The Rope Launcher
In every action game, there’s a certain thing that just looks incredibly fun to use. It’s that one thing that you absolutely know you’re going to abuse the absolute crap out of when you can, either because it’s super useful or leads to some funny results. With Horizon Zero Dawn, it looks like that distinct honor will go to the Ropecaster.
Created by the Nora tribe from which Aloy hails, the Ropecaster is primarily used by hunters to pin down corrupted machines. You’re definitely going to be doing plenty of that in the game (either to kill the machines or Override them and bring them to your side), but the real selling point is how it attributes to traversal. With the ‘Caster, you can pretty much climb anything in the game with relative ease. So many open world games not set in the present day just have you hoof it when it comes to traversal, so it’s nice to get away from that with a gun that basically turns you into post-apocalyptic Batman with better hair.
