See Horizon Forbidden West in action at Sony's next State of Play

Encounter Horizon Forbidden West in activeness at Sony's next Country of Play

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Information technology's been virtually a year since Sony first announced Horizon Forbidden West for the PS5. Autonomously from the debut trailer, we haven't seen much of the game, but that volition change before the end of the week. Sony's adjacent State of Play will take place on Thursday, May 27, and Horizon Forbidden Due west will take center stage.

Information comes from the official PlayStation Blog, which lays out what fans can await to see this Th. First things kickoff: the State of Play livestream volition take place at five p.m. ET (10 p.m. BST) on Thursday, May 27. Fans who desire to lookout man a (very, very long) preshow tin tune in at 12 p.m. ET (v p.m. BST), where they'll see a "uniquely crafted inaugural" to the main event.

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Sony promises a 20-minute State of Play, 14 minutes of which volition be gameplay captured directly on a PS5. We assume that means vi minutes of introductory fabric and trailer footage. That's really all you have to know. If you want to run into about 15 minutes of Horizon Forbidden W gameplay, you can do and so on the evening of May 27.

As for where yous tin can tune in, like other State of Play livestreams, Sony will host this one on both Twitch and YouTube. You lot can bookmark either ane of those sites now, or you can come dorsum to Tom's Guide on Th. We'll be alive-blogging the State of Play equally it happens, and nosotros'll embed a link to the stream in our coverage.

For those who aren't familiar with Horizon Forbidden W, it'southward the long-awaited sequel to Horizon Cypher Dawn. In Horizon Zero Dawn, a huntress named Aloy took on animalistic robots in a world so far past the mail-apocalypse, it had circled back to lush green environments and tribal societies. Fans appreciated the game's deep story, detailed open world and satisfying grapheme advancement.

The State of Play series, if you oasis't watched information technology before, is an occasional livestream from Sony, highlighting new PlayStation games and engineering. The last one was all about Ratchet & Clank: Rift Autonomously, although there was also some information about Subnautica: Beneath Zero and Amidst Us. Perhaps we'll get ane or two smaller announcements aslope the Horizon Forbidden Westward gameplay reveal.

Tom's Guide reviewed Horizon Nil Dawn when it debuted 2017, and praised the championship for its intuitive gameplay, engrossing story and tight controls. We also alerted readers to when the game was gratis on PS4 and PS5 terminal calendar month as part of Sony's Play At Dwelling house campaign. While the game is back to paid status now, it'southward not just available on PlayStation systems. You tin can also grab it on PC, where some much-needed patches have improved its performance since release.

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Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom's Guide, overseeing the site's coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a science writing background, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of science and technology. After hours, you lot can find him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on archetype sci-fi.