Forbidden West only wants you to do the standard find, climb, and scan stuff once. Just when you get bored with an errand making you go kill a Snapmaw again, or when you get frustrated with being sent back to an already-plundered location for a side quest when there’s a whole world to explore, the game always has another hook baited for you in a story mission to get you back onside.īut that’s not to say all the superfluous stuff is turgid take the Tallnecks – those giraffe-cum-Brontasaurus machines from the first game that you need to climb to unveil local map markers. What Forbidden West lacks in narrative punch, it makes up for with its combat and some spectacularly-conceived set pieces. Short answer "yes" with an "if." Long answer, "no" with a "but". Without that central conceit, though, Forbidden West seemed like a dubious proposition – could this 60-plus hour game keep me entertained, even when this main plot point has been removed? Guerrilla Games bolted out the gate with aplomb on its first venture into the reset future of the Horizon universe, kitbashing together some fluid My First Monster Hunter combat, a rich and tempting world full of collectible goodies, and a story that had the true identity of red-headed huntress Aloy nestled snugly at its center. Sure, there are more bells and whistles, the world is bigger (and, somehow, also more dense), you’ve got some fancy new ways of getting about, and there are some new robotic animals to dispatch. Moment-to-moment, Horizon Forbidden West isn’t all that different from Zero Dawn. Just what you needed for that weapon upgrade.ĭoes this sound familiar? Because it is. You notch an arrow to your bow, concentrate as you take aim, and fire. A dodge roll to safety, a quick sprint behind a nearby knoll, and a look over your shoulder tells you it was a clean hit – the resulting explosion took the beast’s plated armour clean off. But that hasn’t phased you you look up, pull out an explosive spear and jam it under the beast’s jaw. Some of your flowing red hair caught the tip of its kevlar tusk. You’ve just slid under a robotic elephant’s tusk as it tried to gore you with the entirety of its 10-tonne-plus weight.
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