10 Video Game DLCs Better Than The Game

Horizon Zero Dawn was a game largely carried by its impressive world-building and tactile combat, even if the storytelling was less-than-stellar and Aloy didn't quite reach her potential as a protagonist.

But the game's single DLC release, The Frozen Wilds, is a breezier adventure both in terms of its snappy pacing and its literally chilly snow-topped setting of The Cut.

Beyond the gorgeous new locale, it's immediately apparent that The Frozen Wilds is a more polished experience overall, with the base game's oft-criticised uncanny facial expressions replaced with more believably lifelike ones.

Even the way Aloy moves looks more fluid, which for an expansion released the very same year as the original game and rocking an impressively beefy 12-hour story, shows that Guerrilla Games were doing anything but resting on their laurels here.

With a more streamlined, less-bloated main story, better side-quests and characters, funnier writing, a lack of annoying human combat, and abundance of new machines and weapons, The Frozen Wilds is a DLC that builds on what came before and feels how the launch game should've all along.