55-636: Lego Horizon Adventures is a 2024 action-adventure game developed by Guerrilla Games and Studio Gobo in association with The Lego Group , and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment . As a spin-off entry in the Horizon series, the game reinterprets the events in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) in a Lego -themed environment. Lego Horizon Adventures was released for Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 5 , and Windows on November 14, 2024. The game received mixed reviews from critics. Lego Horizon Adventures
110-619: A fantasy " setting. Tutankham , debuted by Konami in January 1982, was an action-adventure released for arcades . It combined maze, shoot 'em up, puzzle-solving and adventure elements, with a 1983 review by Computer and Video Games magazine calling it "the first game that effectively combined the elements of an adventure game with frenetic shoot 'em up gameplay." It inspired the similar Time Bandit (1983). Action Quest , released in May 1982, blended puzzle elements of adventure games into
165-446: A joystick -controlled, arcade-style action game, which surprised reviewers at the time. While noting some similarities to Adventure , IGN argues that The Legend of Zelda (1986) by Nintendo "helped to establish a new subgenre of action-adventure", becoming a success due to how it combined elements from different genres to create a compelling hybrid, including exploration, adventure-style inventory puzzles , an action component,
220-566: A monetary system , and simplified RPG-style level building without the experience points . The Legend of Zelda series was the most prolific action-adventure game franchise through to the 2000s. Roe R. Adams also cited the arcade-style side-scrolling fantasy games Castlevania (1986), Trojan (1986) and Wizards & Warriors (1987) as early examples of action-adventure games. Games like Brain Breaker (1985), Xanadu (1985), Metroid (1986) and Vampire Killer (1986) combined
275-759: A subgenre of open world action-adventure video games in the third-person perspective . They are characterized by their likeness to the Grand Theft Auto series in either gameplay or overall design. In these types of open world games, players may find and use a variety of vehicles and weapons while roaming freely in an open world setting. Metroidvania is a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania ; such games are sometimes referred to as "search action", and are generally based on two-dimensional platformers. They emphasize both exploration and puzzle-solving with traditional platform gameplay. Survival horror games emphasize "inventory management" and making sure
330-578: A "hunter at heart", she has little compassion for machines beyond a "hunter's respect". She also has a gritty personality, disliking "comforts or ease", and tends to be "very forthright and blunt, sometimes even confrontational" in how she addresses issues. Guerrilla Games always envisioned the game as starring a strong female character , with game director Mathijs de Jonge citing Sarah Connor from Terminator , Ellen Ripley from Alien , and Ygritte from Game of Thrones as influences. Sony decided to do rigorous market testing, believing that adding
385-545: A choice of what to say. The NPC gives a scripted response to the player, and the game offers the player several new ways to respond. Due to the action-adventure subgenre's broad and inclusive nature, it causes some players to have difficulty finishing a particular game. Companies have devised ways to give the player help, such as offering clues or allowing the player to skip puzzles to compensate for this lack of ability. Brett Weiss cites Atari 's Superman (1979) as an action-adventure game, with Retro Gamer crediting it as
440-458: A co-development partner in January 2023 to expand the Horizon universe. It was previously rumored that the studio was working on a remake of Horizon Zero Dawn , which turned out to be false because the 2024 remaster was actually developed by Nixxes Software and Guerilla. According to Guerrilla, the studio initially designed the machines from the first game using Lego Duplo , and wanted to make
495-474: A combination of complex story elements, which are often displayed for players using audio and video. The story is heavily reliant upon the player character's movement, which triggers story events and thus affects the flow of the game. Popular examples of action-adventure games include The Legend of Zelda , God of War , and Tomb Raider series. There is a good deal of controversy over what actually constitutes an action-adventure game. One definition of
550-448: A complex text parser and no free-moving character. While they share general gameplay dynamics, action-adventures vary widely in the design of their viewpoints, including bird's eye , side-scrolling, first-person, third-person , over-the-shoulder, or even a 3/4 isometric view . Many action-adventure games simulate a conversation through a conversation tree . When the player encounters a non-player character , they are allowed to select
