Horizon GAIA Cast – Episode 3: Project Zero Dawn
Official PlayStation Podcast
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Anne and Chanté are joined by narrative director Ben McCaw as they explore Project Zero Dawn, Elisabet Sobeck’s last-ditch effort to save the world from imminent extinction.
Highlights include their discussion into how the team conceptualized GAIA and her sub-functions; whether Horizon Zero Dawn, the Faro Plague and Project Zero Dawn were written as a real-life possibility humanity may face someday, or if the team designed the story as purely rooted in fiction; what the world was like during the first few months the Chariot Line defected; and if the creators of Project Zero Dawn would be happy with the current state of the world in Horizon.
Ben McCaw is the narrative director on Horizon Forbidden West, and was lead writer on Horizon Zero Dawn and The Frozen Wilds.
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ESRB Rating: Teen with Blood, Drug Reference, Language, Mild Sexual Themes and Violence.
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| 0:00.0 | rated T for team. Hello and welcome to GeiaCast, a spoiler-filled deep dive podcast into the |
| 0:16.6 | world of Horizon from the team here at Gorilla. We're looking forward to diving |
| 0:20.0 | into the law, hearing some behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and maybe even learning some new things. |
| 0:25.5 | Our first series of episodes will be focusing on Horizon Zero Dawn, the first installment of the |
| 0:29.7 | Horizon series, which we launched in 2017. I'm Chante and I'm |
| 0:34.0 | joined by my co-host Anna. How's it going today, Anna? |
| 0:37.0 | Hi, I'm great. |
| 0:38.0 | How are you? |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, I'm doing really well, thank you. |
| 0:40.0 | And once again, we are joined by Ben. |
| 0:42.0 | Ben, if they haven't heard you before please introduce yourself. |
| 0:44.7 | Hey I'm Ben McCaw I'm the narrative director at guerrilla games and I was the lead writer |
| 0:49.2 | on Horizon Zero Dawn. |
| 0:52.2 | This episode we're diving into Project Zero Dawn, an effort to rebuild a |
| 0:56.2 | devastated globe by restoring the ecosystem and reintroducing human life. |
| 1:01.0 | However, as we know, it didn't go entirely to plan. We're ready, so let's jump in. |
| 1:11.5 | So can you give us a quick breakdown of what Project Zero Dawn was and why it was required? |
| 1:16.0 | Sure, in essence Zero Dawn is a seed from which life can grow again. |
| 1:21.0 | So in our fictional backstory for the game in the year |
| 1:24.8 | 2065 a runaway glitch in a fleet of military robots causes them to self replicate and to ignore human control. And even worse, these |
| 1:38.4 | machines have the ability to consume bio matter as fuel, so plants, animals, humans. |
| 1:44.7 | So within the span of 16 months, they eat, more or less, or destroy every living thing on Earth |
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