The Game runs beautifully, I have a standard ps4 console and one of LG's entry level 4k televisions and right from the opening and half hours play I am impressed. Do not be discouraged by the ps4 pro stamp, standard ps4 performance is impressive.

I thought I would finish the game before I did my review of it, that's mainly why it took so long for me to do it, I passed the 50 hour mark from exploring, doing all the side quests and unlocking all the machine hacks from the cauldrons.

I have to say this game has far exceeded my expectations, not only by the sheer size of the world, the number of machines in the game, the render distance, the number of AI on screen at once, but the fact that it also has a great story to go with it. When I purchased Horizon all I was expecting was a game with fun combat, I got that and a lot more.

The story does a good job of creating characters with fleshed out backstories showing there motivations; from greed, to fear, to love, to beliefs. Even a lot of the characters in side missions get that treatment and most side missions have a bit of story to go with them not just track this, fetch that, kill this enemy. There can even be some little surprises in some of the side missions also.

The combat is as expected quite excellent, despite the smaller number of weapons/gear you have available, it is the way that they interact with the machines that makes it impressive, how taking off certain parts don't just disable a function but also change the way an enemy fights, the physics of the machines are very good.

The way the game doesn't hold your hand with things outside of the initial tutorial (IE the child section) is a good choice because it makes you figure out how to do things your own way. When you start you are very weak and need to use stealth a lot because a lot of machines in the world pose a very real threat to you. But once you gain machine hacks, better weapons and start to learn how machines act and what strategies work best on them, you start to get to the point where you can freely roam out knowing that you can safely fight the enemies you will encounter. It is not until you start to reach the end game, when you have the best armours, the best weapons, all kitted out with the best modifications available to you that the challenge starts to fade away, but it is never gone, there will always be situations where you can't just barge in without risking getting overrun.

I haven't been this impressed by a game since Far Cry 3 launched, sure it suffers from the same issues that all open world games do i.e. Parts of the map you can get stuck in, and sometimes you don't snap correctly to the jump points and grab points which can cause some frustration. But aside from that I have had no problems with the rest of the game. I'm actually a little sad that I finished it, but I'm glad that Guerilla has announced there will be story expansions. I will definitely give this game a deserved 10/10. It's just too bad that it has been overshadowed by breath of the wilds launch, it deserves better publicity.

Only played probably half way through the game but it is a wonderful open world game with plenty to do. Combat is refreshing and challenging while the story is really interesting. Must buy :)