Aloy helps tribe member Alva (Alison Jaye) with acquiring data, while recovering DEMETER. Journeying to California, she encounters the Quen, a foreign tribe who are attempting to solve ecological crises in their homeland.
They have since acquired subsystems ELEUTHIA, ARTEMIS, and APOLLO, but Beta has stolen their GAIA backup.Īloy recovers AETHER after helping Hekarro advance in the war and retrieves POSEIDON from the ruins of Las Vegas. After their colony on Sirius collapsed, the Zeniths returned to Earth to use GAIA through Beta's genetic make-up for their own recolonization. She later tracks down Beta, who informs Aloy that her group are in fact Far Zenith, colonists who fled Earth during its global extinction, having managed to extend their natural lifespans. GAIA also reveals the extinction signal that triggered HADES originated from the Sirius system Aloy suspects that it was sent by the futuristic humans. GAIA locates the other subsystems AETHER (Wil Coban), DEMETER ( Sophie Simnett), and POSEIDON (also Donohue), and advises Aloy to retrieve them before attempting to capture the more advanced HEPHAESTUS (Stefan Ashton Frank). Zo ( Erica Luttrell), a member of the nearby Utaru tribe, guides Aloy to a control center where she rejoins GAIA with her subsystem MINERVA (Morla Gorrondona). They take a second GAIA backup while Aloy barely escapes. The group, consisting of their leader Gerard (Dan Donohue), his lieutenant Tilda ( Carrie-Anne Moss), enforcer Erik ( Marc Kudisch) and accompanied by a clone of Sobeck named Beta (also voiced by Burch), possess advanced technology that renders them invulnerable. She recovers a GAIA backup without its subordinate functions, but is interrupted by a group of futuristic humans. Aloy tracks Sylens to a facility where she finds HADES badly damaged, and permanently deletes it. Sylens ( Lance Reddick), having stolen GAIA's (Lesley Ewen) subsystem HADES, contacts Aloy and asks her to continue her search in the Forbidden West region.Īloy and her friend Varl (John Macmillan) cross into the west to find the ruling Tenakth tribe in the midst of a civil war between Chief Hekarro ( Geno Segers) and the rebel leader Regalla ( Angela Bassett). In the six months following the defeat of HADES ( Anthony Ingruber), Aloy has been searching fruitlessly for a backup of GAIA to restore the planet's rapidly degrading biosphere. She discovers a vast array of environments and ecosystems, including lush valleys, dry deserts, snowy mountains, tropical beaches, ruined cities, and underwater settings. On her journey across these uncharted lands, Aloy encounters new regions ravaged by massive storms and deadly machines, and conflicts with a tribe of nomadic raiders who have tamed the machines as war mounts. Horizon Forbidden West continues the story of Aloy ( Ashly Burch), a young hunter of the Nora tribe and a clone of the Old World scientist Elisabet Sobeck, as she leads a band of companions on a quest to the arcane frontier known as the Forbidden West to find the source of a mysterious plague that kills all it infects. The mission structure for quests better supports variety in objectives with compelling reward systems.
Exploration is improved with new underwater exploration, and improvements to traversal using the Valor Surge system, freeform climbing, and tools such as the Shieldwing, Focus Scanner, Diving Mask, and Pullcaster. The map is larger than in the previous game. In an open world, she explores the mysterious frontier known as the Forbidden West, a post-apocalyptic version of the Western United States, specifically the states of California, Nevada, and Utah. The player controls Aloy, a hunter in a world populated by dangerous, animalistic machines. Horizon Forbidden West is an action role-playing game played from a third-person perspective. It was a good year where I actually played a lot of new things together with. My GotY for this year is 5 games that I have a pretty firm order on (1-5), 5 games that is basically unordered (6-10) and a bunch of honorable or not so honorable mentions. This block of fifty starts with the Square Enix E3 Disappointment Zone and proceeds to encompass a whole bunch of Indies and VR games from Day of the Devs and other low. RBI Baseball 21 Tetris Beat Retro HighwayĮven more trailer reviews! I know, it's crazy.
A list of pages I've added to the database in (mostly) alphabetical order until around 3500 (November 2016).