605-568: A female lead might be a "risk", but approved her as the lead role. The developers were aware of the strong female character cliche and tried to make a more human character with a more interesting personality. Aloy's physical likeness was based on the Dutch actress Hannah Hoekstra . Aloy is first introduced as an infant who has been entrusted to Rost's care, a man who has been cast out by the Nora tribe. Six years later, while exploring on her own, she falls into
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#1732877334234660-455: A forbidden bunker that was created by ancient humans. While trying to escape from the destroyed facility, she discovers an augmented reality device known as a Focus before being rescued by Rost. Despite his misgivings, Rost allows her to keep the Focus, which she soon develops an affinity for. The next morning, while learning to hunt with Rost, she uses the Focus to rescue Teb, an injured member of
715-517: A game with a mix of elements from an action game and an adventure game , especially crucial elements like puzzles inspired by older adventure games. Action-adventures require many of the same physical skills as action games, but may also offer a storyline, numerous characters, an inventory system, dialogue, and other features of adventure games. They are typically faster-paced than pure adventure games, because they include both physical and conceptual challenges. Action-adventure games normally include
770-436: A journey to stop a cult that worships an artificial intelligence bent on the world's destruction, while also hunting zoomorphic robots that have grown hostile to humans. She has been critically praised for her design and characterization. She is voiced by American voice actress Ashly Burch and model after Dutch actress Hannah Hoekstra . Aloy was created as a character who could provide many tactical options in battle. As
825-449: A man named Sylens, who reveals that the older woman is Dr. Elisabet Sobeck. Her genetic profile allows her to access the headquarters of Faro Automated Solutions, where she sees that Elisabet was a skilled scientist who was called in to try to stop a rogue swarm of self-replicating combat robots that used biomass as fuel and ultimately consumed all life on Earth thanks to the company's CEO, Ted Faro, refusing to allow any backdoor access into
880-478: A more light-hearted game after working on two Horizon games. It was The Lego Group that pitched the game to Guerilla as "We were all fans of Horizon " according to Kate Bryant, a project lead on Lego-branded games. The Lego Group felt that Horizon was a good choice for a video game project due to its vibrant visuals. They were also drawn to Aloy as a character as she can "speak to that wide audience because she has that strength of character that can resonate with
935-423: A playable Lego movie in terms of the visual quality". The game uses a fixed camera that was in all Lego games before Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (2022). Environments in the game are made entirely out of Lego bricks rather than only being limited to Lego pieces that the player interacts with. As a result, the game's environments can be built with real Lego bricks at home. Lego Horizon Adventures retells
990-705: A side-scrolling platformer format with adventure exploration, creating the Metroidvania platform-adventure subgenre. Similarly, games like 005 (1981), Castle Wolfenstein and Metal Gear (1987) combined action-adventure exploration with stealth mechanics, laying the foundations for the stealth game subgenre, which would later be popularized in 1998 with the releases of Metal Gear Solid , Tenchu: Stealth Assassins , and Thief: The Dark Project . The cinematic platformer Prince of Persia (1989) featured action-adventure elements, inspiring games such as Another World (1991) and Flashback (1992). Alone in
1045-400: A single avatar as the protagonist . This type of game is often quite similar to role-playing video games . They are distinct from graphic adventures , which sometimes have free-moving central characters, but also a wider variety of commands and fewer or no action game elements and are distinct too from text adventures , characterized by many different commands introduced by the user via
1100-429: A storyline, involving little to no action . If there is action, it is generally confined to isolated instances. Classical action games, on the other hand, have gameplay based on real-time interactions that challenges the player's reflexes and eye-hand coordination . Action-adventure games combine these genres by engaging both eye-hand coordination and problem-solving skills. An action adventure game can be defined as
1155-461: A way to recapture HEPHAESTUS. The game's story follows Ryas, a former Shadow Carja rebel who is sentenced to atone for his crimes by joining an expedition sent to investigate a new threat to the Sundom. During his journey, Ryas meets numerous new and returning characters, including franchise protagonist Aloy. Aloy has appeared in other media outside of the Horizon games. She was a playable character in
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#17328773342341210-614: A younger audience". Lego and Guerrilla previously collaborated for the release of the Lego Tallneck set in 2022. Lego Horizon Adventures was developed with Unreal Engine 5 and uses visual enhancements like ray traced lighting on PlayStation 5 and Windows versions. On PlayStation 5, Lego Horizon Adventures features fidelity and performance graphics modes at 30 and 60 frames per second respectively. The game does not include PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced support. According to narrative director James Windeler, Guerrilla wanted "wanted to create
