• Horizon Zero Dawn (Sony, PS4)

    Let’s cut to the chase: Horizon Zero Dawn is fantastic. A rewarding, surprising romp set in a vividly realised open world that grows deeper and more engrossing the more hours that you choose to pour into it. Sure, at first it feels like a greatest hits compilation of bits culled from other, equally successful games. You can hunt wildlife and liberate bandit camps like in Far Cry, scale constructions and kill people from above or below as in Assassin’s Creed, and the expansive, varied game world has the depth and breadth of Skyrim. None of these are negative comparisons, of…