
Creative person(s)	January-Bart van Beek
Writer(s)	John Gonzalez Ben McCaw
Composer(s)	Joris de Human The Flight Niels van der Leest Jonathan Williams
Engine	Decima
Platform(s)	PlayStation 4 Microsoft Windows
Release	PlayStation 4 NA: 28 Feb 2017 PAL: one March 2017 Microsoft Windows WW: seven August 2020
Genre(southward)	Activeness role-playing
Mode(due south)	Single-histrion

Horizon Zero Dawn is a 2017 activeness role-playing game developed past Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The plot follows Aloy, a young huntress in a world overrun by machines, who sets out to uncover her past. The thespian uses ranged weapons, a spear, and stealth to combat mechanical creatures and other enemy forces. A skill tree provides the player with new abilities and bonuses. The player can explore the open world to discover locations and take on side quests. It is the outset game in the Horizon serial and was released for the PlayStation 4 in 2017 and Microsoft Windows in 2020.

Horizon Zero Dawn is Guerrilla Games' first intellectual belongings since Killzone in 2004 and its showtime role-playing game. Development began in 2011 afterwards the completion of Killzone 3, with manager Mathijs de Jonge considering information technology the riskiest idea pitched at the time. The game engine, Decima, was developed for Killzone: Shadow Fall and contradistinct for Horizon Nix Dawn. Being set in a post-apocalyptic setting, anthropologists were consulted to authenticate the world'south decay over a millennium. The soundtrack was led past composer Joris de Homo, featuring contributions from The Flight.

Horizon Naught Dawn was praised by critics for its open world, story, visuals, gainsay, characterization, and the performance of vocalisation actress Ashly Burch; nevertheless, the dialogue, melee gainsay, and grapheme models received some criticism. The game won numerous awards and sold over 20 million copies by February 2022, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games. An expansion, The Frozen Wilds, was released in November 2017. A sequel, Horizon Forbidden Due west, was released for the PlayStation iv and PlayStation 5 on eighteen February 2022.

A television series gear up prior to the games, Horizon 2074 is in development at Netflix.^[one]

Gameplay [edit]

Aloy using her spear against a Watcher.

Horizon Zero Dawn is an action function-playing game played from a third-person view.^{[two] [3]} Players have command of Aloy, a hunter who ventures through a mail-apocalyptic land ruled by robotic creatures.^{[four] [v]} Aloy can kill enemies in a variety of ways – shooting them with arrows,^[6] setting traps such as tripwires using the Tripcaster,^{[seven] [8]} using explosives,^[ix] and a spear.^[ten] Machine components, including electricity and the metallic they are composed of, are vital to Aloy'due south survival; she can boodle their remains for crafting resources.^{[6] [eleven]} Ammo, resource satchels, pouches, quivers, resistance, antidotes, health potions, and traps can all be crafted.^[12] Weapons have modification slots for dealing more impairment.^[13] Aloy wears a Focus, a small head piece that scans machines to determine their susceptibilities,^[xiv] identify their location, their level, and the nature of loot they volition drop.^[5] One machine, the Stalker, can enable cloaking applied science to avoid the gaze of Aloy's Focus browse.^[xv] Machines assail with defensive and offensive measures, and in either case react to a perceived threat by charging at it with brute force or projectiles. Exhibiting the behaviour of wild fauna, some machines are inclined to move in herds, and others, with the ability to wing, exercise and so in flocks. Unless hacked with the Override Tool, or sufficiently hitting with corruption arrows, machines do non exert aggressive force against each other.^[eight] Aloy also engages in boxing with human being enemies, such as bandits and the Eclipse cult.^{[viii] [16]}

Aloy tin can dodge, dart, slide, or roll to evade her enemies' advances.^[17] Hiding in foliage to ambush nearby enemies can ensure immediate takedowns.^[6] Swimming may reach enemies stealthily or places otherwise unreachable on foot.^[eight] She is able to hack a selection of machines with the Override Tool, some of which tin exist turned into makeshift mounts.^{[10] [eighteen]} Explorable ruins called Cauldrons unlock additional machines to override.^[19] Three categories occur in the skill tree: "Prowler" concerns stealth, "Dauntless" improves combat, and "Forager" increases healing and gathering capabilities.^[20] To level up, Aloy attains feel 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 boring motion, and "Forager" to an enlarged medicine pouch.^{[22] [23]} The Frozen Wilds added "Traveler", which unlocks the ability to jump off a mountain to attack enemies.^[24] The game has a seamless open world with a day-night bike and dynamic weather condition organisation.^{[11] [25] [26]}

