16 Most Hotly-Anticipated Video Games Of 2017

11. Horizon: Zero Dawn

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Sony

Be honest now, how many of you scoffed at the idea that Guerrilla Games, primarily known for creating linear shooters à la the Killzone series, could realistically pull off a game as ambitious as Horizon: Zero Dawn?

I have no qualms with holding my hand up, and until we finally got some lengthy gameplay footage at this year's E3, I remained steadfast in that position.

There's no way of telling at this early stage whether Aloy and her crusade against mysterious cybernetic dinosaurs will ever manage to live up to the hype, but it's hard not to be enamoured by its sheer beauty.

If combat, exploration and narrative all end up being as receptive free-form as Guerrilla says they will then oh my, this could be something special indeed. There's robotic dinosaurs, for crying out loud, how could it possibly be bad?

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