Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition is also available for PS4Ģ017's open-world machine-hunting Horizon Zero Dawn now has a brand new PlayStation 5 patch so let's revisit Aloy's debut adventure. She would search the wreckage of GAIA Prime for a Master Override and use it to vanquish the rogue AI.Reviewed by A.J. Aloy struggled with this revelation but resolved to fulfill the purpose GAIA had set out for her. The governing AI’s final act was to order Aloy’s birth as a ‘reincarnation’ of Elisabet, the only person it believed could defeat HADES. Fearing its systems would fall under the control of a malevolent and supercharged HADES and be used to destroy life rather than create it, GAIA set its Prime reactor to self-destruct. One of these was the extinction protocol HADES, developed to wipe the Earth clean of life in case of an unsuccessful terraforming process. Twenty years earlier, a signal of unknown origin infiltrated GAIA, transforming its sub-functions into chaotic independent AI. Aloy, however, was truly special: she was a clone of Elisabet Sobeck. However, as she was leaving the facility, she was ambushed by a group of Shadow Carja and knocked unconscious.Īll-Mother Mountain was revealed to be one of GAIA’s Cradle facilities, which had spawned the first new generation of humans. Life did see a new dawn: but only as a seed that grew from the ashes.Īmongst these shocking revelations, Aloy recovered the data file that would allow her entry into All-Mother Mountain, where the truth of her birth awaited her. Then, it spawned a new generation of humans and wildlife using cryogenically preserved embryos. Long after the Faro Swarm had devoured the biosphere and been deactivated, GAIA’s machines repaired the land, skies, and seas. Working autonomously, GAIA developed the machines that roam Aloy’s world. Instead, Elisabet Sobeck led a team of the world’s top scientists as they labored tirelessly to develop an artificially intelligent terraforming system called GAIA. Inside the shattered remains of the Zero Dawn Facility, a centuries-old secret was laid bare: Project Zero Dawn was no superweapon, nor was there any hope of stopping the Faro Plague. Elisabet accepted, but the extremity of her proposed solution, codenamed ‘Zero Dawn,’ terrified him. He begged her to find a way to defeat the Swarm and save the world. The Unknown Woman was revealed to be Elisabet Sobeck, a brilliant Old World environmental roboticist and former employee of Faro’s. Chillingly, these same war robots were being resurrected by the Eclipse. Dubbed the ‘Faro Plague,’ this catastrophic event was set to destroy all life. With an insatiable hunger for biomass and no override to stop them, they began to multiply, spread, and kill uncontrollably. She learned that from this building, one thousand years earlier, CEO Ted Faro developed a series of self-replicating war robots fueled by consuming biological matter.Įventually, a glitch caused a swarm of these machines to disregard human commands. Guided by a mysterious unknown voice through her Focus, Aloy scaled the towering ruins of Maker’s End, once the corporate headquarters of Faro Automated Solutions. This allowed Aloy to override machines, turning them into ridable mounts or allies in combat. She then made use of her Focus and natural affinity for technology to reverse engineer a component from the machine’s remains. Aloy rose to the defense of the tribe, defeating the machine. Taking this as an omen, the Matriarchs anointed Aloy a Seeker, allowing her the rare privilege of leaving their Sacred Lands in search of answers.Īs Aloy was set to depart, an ancient Corruptor war robot attacked the Nora. The door remained sealed, but its biosecurity system activated in Aloy’s presence. Teersa, a kindly Matriarch, led Aloy to where she was found alone as a baby, outside of the ancient metal hatch that embodies their Goddess, All-Mother. Seeing the woman’s face, Aloy thought that this might be the mother she had longed for. It revealed that they had been dispatched to kill her because of her remarkable resemblance to an older Unknown Woman. Aloy awoke within the Nora's sacred All-Mother Mountain, where she downloaded a message left behind on a dead cultist's Focus.
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