Sony Interactive Leisure is planning to launch a remake of PS4 title Horizon Zero Dawn for PlayStation 5.

That’s based on a report by MP1ST, which VGC can corroborate by way of our personal sources.

The up to date model of the 2017 Guerrilla Video games title will function improved visuals to deliver it as much as par with this yr’s sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, in the type of new character fashions, lighting and animations, it’s claimed.

As well as, it’s claimed the new model of Zero Dawn will add accessibility options, graphics modes and high quality of life enhancements to the gameplay itself.

VGC has requested SIE for touch upon this story.

Re-releases of current hit video games aren’t a brand new development for PlayStation: the platform holder has already launched a number of remasters and remakes for PS5, together with Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima, Uncharted 4 and The Final of Us.

A PC model of Horizon Zero Dawn was launched in 2020 with improved draw distance and better framerates, however it largely reused the property and options from the PS4 model.

As well as, the MP1ST report claims that Guerilla Video games is presently engaged on a Horizon multiplayer sport for PS5 and PC, which matches what VGC reported final yr.

VGC understands that the studio has lengthy supposed to increase the Horizon sequence into the multiplayer area. Sources had beforehand informed us that co-op was first deliberate for the authentic Horizon sport however was finally scrapped so the improvement crew may concentrate on different areas of the title.

Zero Dawn idea artwork that leaked on-line in 2014 – verified by VGC – even exhibits preliminary plans to have a number of gamers battle the sport’s large mechanical beasts, in a state of affairs much like Capcom‘s Monster Hunter video games.

Sources mentioned that Sony had been eager to incorporate co-op in the sport’s sequel, Forbidden West, however Guerrilla determined to save lots of the function for a future venture, which they believed would both be a standalone on-line spin-off, or Horizon 3.

SIE revealed in Could that it’s launching a big push into stay service video games, with 12 such titles deliberate to reach by its fiscal yr ending in March 2026.

In 2018 Guerrilla rehired sport director Simon Larouche to work on an unannounced title, which is doubtlessly associated to a multiplayer venture.

The designer has large expertise with multiplayer video games, having directed Ubisoft’s in style eSports shooter Rainbow Six: Siege, in addition to on-line modes for Guardians of the Galaxy, Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Killzone 2.

Sony introduced in Could that it’s engaged on a TV adaptation of Horizon, which can be launched on Netflix.  The Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman is creating the present, primarily based on the PlayStation franchise.