We've seen Horizon: Zero Dawn running with HDR enabled on one of Sony's top-of-the-range 4K televisions and it's amazing, but what if you're planning to play the title with the PlayStation 4 Pro on a bog-standard 1080p screen? Writing on the PlayStation Blog, developer Guerrilla Games has revealed that there's lots for you to look forward to.

Technical director Michiel van der Leeuw wrote: "For players who still possess standard 1080p HDTVs, we're able to offer far better image quality. We've got a number of techniques at our disposal. The most logical one is supersampling. This is a very high-quality anti-aliasing technique, which basically means we internally render at a higher resolution before shrinking it down to the final 1080p."

He continued: "We're also looking at enhancing the quality of our shadow maps and increasing the quality of our anisotropic filtering. This is a technique which increases the quality of texture sampling, resulting in more detailed environment textures. We still have to tweak these elements of the 1080p output quality for the final game, but we have quite a bit of power yet to play with."

Those of you with an aforementioned 4K television will have lots to look forward to, too: "We're rendering 2160p checkerboard, which is a special technique that looks incredibly good on a 4K TV. You're going to notice a ton of subtle details, from stitching on Aloy's outfit, individual leafs and branches swaying in the wind, kilometers away in the distance and more detail in all machines."

But the developer's quick to stress that every E3 demo you've seen thus far has been running on a bog-standard PS4 – the game's going to look amazing whichever model you play on. "We're dedicated to making a game that looks great regardless of the model it's played on; it will look beautiful on PS4, and will look even better on PS4 Pro, particularly if you own an HDR-compatible 4KTV."

[source blog.eu.playstation.com]