Horizon zero dawn: the frozen wilds full#

This section also has one of the best boss fights IвЂ™ve ever played and, once again, you will need every weapon and trap in your armoury to take down the creature. Thankfully there is only one Cauldron to traverse and that comes towardВ the end of the DLC itвЂ™s one of the biggest in the game but is not too arduous.

Horizon zero dawn: the frozen wilds full#

One Snowclaw is bad enough, when you have three of themВ attacking you you have to think fast, dropping traps and making full use of the Ropecaster to immobilise the beasts, and donвЂ™t even think of trying to take down a Daemonic Thunderjaw until youвЂ™ve upgraded all your weapons.

The new enemies are extremely tough and even the best weapons from the main game barely make a dent and youвЂ™re not going to get very far unless youвЂ™ve picked up the armour with the regenerating shield. The first mission recommends that youвЂ™re level thirty before you start it, but I started playing with myВ level fifty character from the main game, having completed every quest, gained every weapon, and stockpiled supplies. My favourite is Gildun, aВ cheeky treasure hunter who may have pressed a wrong button or two and flooded a large area of the map.В Oseram trader Burgrend also makes an impression, andВ Banuk leaderВ Aratak, who accompanies you for a portion of the expansion, has a great emotional scene with some superbly nuanced facial animation which many other characters lack. In The Frozen Wilds you get to meet a number of NPCs who have genuinely enjoyable dialogue. The biggest changes to be found are in the characters and dialogue, most of which wereВ rather wooden and perfunctory in the main game. ItвЂ™s not just her, as all the creatures leave realistic tracks and trails as they roam through the frozen lands. The realistic snow effectsВ are some of the best I have ever seen and it really does look like Aloy is wading through snow. It looks stunning and the intense snow storms that reduce visibility to almost zero effectively convey the freezing conditions, so much so that when I had venture back to the blazing sun and desert for the main game I actually felt physically warmer. The new area is packed full of locations to visit and is fairly sizeable, not just across but also vertically as some of the missions will have you weavingВ in and out of the mountainside, climbing thousands of feetВ into the sky. There are three new bows to collect, three new weapons which turn out to be very useful when attacking the new enemy types, and Bluegleam, a new currency which is only accepted by the Banuk traders, so youвЂ™re going to have toВ find supplies of that rather than spend your metal shards. Aloy can now reach level 60 and has a new skill tree alongside the existing three, although none of the new abilities are particularly exciting. The corrupted zones and machines found in the main game have been replaced by areas with huge Daemon towers which will disable AloyвЂ™s shield вЂ“ if you have one вЂ“ and repair any nearby machines, meaning you have to take the towers out first before tackling the robotic beasts.ДЄlongside Daemonic versions of the machines found in the original game thereВ are a couple of new additions including the fearsome Scorcher, a wolf type machine with a mine launcher thatВ you can knock off and use yourself, and my favourite, the Snowclaw, a giant bear with deadly ice attacks. Aloy must find her way to a smoking volcano, home of the Daemon and discover who or what it is, and destroy it. The story for the DLC is fairlyВ similar to that of the main game as something is causing the machines to go extra nuts, itвЂ™s just that instead of Corruption they have been tainted by the Daemon. Despite the snow drenched fir trees, gobbling turkeys, and stunning winter mornings, this is not a festive time for Aloy as she heads north to a new area, the Cut, which is home to the Banuk tribe who created the large paintings in the original game. ItвЂ™s been nine months since we were introduced to Horizon Zero Dawn and flame-haired hero, Aloy, and now, just in time for a special edition for that all important Christmas market, we return.