{"id":233638,"date":"2022-02-14T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/233638\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:30:04","slug":"horizon-forbidden-west-graphics-analysis-one-of-the-best-looking-open-world-games-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/233638\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Forbidden West Graphics Analysis &#8211; One of the Best Looking Open World Games of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UwTJuvVxEVM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nGuerrilla Games has enjoyed one of the most successful launches of the last generation with its 2017 release Horizon Zero Dawn. Despite being a brand new IP, Horizon was able to cement itself as one of the tent pole releases for the PS4 and its protagonist Aloy one of PlayStation&#8217;s premiere mascots. With 20 million copies sold across PS4 and PC, the developer is back at it once again with the highly-anticipated sequel Horizon Forbidden West, which looks to be building upon the excellent foundations established in the original to deliver a compelling experience that might very well be one of the best games of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This theme of improving over great beginnings continues in the technical department as well, with Horizon Forbidden West seemingly taking full advantage of both Sony&#8217;s current-gen machine the PS5 as well as its previous-gen machine the PS4 Pro. To make the game run as smoothly as possible on the two machines which have vastly different compute horsepower, the studio&#8217;s in-house Decima Engine has also seemingly received a ton of internal updates to its rendering pipeline to make the game both scale well across both platforms &#8211; all while delivering a markedly better experience on the lowest target platform.<\/p>\n<p>To that effect, we present a complete technical analysis of Horizon Forbidden West and all of the improvements that it has over the original. Let&#8217;s begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guerrilla Games has enjoyed one of the most successful launches of the last generation with its 2017 release H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":233639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20976],"tags":[30307,1538,137472,137477,137475,137479,137480,137478,137473,137476,137474,25638,983,20984],"class_list":{"0":"post-233638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ps4-games","8":"tag-gamingbolt","9":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west","10":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-graphics","11":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-graphics-analysis","12":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-performance","13":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-ps5-graphic-modes","14":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-ps5-graphics","15":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-ps5-resolution-mode-vs-performance-mode","16":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-ps5-vs-ps4-pro-graphics-comparison","17":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-technical-analysis","18":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-visual-improvements","19":"tag-horizon-forbidden-west-vs-horizon-zero-dawn","20":"tag-horizon-zero-dawn","21":"tag-ps4-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}