Horizon Zero Dawn Vs. Zelda: Breath Of The Wild - Which Game Is Better?

6. Depth & Originality Of Controls

For as much as Horizon takes some phenomenally vast steps forward with its progressive story, fantastically unique art direction and thoroughly mind-blowing story, Aloy controls like every other open-world protagonist you've been playing for years. In fact, give her a penchant for mind-reading any nearby Orcs and she'd be Shadow of Mordor's Talion, gameplay-wise anyway.

Indeed, the originality inherent in Horizon comes from its enemy design, and how you apply some very long-in-the-tooth gameplay tropes. You'll be 'hiding in the tall grass', using a vision mode to highlight points of interest, whistling to distract far-away enemies and stealth-killing them one by one. The bandit camps especially highlight just how much this is a carbon copy of Assassin's Creed at its core, but thankfully, everything outside of boiling these mechanics down exceeds immensely.

Over to Zelda, and like its open-world, the way you control Link is endlessly experimental. Nintendo actually introduce a pretty unique control scheme where mini-inventories are tied to the D-Pad, jumping is on X and you can throw any weapon with R. Factor in your special powers that consist of grabbing and moving parts of the environment, freezing them in time or creating large slabs of ice to hop between, then add the timing-based dodge-flurry and ability to traverse the environment in any way you see fit, and there's an inherent originality to how Link controls and feels, that's totally unique.

Winner: The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild