Coming with the Bigger and Better Model: ‘Horizon: Forbidden West’ Review

Forbidden West Side is the Best Side You know what it is! Your girl Aloy is back on the block like Omar with the sawed-off to talk to these machines! When you walk through Horizoooon, better watch yo’ back! Do you remember how detailed Horizon: Zero Dawn was? With the weapon wheel and the crafting of every weapon and variation of a weapon? With the trading and the tiny hidden llama statues with the indigenous-style stories? Oh yeah, with the precision aiming to knock specific pieces off of machines and hunting in a post-dystopian landscape? Not to mention beefing all around the open world with a group of well-organized Mad Max types in cahoots with the IRL voice gawd Lance Reddick? Yeah, all that. In Forbidden West, crank all of that up a few notches. More weapons, more crafting, new species of machine animals, more sub-genres of side quests, and more sun-blown vistas! It’s all there for the open-worlding in Horizon: Forbidden West. Gameplay While much of Horizon: Forbidden West is rocking with the ‘bigger and better’ model for the sequel, that includes much more detail added to an already highly detailed game, the world is huge, even in comparison to the first game when you add in the Frozen Wilds DLC. It feels like the developers, Guerilla Games, literally took every mechanic of Zero Dawn and zoomed in on it to make it more player-involved. Crafting components into weaponry can now be skill treed to be done faster. Maybe I’m telling on myself with my antiquated last-gen har…