The map is composed of woods, jungle, desert, and snowy mount regions.^{[27] [19]} Mountainous terrain is traversed with the employment of parkour,^[28] and aided past the use of goose egg-lines.^[29] Corrupted Zones constitute areas that enhance difficulty and are populated past corrupted machines that behave with more than aggression.^[10] To uncover more of the map, Aloy must scale large giraffe-like machines known as Tallnecks.^[30] Twenty-five robotic fauna designs are present in the game.^[31] Save points and fast travel tin can be accessed by interacting with campfires, once discovered.^[20] The quest structure unfolds to adapt the exploration of tribes, while the main story covers the entire world.^[32] Side quests involve Aloy completing tasks, like gathering materials, coming to the assistance of individuals in danger of existence killed, solving mysteries, assuming control of bandit camps, eliminating criminals and more than difficult machines, accomplishing diverse challenges at whatsoever of the 5 Hunting Grounds,^{[8] [33]} and obtaining an ancient armour that makes Aloy most impervious to damage.^[13] A dialogue cycle is used to communicate with non-player characters.^[14] Collectibles include vantages that offer visual information of the Onetime World, metal flowers that incorporate poetry, and old relics, such every bit ancient mugs and tribal artifacts.^[34]

Synopsis [edit]

Setting [edit]

The story is gear up in a post-apocalyptic United States, between us of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, in the 31st century. Humans live in scattered, archaic tribes with varying levels of technological evolution. Their technologically avant-garde predecessors are remembered as the "Erstwhile Ones". Large robotic creatures, known as "machines", boss the Earth. For the near part, they peacefully coexist with humans, who occasionally chase them for parts. However, a phenomenon known equally the "Derangement" has acquired machines to become more ambitious towards humans, and larger and deadlier machines have begun to announced. There are 4 tribes that are prominently featured: the Nora, the Banuk, the Carja and the Oseram. The Nora are fierce hunter-gatherers who live in the mountains and worship nature as the "All-Female parent". The Carja are desert-habitation metropolis builders who worship the Lord's day. The Banuk consists of wandering clans fabricated upward of hunters and shamans who live in snowy mountains and worship the machines and their "songs". The Oseram are tinkerers and salvagers known for their metalworking, brewing, and talent as warriors.^[8]

Plot [edit]

Aloy (Ashly Burch) is cast out from the Nora tribe at birth and raised past a fellow outcast named Rost (JB Blanc). As a child (Ava Potter), Aloy obtains a Focus, an augmented reality device that gives her special perceptive abilities. Aloy becomes curious well-nigh her origins and is told by Rost that if she wins the Proving, a contest to earn the right to go a fellow member of the Nora, the tribe's Matriarchs might concede this information. Aloy spends some years training in gainsay and survival nether Rost'southward education.

After coming of age, Aloy takes part in the Proving; she wins the contest, but the Nora are attacked by masked cultists. Rost sacrifices himself to save Aloy from their leader, Helis (Crispin Freeman). When Aloy awakens, the Matriarchs explain that Aloy was constitute as an infant before a sealed door within the Nora'due south sacred mount, and that these suspicious origins were the reason for existence outcast. The Matriarchs name Aloy a "Seeker", assuasive her to leave their lands in pursuit of the cultists. Aloy meets Oseram member Olin (Chook Sibtain), who informs Aloy that the cultists are office of a splinter Carja faction called the Eclipse, and indicates that Aloy was targeted due to her resemblance to an Erstwhile World scientist named Elisabet Sobeck (also voiced past Burch). Aloy locates the ruined corporate campus of Faro Automated Solutions and discovers that the Old World was destroyed nearly a 1000 years ago afterwards Faro lost control of its automated peacekeeper military robots. The robots, which could self-replicate and consumed biomass, overran the planet and consumed the biosphere, stripping Earth of life. Zero Dawn, a project spearheaded by Sobeck, was initiated to create an automatic terraforming arrangement to deactivate the robots and restore life to Earth.^{[8] [35]}

