Horizon Forbidden West will be a big marquee PlayStation 5 game when it launches in February 2022, but the devs promise it’ll play and look great on PS4 too.

Aloy’s new sequel adventure is a cross-gen game coming to both PS4 and PS5, and the next-gen version will feature high-end optimizations like 4K visuals, ultra-fast loading, and DualSense haptic feedback. To make sure the PS4 version lives up to the hype, Guerrilla is teasing “unexplored resources” to help boost realism on the 7 year-old console.
“We actually developed and tested the game simultaneously on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, because it’s very important to us as a studio to ensure PlayStation 4 players get an equally immersive experience,” lead character artist Bastien Ramisse said in a PlayStation Blog post.
“With our knowledge from Horizon Zero Dawn, we knew that we still had some unexplored resources that…
