Sony has announced that Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition will come out on PC on 21st March, with pre-orders going live today.
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition brings together the 2022 PS5 hit with its grand DLC expansion Burning Shores. Naturally the game is being upgraded and enhanced to make the most of PC and GPU specific features.
There’s support for ultra-wide resolutions for 21″9 and 32:9 screens, all the way up to a ludicrous sounding 48:9 aspect ratio for those with a triple-monitor set up. Then there’s unlocked frame rates, customisable graphics settings, and all the major upscaling technologies including AMD FSR, Intel XeSS and Nvidia DLSS 3 (which will support frame generation). The port will also make use of DirectStorage for fast loading times.
You’ll be able to play with both keyboard & mouse or a gamepad, with full remapping of controls baked into the game. If you have a DualSense controller, you can just plug that in and get the use of its adaptive triggers and nuanced haptic feedback as well.
These are, of course, all things that should be pretty standard for PC games, but it’s always good to see that Sony is checking off the boxes with their PC ports. There’s no word on system requirements or Steam Deck support just yet, but since this was a cross-gen game on PlayStation, you’d hope that Deck-heads out there – that’s the colloquial nickname, isn’t it? – would be able to get it running.
If you fancy pre-ordering, then you’ll get the following in-game bits and bobs:
- Blacktide Outfit and Blacktide Bow* (available only with pre-purchase)
- Nora Legacy Outfit and Nora Spear* (available only when linking your Steam account to PlayStation Network)
- 2 Special Outfits (Carja Behemoth Elite and Nora Thunder Elite)
- 2 Special Weapons (Carja Behemoth Short Bow and Nora Thunder Sling)
- In-game Resources Pack including ammunition, potions, and travel packs
- In-game Apex Clawstrider Machine Strike Piece
- Exclusive Photo Mode pose and face paint
Horizon Forbidden West is a fantastic sequel. In our review, Tuffcub said, “Horizon Forbidden West improves upon Zero Dawn in almost every aspect. The story is particularly well written and ebbs and flows from air punching highs to dark, horrific lows. Like later Jurassic Park movies it suffers from the fact that we’ve already seen massive robotic dinosaurs on our TVs, the wow factor is reduced, and that the puzzles, crafting, and RPG elements could have been lifted from any number of games. Even so, it’s still a spectacular robo-beast smack down and thoroughly enjoyable to play.”
via PS Blog
