Guerrilla Games is, by now, famous among the gaming community for developing the Killzone games for Sony Computer Entertainment. While the Killzone games might not be everyone's cup of tea, Horizon: Zero Dawn seems to have hit all the right notes with sufficient hype generated around the game, both the positive and negative kind.
Sadly, we haven't exactly got our hands on the game yet (the India release has been delayed slightly), but the reason for this write-up is because it is one of the few games that features a female protagonist. Gamers will argue that the gender of the protagonist may not make much of an impact, but in times like these, when representation matters and women need heroes to look up to (lets face it, men have everyone from Master Chief to John Marston to look up to), having a protagonist like Aloy, a machine hunter who uses traps, crafted weapons and her wits to hunt down monsters many times her size, is quite important.
The world of Horizon: Zero Dawn is set far into the future when technology takes over, with cities going to waste and monsters made of metal and wires roam the land. In essence it is a futuristic monster/dinosaur hunting game where resources are everything, and humans are the most extinct species on Planet Earth. This is also Sony's first heavy hitter of a console exclusive this year, with more to come in the coming months.
In next week's segment of Video Game of the Week, a series that redefined the Sci-Fi genre in Video Games will be discussed and in the coming weeks, more on female protagonist and games that changed the face of the industry, until then, like and share this article so I get to write more about video games, and that's like my jam!
Oh, and if you have a PlayStation 4, now is the time to go pick up Horizon: Zero Dawn from the store near you or order it online. If you're the online ordering type, you can click here to buy!
If you still are on the fence, look no further than this trailer below!
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