Horizon Forbidden West has been shown running on the base PS4 for the first time
Sony Interactive Entertainment has released the first gameplay footage of Horizon Forbidden West running on the base PS4 console, which you can watch below.
Earlier this month it published the first Horizon Forbidden West PS4 gameplay footage, via a series of clips showing it running on PS4 Pro.
Guerrilla said last year that Horizon fans shouldn’t be worried that the PS4 version of Forbidden West has been compromised by the studio’s work on the PS5 one.
Sony announced Horizon: Forbidden West for PS5 in June 2020 before confirming a PS4 version last September.
While the power of PS5 has enabled Guerrilla to add extra levels of detail to the game on the newer console, in September lead character artist Bastien Ramisse told the PlayStation Blog that the studio is aiming to deliver an equally engrossing experience on both platforms.
“We actually developed and tested the game simultaneously on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, because it’s very important to us as a studio to ensure PlayStation 4 players get an equally immersive experience,” he said.
“With our knowledge from Horizon Zero Dawn, we knew that we still had some unexplored resources that could push the realism and quality of our character assets forward; it’s great to now be able to tap into that knowledge and experience for the sequel.”
He added: “The most noticeable differences and improvements for Aloy in terms of technology is the push of facial and body capture accuracy, allowing more realistic shapes and surface details on characters as well as the careful increase of polygon density to capture handmade and used outfits.”
In an interview published last June, Horizon Forbidden West director Mathijs de Jonge also claimed the game hasn’t been held back by the weaker
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