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I would. I loved the first HZD game, and Forbidden West lives up to the first. The mechanics gave me the same vibes as the first one did, and reminded me of Shadow of the Colossus. Which is also one of my favorite playstation titles. The difficulty of this game is no joke, and I appreciated how challenging it was. I felt like I earned, that said one of the major critiques of the game I have was how big the download was. Its massive, ~90 gb once installed on your system. So if you play games like destiny or COD, youre going to have to make room for it. It is understandable tho because there arent many loading screens. mostly when you are respawning. I found that to be impressive. The storyline is fast paced, and you're greeted with platforming mechanic almost imediately. That is no surprise given that it is an open world game. The story picks up 6 months after the end of HZD and the story ties well into that as well. I will say that some of the side quests, why they do tie into the story, were a bit cheesy. like they didnt get the same attention as the main story. The mechanics of the game were a bit tough for me at first. I mostly play FPS games and switching back to 3rd person was an adjustment. Until i got used to 3rd person i made many mistakes. They also didnt really explain how to modify weapons or use the skill tree very well. So I would give the mechanics 3.5 out of 5. The combat and graphics however! 5/5 stars. Nothing in this game came easy. and the graphics were near perfect for a game made for ps4 and played on the ps5. I loved how difficult the game was because I am a damage dealer, and a good one at that, I was never a tank, so i had to learn how to stay alive while playing bosses who are OP. There is one thing to note about the graphics. the running animation for aloy was funny. it felt out of place, and it made me laugh a few times. Performace wise, the game ran almost flawlessly. the load times were super quick for such a large game. I did run into a few bugs tho. There were to memorable instances in boss fights were i got stuck on a ledge or pushed out of bounds that required a checkpoint restart. While that was annoying, the restart refreshed the game and cleared the error. Conclusion I felt totally immerese the whole time, and the side quests that werent cheesy, did add to the main story. Would i replay the game once I fully complete the game? Prolly not, i am currently about 45% of the way through the game and have been playing the game for about 30 or so hours. One thing that felt a little disapointing was the Tallnecks. Just like the first game, they were fun and a wonderful puzzle to figure out, at the time of completeing the campaign, I had finished 3 of the 6 in the game and onces i was nearing the end i received a mount that allowed me to cheese 2 of the final 3. that was disappointing to me. all in all this game is an incredible game that is beautiful, challenging and the story really is something that is entertaining. It is definately not perfect, but if you liked the first game, this will be well worth your time. Read more

Due to arthritic fingers I played it on story level difficulty and that proved to have just enough combat and sufficiently difficult bosses to keep up my interest without my fingers hurting. The game had a few nice twists in the main story line which all added to the interest. I enjoyed exploring the vast open world running into new tribes, people and situations. Some of the climbs were vertigo inducing. I also fell to my death a number of times having fumbled a jump – some require just a nudge forward but others require a full jump pressing X, get it wrong and you fall. I played virtually all side quests and errands which helped give a break from the main storyline. These were well thought out and a good distraction without being repetitive. The rebel camps were also fun to take on by stealth from high ground, picking outliers off until I was eventually spotted usually ending up with melee combat with the remaining rebels. The cauldrons were scary and quite a challenge, not least figuring out how to get to where you are supposed to go; jumping between moving machine arms over deadly force fields certainly focussed attention! I noticed the game finished with a new threat looming in the future, obviously paving the way for yet another Horizon game. Bring it on – I’m up for the next one. :-) As is typical with these types of games the number of skills, weapons and coils were bewilderingly large so I only made use of a few of them. You could spend the rest of your life figuring out all these features to optimise your game play. There were a few software bugs, but not enough to spoil the game. I managed to crash the game once when in the Zenith base navigating a duct by clicking maps and trying to look at the map for the floor above. There was also a bug with the weapon wheel which was very erratic and difficult to select a weapon without it bouncing around other weapons – a search online revealed the cure to be to change the selection speed from slowest to normal which cured the fault. Another bug was with the quest to fly to the top of the mountain. Having got there the four pieces of armour were missing! I checked online footage for this quest and the armour wasn’t where it was supposed to be, so I had to abandon that quest. Another minor glitch occurred after finishing one quest (forgotten which) and I was supposed to return to base but the map wouldn’t show me the base or the track of how to get there! The square box against the quest to “show on map” was also missing. As I didn’t remember its location I just had to carry on with other quests. It eventually reappeared on the map so was able to return. I paid full price for this game and it was worth every penny. Now it is done, my fingers can have a well earned rest. Thank you for making the game fun and suitable for people with less than perfect healthy hands by including story level difficulty. Read more

He has been playing this game for 13 mos & it keeps him entertained. It has a large territory to wander in, gather supplies, people to converse with who hint you toward things you need, and weird machines animals to kill along the way. Of course, his character has been killed many times but each time he learns new things to get further in the game and has made it to the end a number of times. He says that the free roaming capabilities make it interesting time & time again! Read more

Got to get the big problem out of the way first, which remove a star from my rating. This turned out to be the European region version of the game disc. It installed and worked fine on my North American PS5 until I got most of the way through the game and downloaded the Burning Shores DLC expansion. Took me a while to figure out why it wasn't working but the region difference was the answer. There is no simple way to download the European version of the expansion if you live in N. America, and the N. American DLC does not work at all with other versions of the base game. So I've paid for a DLC I can't use thanks to this mix-up. I'm waiting for the N. American version to go on major sale but I don't think my saved games will work. Very frustrating. Looks like there is some grey-market stuff going on here because you shouldn't really be able to buy Euro coded games in N. America. Watch out! The game was ok. Gameplay was better than the original and more refined, but there are still clearly a few "right ways" to fight most robot monsters and Frost is still OP in almost any situation. The graphics are very good and the world is beautiful, with a bit more going on in it than the first game. The story is a mixed bag, with some good moments, some eye-rolling wokeness, and also some stupid story elements especially toward the end which seems rushed. Aloy remains a cipher without much character growth or motivation other than "saving the world is my job which I do unquestioningly and because I am somehow better at it than everyone else on the planet, duh". The Tenakth are not well-written as a culture: their dress, customs and settlements make no sense whatsoever, and the three tribes are indistinguishable from one another apart from colour scheme. The game could have done some interesting things with primitive groups who worship variously misinterpreted versions of US 20th and 21st century military culture but instead we got generic Native-style warriors. The original game's story was way better and so were its factions. I'd say the game is still worth playing, though it's frustrating because it could have been much better with different writing. Read more