Sylens has also seemingly joined a new faction that’s fond of capturing and corrupting robots. It’s still unclear if all the red blight plaguing the west is HADES’ doing, though.

There, Sylens told HADES he would discover who originally sent the signal to activate the malicious A.I. Sylens (played by Lance Reddick), the former leader of the HADES-worshipping Eclipse organization and the deuteragonist of Horizon Zero Dawn, managed to contain a portion of HADES in a mysterious jar-like device and take it with him to an unknown desert location where a giant war machine lay dormant. In the reveal trailer, we see an underwater ruin resembling San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, which is a mere eight-minute walk from the north bay coastline.Īll that said, HADES was not fully destroyed by Aloy. The red blight is also seemingly responsible for the “supercell storms,” a chaotic swirl of wind and red lightning that covers the sky.Īloy’s journey to address this new threat will evidently take her from Utah out to the west coast, specifically a post-post-apocalyptic San Francisco. It’s currently unclear if the red blight infects robotic lifeforms rather than just organic, like the corruption that plagued the robots in the first game. Aloy finds a fox (a real one, not a robo-fox) that’s been infected and on death’s door before another, considerably larger creature interrupts her. In the reveal trailer, we see a new threat emerge, which Guerilla Games calls the “red blight.” It manifests as a moldy mass of red vines that can infect its way into lifeforms and the surrounding environment. system that was corrupted by HADES, was responsible for reseeding the earth after it was once again habitable - and that’s just the Cliff Notes version. Elisabet Sobeck, the researcher in charge of “Project Zero Dawn” (a vast network of cloning facilities) and how GAIA, the A.I. Along the way, Aloy also learned the truth about the world: How a company named Faro Automated Solutions lost control of its army of military robots that could subsist on any biomass for fuel, and how Aloy is a clone of Dr. Horizon Forbidden West Story: New Threats, New LocationsWhen we last left Aloy at the end of Horizon Zero Dawn, she had defeated the rampant A.I. That means it won’t be a release window game for the PlayStation 5, which is launching during the “holiday 2020” window. That’s all developer Guerilla Games has said about the sequel so far. Horizon: Forbidden West Release Date Horizon Forbidden West is confirmed for the PS5 and Guerilla Games is “aiming” to release it in 2021.

We’ve gone ahead and rounded up everything we know about Horizon Forbidden West, including release date, story, new gameplay, and new machine creatures Aloy will encounter, and more.

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