HORIZON ZERO DAWN METACRITIC CODE
HORIZON ZERO DAWN METACRITIC PS4
HORIZON ZERO DAWN METACRITIC PC

Bear in mind this is an up-close shot anyway, so the difference is usually more pronounced. Here I have used sophisticated image manipulation technology to show the difference when you increase the field of view to max, by tracing the outline of the space Aloy (as a babby, in the prologue) would fill on the default setting.

HORIZON ZERO DAWN METACRITIC CODE

In a third-person action game with A) some of the best scenery ever put to code and B) packs of robot gits who surround you and leap at you from all angles, it's a godsend to be able to tuck Aloy just a little further into the centre of the screen.

HORIZON ZERO DAWN METACRITIC PS4

Aloy, commendably, is not a hero from the glute-o-centric, 1990s-Lara-Croft school of design, but I nevertheless spent most of my PS4 playthroughs confronted by her bum, because she filled so much of the screen. The biggie, however, is the ability to widen the field of view. But Aloy does scurry through a lot of foliage, spending half the game hiding from big whirring bastards in tall grass, and given the game's plants - which looked so relaxing to begin with - now sway about and that, it's just that bit more immersive. I know that hardly seems like a fourth-paragraph-of-a-review thing to note. Firstly, the foliage now moves around Aloy as she scurries through it.

HORIZON ZERO DAWN METACRITIC PC

She's also done a lovely a dive into the ultrawide settings, and is working on a massive graphics card test.īeyond the wide range of display and graphical options in HZD's PC port, there were a couple of small additions that made a world of difference. If you are less of a barbarian than me, and want minimum specs, performance benchmarking and all that, RPS machine priestess Katharine has you covered. Other players have reported much more serious issues, though, and Katharine has been looking into that too. I did experience a few framerate honk-ups, and occasionally someone's fashionable, fur-and-cable adornments would clip through each other, but it caused me no sorrow. On an Intel Core i5-8400 CPU and an Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 graphics card, I found the game ran comfortably on the 'high' graphics presets. But with a game this pretty, you'll want to know how well it dresses on PC, and what price your hardware will have to pay to outfit it. I'm not a particularly hardware-conscious man, nor am I that bothered by whether things look good or mega-good. There's a cracking photo mode, by the way, which is great fun. Despite a couple of hardware wiggles, and some tough moments with mouse and keyboard in a game shot through with PlayStation DNA, there is no pelican, and Horizon Zero Dawn is, for me, a very Bestest Best. I knew the PC port would have to be either unplayable, or introduce an inexplicable wisecracking pelican as Aloy's sidekick, to change my opinion of what's probably my favourite ever action game. If you've read anything I've had to say about Horizon Zero Dawn to date - and I've eulogised it twice already - the tone of this review shouldn't come as a surprise. Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Horizon Zero Dawn is one of the most compelling, beautiful open world adventures ever made, and while its PC port can't make up for a slight lack of innovation in game design, it offers a good few technical improvements.

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