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Stunning Next-Gen Visuals
Thrilling Final Boss
Short Main Quest
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is a visually spectacular and action-packed expansion that serves as a fittingly cinematic epilogue to Aloy’s journey, introducing a formidable new antagonist and awe-inspiring aerial combat that pushes the PS5 hardware to its limits.
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores | Launch Trailer
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores | Announce Trailer
A couple of poor boss battles aside, Burning Shores is a great new chapter with enough creative new bells and whistles to keep Horizon fans more than happy.
Burning Shores is an entertaining epilogue for Aloy’s sophomore outing. It’s more Forbidden West with a few cool wrinkles, meaning it’s a good reminder of the things that the game did right while retaining a few old headaches (like the hand-holding during puzzles). More than anything, Aloy’s trip to Hollywood justifies its existence by meaningfully building upon the base game’s story, paving a solid runway for the next title to take off.
Aloy returns to explore the wreckage of Los Angeles, and it's just the right amount of Horizon to scratch that itch.
Guerrilla Games already proved once they could deliver a compelling expansion and they have done so again.
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores offers more of the same with some new ideas, yet it's still well worth playing, and looks gorgeous.
An exceptionally pretty slice of DLC that does nothing to address the faults of the main game but does manage to emphasise its many successes, especially the graphics.
Burning Shores is exactly what you would expect, with even more of that solid Horizon gameplay wrapped around a story that initially seems quite frivolous but soon becomes very dark and uncomfortable. If you loved Horizon Forbidden West, you will love this too.
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is a great DLC thanks to an excellent longevity and a good amount of additions, although I would have expected more from the exploration of the new map.
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