Horizon Forbidden West- Review on PlayStation

Written by Boldson on 18 February 2022. Posted in PlayStation

BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME

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, a third-person action-adventure role-playing game 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, a new, no less terrible fate befell it. It was based on the “red rot”, with the source of which you will now have to deal with, taking 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 PlayStation 4 internal projects, but later games were created for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 5. Decima includes features such as game artificial intelligence and game physics, and is also compatible with 4K resolution and high dynamic range images.

The engine was created by the Dutch studio Guerrilla Games for the development of Killzone: Shadow Fall (2013). As an internal development, the engine did not initially have a well-known name. Guerrilla Games' next game, Horizon Zero Dawn, was created on it.

The success of Killzone: Shadow Fall drew the attention of Supermassive Games to the technology that 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. Under the terms of the partnership, Kojima Productions received the engine to develop their Death Stranding project without any contractual obligations. At the same time, the name of the engine was announced - Decima. The name was chosen from an island on the Japanese coast of Dejima, where a Dutch trading post was located in the 17th century. For a long time, the Netherlands was the only country allowed to trade with Japan. In this way, Decima reflects the collaboration between the Japanese and Dutch studios.

Guerrilla Games' next game, Horizon Forbidden West, was developed on an updated version of the engine. . The updated version of Decima features more detailed shadow and texture rendering, as well as updated tooling, ray tracing, and more shaders.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Horizon Forbidden West occupies about 90 gigabytes on the console's hard drive. On the PlayStation 5, the game takes up 8 gigabytes more.

CONTROL

The control settings are enabled in the main submenu :

Dualsense support for the PlayStation 5 was implemented in Horizon Forbidden Westn , further adding to the immersive experience.

SETTINGS

In the PlayStation 4 graphics settings, we do not have graphics settings:

In the PlayStation 5 graphics settings, we have a fairly wide range of video settings:

We have 2 modes: resolution and performance. In resolution we get 4K and 30 frames per second. The performance makes it possible to play at a smooth 60 FPS in 4K upscaled from 1440p.

COMPARISON PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5

In this case, we are comparing PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5:

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The graphics on the PlayStation 5 are noticeably better than on the PlayStation 4. Below is our comparative video review directly in the gameplay ( be sure to watch in 4K mode! ):