Horizon Forbidden West almost had a multiplayer mode, and the images that have just leaked are not very reassuring. We may well have avoided the worst.
Horizon Forbidden West, second episode of a now famous and much appreciated license, almost had a multiplayer mode. Moreover, it is said that Sony is currently working on an MMO type game for its PS5. There is little on the web, concept arts and a conceptual development video have leaked. And the fans were quickly disillusioned. It’s the cold shower.
Horizon Forbiden West in multiplayer, the wrong good idea?
Browse the Prohibited West in cooperation, participate in hunts of gigantic robotic creatures in groups, it makes you want on paper. But difficult to say if in fact, it is a good idea. However, since the creation of the license, the subject is on the table of ideas. Better still, it is said that a title of the genre would be in development. But what could that look like? We now have a little idea and it doesn’t really make you want it from here.
On several forums, like on Reddit for example, leaks have been shared. Elements that we will recommend that you take with a grain of salt, but which gives us an idea of what a multiplayer game is all about.Horizon Forbidden West could give.
The images, a video and concept arts, reflect only a tiny part of a project under preliminary development. However, some things like the almost cartoonish Fortnite-style art direction put fans off.
The concept art in particular is much chubby and colorful than the original game. The DA very clearly strays from the base material and opts instead for something more eye-catching, certainly to pique the curiosity of a wider audience.
The video meanwhile, despite its fairly average quality and the fact that it is a not very advanced Alpha version, here too suggests a particularly colorful and much more “cartoonish” artistic direction, which does not appeal to fans at all. . Just take a look at the reviews to be convinced. Although some temper, and rightly so, since these are only low-quality leaks and a very low-advanced version of the development. As of this writing, several visuals have already been removed from Reddit.
A service game on the Horizon?
However, these leaks raise many questions: Are they from an abandoned project or have they been used as the basis for a new upcoming game?
Multiplayer has always interested Guerrilla, whether with its old licenses or with Horizon 3, and we also know that Sony is seeking to develop in the service game market.
According to the latest information, the manufacturer would have even called on a studio other than Guerrilla for its multiplayer Horizon game project. And we can spot on the video many mentions of what we find in MMORPGs or GAAS of the genre, such as experience, several types of materials, social interactions, etc… It could therefore be that the ‘we end up having the right to a multiplayer title anchored in one way or another in the universe ofHorizon Forbidden West.
A game service experience or something else, like Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Factions, which recently taught us that it would be much more than a simple multiplayer game.
The theories are open. In any case, the fans themselves, do not seem very convinced by what they saw. It should be noted, however, that these are only leaks of a version under preliminary development and that their quality clearly leaves something to be desired. No need to draw you a picture of what it represents, we all remember what happened with GTA 6.
