Deacon is hoping that she’s still alive and that he’ll be able to find her. Without spilling anything, Deacon let his wife escape while he remained behind with Boozer. The game opens with a cut scene showing what happened during the virus outbreak. The title Days Gone refers to the number of days since Deacon has seen his wife, Sarah. I like that because I find it immersive that in a post-apocalyptic setting, you’d have to really think about what you’re doing, because there’s no one to help you when you’re stranded in a barn in the backwoods of Oregon. Make sure you have weapons and ammo, make sure your bike is in good condition and filled up, make sure your health is good. Be it for travelling or fighting, you have to prepare.

While Deacon is portrayed as somewhat of a badass, being able to activate tracking vision and generally being super competent at both fighting and mechanical repair, the game doesn’t reward gung-ho fighting. Seriously, where did all of you come from? Did you even live here? (image via Sony Entertainment) How many people were really living in the boondocks in Oregon when the outbreak occurred? Anyway. As a note, one thing that sort of breaks the immersion of the survival horror feel is the number of zombies around. Sneaking up on a zombie allows you to stab them with your knife in a one-shot kill animation, saving you bandages, ammo and weapons you might have spent fighting. I had to stop and try to rummage in the barn for a gas can, making sure I was surprising zombies, rather than rushing them. In my play through, I ran out of gas by a barn at dusk. Running out of gas at night is a harrowing prospect, especially because the combat doesn’t favour you much once you’re fighting more than 2 zombies at once. In Days Gone, the zombies are stronger at night and weaker during the day. That might sound tedious but this is where I get a lot of the survival horror vibes from this game. The real interesting element I find is that the bike can also break and run out of gas. Just you and your bike against the post-apocalyptic world (image via Sony Entertainment) Of course, because it’s that kind of game, the bike can be upgraded with parts that unlock with faction reputation. Your main mode of transportation is a shitty motorcycle that someone lends you early in the game when your real motorcycle gets stolen. The biker angle might seem a bit cliché in these post-Sons of Anarchy days, but it informs a lot of the gameplay. You also have a friend called Boozer who is the other half of your bike gang (yes, the gang has 2 members, although it’s implied that the others died during the virus outbreak). The story takes place in Oregon and a lot of the gameplay revolves around doing things for various of the surviving factions who are organized in little camps. John, a biker living in a post-apocalyptic world where a virus has turned a majority of humanity into zombies called Freakers. And so, I’ve decided to concentrate on two things: the survival horror elements and the story.ĭays Gone has you take the role of Deacon St. I also tried to not focus too much on the shooter elements, because frankly, I’m just bad at console shooters and I don’t think the game has to carry that. I tried to ignore the repetitive, chore-y gameplay that often results in me putting these kind of games down. I’ll preface this review by saying that Days Gone is not necessarily my type of game, but instead of laying on it all the things that I find uninspiring with open world shooter adventure games, I decided to try to find the things that were more unique to Days Gone, good or bad. It created a lot of buzz when it was announced but was it well founded? Let’s dive into it! Days Gone is the newest PlayStation exclusive, published directly by Sony.

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