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Game is good. Amazon isnt.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2022

The game should be here right now, hell should've arrived yesterday. Wont pre order from amazon ever again. Rather just buy digital next time. Everyone is playing right now but ofc i have to wait. Its nearly 2 pm, order isnt on its way yet. Im lucky if i get it by the evening. What the hell man..

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mb3012

Not as good as the original

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2022

Recommendation: buy the PS4 version and play that on the PS5. It's the same game but cheaper, and even then wait for the price to come down.

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This isn't as good as the original. I'm about 10 hours in. I've got past the must do activities and now I'm in the Forbidden West proper. And somehow I don't really care. The graphics are probably better than on the PS4 but not in any meaningful way. There's more detail and more leaves, dust and bugs in the air but nothing that adds to the game play. The cut scenes - of which there are many and they are often long - are beautiful but so what? I don't buy games to watch very high quality mini-films. The game play feels clunky and a bit awkward. Compared to AC Valhalla it feels very dated. The hand-to-hand combat in particular feels weird. During one must-win-to-progress fight the 'champion' eventually just stood still while I beat him up! And it's buggy. I've been stuck in the undergrowth twice. Machines have been able to put their heads through 'solid' objects. I don't remember any of these problems with the original - which I played through twice. Finally there's no build in the 'plot', it just doesn't pull you in to the game.

And one final thing ... when are we going to get a true PS5 game, not just a PS4 game with updated graphics? Yes the PS5 is bigger, faster and so on, but at the moment it just feels like a supped-up PS4.

Overall I would recommend waiting for the price to drop - a lot. Definitely not worth £70 or anything close.

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Update: lost 10 levels due to a save fail. Really weird because it took me back a couple of days, not to the last session, and not to the last quick save. Known bug? I've stopped playing the game.

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Robert

In the Same Vein as Far Cry 6 or Dying Light 2 or...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2022

Edition: PS5Verified Purchase

This game is in the same vein as most open world games are anymore and it's equally as disappointing to me as Far Cry 6 and Dying Light 2 were.

You've got a jarringly convoluted story full of characters and what are meant to be close companions that you don't care about at all and they all have nearly unlimited amounts of dialogue that you couldn't care less about.

There are endless tedious side jaunts to undertake and the reward for the effort is comically disappointing. For example you spend hours grinding puzzle ruins without knowing what the rewards will unlock only to discover later in the game you wasted all of that time just to get some sparkly animations based on holidays in an area you'll hardly ever visit.

There are a few quests like this that you could spend hundreds of hours on but I don't know how anyone could manage such a boring thing.

The gameplay is not very good and often times your character will get stuck in environments. The controls feel clunky and Aloy moves about like a drunken moose it feels like at times.

This game is like so many other open world games are anymore. Just big empty hollow world's with massively tedious grinds of boring side jaunts.

The voice acting and writing seems like it was made by 12-13 year olds who speak English as a second language.

The level of quality in games has gone down massively in the last couple of years and it's unfortunate a game as clunky and unpolished as this game is getting so many sales and such high reviews.

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Kev 84.

ok game!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2022

Edition: PS5Verified Purchase

Ok game not for me though, got bored of the story pretty early, doesn't half cause motion sickness as well never had a game do that before till I played this, far too many weapons and skills to choose from makes it annoying!

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Charlie parker

Opened parcel to find the parts of the games case falling out.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 March 2022

Edition: PS5Verified Purchase

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selki

Hilarious writing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2022

Edition: PS5

I loved Zero Dawn and completed it over and over. So I considered myself a die hard fan.
This game starts out with an off putting tutorial section, wraps up the end of the last game in a hurried awkward manner and then puts you into an ok beginning area. Then the previous highly talented writer left and writing by committee tales over. Without spoilers all I can say is the plot is like a crayon drawing over the top of your favourite painting. Where the world felt real before with material culture from different tribes, we now have ridiculous fantasy like cultures dropped in from a great height to fill up the map. The game descends from there into a weird mash up of dragon age inquisition, mass effect, Skyrim with a side dish of lord of the rings. All great franchises which do not work in the context of horizon.

On the plus side it looks almost as good as the first one and I laughed out loud at the hilarious bad writing. Some people won’t care about any of that and will still get a lot out of it, which is good. But all the subtleties of the first game are lost and for me this is a generic boring but pretty open world game which gets in the players way constantly and wrecks the entire premise that I loved so much.

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