1265-451: Is an action-adventure game played from an isometric perspective . The game has five different difficulty levels, and the weak point targeting system from previous Horizon games returns. Aloy , the game's protagonist, and the game's hub world can be customized extensively. The game features a two-player cooperative multiplayer mode which becomes available following completion of the game's prologue. Guerilla named UK-based Studio Gobo as
1320-729: Is an action game that includes situational problem-solving. Adventure gamers may also be purists, rejecting any game that makes use of physical challenges or time pressure. Regardless, the action-adventure label is prominent in articles over the internet and media. The term "action-adventure" is usually substituted for a particular subgenre due to its wide scope. Although action-adventure games are diverse and difficult to classify, there are some distinct subgenres. Many games with gameplay similar to those in The Legend of Zelda series are called Zelda clones or Zelda -like games. Popular subgenres include: A Grand Theft Auto clone belongs to
1375-556: Is only available to players that own a PlayStation 5 . but can be used across all consoles when unlocked. In September 2021, Aloy was given out as a free collaboration character for PS4 and PS5 players of the game Genshin Impact , while players on other platforms received her for free in limited time in October 2021. In the game, she is a Bow user of the Cryo element; she is however considered one of
1430-567: The Uncharted franchise, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Ark: Survival Evolved . Aloy Aloy is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the video game series Horizon . In the games' post-apocalyptic tribal setting, she is born in 3021, raised as an outcast, and trains as a warrior in order to win a ritual competition to discover her mother's identity. After narrowly evading an assassination attempt, she embarks on
1485-400: The review aggregator website Metacritic . OpenCritic determined that 51% of critics recommended the game. Action-adventure game An action-adventure game is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres. Typically, classical adventure games have situational problems for the player to explore and solve to complete
1540-813: The "first to utilize multiple screens as playing area". Mark J.P. Wolf credits Adventure (1980) for the Atari VCS as the earliest-known action-adventure game. The game involves exploring a 2D environment, finding and using items which each have prescribed abilities, and fighting dragons in real-time like in an action game . Muse Software 's Castle Wolfenstein (1981) was another early action-adventure game, merging exploration, combat, stealth, and maze game elements, drawing inspiration from arcade shoot 'em ups and maze games (such as maze-shooter Berzerk ) and war films (such as The Guns of Navarone ). According to Wizardry developer Roe R. Adams, early action-adventure games "were basically arcade games done in
1595-558: The Banuk. He then bids her with a respectful farewell. Horizon Forbidden West continues the story of Aloy half a year after the events of Zero Dawn . Due to the rapid collapse of Earth's biosphere , causing plant life to turn red and toxic, Aloy decides to journey to the "Forbidden West" (the West Coast ) in order to find a backup copy of the now-destroyed GAIA and bring her back online. She succeeds in doing so, but also comes into conflict with
1650-486: The Dark (1992) used 3D graphics , which would later be popularized by Resident Evil (1996) and Tomb Raider (1996). Resident Evil in particular created the survival horror subgenre, inspiring titles such as Silent Hill (1999) and Fatal Frame (2001). Action-adventure games have gone on to become more popular than the pure adventure games and pure platform games that inspired them. Recent examples include
1705-524: The Firebreak facility to free the "Spirit". Later, Aloy discovers that HEPHAESTUS, one of GAIA's sub-functions, took control of the facility from an unknown remote location, enslaving the previous governing AI, CYAN, who Ourea earlier deemed as the voice of the "Spirit". After Aloy, Ourea and Aratak defeat the enemy, they head to the facility's core. Ourea sacrifices herself to finish the override, with Aloy later consoling Aratak for his loss. They quickly flee from
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1760-504: The Nora tribe who has recklessly fallen into the path of machines. Aloy expresses the desire to learn the identity of her mother, and Rost suggests training to compete in the Proving, a coming-of-age ritual that would not only allow her entry into the Nora, but give her the answers she seeks as a boon if she wins. The game skips forwards twelve years to when she has become a skilled warrior and huntress due to her intensive training. She attends
1815-561: The PlayStation 4 version of Monster Hunter: World and makes a cameo appearance in Astro's Playroom . Aloy was added to Fortnite Battle Royale on April 15, 2021, for the Chapter 2, Season 6 "Primal" event. A limited time "Aloy Cup" was available to PlayStation players, while a "Team Up!" mode with Lara Croft from Tomb Raider was added. She also got an extra style called Ice Hunter, which
