Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Guerrilla Games have released a new developer diary for newly-announced PS5 exclusive Horizon Forbidden West (sequel to 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn). Game director Mathijs de Jonge reveals more details and confirms that the game will be launching in 2021.

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Key details include:

• The title “Forbidden West” actually refers to a mysterious new frontier that stretches from Utah in the U.S.A. all the way to the Pacific Ocean in the west.
• With the PS5’s SSD, there will be virtually no loading screens, so in an open-world game like Horizon Forbidden West, if you open up the map and fast travel from one end to the other, or restart from a checkpoint, it will be super fast. And when you boot up the game, you’re right there in the action.
• The map is “a bit bigger” than Horizon Zero Dawn.
• Players can explore “what lies hidden beneath the surface of lakes and rivers”.
• Expect new machines like “Shell Snappers that guard the shores and swamps, Snapmaws that hunt the waterways, and Sunwings that patrol the skies”.
• New peaceful and hostile tribes.

In the meantime, check out the trailer below.

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