Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered ESRB Rating Surfaces, Lists It for PS5, PC

Back in 2022, we broke a story on how Sony was remaking Horizon Zero Dawn. At the time, it was a bit fuzzy whether it was a full-on remake or it was just being remastered. Well, it seems we have the answer to that, as the Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered ESRB rating has surfaced!

Rated “T” for Teen, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is listed for PS5 and PC and has the following summary on the ESRB website:

Rating Summary

This is an action/role-playing game in which players assume the role of a hunter (Aloy) surviving through a post-apocalyptic world. Players guide Aloy as she learns to hunt robotic creatures and animals in the wild. Aloy uses arrows, spears, and explosive traps to injure and kill machines, boar, and occasional human enemies. Animals and humans emit small puffs of red blood when struck; one sequence depicts an abandoned camp with large blood stains on rocks and trees. The game contains a brief reference to sexual material (e.g., “Eighteen months hard labor in exchange for thirty years lounging around Elysium watching porn?”). In text/audio files, characters sometimes reference fictional drugs, overdoses, and getting high: “…not even out of junior high and already a drug addict”; “…I ran across a pusher who was selling Razorwing for eight bucks a tab”; “I’d spend a few days getting high, then OD on Overcast.” The word “sh*t” appears in the text/dialogue.

Chances are, an announcement is right around the horizon (sorry! Couldn’t resist). Perhaps a new State of Play is in order? This makes a lpt more sense especially after the disastrous PS5 Pro reveal event.

Horizon Zero Dawn was released on the PS4 back in February 2017 to critical acclaim, and it was followed up by an expansion titled the Frozen Wilds that was pushed out in November of the same year. Since then, we’ve gotten its sequel Horizon Forbidden West which was released in 2022,  and it also got an expansion titled Burning Shores that was released in 2023.

Will players want another remaster from Sony though? We’ll know for sure once it’s announced, and we see the reception.

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