You can craft healing items, bombs like the molotovs, traps and ammo for special weapons like your crossbow. Most items in Days Gone are either crafted or found. This mission type introduces you to the crafting wheel for the first time. If you want to reduce the concentration of enemies in an area, you need to burn these nests by chucking a Molotov cocktail at them and shooting the small horde of zombies that comes rushing out at you. Freakers exhibit more animal-like behaviour by being out during both day and night and by building nests. You chase a guy, track him down once he's wounded and meet your first zombies, called freakers this time around.

This first mission introduces you to all Days Gones' tricks in short order. Whether during the downpours or in the snow, it's frequently breathtaking. For all that I'm busy with dodging trees, it's also immediately obvious that virtual Oregon is a beautiful place. It's a fun intro that gave me a lot of hope, because manoeuvring through the forest without hitting a tree while shooting at someone is always fun - it was fun in Uncharted, it was fun in Far Cry and it's certainly fun here. Several years after the incident we're back with Deacon and Boozer, hunting down a guy on their bikes. Maybe someone at Sony was looking at Horizon Zero Dawn and said, right girls, you've had your metaphorical glass of 'secco with this one, let's make a post-apocalyptic game for real men.

If a woman would in fact ever, she would then proceed to fling herself off Deacon's bike as soon as the words 'so what's a nice lady like you doing in a place like this' leave his mouth. She is out in the mountains with a broken car and no phone reception when a stranger on a bike stops and aggressively asks her for directions, before pretending to drive off so she has to ask him for help. This isn't helped by Sarah coming across as a woman who seems to be as dumb as bricks for most of the flashbacks. I'm glad to say that after everything games have done in recent years to establish women, in Days Gone we're back to them existing entirely to enable the male protagonist's pain. This is not a spoiler, because it's so essential to Days Gone it's alluded to in the marketing materials. Oregon is gorgeous, also this is the size of subtitles you have to make do with from 30 feet.

I've watched it over several times, not least because the game makes you reminisce about it more than once, and the big moment that defines nearly the story just doesn't add up. He seems to exist for one reason only - to justify why Deacon would leave his wife after she's gravely wounded in an act of violence so senseless it literally doesn't make sense. Accompanying the two is Deacon's best friend Boozer. You don't yet see what everyone is running from, but of course you know - this is a zombie game, get with the programme. John and his wife Sarah in Seattle, the streets filled with panicked people and overturned vehicles.

Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainmentĭays Gone starts with a familiar scene.

But there are only so many times that works. Maybe someone looked at all these other existing titles and thought why not make another - people keep buying them, they'll buy this one, too. With so many open-world titles and games that use post-apocalyptic setting featuring zombies and/or other types of deformed creatures, why make another one? Maybe someone at Sony was looking at Horizon Zero Dawn, first announced around the time that work on Days Gone officially began, and said right girls, you've had your metaphorical glass of 'secco with this one, let's make a post-apocalyptic game for real men. A frequently gorgeous, sadly generic open-world game that runs out of steam well before its extended play-time is over.įrom the moment I first heard about Days Gone, I wondered about its reason for existing.

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