Aloy is contacted by Sylens (Lance Reddick), a secretive effigy interested in uncovering the fate of the Old Ones. Aloy learns that Sobeck was sent to a decommissioned Orbital Launch Base to consummate Zero Dawn, which is located under the Citadel, the centre of Eclipse power. Inside the base, Aloy learns that Zero Dawn was a vast underground system of databases, factories, and cloning facilities controlled by a single bogus intelligence, GAIA (Lesley Ewen). Once all life had been extinguished, GAIA developed a countermeasure to conciliate the Faro robots and build its own to restore the Globe's biosphere. In one case the planet was habitable once again, GAIA'southward side by side goal was to reseed life on Earth based on stored DNA and teach the first human clones not to repeat their predecessors' mistakes. However, APOLLO, the subsystem designed to teach humanity, was sabotaged past Faro'due south founder and CEO Theodore Faro in a fit of nihilism, and the kickoff humans were reduced to a tribal, subsistence order. The Eclipse are secretly controlled by HADES (John Gonzalez), some other of GAIA's subsystems designed to enact controlled extinction if the outcome of Zero Dawn was not favorable for human existence. Reaching Sobeck's part, Aloy obtains a registry to give her admission to the door beneath the Nora's mountain. She is captured by Helis and sentenced to death at the Citadel, but escapes with the assist of Sylens. Aloy helps the Nora fight off the Eclipse and unlocks the mountain's door.^{[8] [35]}

She finds a recording from GAIA, revealing that a signal of unknown origin caused HADES to activate and seize command of her functions; as a last resort, GAIA cocky-destructed in society to stop HADES. Without GAIA to maintain the terraforming process, the unabridged system began to break downwards. As a contingency plan, GAIA created a clone of Sobeck in the form of Aloy, in the hope that she would find GAIA's message, destroy HADES, and restore GAIA'due south functions. Aloy learns that Sobeck sacrificed her life to ensure the Faro robots would not detect GAIA. Aloy manages to obtain the master override to destroy HADES. Sylens reveals that he was the founder of the Eclipse, originally tempted by HADES' promises of cognition. They surmise that HADES intends to send a signal to reactivate the Faro robots to extinguish life on Earth. Aloy kills Helis and helps fight off machines, earlier stabbing HADES and activating the primary override, ending the war. She journeys to Sobeck's old home, finding her corpse, and mourns her predecessor. In a mail-credits scene, an alive HADES is trapped by Sylens, who intends to interrogate HADES to find out who sent the signal that activated it.^[8]

The Frozen Wilds [edit]

Aloy travels to the "Cut", the home of the Banuk tribe, after hearing word of unsafe machines appearing and a mountain belching fume. She learns from Aratak (Richard Neil), chieftain of the largest Banuk clan, that the Banuk have been attempting to battle a "Daemon" on the mountain, "Thunder'due south Drum", which has corrupted the machines of the Cut. However, their first assault had been a failure, and their shaman, Ourea, had disappeared afterwards. Aloy searches for Ourea, coming across strange robotic towers which both control and repair the corrupted machines. She finds Ourea (Necar Zadegan) in an Old Globe facility that had been converted into a Banuk shrine and is housing an artificial intelligence the shaman calls the "Spirit". Aloy is able to make contact with the Spirit, which warns Ourea that the Daemon is blocking its transmissions before being cut off. Aloy and Ourea agree to piece of work together to save the Spirit. Per Ourea's advice, Aloy defeats Aratak in a hunting competition, taking his place as chieftain. She as well discovers that Aratak and Ourea are siblings.^[36]

