The Art of Horizon Zero Dawn

The media could not be loaded. It came in excellent condition, plastic sealed with book sleeve, there wasn't any problems with the order and arrival time. The content is RICH with beautiful characters and world-building concept art, balanced between art pictures and text context as it should. Im very satisfied.

The media could not be loaded. Finally, Guerrilla Games have decided to release an artbook to go with their newly release game. The only other artbook I have from them was Killzone Visual Design and that was really good. It's good to see that they have maintained the really high standards with Horizon Zero Dawn.This 192-page hardcover is filled with gorgeous concept artworks. There are designs for all the characters from the different tribes, enemy designs and of course locations. It's kinda refreshing to see tribal designs for a change among all the sci-fi and fantasy concepts. There's of course a slight plot twist as the story goes on so you might want to go through the book only after you have completed the game.The artworks are incredibly detailed. The designs look great. The scenes are well lit and beautifully painted. There's some speed painting and photo-bashing going on but the result always look believable. There's the right amount of detail for areas that matter. The artworks are also printed large whenever possible. Downside is in some cases, there's pixelation but I don't think it's really a big deal as long as there aren't too many pieces like that.Typical staff commentary on the design is also included.Overall, it's a video game artbook that's worth the money. It's great to see something different from characters in space suits or armour with their high-tech sleek space guns.If you're wondering about the orange splash on my cover. That's ink spilled from a bottle in my Amazon box. I'm getting the book replaced.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

The media could not be loaded. I ordered this book after playing the game for about an hour because I knew right away that the artwork put into this game had to be something special.This book is very beautiful as you would expect from such a gorgeous game. I am a huge fan of "Art of" books and I own about 10 or so different ones. The cover is very attractive how Aloy's silhouette is glossy and the surrounding background is matte. I tried to show this in the video.The book shows off artwork of all the characters/tribes from the games, the machines and the environments. The character designs are very detailed. I was slightly disappointed in the environmental work, which is what I was looking forward to most. Some of the designs were created at a smaller size and when they blew them up for the book they got a little chunky. Only a few images seemed chunky though. The style used for the environments wasn't my favorite. It looked like they used a lot of reference images/textures layered in Photoshop rather than being 100% drawn. This makes total sense from a design standpoint to save time/money etc, but its not as pretty to look at. I'm not a digital artist, so I can't say for sure, this might be a common technique, but this has never stood out to me with a lot of other work i've seen. Its still beautiful and very imaginative, so I'm not nocking any stars for it.I paid $24 for this book, and I don't regret it at all. I'm not sure if I'd pay the full $40 though. I guess i'm just cheap.Anyway, highly recommended.

A great addition to any fan's collection.

Fantastic artbook, definitely one of the best artbookS Titan Books has ever done. It has lots of crazy beautiful post apocalyptic environment art and quite alot of character art. What surprised me pleasantly was the section about the machines. They are quite frankly the main reason anybody was interested in this game and this artbook certainly delivers lots of it. Over 24 pages of these machines were a joy to look at and read about. This is most definitely the best artbook Titan Books has ever released. The little 48 page Dark Horse artbook that came with the collectors edition was a little taste of what the full sized artbook might bring and Iam so incredibly happy I got it, it's one of the best artbooks on top of my shelf currently. If you're enthralled by the game, you must definitely own this artbook full of beautiful art pieces. Shame the limited edition had this uninteresting lithograph / art print, I hoped that it would have that beatiful art print that is included in the thunderjaw collection. Nevertheless it's a fantastic artbook packed with jawdropping and exquisite art. Guerilla games definitely delivered once again.

My husband is a gamer and loves to read through theses kind of books. Reading and seeing what went through the minds of the team that made this game is fantastic.

I haven't spent much time in the game, but I appreciated the work I'd seen in the game and wanted to see more of the concept work and character design. This book way more than delivered on that front. Paul Davies has done another stellar job capturing the process of creating a memorable game and this is a proud collection piece in my library. Great quality as far as the paper goes, the color goes, the sketches and captures. Just great, great work.

great if you like these books