This week's top 10 game sales chart featured a showdown between Sony's "Horizon Zero Dawn" and Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." The results are in, and "Horizon Zero Dawn" has emerged as the winner.
According to Eurogamer, even the launch of the Nintendo Switch did not give "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" an edge because more users already owned Sony's PlayStation 4, which meant "Horizon Zero Dawn" inevitably sold more copies. Sony's latest game is the company's "biggest new franchise launch" on the PS4.
"Horizon Zero Dawn" is also the PS4's biggest launch title since "Uncharted 4: A Thief's End." "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" was a close second, and 78% of copies sold for the title were on the Nintendo Switch while 22 percent were sold on the Wii U.
Third on the list is "Grand Theft Auto 5," "1-2 Switch" came in fourth, "For Honor" was fifth, "FIFA 17" came in sixth, and another Switch launch game - "Super Bomberman R" - came in seventh. Meanwhile, "Rocket League," "Sniper Elite 4," and "Battlefield 1" filled out the rest of the U.K. game charts.
Guerilla Games' "Horizon Zero Dawn" is about Aloy, "a tribal outcast who's promoted against the odds in this post-apocalyptic matriarchy to the role of a seeker, venturing past the boundaries of her isolated village," per a Eurogamer review.
"Horizon Zero Dawn" is presented as a "sumptuous, slow-burning adventure," and the whole game can be played in at least 30 hours. Players can explore a "vast and beautiful map" which is incredibly different from the Guerrilla's first-person shooter series "Killzone." The Eurogamer touts the action role-playing video game as a title of "admirable scope and craft."
However, the game featuring Aloy is not without its faults. Gamers who have tried other open-world games will often find themselves faced with scenes that are too similar to what has already been done with other titles in the same genre.
"Horizon Zero Dawn's" plot features an "enjoyably pulpy new age sci-fi." The world is in ruins, and "savage hordes of mechanical dinosaurs" roam free. The title is also very similar to "The Witcher 3," in the sense that both games feature world-building and a "sci-fi fantasy that tends towards over-earnestness." But "Horizon Zero Dawn" regrettably lacks the "warmth of the charm of "The Witcher 3."
Despite the criticism, "Horizon Zero Dawn" is still an enjoyable game. There are many things to do in the title, such as "zip-lines to chase down, towers to climb, dialogue trees to wander through, items to craft and a tech tree to explore." The Eurogamer review also praised "Horizon Zero Dawn's" streamlined "core combat and aesthetic."
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