Aloy, Ourea, and Aratak head for Thunder's Drum. They infiltrate the Old Earth facility built inside the mountain, where Aloy discovers that the Spirit is really CYAN (Laurel Lefkow), a highly avant-garde AI designed to prevent the Yellowstone Caldera from erupting. Traveling further within, they discover that the Daemon has already overtaken much of the facility, only CYAN suggests using lava from the caldera to destroy the infected areas while preserving the facility. It is also revealed that the Daemon is in fact HEPHAESTUS (Stefan Ashton Frank), another of GAIA's subsystems that articles machines. The group fights through HEPHAESTUS' defenses and Ourea sacrifices herself to override CYAN's core, allowing it to escape. CYAN transfers its core systems to an auxiliary information centre and initiates self-devastation of the facility. Aloy and Aratak narrowly escape. Aloy returns to the Banuk Shrine, where CYAN is waiting; the AI provides additional information virtually the Onetime World but warns that HEPHAESTUS is still active somewhere and will go along to build machines designed specifically to kill humans, which is why it tried to seize control of CYAN and its facilities. Returning Aratak to his previous position as Chieftain, Aloy departs the Cutting.^[36]

Development [edit]

Guerrilla Games began developing Horizon Null Dawn following the release of Killzone 3 in 2011.^[37] When conceiving the thought 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 and was pitched in 2010 by fine art managing director Jan-Bart van Beek.^{[38] [39]} When this concept was chosen, a squad of x–xx began building prototypes of the game.^{[38] [39]} 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 as narrative director, with Ben McCaw as pb author. The main elements of the story and the grapheme of Aloy remained intact since early development.^{[38] [39] [40]} Upon the completion of Killzone: Shadow Autumn in tardily 2013, the remainder of the staff began working on Horizon Zip Dawn.^[41] Guerrilla cancelled some other game to allow the unabridged team to focus on the development of Horizon.^[42] Sony would later on admit to being reluctant about having the main graphic symbol exist female person and conducted focus testing to encounter if such a conclusion was marketable.^[43] The game had an estimated upkeep of over €45 meg.^[44]

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 past featuring a quest arrangement, every bit well as including items throughout the world that tin be used to craft or replenish health.^[38] The team wished for the game to have a simple user interface blueprint, specifically avoiding complicated menus for crafting, and considered the game to be a technical challenge.^[45] They felt that the game engine, Decima,^[46] which was designed for games such as the Killzone serial and was previously used for Killzone: Shadow Fall,^[47] was difficult to alter for Horizon, in terms of describe distance and loading. To discover how some game elements work differently in open world games, the team sought assist from talent in the design, art and technical fields.^[45] In extrapolating the game world, Guerrilla turned to anthropologists and researched the formation of tribal cultures as well as how edifice materials would disuse over a millennium.^[39] The game's quest organisation and narrative design took inspiration from other role-playing video games, ranging from the "Relaxed" quest pattern of RPG Maker games to the "Strict" quest design of hack and slash games. They defined "Relaxed" quest design every bit having few centralised systems for managing quest progression, and "Strict" quest design every bit having a rigid structure and predefined elements, with the team deciding the latter.^{[48] [49]}

Pb composer Joris de Man used experimental instrumentation in the score

Lance Reddick and Ashly Burch's involvement was revealed in January 2017.^{[31] [fifty]} Burch voiced Aloy,^[31] whose likeness was portrayed by Hannah Hoekstra^[51] and motion capture was performed by Amanda Piery in London. Following an auditioning process in 2014, Burch was called in to practise the E3 2015 trailer and proceeded to work on the game for two years in Los Angeles, providing facial movement capture as well.^[52]

The game'southward soundtrack was equanimous by Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest, and Jonathan Williams, with vocalist Julie Elven serving equally the chief performer.^{[53] [54]} Lucas van Tol, music supervisor and senior sound designer, provided the composers with a game pattern 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 Human also used a contrabass flute and made synth pads from blowing on a Thai bamboo flute, noting "distant pads and ambiences, and broad, spread out chords seemed to work well". Circuit-bent synthesizers and percussive loops, run through impulse responses of metallic 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 unlike pieces could exist combined. The positive response to the first E3 trailer'southward principal theme led it to be included in the primary menu. The composers also did the movement capture for diegetic music vignettes, portraying in-game tribal musicians.^{[55] [56]} The iv-hr soundtrack was released via digital music platforms on 10 March 2017.^{[57] [58]}

