Horizon: Burning Shores DLC - Before You Buy

RIP Lance Reddick.......you will forever be immortalized in this fantastic series. Hands down one of my favorite characters. He played that part perfectly.

As someone who lives in LA, I have to appreciate the care taken to capture the city. They got everything right, right down to the streets filled with lava. Just A1 work all around.

Thanks. Just bought it. I’ll buy anything Horizon tbh, just love the sci-fi vibe in that ruined overgrown land.

Its so unfortunate Lance Reddick past away. He was such an important character in the Horizon story, they probably recast but its not gonna be the same without his voice playing Sylens

Forgot how insanely beautiful and detailed the game looked after taking a break from it . Still the most visually impressive game I’ve ever played

Frozen wilds. Not frozen wastes.

Great DLC, a lot of things about it I’m enjoying. One of the big wins was the ability to import my PS4 game complete save file to my PS5. I beat Forbidden West on PS4 when I was trying to secure a PS5. This helped me out so much as I don’t really have time to go back and beat Forbidden West again on PS5. The only issue with this is I had to relearn how to play the game, and how to fight the machines again. One of the Burning Shores quests had me facing two leaplashers, two ravagers and a stalker, and I was burning through health berries like no tomorrow just to survive the fight. I definitely recommend travelling Forbidden west and take on some Apex Machines to find your groove again before hitting Burning Shores.

I really think Horizon deserves more love, it is a amazing game, a very well done open world, great narrative, the best enemies design I've ever seen and how the gameplay is guided by those designs is a masterpiece. The game as a whole is not an 10/10 it lacks something (maybe an good ending, or more replayability ), but still deserves much more love. It is a better job than a lot of "AAA" games that are crap/more of the same. Can wait to play the DLC, but definably I don't remember how to play that game... is it a reasonable challenging game, with a lot of elemental, weapons, enemies and I remember to struggle to select which one to use, or to even have a set of equipment that give me everything that I could need in combat.

The music in the final mission’s boss fight really added to the grandeur which I really like since it makes it feel more significant and dramatic

Well, as a proud PS 4 owner, all I can say is that I'm incredibly excited to watch MKIceAndFire's playthrough of this DLC

I'm enjoying this dlc thoroughly... the writing and acting are fantastic, and the environments are stellar. If you like Horizon, it's a no-brainer.

RIP Lance Reddick, amazing in everything he’s been in. I can’t wait for this. Sam Witwer!? What more can you ask for?

The first game's DLC is Frozen wilds, not frozen waste

I feel like I'm gonna play this one like I played the last DLC... The moment I start to get super psyched for the next sequel lol

You had me at Sam Witwer as the bad guy. Seriously, didn't even know he was going to be in this. The dude is just such an amazing actor

It's just part of the "before you buy" experience, but your mention of what device this exclusive game was captured on gave me a chuckle

I'm gonna miss the voice and acting skills of lance. He brought joy whenever I heard or saw him in media.

The Frozen Wilds felt like an amazing improvement over the base game at the time with lots to be excited about. This sounds like it won’t quite reach that height for me but I’m still excited to play it in the near future.

I have been waiting all year for this. Love the base game. Left 8 side quests open to play when this came out to get back in the rhythm of it again before I play DLC

I love watching your reviews, Jake, but I gotta say I'm glad Eric wrote this because if I recall correctly, this franchise never quite landed with you. Since this is a post-game DLC, most of us who might buy it are big fans, so it's useful to hear from someone who seems to really get why a lot of people are in love with this series.