Guerrilla Games

Guerrilla B.V. (trade name: Guerrilla Games) is a first-party game development studio founded in 2000 as Lost Boys Games. In 2005, the studio was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment to become a part of PlayStation Studios (formerly SCE Worldwide Studios). Their headquarters are based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The studio is best known for the Killzone and Horizon series.

Why They Rock

 * 1) The majority of their games have been well received, with Killzone 2 being their most critically successful title to date. Even their weakest games received mixed reviews at worst.
 * 2) Their games have stunning visuals for the time at which they were released.
 * 3) The company itself has a good relationship with CD Projekt, to the point where the two companies often exchange artwork with each other.
 * 4) With Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla took an enormous risk venturing into a genre of games they have never tried previously, having come off of the Killzone series, which was a First-person shooter. The results however, paid off.
 * 5) They have developed their own proprietary game engine called Decima, which was utilized for Killzone Shadow Fall and Horizon Zero Dawn. The engine is capable of creating an entire game world with beautiful graphics.
 * 6) * The company has even allowed other studios like Supermassive Games to use the engine for their games. Other games like Until Dawn, its VR spin off, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, and RIGS: Mechanized Combat League all use the Decima engine.
 * 7) * Hideo Kojima's latest game, Death Stranding uses Decima engine.
 * 8) Guerrilla managed to negate adding microtransactions or loot boxes to Horizon Zero Dawn, and even chose to forego giving the game a season pass; instead, they created an expansion to the base game later on down the line, all despite the temptation to add them in, and even removing them from Killzone Shadow Fall with the Valor update
 * 9) The company is grateful to their fans; they celebrated Horizon Zero Dawn's first anniversary and commercial success at the time by giving their fans some free PSN avatars, and a special 1 year anniversary dynamic theme comprised of their favourite in-game photos taken and shared by players. They even thanked the fan artists and cosplayers for their support.
 * 10) *They even celebrated the anniversary of Killzone 3 with a multiplayer standalone including all of the game's DLC (servers for Killzone 3 has since been shutdown on March 28th, 2018).
 * 11) They're partnering with a lot of companies to make a crossover between games from different companies and their works. Horizon's playable character Aloy has made guest appearances in Monster Hunter: World, mh:crappygames:Death Stranding, Fortnite, and Genshin Impact.
 * 12) * Aloy appears as holograms in Death Stranding.
 * 13) * She appears as a skin in Fortnite and received an alternate gamemode known as "Team Up! Aloy and Lara", in which the only weapons that were available were dual pistols and bows.
 * 14) * Aloy's overall appearance with the Nora Brave armor became accessible through an event in the PlayStation release of Monster Hunter: World. The event began on February 26th 2018 and ended after about a week.
 * 15) * They partnered with the Chinese studio miHoYo to make their Horizon game character Aloy as playable five-star character in Genshin Impact, released for limited time, initially for PlayStation owners in version 2.1, and later for all devices in the next version. Not to mention she's completely free to pick up, if you reached at least 20 Adventure Rank.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While Horizon Zero Dawn was released to great reception, that lead to the Killzone series being on ice, which could never address Shadow Fall's cliffhanger.
 * 2) Some of their games, such as the first Killzone game and Shadow Fall aren't the best games
 * 3) *The first Killzone game (dubbed as the Halo-Killer), while decent, was disappointing, which the upper hand damaged Guerrillas's reputation. Thankfully it was restored with Killzone 2.