Why It Ranks
“Robot dinosaurs are just the beginning.” — The New Frontier. Scored 24/30.
Score Breakdown
The Review
Horizon Zero Dawn built one of the most original sci-fi premises in gaming: a post-post-apocalyptic world where tribal humans hunt robotic dinosaurs across the overgrown ruins of our civilization. The combat — stripping armor plates off machines with precision archery — is uniquely satisfying. Aloy is one of gaming's great protagonists, and the slow reveal of what happened to the old world is a sci-fi mystery that rivals the best novels. Guerrilla Games reinvented themselves completely and delivered a new IP that instantly felt like a classic.
Fun Fact
The game's robotic creatures were designed by artists who studied real animal locomotion and then 'mechanized' the movement frame by frame.
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