10 Best Open-World Video Games
8. Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon manages something that countless games do not, creating a legitimately believable world. Not just the topography of the land and the lore, but every moving creature, every NPC and anything in between that sells it.
The majority of locales feel like they could actually be real places, filled with real people. Horizon is like a giant machine, with a few thousand moving parts that all work together, completely in sync.
It’s both fantastical and strangely down to earth at the same time. We’ve seen similar locations in plenty of games and movies before, but never quite as polished.
You become so immersed in the world that when you’re attacked by one of the many powerful machines (that behave shockingly close to their real animal counterparts), the fight for Aloy’s survival and the answers about her past become all the more intense in the best way possible.