Guerrilla Games’ decision to start working on Horizon: Zero Dawn series was a deliberate choice to move away from the Killzone series, its art director says.
In an interview with the Washington Post, art director Roy Postma, who has worked at Guerrilla for 24 years, says that following the release of Killzone: Shadow Fall on PS4, the studio decided it no longer wanted to work on the Killzone series.
Instead, they opted to start work on a new series with more colourful environments, as opposed to the grittier, greyer worlds of Killzone.