If you’ve heard this before, stop telling me. There’s a game that’s not old at all, that even twenty-something idiots like me remember vividly when it first came out and we didn’t have to beg our parents to buy it, and it seems to be getting a remake.
This time the game is Horizon Zero Dawn, and the ESRB listing seems to reveal that PlayStation and Guerilla Games are planning to release a 2017 title and bring it to PC again in 2020. Why? No idea, but it does happen shortly after the release of the not-so-expensive PS5 Pro.
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As of this writing, the listing is still live, and it suggests that Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered – which was previously rumored to be coming soon – will be coming to PS5 and PC at some point before the end of the world, or in less cheeky terms, without a specified release date.
In case you’ve somehow forgotten about the game over the past few years, here’s an overview of the game from the ESRB: “This is an action/RPG game in which the player takes on the role of a hunter (Aloy) surviving a post-apocalyptic world. The player guides Aloy as he learns how to hunt robots and animals in the wild. Aloy uses arrows, spears, and explosive traps to damage and kill machines, wild boars, and the occasional human enemy.
Oh, and one other thing to keep in mind is that “animals and humans spurt little globs of red blood when attacked, there’s one line in the game that mentions sexual content, and – don’t look over there, kids – “the word ‘sh*t’ appears in text/dialogue.” Yikes, that sounds pretty heavy and devastating to me.
It’s fair to assume that a big purpose of the Horizon remake is to make it more polished, but does it really need to? Does any game other than one that launched in 2002 really need it? Probably not, but, as I mentioned before, HZD with a few extra bells and whistles sounds like the kind of thing that might be used to push a snazzy upgraded console when it launches in November.
However, Sony has yet to confirm whether this remake will become a reality or whether it will be available on the PS5 Pro, so we’ll just have to wait and see when an official announcement is made. While you wait, why not invent something the Men in Black use to erase people’s memories, then play through The Last of Us, The Last of Us Remake, and The Last of Us Part I back to back so you can try to forget some of the plot in between.
