Horizon Zero Dawn was already a great game, but this improves on what the first game did in nearly every way. It had me hooked for such a long time.

Combat in this game is very fun, and with the variety of machines, it rarely felt repetitive or tedious. My only complaint with the combat is that it can be rather easy to get stun-locked in fights with many enemies, which is luckily usually easy to avoid.

The world may not have the best level design to make me want to explore it all, but there were still points of interest and things to do all over the map, so I ended up going nearly everywhere anyways. Things like the relic ruins were always a highlight because they provided some short but enjoyable puzzles that were a nice break from the action.

Also, this is easily the most visually impressive game I have ever played. I often found myself admiring the view or stopping to stare at the sunset and take a picture. The amount of visual variety in the areas made it so that not even staring out at the horizon ever felt repetitive.