

Tropical: Dense and overground tropical jungle areas, filled with vegetation.There are quite a few distinct environments that you can explore on your adventure through the Forbidden West: Aloy can use focus to scan for climbing holds and this will reveal multiple new ways to scale obstacles.Ĭlick to enlarge Are There Different Environments? There are plenty of new areas for Aloy to scale too as more of an emphasis has been put on climbing in this game. This can pull her to new heights, giving her more places to explore on the map.

Of course, she can still have her trusty mounts when she overrides a machine, but she now has a grappling tool called a Pullcaster. There are multiple ways that you can explore the world. Yes! Just like the first game, the map for Forbidden West is open-world. Refresh Your Memory: Read our Horizon Zero Dawn Story Recap.The map itself had scaled these areas down to make them more conducive to a fun in-game experience, which is a similar concept for the map in Horizon Forbidden West Now, it's worth mentioning that the map for Horizon Zero Dawn was set in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. If you want to gauge how big this map is in the game, the rough real-life distance between Utah and San Francisco is 906 miles. In the Guerilla Talks video, Game Director Mathijs De Jonge told us that the setting for the game takes Aloy from Utah, USA all the way to the Pacific Coast in the West.