Release [edit]

The concept fine art also as the game's codename, Horizon, were leaked in September 2014.^[59] Horizon Zero Dawn was officially announced during Sony's E3 2015 press conference.^[sixty] The game was featured every bit the cover story in the September 2015 issue of Border and the October 2016 issue of Game Informer.^{[61] [62]} At E3 2016, Sony had a life-sized cosplay version of one of the machines greet the trade show attendees.^[63] Originally set to be released in 2016, the game was delayed to February 2017 to be further polished.^[64] Information technology was released to manufacturing in late Jan 2017,^[65] and launched to N American markets on 28 Feb 2017, in Europe, Commonwealth of australia and New Zealand on 1 March and Asia on two March for the PlayStation 4.^{[66] [67]} Horizon Zero Dawn is forward compatible with the PS4 Pro,^[29] allowing information technology to run upwards to 4K resolution.^[68] In Apr 2017, a making-of documentary was released on Dutch public goggle box.^[69] By March 2017, a story expansion had already been set in motion.^[70] New Game Plus, an Ultra Hard difficulty mode, boosted trophies and aesthetic features were introduced with a patch released in July 2017.^[71] The expansion, The Frozen Wilds, was released on 7 Nov 2017.^{[72] [73]} The Consummate Edition, which contains the base game, The Frozen Wilds, and all boosted downloadable content (DLC), was released for the PlayStation 4 on five December 2017 and Microsoft Windows via Steam on 7 August 2020 and GOG on 24 Nov 2020.^{[74] [75]} A tabletop game accommodation is being developed by Steamforged Games.^[76]

Reception [edit]

Horizon Aught Dawn received "mostly favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic.^[77] Destructoid 'south 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 than effective as he traversed more of the land. The game world itself was subject to compliment for its "beautiful" day-nighttime wheel and atmospheric condition organization. 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.^[79] Matt Buchholtz of EGMNow likewise praised Burch likewise every bit the game earth, which he found to be mesmerising. Considered the most powerful part of the game, the Focus characteristic gained approval for complementing the combat in a way that "forces y'all to go a hunter".^[28] Writing for Game Informer, Jeff Marchiafava opined that, unlike with other open world video games, searching for sound logs and emails provided the plot with a "remarkable sense of discovery". He was thankful that story-based missions dominated the overall feel, arguing that they worked to detail the world and inspired gameplay variation.^[80]

Peter Brown at GameSpot reflected on Aloy's character evolution with anaesthesia. 1 constant thrill to Chocolate-brown came from combating the machines, which he said took the spotlight and never lost its flair. He appreciated also that the master quests encouraged one to explore the surroundings.^[81] Zoe Delahunty-Light, writing for GamesRadar+, was fascinated with the intricacies of the world and institute integral value in the lore scattered among the ruins. She echoed Brown'southward view that fighting machines maintained excitement throughout.^[82] Giant Bomb's Jeff Gerstmann declared Horizon Zero Dawn equally "a near-perfect story" with a satisfying conclusion, and emphasised that it independent substantial depth.^[83] 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 most compelling accomplishment.^[84] Writing for Polygon, Philip Kollar applauded the game as what he dubbed the "refutation" of Guerrilla Games' past piece of work, a change of pace he described every bit "refreshing". Aloy was observed to exist 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.^[85] Colm Ahern of VideoGamer.com wrote in his verdict, "Destroying large robot beasts while frantically switching betwixt weapons is intoxicating, but the strength of Horizon Zero Dawn is in Aloy's engaging quest to discover out who she really is".^[87]

Conversely, Carter saw the characters beyond Aloy and Sylens as uninteresting and bland in their designs. He also disparaged the human bogus intelligence every bit being worse than that of the machines.^[79] To Buchholtz, the weapon system in relation to armament appeared convoluted; the ability to merely buy 1 item at a time "a massive oversight"; and Aloy's ability to merely take hold of marked ledges was disruptive for a "parkour main".^[28] Marchiafava'due south simply major criticism was that it held too familiar roots with established open world formula.^[80] Although Brown drew enjoyment from other aspects of combat, he disparaged the melee for its ineffectiveness and simplicity.^[81] Delahunty-Light concurred that the melee cruel curt of its potential, and also took issue with the jumping mechanic.^[82] O'Brien felt the dialogue occasionally contradicted the otherwise intelligent narrative.^[84] Kollar bemoaned the character models as its i visual shortcoming.^[85]

