4 Reasons to Get Hyped for Horizon Zero Dawn Next Month

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There’s a reason why action RPGs are so popular: they’re fun to play, simple as that. From all the gameplay footage we’ve seen of Horizon Zero Dawn so far, there’s plenty of action involved, and also a healthy amount of RPG elements as well. Players will be able to craft traps and bombs while fighting against the Machines, fire off arrows from Aloy’s awesome-looking bow, and even engage in some old-fashioned melee combat too.

Outside of just fighting enemies, the RPG side of the game kicks into high gear as players get to wander around a large open world, complete with a day and night cycle. There will be NPCs to talk to, quests to undertake for them, along with dialogue options and interactive conversations. It’s not clear whether your dialogue choices will make any significant impact on the outcome of the main story just yet, but so far, it seems like a safe bet that you will at least have some say over how Aloy handles her relationships with these side characters.

Though, to be honest, we do wish the character models for some of the human NPCs looked a little less stiff. What are they, machines?


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Zhiqing Wan
Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.