Updated:

Dec 9, 2022 3:05 am

Posted:

Dec 9, 2022 2:49 am

Announced by developer Guerrilla Games successful a trailer astatine The Game Awards, Horizon Forbidden West is officially getting DLC - but lone for PlayStation 5.

Arriving connected April 19, 2023, the Burning Shores DLC volition instrumentality Aloy to Los Angeles, implicit with the Hollywood motion connected show (and instantly destroyed by a elephantine robot). According to a station connected the PlayStation blog, Guerrilla explained that "to execute this expansive imaginativeness technically and creatively, we’ve made the hard determination to absorption each our efforts connected making an unthinkable acquisition exclusively for the PlayStation®5 console."

According to that post, the DLC has Aloy successful pursuit of a "sinister threat", and that the LA portion has go a volcanic archipelago. "She volition beryllium traveling to a unsafe caller portion southbound of the Tenakth Clan Lands, featuring a compelling storyline pursuing from wherever Horizon Forbidden West ended, caller characters, adventures, and more."

Forbidden West is the agelong awaited sequel to 2017's Horizon: Zero Dawn and saw the instrumentality of protagonist Alloy arsenic she explored, well, the forbidden west, which includes decrepit versions of cities including Las Vegas and San Francisco.

Released successful February 2022, the sequel volition travel successful the footsteps of the archetypal successful getting a large expansion, arsenic The Frozen Wilds DLC was released for Zero Dawn successful November 2017.

Though Forbidden West did person a ton of aboriginal updates to hole various method issues and quality of beingness features, alongside a New Game Plus mode aboriginal successful the year, this volition beryllium the archetypal large DLC bundle coming to the crippled since its launch.

In our 9/10 reappraisal of the basal game, IGN said: "A triumphant operation of enthralling combat, top-tier carnal and quality design, and a captivating unfastened world, Horizon Forbidden West is an implicit blast and fantastic showcase for the powerfulness of the PS5."