Horizon Forbidden West hits PS5 in 2021
The next gen console's SSD will nearly eliminate loading times, its developer said.
Aloy's new adventure will come to PS5 next year.
Horizon Forbidden West, the sequel to 2017 adventure game Horizon Zero Dawn, was announced during Sony's PS5 event last week without a release date. Developer Guerrilla Games on Wednesday narrowed it down in a video showcase: it's scheduled for a 2021 launch.
The PS5's SSD means the game will have "virtually no loading screens," game director Mathijs de Jonge noted.
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"In an open-world game like Horizon Forbidden West, if you open up the map and fast travel from one end to the other, restarting from a check-point will be super fast," he said in the video. "And when you boot up the game, you're right there -- in the action."
That open-world will be pretty big -- de Jonge noted that the title Forbidden West refers to "a mysterious new frontier" stretching from Utah to the Pacific Ocean -- and looks absolutely gorgeous.
Other major PS5 games revealed during Sony's event included Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Resident Evil Village, Gran Turismo 7 and a whole bunch of others.
