Horizon: Forbidden West is set to be one of the biggest games not only of a bizarrely stacked February in games, but of 2022 as a whole. Sequel to critical and commercial smash Horizon: Zero Dawn, it shows all the same qualities of its 2017 ancestor – a unique setting, scarcely believable visuals, satisfying mecha-dino takedowns – and looks to build on them in a way that will have us all alternating between gasps of delight and triumphant muscle-flexible before an imaginary audience recently wowed by our feats.
The studio behind it, Holland-based Guerrilla Games, has a history that goes back well beyond Horizon. Well beyond Killzone, in fact – to a collective of developers in the mid-nineties experimenting with platforming games and featuring some of the talent behind… Jazz Jackrabbit. Humble beginnings indeed.