1870-415: The Proving, winning the competition and being declared a Nora. Before she can ask about her parents, the tribe is attacked by a group of cultists led by the fanatical Helis, who seeks to kill Aloy. Most of her fellow warriors are murdered, but Helis hesitates when stabbing Aloy and is attacked by Rost, who then sacrifices himself to protect her from a blast. When she comes to inside All-Mother Mountain, one of
1925-456: The Zeniths end up kidnapping GAIA, HEPHAESTUS, and Beta to serve their plans. During Aloy's final assault on the Zeniths' base, she and Beta work together to release HEPHAESTUS into their systems, sacrificing their chance to capture it, but allowing it to create a machine army that kills most of the Zeniths and their robot servitors. Arriving at their control room, she discovers the hidden truth that
1980-533: The Zeniths merely meant to steal GAIA and escape; a berserk gestalt intelligence known as Nemesis, created by the Zeniths as a failed experiment into digital immortality , had actually destroyed both their colony and GAIA, seeking vengeance on humanity, and is now en route to Earth. The last surviving Zenith, Tilda, attempts to "save" Aloy against her will, due to her former relationship with Sobeck, but Aloy defeats and kills her. Aloy decides to stay on Earth, working together with Sylens and Beta to stop Nemesis and find
2035-479: The Zeniths, immortal space colonists who returned to Earth after the failure of their colony and seemingly sent the mysterious signal in order to wipe all life from Earth's surface and start anew. The Zeniths have been using a second clone of Sobeck, named Beta, to access secure installations. Aloy rescues the traumatized Beta, who slowly begins to trust her. After restoring most of GAIA's component functions, Aloy and her allies try to reintegrate HEPHAESTUS with GAIA, but
2090-569: The Zero Dawn facility, Aloy also learns that Dr. Sobeck sacrificed herself to close a malfunctioning vent and save the project from the encroaching all-consuming robots. Upon realizing this, Aloy sets out to find the Master Override that can shut down HADES. With the help of Sylens, she obtains the Override and confronts HADES, shutting it down in the nick of time. In an ending scene, she is seen finding
2145-574: The assets found in the game were "built from an individual [Lego] brick". The goal for the studio was to make the franchise "approachable" to newcomers, offering both slapstick humor typically found in Lego games and self-referential comedy found in the films. Most of the original voice cast from Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West return for Lego Horizon Adventures . The cast includes Ashly Burch as Aloy , JB Blanc as Rost, John Macmillan as Varl and John Hopkins as Erend. In October 2024, it
2200-407: The best new game characters of 2017. TheGamer also included Aloy on their "Iconic Video Game Characters", stating that "Aloy is one of the best protagonists of the last decade, of which there are many to choose from, mostly because of her strong-willed nature and ability to act strong in difficult situations." Ashly Burch , the voice actress for Aloy, won an award for "best gaming performance" at
2255-506: The body of Dr. Sobeck and getting closure in the search for her origins. Intrigued by rumors of a new wave of dangerous machines at the edge of the Banuk land, Aloy took a detour from her mission to explore the Cut. After learning more about the "Spirit" from Ourea, Aloy attempts to fulfil her request by saving the mysterious entity. Soon afterwards, she teams up with Ourea's brother, Aratak. Subsequently, they head to an ancient ruin at Thunder's Drum,
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2310-559: The character of Aloy, finding the scene where Aloy talks to her father's grave moving in part due to how "real" their relationship felt and how it shows how things have changed for Aloy since her childhood. Malindy Hetfield of Polygon praised Aloy as "inspiring and captivating", but also called her "not particularly relatable" compared to the game's other female characters due to her "flawlessness". Aloy's story about her origins resonated with Sam Loveridge of GamesRadar+ and inspired her to seek out her own birth parents. Lucas Sullivan of
2365-427: The collapsing facility, leaving Ourea's body behind. After a successful escape, Aloy and Aratak meet again at Ourea's Retreat to discuss matters with CYAN. Prior to finishing the last mission at the Cut, Aloy attempts to converse with Aratak, who requests for her help to eliminate the remaining threats caused by HEPHAESTUS. After finishing the mission, Aloy returns to Ourea's apprentice Naltuk, who thanks her for assisting
2420-423: The defunct "Lightkeeper Protocol", predicting that her genes would cause her to become the world's savior once again. Aloy was brought outside the facility by a robot, leading the elders to believe she had mysteriously appeared there. Reaching the entrance to GAIA Prime, Aloy witnesses a series of significant damages caused by GAIA's self-destruction and is skeptical that GAIA could ever be repaired. While exploring
