Horizon Zero Dawn: 7/10

Extremely overrated game, I'm glad to say I didn't pay for it and received it as a gift.

The story is the best part of the game, and if it wasn't there, the score would be much lower.

The combat is pretty fluid, but whether it was fun depended on what I was fighting. When I was fighting humans, I had a blast. When I was fighting machines, not so much. They're just big bullies that vastly overpower you. When traversing across the world, you can never really enjoy what's around you because you're always getting chased and harassed by machines.

Graphically, I was disappointed. The environment looks quite nice, but the characters do not, and animations are outdated to where you'd swear you're playing a PS3 game from the middle of its lifespan.

Certain mechanics weren't very good either. Climbing felt like Infamous, which is to say it's not very good, and there's no superpowers here to distract you from it. Sometimes I would miss a ledge and fall to my death, it was very frustrating.

The other thing, is that there isn't much to do in the open-world that captivated my interests. Slogging through cauldrons to override machines was not my idea of fun.

Overall a mixed experience gameplay-wise, but the story saved it.