Game director Yoko Taro listed it as i of his favourite PlayStation four games.^[88] Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the fourth best game of 2017,^[89] GamesRadar+ ranked information technology 2nd on their list of the 25 Best Games of 2017,^[90] and Eurogamer ranked information technology 31st on their list of the "Elevation l Games of 2017".^[91] The Verge named Horizon Naught Dawn as ane of the fifteen Best Games of 2017.^[92] In Game Informer 's Reader's Selection Best of 2017 Awards, information technology took the lead for "Best Sony Game", coming up in second place for both "All-time Action Game" and "Game of the Year".^{[93] [94]} Game Informer also awarded it "Best Sony Exclusive" in their Best of 2017 Awards, and as well gave it the awards for "All-time Story" and "Best Character" (Aloy) in their 2017 Action Game of the Year Awards.^{[95] [96]} EGMNow ranked the game tertiary in their list of 25 Best Games of 2017,^[97] while Polygon ranked it eighth on their list of the fifty best games of 2017.^[98] The game won the Gold Prize and Users Option Prize at the 2017 PlayStation Awards.^[99] It was nominated for "All-time PS4 Game" at Destructoid 's Game of the Year Awards 2017.^[100] It also won the awards for "Best PlayStation 4 Game" and "Best Graphics" at IGN 'southward Best of 2017 Awards,^{[101] [102]} whereas its other nominations were for "Game of the Twelvemonth", "All-time Activeness-Gamble Game", and "Best Fine art Direction".^{[103] [104] [105]} It was nominated for "All-time Looking Game" at Behemothic Bomb 's 2017 Game of the Year Awards.^[106] In 2018, it won the awards for Best PS4 Game, Best Functioning for Ashly Burch, Best Art Direction, Best Soundtrack, Best Story, Best Post-Release Content, Best PlayStation Console Exclusive, and Best Apply of PS4 Pro at PlayStation Web log's Game of the Twelvemonth Awards.^[107]

Sales [edit]

Horizon Zero Dawn was the acknowledged game during its release week in the Uk.^[108] It surpassed No Homo's Heaven as the biggest launch of a new intellectual property on the PlayStation 4 and was the most successful launch of any kind on the platform since Uncharted 4: A Thief's End,^[109] too as Guerrilla Games' biggest debut to date.^[110] The game sold close to 117,000 copies in its first week in Japan, becoming the 2nd acknowledged game that week.^[111] Horizon Nil Dawn was the second most downloaded game on the North American PlayStation Store for February. Because its launch twenty-four hour period occurred on the concluding solar day of February, only one day of sales was counted.^[112] Within two weeks it sold 2.6 million units.^{[113] [114]}

It was the best-selling game in its week of release in Commonwealth of australia.^[115] In March 2017, it was the 2nd acknowledged game in the UK and the highest-selling PlayStation iv game.^[116] Horizon Zippo Dawn was likewise the acknowledged game on PlayStation Shop that calendar month.^[117] It was ranked number i in the UK sales chart in April 2017, while hit eighth identify in the Japanese chart.^[118] By February 2018, over seven.6 million copies had been sold,^[119] increasing to over 10 million a year later, making it 1 of the acknowledged PlayStation iv games.^[120] Past February 2022, over 20 million copies sold in PlayStation iv and Windows platforms.^[121]

In an endeavor to increase profitability, in 2020 Sony decided to begin porting their first-party titles to PC.^[122] Horizon Zip Dawn released on PC in August 2020 and had a successful launch, moving over 700,000 digital copies.^[123]

In Feb 2022, Hermen Hulst announced via his Twitter account that the game had sold over 20 million copies as 28 November 2021.^[124]

Awards [edit]

