Horizon Zero Dawn doesn't need a remaster
Over the weekend, news broke of a reported Horizon Zero Dawn remaster, as well as a multiplayer take on the franchise. That news has since been corroborated by a number of sources, and according to Gematsu is included within a Sony leak featuring multiple announced and unannounced projects.
Lending further credence to those reports is the Horizon Zero Dawn TV show. Sony's high-profile multimedia partnerships have yielded more than one re-release already; Tom Holland's Uncharted movie coincided closely with Legacy of Thieves, while The Last of Us Part 1 arrived close to major drops for its upcoming HBO series. With Aloy heading to the small screen and Guerilla working on at least one other Horizon title in Call of the Mountain, it seems very possible that Sony is returning to a successful remaster playbook.
This time around, though, there's comparatively little value in that remaster. Eyebrows were raised over whether or not we really needed The Last of Us Part 1, especially given the presence of The Last of Us Remastered. But Naughty Dog did a good job of explaining the extra work – especially around motion capture – that went into Joel and Ellie's move to PS5. Part 1 was described as the "definitive" version of The Last of Us, an opportunity to bring the 2013 game in line with its 2020 sequel in terms of the quality of its performances and visuals. Significantly younger, Uncharted 4 needed less help, but made good use of the opportunity to bundle the Drakes' most recent adventures together. Both games are also using the remaster treatment to make the move to PC, much like Marvel's Spider-Man.
But Horizon Zero Dawn has none of that. Arguably the flagship for Sony's recent push to PC, it's been available on Steam for
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