Just take a look at these GIFs to see what I mean. Here, there's nothing getting in the way of the game's 21:9 goodness, and cor, what a sight it is, too.
This meant there were still tiny black bars running down the side of your screen in Death Stranding, but thankfully this isn't the case in Horizon. That might sound like the most obvious thing in the world, but as you may recall from my look at Death Stranding's ultrawide support, Kojima Productions took a rather more cinematic approach to the game's 21:9 aspect ratio support, opting instead for a 'true' resolution of 3360x1440 / 2520x1080.
The good news is that Horizon Zero Dawn does, in fact, support the same ultrawide resolutions as your typical ultrawide gaming monitor - that is, 3440x1440 or 2560x1080. In the meantime, though, it effectively has everything I need to get the most out of Horizon Zero Dawn on PC, as it means I can make use of all its new features in one fell swoop, from its uncapped frame rates and HDR support to its lovely ultrawide aspect ratio. This is a curved 35in, 3440x1440 display with a 200Hz refresh rate and Nvidia G-Sync Ultimate support, and I'll be writing up a separate review of this monitor very soon. To test Horizon Zero Dawn's ultrawide support, I used Asus' ROG Swift PG35VQ, the same monitor that I've been using to play Death Stranding. Now, while it's since become apparent that not all members of the press have had quite as smooth an experience as I have with Horizon Zero Dawn's PC port, I can only report on my own experience of the game, which so far as been pretty plain-sailing. The latter is something I've been particularly looking forward to after the superb ultrawide shenanigans of its Decima Engine-sharing stablemate Death Stranding, and so I thought I'd take a closer look at how Horizon Zero Dawn's 21:9 support works on PC, showing you what it looks like at 3440x1440 and how it deals with the game's cutscenes. Not only have they unlocked the game's frame rate and added in shinier graphics presets to give it PS4-beating performance on relatively low-end hardware, but it's also one of 2020's big PC games to get 21:9 ultrawide support. Guerrilla Games have really gone to town on the PC port of Horizon Zero Dawn.