There will really be a lot to do in Horizon Forbidden West in addition to the various missions. You will also have to clean up the various rebel camps, search for black boxes, drones and relics of the old days, succeed in hand-to-hand combat requiring the use of combos that are not always easy to place, pass tests of hunting, go and beat imposing creatures in arena fights under very special conditions more difficult than anything you will come across in the main quest, explore the crucibles to find the plans to hack the different machines. This new component also adds races on the backs of runners and a real board game with complex rules.
Graphically, the game takes full advantage of its transition to the next gen with denser vegetation, incredible depth of field and very beautiful lighting effects. The map will offer different types of scenery with different types of vegetation, a desert area in the remains of Las Vegassnowy areas and a The Angels turned into a lush jungle. We will find there all the machines crossed in the previous game and its DLC as well as new opponents much stronger than the Storm Maws of the first game. The developers also had to take a lot of time to animate all the dialogue scenes with the NPCs with very neat appearance with often armors that we would have liked to wear in the game.
The big disappointment of Horizon Forbidden West lies in its playability. Nothing seems to have been done to improve the movements ofAloy in this open world. The most frustrating being the jumps and the climbs which are sometimes automatic just by pushing the stick and which sometimes will make you miss a jump or sometimes prevent you from climbing a platform for a few centimeters when it is able to do other times totally improbable jumps. Traveling on the back of machines will also be particularly frustrating as they block on the slightest obstacle. Adding in this game the possibility of swimming underwater and flying in the air, these new movements will also often be laborious. As for the combo system of melee attacks, some will be so difficult to master that they will prevent us from winning the trials. We can also regret that the adaptive triggers of the DualSense are not used correctly.