Year	Accolade	Category	Result	Ref
2015	Game Critics Awards	Best of Show	Nominated	[125]
		All-time Original Game	Won
		Best Panel Game	Nominated
		All-time Action/Hazard Game	Nominated
2016		Best of Prove	Nominated	[126] [127]
		Best Original Game	Won
		All-time Console Game	Nominated
		Best Activeness/Risk Game	Nominated
	Gamescom 2016	All-time Preview/Vision	Won	[128]
	Golden Joystick Awards	Most Wanted Game	Nominated	[129] [130]
	The Game Awards	Nigh Anticipated Game	Nominated	[131]
2017	The Independent Game Developers' Association Awards	Audio Blueprint	Nominated	[132]
		Diversity Award	Nominated
		Role Playing Game	Won
	Golden Joystick Awards	Best Storytelling	Won	[133] [134] [135]
		All-time Visual Blueprint	Runner-Upwards
		Best Gaming Functioning (Ashly Burch)	Won
		Best PlayStation Game	Won
		Ultimate Game of the Year	Runner-Up
		All-time Audio	Nominated
	The Game Awards	Game of the Year	Nominated	[136]
		Best Game Management	Nominated
		Best Narrative	Nominated
		All-time Art Direction	Nominated
		All-time Operation (Ashly Burch)	Nominated
		Best Activeness/Chance Game	Nominated
2018	45th Annie Awards	Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Video Game	Nominated	[137]
	Writers Lodge of America Awards 2017	Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing	Won	[138] [139]
	21st Annual D.I.C.Eastward. Awards	Game of the Year	Nominated	[140] [141]
		Adventure Game of the Twelvemonth	Nominated
		Outstanding Achievement in Blitheness	Nominated
		Outstanding Accomplishment in Art Direction	Nominated
		Outstanding Accomplishment in Character (Aloy)	Nominated
		Outstanding Accomplishment in Original Music Composition	Nominated
		Outstanding Achievement in Story	Won
		Outstanding Technical Achievement	Won
		Outstanding Achievement in Game Blueprint	Nominated
		Outstanding Accomplishment in Game Direction	Nominated
	SXSW Gaming Awards	Excellence in Visual Accomplishment	Won	[142] [143]
		Excellence in Blitheness	Nominated
		Most Promising New Intellectual Holding	Won
		Excellence in Gameplay	Nominated
		Excellence in Design	Nominated
		Video Game of the Year	Nominated
	Game Developers Choice Awards	All-time Audio	Nominated	[144] [145]
		Best Design	Nominated
		Best Narrative	Nominated
		All-time Technology	Won
		Best Visual Fine art	Nominated
		Game of the Year	Nominated
	14th British University Games Awards	Artistic Achievement	Nominated	[146] [147]
		Audio Achievement	Nominated
		Best Game	Nominated
		Game Design	Nominated
		Music	Nominated
		Narrative	Nominated
		Original Property	Won
		Performer (Ashly Burch)	Nominated
	Ivor Novello Awards	Best Original Video Game Score	Won	[148]

Sequel [edit]

In June 2020, Guerrilla announced a sequel titled Horizon Forbidden West. It was released on February 18, 2022.^{[149] [150]}

Adaptions [edit]

The Horizon franchise includes various types of merchandise and adaptations outside of the video games, including comics, a board game, and a television receiver series.

Comic series adaptation [edit]

The Horizon universe was kickoff adjusted into a comic volume in 2020, with the release of Horizon Nix Dawn: The Sunhawk.^[151] The comic book bridges the gap between Horizon Nix Dawn and Forbidden West. A second comic, called Liberation, was released in 2022.^{[ citation needed ]}

Board game adaption [edit]

An official licenced lath game was released in 2020. The branch board game, created by SteamForge, includes story elements that take identify correct after the main video game.^[152]

Goggle box series accommodation [edit]

In May 2022, it was announced that a streaming tv series adaptation is in development at Netflix. The series will be titled Horizon 2074, and is set prior to the events of the games. ^{[153] [154]}

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Microsoft Windows version ported by Virtuos, with boosted work by Nixxes Software

References [edit]

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