Horizon’s Rumored Multiplayer Game Should Be Set During The Faro Plague

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Guerrilla Games struck it big with Horizon Zero Dawn in 2017, creating one of Sony's most-recognizable modern PlayStation franchises. Sony has pushed Aloy and her post-apocalyptic universe by promoting Horizon Forbidden West as a PS5 showcase and announcing Horizon Call of the Mountain as the PSVR 2's killer app. A recent rumor also suggests Zero Dawn will receive a PS5 remaster alongside a potential multiplayer spin-off. While many would expect this spin-off to involve group archery, it might make sense for Guerrilla to tap its history with Killzone and create a prequel around the Faro Plague.

While this round of rumors also hinted at Horizon Forbidden West coming to PC, most of the conversation has revolved around the necessity of remastering a five-year-old game so soon after Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part 1. Other PlayStation-exclusive titles like Bloodborne that arguably need more updates have started trending online in response. However, a multiplayer game set in the Horizon universe has a lot of potential, especially using humanity's downfall to set a heartfelt, tragic narrative around some high-octane gunplay.

Horizon Zero Dawn's Remaster Should be Closer to The Last of Us Remastered than Part 1

The Horizon franchise takes place in the far future, with Aloy only existing because life on Earth was reseeded through Project Zero Dawn. Through audio logs and main story quests in Horizon Zero Dawn, players learn that the planet's ecosystem was wiped out by robots developed at Faro Automated Solutions (FAS). CEO Ted Faro came to prominence for his company's work combating climate change alongside Elisabet Sobeck, but he eroded much of that good will by pivoting FAS to military contracts.

FAS' line of Chariot robots were