Guerrilla's Horizon Series Could Use a Miles Morales-Style Spin-Off
Sony's first-party studios developed a number of iconic titles during the PlayStation 4 generation, including Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man, Guerrilla Games' Horizon Zero Dawn, and Santa Monica Studio's God of War (2018). The PlayStation 5 has or will feature sequels that continue these now-franchises. Horizon Forbidden West hit shelves this February, and God of War Ragnarok is scheduled to release on November 9. Insomniac's take on the web-head is in a more interesting position.
Following the success of Marvel's Spider-Man in 2018, Insomniac released a handful of DLC expansions. It then announced one of the PS5's launch titles in Spider-Man: Miles Morales, a spin-off about the titular second Spidey from Harlem. This much shorter adventure starring a similar superhero with his own distinct powers ultimately served as a set-up for the franchise's true sequel Marvel's Spider-Man 2, which as of this writing is set to release sometime in 2023 with both Peter Parker and Miles Morales as main playable characters. The Horizon franchise could attempt a similar strategy for its yet-revealed sequel to Horizon Forbidden West. Spoilers for Horizon Forbidden West ahead.
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The release of Horizon Zero Dawn in 2017 was a big departure for Guerrilla, which was best-known for its sci-fi first-person shooter franchise Killzone. With Horizon, the Netherlands-based studio spotlighted a post-apocalyptic America in which humanity was reduced to a set of smaller tribes beset by animalistic machines among the ruins of modern-day society. Players took the role of Aloy, a young woman who becomes one of the most skilled hunters in the land to prove herself after being outcast
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