Horizon: The Frozen Wilds Improves Facial Animations in Conversation

Horizon: Zero Dawn’s facial animations are lightyears ahead of what you tend to see in the role-playing genre’s best, but they were still the low-point in an otherwise immensely impressive experience. It’s exciting to learn, then, that expansion pack The Frozen Wilds will feature better mo-cap and more dynamic camerawork during conversations – although the improvements will obviously only apply to the new quests.

[DarkOcelet]

"According to IGN, developer Guerrilla’s claiming that the add-on will take 15 hours to complete – around about a third of the main campaign."

Damn! Thats a really long dlc. Keep up the awesome work guerilla. I cant wait to see what you will do in HZD 2.

[UCForce]

So do I.

[TheKingKratos]

can i buy it on CD or it downloadable only ?

[DarkOcelet]

The expansion is downloadable only and you need the base game to play it.

[TheKingKratos]

i have the game but don't have money on my account

[DarkOcelet]

Then I guess its time to put some money in your account. If you don't have or don't use a credit card. Just go into any game store near you, they should have PSN gift cards which can be redeemed instantly without the need of putting any CC info in your PS account.

[Xenophon_York]

What?! Even BETTER facial animations? It was nearly completely life-like before. Excited.

[Darkwatchman]

It wasn’t nearly life like before, but it was a cut above other open world games and massive rpg’s. Comparing the facial animations to Uncharted 4, though, and it’s no contest.

[Xenophon_York]

Not sure what kind of faces you're used to looking at, but as someone less than a year away from graduating (with honors) with a bachelor's degree in cinematography....yes it does.

[Servbot41]

The facial animations for main characters was alright, the problem was the completely static animations for the rest of the body during dialogue. People don't just stand there like that.

[PlayableGamez-]

Xenophon_York
Did you also minor in Smug Idiot Studies to?

[KwietStorm_BLM]

It certainly was not anywhere near life-like. That's why it was a talking point when the game came out, and that's why it apparently for improved. They look stiff in conversation and their eyes are very static. Guerilla themselves even talked about how the lipsyncing wasn't all there initially.

[KickSpinFilter]

Looking at and watching are two different things.
As an animator the facial animations were way off, uncanny valley all over the place.
As character models go amazingly Rendered.
Back to class I guess.

[RyanShutup]

@Xenophon have you played "The Order 1886?" The game got shat on pretty hard for some repetitive gameplay elements, but it's probably one of the top games of all time concerning facial animations and cinematography. You can pick it up for a few bucks these days... def worth checking out, especially because of your degree.

[jerethdagryphon]

Tired of people saying all the humans are clones .there not there articicially gestated donated embryos. Only aloy is a clone from the planned light house keeper protocol wheich was clones of the alphas

[Nodoze]

Cannot wait. I put this one on pause for the core campaign so that I can FULLY explore and play once the DLC hits. So excited. What I played was positively EPIC. Looked stunning, and was just a blast to play.

[LP-Eleven]

Yeah, never mind the facial animation, 15 hours is a whole other game to play! So this is fantastic!

[KickSpinFilter]

Nyce that rally was the one point of the game that didn't really fit for me.
Very cool they addressed it.

[cellfluid]

dammmmmmmmmmmmm i still gotta finish zero dawn b4 i jump on this i just cant stop doin the side quest its so much funnn dam you Guerrilla games

[jc12]

Does it improve the boring characters and gameplay?

[UCForce]

Do you really need to be that low ?

[jc12]

I'm not being low. I just think the game is overrated is all.

[SurgicalMenace]

Boring?

[UCForce]

"Overrated" Not even close.

[jc12]

ur opinion, which is fine. My opinion is I didn't particularly like the game. It's okay, different folks, different strokes.

[brando008]

Picked up Horizon last Tuesday, and I'm completely blown away by how amazing it is!!