Earn this Horizon Forbidden West trophy and Sony will plant a real tree to celebrate

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Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:29:49 +0000

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Sony has launched its new Play and Plant project that players can contribute towards just by playing the new Horizon.

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In aid of Horizon Forbidden Wests underlying ecological theme, Sony has launched a new tree-planting initiative that lets you contribute just by playing Aloys next adventure.

Through the Play and Plant project, Sony has promised to plant a tree in one of three reforestation areas for every player that unlocks the Reached the Daunt trophy in Horizon Forbidden West before March 25.

Its a pretty easy trophy to unlock, too, requiring you only to complete the games tutorial area. That should take just a few hours.

All three reforestation projects are located in the US - Douglas County Forest, Sheep Fire Private Lands, and Torreya State Park - which Sony reckons will require 288,000 trees to completely reforest. Itll be planting the trees in collaboration with the Arbor Day Foundation.

Across the pond in the UK, Sony has partnered with wildlife center and educational tourist attraction The Eden Project to create a 12-acre
wildflower habitat.

It will also be lighting up the Eden Projects bubble-like domes, which not only look like theyve been stripped straight from Horizons vision of the future, but bear a striking resemblance to Aloys hex-gridded glider from Forbidden West.

Horizon Forbidden West releases February 18. Before you get your hands on the game, check out our thoughts on it, and why we think its excellent, in our Horizon Forbidden West review . Analysis: a real reward

As PR stunts go, this actually looks to do some good. Besides allowing Sony
to present itself as a serious defender against climate change, the Play and Plant project also shows the publisher using PlayStation trophies in a new way. While the achievements are usually only integrated into games as collectibles for you to show off to your PSN friends, the Reached the Daunt trophy in Horizon Forbidden West will have a real-world impact.

Its a minor impact, but one that nevertheless shows how Sony can implement future rewards systems using PS5 trophies.

This isnt the first time PlayStation trophies have bled into the material world. Back in 2020, Sony promised a real-life PlayStation Platinum Trophy to one lucky winner as part of its Player Celebration, complete with an
engraving of their name. Entrants had to turn up to the PlayStation website
at a specific time and answer some questions to be entered into a random
draw. As far as we can tell, Sony never did announce who won.

Whether you fancy digging into Guerrilla Games new release to plant a tree or just see what Aloys up to, you can pre-order Horizon Forbidden West below. Best PS5 games



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