“You can find mods in the world and slot them onto your weapons and change how they work. It’s a great incentive to take on the challenge, because rarer loot means you can craft rarer weapons and items, or modify your existing weapons to make them more powerful. 7:Every machine in Horizon: Zero Dawn drops loot, and although it’s randomized, tougher enemies tend to drop rarer stuff.

Finally, we have smaller stories that focus on individual people”. Below that we have the national quests, which are all about the various tribes, where you’ll work with their leaders. We’ve got our main quests which is the global mystery - something is corrupting the machines in this world. “Most of the quests are going to be human stories.

“The machines are interesting to fight but they’re not interesting enough to fill a whole game,” said Ford. Play 6:This one wasn’t something I discovered while playing, but I was able to get some information on quests outside of just ‘defeat this machine’, which has been the primary focus of all the footage we’ve seen to date. Voila, it was now my pet, and what’s more it attacked other machines - executed using the same button that executes Aloy’s melee - while I was riding it. This is actually really simple to do in practise - a couple of rope arrows saw me taking down a cow-like Broadhead, before I was prompted to hack it. While fast travel is an option, Aloy can also tame certain beasts using her hacking tool (which has a cooldown, so don’t expect to be hacking machine after machine) and ride them.

5:Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to travel around it. You can also explore anywhere from the get-go, and enemies don’t scale alongside you, so expect to encounter beasts far above your level if you wander too far away from the earlier environments. “There’s lower territory with more snowy mountains, there are desert areas, barren landscapes and jungles”. “The world has many different environments” says Studio Art Director Jan-Bart Van Beek. The open world of Horizon: Zero Dawn is very big - opening a map reveals a huge, unexplored landscape - and although I only saw one type of environment today, Guerrilla is promising a lot of variation.

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