https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gamespots-best-games-of-2017-6-horizon-zero-dawn/1100-6455681/ >It's a commonly held fantasy that our race to master technology will one day cripple humanity as we know it, be it the result of unchecked hubris or an egomaniacal ruler. Horizon Zero Dawn flirts with the possibility of a fractured society clawing its way back to enlightenment after just such a collapse. But unlike our own stone-age ancestors, Horizon's primitive people must shepherd the burden of a previous era's mistakes while battling mother nature and trudging through their own rocky development. >For them, it means a life of many hardships. For us, it results in an exciting open-world game with ferocious robotic monsters patrolling breathtaking landscapes. Guerrilla Games wields the sci-fi-tinted man-against-nature conflict with apparent ease, and its first post-Killzone work is an artistic and technical marvel that's also highly enjoyable to play. Rumbling with Horizon's fiercest enemies requires confidence and deft timing. In the span of a couple seconds, you can sprint, dodge, craft ammo, and reload your bow or slingshot, and maybe leap off of a boulder for a slow-motion killing blow between a pair of incandescent eyes. Impressively, Horizon does all of this without breaking a sweat.