However, as is well known, pop culture has produced a multitude of different utopias, dystopias, apocalypses and the like, that thematize the (supposed) downfall of humankind or the fight against artificial intelligences in different ways – but all somehow similar. For whenever it is about robots, artificial intelligences, wars, apocalypses and the like, essential philosophical questions and current thematic focuses of ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, or, for example, interdisciplinary artificial intelligence research, to which philosophy also contributes, are not far away. ![]() Both are basically starting points that sound appealing to me personally – who wouldn’t want to fight robot dinosaurs with bow and arrows?īut above all, it is the scenario around machine creatures and the supposed apocalypse that make the game so exciting from a philosophical point of view and which ultimately convinced me to play it. What I knew at the time was probably what most players knew when they played the game for the first time: something about the apocalypse is likely, and you fight robot dinosaurs with bows and arrows. Only a few brief scenes of a quest at the beginning of the game had previously come to my attention, when I set out to explore the world of Horizon Zero Dawn in early 2020. For my experience of the game and its story, however, this should prove to be a stroke of luck. How I managed to barely learn anything about the story in the last three years since the game’s release, and also missed the announcement trailer at E3 2015, I cannot say. I would also like to point out that the descriptions of the content of the game as well as the background story are largely based on my own experiences playing the game, but in some places I also refer to the Horizon Zero Dawn Wiki, which contains much more detailed background information about the story and the world, and on which I also relied to present the content of the game correctly. I therefore explicitly advise against reading this text if you have not yet played the game and do not know of the story and want to stay free of spoilers! In the course of this essay there will be spoilers of Horizon Zero Dawn‘s backstory and of events that occur in the course of the game. In the course of the game, you not only find out more about Aloy’s “mother”, but also uncover the exciting background story, which in my eyes is a major part of the game’s appeal, if not the real highlight. Horizon Zero Dawn is approved (in Germany) for players aged 12 and above.Īs a player, you control the protagonist Aloy, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world that is inhabited by animal-like machine creatures in addition to stone-age human races and animals. Horizon Zero Dawn is an action role-playing game by Guerilla Games, which was released in 2017 for the PlayStation 4 (2020 for PC) and received worldwide recognition and praise. ![]() 6 Literature and Internet Sources Introduction Disclaimer
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