Horizon Forbidden West Reviews
A solid sequel to the crowd-pleasing original, which still doesn't make enough of its unique setting but manages to add an impressive amount of depth to its combat and side content.
Just like Ubisoft's mega-hit franchise, Horizon Forbidden West has a lot of the right ingredients but it's let down by the pitfalls of AAA game design.
Aloy's new journey is one to remember: the Forbidden West is a living, captivating and fascinating world, and everything you loved about Zero Dawn is back in a bigger, better and deeper way, in one of the best open worlds by PlayStation Studios.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Anyone who digs these kinds of dense, map-based open world experiences is going to feel happy with what Guerrilla Games is offering here. This is something you could spend a lot of time with, first enjoying the story, then going out of your way to see and complete every last bit of content.
The sequel of one of the defining games of the past generation may not be a revolution, but it is certainly welcome and breathtaking evolution.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Impressive efforts with a few noticeable problems holding them back. Won't astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash.
Forbidden West is a beautiful game, full of epic moments, specially when fighting mechanical beasts. Being a sequel, the game has grown in every aspect. We enjoy the new abilities, such as diving or gliding with the shieldwing, but we also found uninspired secondary missions and repetitive tasks. We found some bugs in our review.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
A natural evolution of Zero Dawn, Horizon Forbidden West fulfills its mission as a sequel: to aspire to higher peaks, and reach them.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Forbidden West isn't a game that will surprise you or make you rethink the possibilities of what games can do, but it's proof that games can still be really fun even if they don't try anything new, and that's something we don't often see from big budget corporate games like this one.
Horizon Forbidden West doesn't really do much to revolutionize or innovate the open-world genre. However, it's a mighty exhilarating game with a great story, fun gameplay, beautiful graphics, and meaningful improvements over its predecessor, essentially adding way more to an already surefire wonderful experience.
Horizon Forbiden West transformed Guerrilla Games into the best open world studio in the SIE. The vast world that completely eliminates the regrets of the previous game deserves to be called the standard of the next-gen open world.
Review in Korean | Read full review
Horizon Forbidden West builds upon the formula of the first game in smart (if not always revolutionary) ways to craft an even stronger open-world experience. The stunning visuals make for a great showpiece of what Sony's first-party studios can accomplish on PlayStation 5, with gameplay that holds up its end of the bargain. Unfortunately, storytelling missteps and a lack of polish keep Aloy's latest adventure just shy of joining the all-time greats.
Horizon Forbidden West is a masterpiece. With a gripping story and a world ripe for exploration, you won't be disappointed.
After a strong 2021, Sony is hoping to capitalise on its growing first-party exclusives catalogue on the PS5 with a follow-up to 2017 hit Horizon: Zero Dawn - and they've pulled it off.
What Guerrilla Games has achieved here is nothing short of phenomenal. Story, gameplay, mechanics, and the world itself are all such an improvement on the original game - which in itself is a feat alone.
Is more better? In this case for me it is not, Horizon Forbidden West is still an outstanding game, that nobody doubts it, but it failed to take a step further. If you liked the first installment this you will possibly enjoy the same or more. However I miss that he has sinned of little ambition and did not want to go for bigger goals, I blindly believe that Aloy and Guerrilla were well capable of it. It has the potential to be that SS3.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
A consistent sequel that surpasses the first part in gameplay, but is far behind in terms of story.
Review in German | Read full review
There is a ton to love here and I really loved coming back to this world. This is a must own for PlayStation owners.
In addition to ensuring a solid storyline and combat performance, Horizon Forbidden West also makes a lot of attempts in the application of new technologies and deserves to be evaluated as a work full of the spirit of exploration. However, from the perspective of gameplay, for Horizon Forbidden West, it is a bit unsatisfactory in the control of the pace of gameplay and the content enrichment of the open world.
Review in Chinese | Read full review