2475-406: The gameplay still follows a number of adventure game genre tropes (gathering items , exploration of and interaction with one's environment, often including an overworld connecting areas of importance, and puzzle-solving). While the controls are arcade-style (character movement, few action commands) there is an ultimate goal beyond a high score. In most action-adventure games, the player controls
2530-426: The machines. She then sets out to discover what Elisabet had planned to do, what was referred to as "Project Zero Dawn." Eventually, Aloy discovers that Zero Dawn was a terraforming system whose development involved deceiving the global human populace into sacrificing itself in a futile attempt to stop the swarm to provide time to complete it. The system would restore the human species and other life after shutting down
2585-489: The player has enough ammunition and recovery items to " survive " the horror setting. This is a thematic genre with diverse gameplay, so not all survival horror games share all the features. The Resident Evil franchise popularized this subgenre. Action-adventure games are faster-paced than pure adventure games, and include physical as well as conceptual challenges where the story is enacted rather than narrated. While motion-based, often reflexive, actions are required,
2640-521: The same site called her "one of gaming's greatest female leads". She was ranked as one of the best video game characters of the 2010s by Polygon staff by Colin Campbell praising the character by stating that "She's pragmatic but compassionate, iron-willed but open-minded. In a 31st-century world with its own norms and taboos, particularly around gender, Aloy refuses to let anyone else tell her how to live." Paste magazine writer Holly Green included Aloy as
2695-456: The story of Horizon Zero Dawn in an upbeat and family-friendly way, with the team significantly downplaying its apocalyptic story while focusing on its environmental messages and Aloy's connections with her family and friends. The Lego Movie inspired the game's visuals and animation, with the characters in the game moving in a way similar to those found in a stop motion animation film. Narrative director James Windeler also added that all of
2750-401: The swarm. However, a mysterious signal attacked Zero Dawn's AI, GAIA, forcing her to self-destruct and unshackling her component processes. With nothing to protect humanity from the rogue AI of HADES, initially created as an emergency "reset switch" for the planet, GAIA was forced to order ELEUTHIA, a sub-function tasked with maintaining the artificial wombs, to clone Elisabet using DNA stored for
2805-430: The term "action-adventure" may be '"An action/adventure game is a game that has enough action in it not to be called an adventure game, but not enough action to be called an action game." In some cases an action game with puzzles will be classified as an action-adventure game, but if these puzzles are quite simple they might be classified as an action game. Others see action games as a pure genre, while an action-adventure
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#17328773342342860-413: The tribe's elders explains that Aloy was actually found in front of another bunker inside the mountain, and their disagreement over whether she was a good or evil omen led to her exile. However, her Focus reveals that Helis was given orders along with a picture of an older woman who looks just like her. Aloy is declared a Seeker and sets out to avenge the attack on the tribe. Eventually, she is contacted by
2915-532: The weakest characters in the game due to lack of Constellation which strengthens the character as well as having the limited time, meaning the players will not obtain her again after 23 November 2021. When asked about an appearance in Super Smash Bros. due to the release of Lego Horizon Adventures on Nintendo Switch , Guerilla responded, "That'd be nice. If you speak to Nintendo and they want to invite us let me know." Peter Tieryas of Kotaku praised
2970-738: Was announced to be releasing on November 14, 2024. The game's release date had previously been listed by accident on the PlayStation website in August. The game will be the first game featuring a Sony PlayStation IP to come to a Nintendo console since Return to PopoloCrois in 2015. Sony released the game on Switch to target a "family-friendly audience and a younger audience". The digital deluxe edition of Lego Horizon Adventures includes three additional Aloy outfits, Ratchet and Rivet outfits from Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (2021), and Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet . Lego Horizon Adventures received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to
3025-717: Was confirmed that Sylens had been recast following the death of his voice actor Lance Reddick in March 2023. Tim Russ was revealed to be taking on the role of Sylens the following month. Russ had previously voiced Jetakka, a member of the Tenakth tribe, in Horizon Forbidden West who Aloy encounters during side quests. Lego Horizon Adventures was announced for Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 5 , and Windows in June 2024 at Summer Game Fest . On September 24, 2024, Lego Horizon Adventures
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