Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Down to release on February 28th

Written by: Sayani Mandal

Horizon Zero Dawn’s PS4 release date is just around the corner. It will be unveiled on February 28. The stunning PS4 exclusive features a huge open-world with a thriving ecosystem made up of robotic beasts. Horizon Zero Dawn represents an open-world role-playing game steeped in mythology and set in a world post-apocalypse where humans are primitive and tribal and the land is filled with grazing herds of mechanical animals.

A society with a foggy past and an uncertain future is truly lost; such is the reality for the denizens of the world of Horizon Zero Dawn. The game takes the player 1000 years back when tribal communities used to live and the areas is surrounded by mysterious high-tech fossils. How the world ended up in disarray isn't clear at first, but Aloy, an orphaned outcast who locates an advanced communications and analysis device, holds the key to unlocking these mysteries. Using her new found tool, Focus, player can tap into techno-artefacts and glean info about the past. The duelling themes of nature and technology are present in Aloy, who's forever changed when she accepts technology into her otherwise primitive life. She transforms in so many ways throughout her journey, and it's amazing to look back when all is said and done, reflecting on not just the awesome challenges player will overcome, but also on how much confidence and maturity Aloy's gained in the process.

Co-Founder & Managing Director of Guerrilla Games, Hermen Hulst said to Co.Create, “I’ll be honest with you. There were moments when we were making this game where we weren’t sure we were going to be able to pull it off”. He also added, "We wanted to do something new, so we reached out to the entire team and asked for pitches. It was way outside our comfort zone. It was just too many things we hadn’t done before."

After wrapping up Horizon: Zero Dawn, Killzone series developer Guerrilla Games is now working on a new game. According to the leading Dutch newspaper, Parool.nl, a new Killzone game is being worked on by Guerrilla’s Amsterdam studio (the main studio that made the original Killzone games, as well as Horizon) and the news has been reported on PlayStation Universe.