| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Release date:February 18, 2022
Genre: Action/RPG
developer:Guerrilla Games
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Horizon Forbidden West is a continuation of the story of a girl named Aloy, an action role-playing adventure game with a third-person view, in which players will be asked to travel to the west coast of the once prosperous American states…
The events of the game this time will take place on the west coast of the once prosperous states of America. An incredibly long time has passed since the global cataclysm occurred, after which people were on the verge of extinction, and when it seemed that nothing threatened humanity, it suffered a new, no less terrible fate. It is based on “red rot”, the source of which you will now have to deal with, having taken control of Aloy.
| GAME ENGINE |
Decima is a proprietary game engine developed by Guerrilla Games and released in November 2013. The engine was originally created for internal PlayStation 4 projects, but was later used to create games for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 5. Decima includes features such as in-game artificial intelligence and in-game physics, and is also compatible with 4K resolution and high dynamic range images.
The engine was created by employees of the Dutch studio Guerrilla Games for the development of the game Killzone: Shadow Fall (2013). As an internal development, the engine did not initially have a commonly known name. It was used to create Guerrilla Games’ next game, Horizon Zero Dawn.
The success of Killzone: Shadow Fall attracted the attention of Supermassive Games to the technology, which Guerrilla Games licensed the engine to create Until Dawn (2015) and Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (2016). These games used the Havok physics engine.
On December 3, 2016, during the PlayStation Experience, Hideo Kojima announced his studio’s partnership with Guerrilla Games. According to the terms of the partnership, Kojima Productions received the engine for the development of its Death Stranding project without any contractual obligations. At the same time, the name of the engine was announced – Decima. This name was chosen after the name of the island on the Japanese coast of Dejima, where a Dutch trading post was located in the XNUMXth century. For a long time, the Netherlands was the only country that was allowed to trade with Japan. Thus, Decima reflects the collaboration between Japanese and Dutch studios.
Next Guerrilla Games game, Horizon Forbidden West, was developed on an updated version of the engine. . The updated version of Decima features more detailed rendering of shadows and textures, as well as updated tooling, ray tracing and more shaders.
| TECHNICAL INFORMATION |
Horizon Forbidden West It takes up about 90 gigabytes on the console’s hard drive. On PlayStation 5 game takes up 8 gigabytes more.
| CONTROL |
Control settings are included in the main submenu:
В Horizon Forbidden Westn Dualsense support has been implemented for PlayStation 5, which immerses you even more into the gameplay.
| SETTINGS |
In the PlayStation 4 graphics settings we do not have any graphics settings:
In the PlayStation 5 graphics settings we have a fairly wide range of video settings:
We have 2 modes: resolution and performance. The resolution is 4K and 30 frames per second. Performance allows you to play at a smooth 60 FPS in 4K, upscaled from 1440p.
| COMPARISON between PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 |
In this case we compare PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5:
Graphics on PlayStation 5 is noticeably better than on PlayStation 4. Below is our comparative video review directly in the gameplay (Be sure to watch in 4K mode!):
| QUALITY COMPARISON ON PS5 |
In this section we have presented comparisons of picture quality in the PS5 version:
| OVERALL VISUAL GAME IMPRESSION |
Graphics Horizon Forbidden West is currently one of the best in the gaming industry:
Of course, for all this beauty it is necessary PlayStation 5.
| GAME PROCESS |
Well, below are the gameplay on the console itself PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5:
Disadvantages:
– there is only one drawback – PlayStation 4 graphics are noticeably worse
Advantages:
– one of the most beautiful and best adventure games of this year
| Game rating 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 42% |
PlayStation 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 28% |
PlayStation 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 45% |