
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores will see players traveling to post-post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, which has become a flooded, coastal jungle. To enter the Burning Shores, you must complete the main quest (up to and including Singularity) in the PS5 version of Horizon Forbidden West.

One of the settlements is situated in and around those detailed ruins, and we were able to squeeze a lot of activity in there.Īnother notable one is a particular battle scene that requires a LOT of memory and processing power! To achieve this grand vision both technically and creatively, we definitely were thankful for the many advantages that the PS5 hardware brings. The Burning Shores DLC contains additional content for Horizon Forbidden West, including new characters and experiences in a stunning yet hazardous new area. The cityscape ruins of LA and its surroundings are highly detailed and require a lot of processing power as well as fast streaming technology to run properly especially when the player is flying over the lands and can see a lot at once. On Burning Shores, since we can just focus on PS5, we’ve been able to charge forward and we’re really excited about what we’ve been able to pull off in creating this stunning post-post-apocalyptic version of Los Angeles. On Horizon Forbidden West, everything we added or increased was something we’d need to have a plan around how to optimize for PS4 as well.


One of our key priorities with Horizon games is to add a ton of detail and richness to our environments.
