Side-quests range from burning Freakers, chasing down looters, some investigation and tracking, rescuing people, freeing up scientific outposts. There’s quite a bit of variety throughout to keep you going in what is a very, very large game. In the end, I sort of wished the Rippers would just get him, which is horrible, but it all gets turned around, and the relationships between Deacon and the characters unravel, layers become clearer and it turns into a very nicely thought out piece. He gets injured very early in the game, and the first part is really about making sure he’s ok, but boy does he milk it. Boozer, your biker buddy, is a bit of a whiner. There are a few moments where Deacon moves into a new ‘area’ of the map, noted by a longer drive, some dialogue and some incredibly stunning music choices. Think GTA style, where your cousin keeps calling you up to go bowling, but the voice acting is absolutely superb, and the plot genuinely grabbed me – I found the majority of these to be interesting.
Stealth, guns blazing, traps luring people out and into things – for a biker, Deacon is pretty well equipped.ĭriving around, Deacon frequently checks in on his various contacts via a radio. The combat is probably the best thing about Days Gone, it’s weighty and brutal, and you can approach situations in a number of different ways. The world is quite stunning – and playing on PS5, the game runs flawlessly at 60 FPS (off the internal SSD) with fairly sharp load times, a massive improvement from when I first played it on PS4 and couldn’t quite get my teeth into it.
There are others out there too just looking to survive and will kill you to do so, but similarly, you’ll come across folks just trying to survive and be glad of help – on rescuing them you can select which camp to send them to, bolstering your reputation with that camp, but you may decide to change this up depending on what’s available at each camp as well as your internal philosophy (I personally began to struggle to send people to what was effectively a forced labour camp).Īfter a while, it all sort of clicked for me. It’s grim stuff and highlights Days Gone’s adult tone pretty early. The Rippers are a Freaker worshipping cult, who take pride in cutting and scarring themselves and brutally killing others. You quickly encounter the main antagonist faction, known as the Rippers. To top it all off, there are NPCs in the wasteland of Oregon too, and they aren’t all friendly… They are also deadly in large numbers (when I say large, in the early game being rushed by about 10 can kill you). Deacon is weak, the bike can’t hold much fuel and it’s slow uncovering parts of the map. Fast travel is possible but you firstly need enough fuel, and the ‘way’ to where you’re travelling needs to be clear from Freaker nests (you can clear these out by burning them down). The bike also needs fuel to run if it runs out, you’ve got to go hunting for more. There’s a levelling and upgrade system for the bike, for weapons, and for Deacon – his abilities split between things like the ability to forage, combat, and constitution (health, fatigue levels etc).
Travel is primarily on Deacon’s bike, which is tricky at first but can be upgraded at camps by trading in favours (side-quests) and Freaker parts (Freakers are what Days Gone calls zombies). It’s an open-world, third-person, action, stealth, zombie survival, combat adventure racing game. The game begins as Deacon mourns Sarah, unable to find her, with little news of where she was taken (since the location has since been overrun by undead).ĭays Gone attempts to do many things, and it does them all at first, very slowly. Come the apocalypse, Deacon and his friend, Boozer put Deacon’s wife on a chopper as people were evacuated, to ensure her safety while he stayed behind with Boozer. On PS5, it’s enhanced by unlocking the frame rate to 60fps, so what better time to revisit this biker cross zombie open-world shooter.ĭays Gone tells the story of Deacon St. It’s been many days gone since Day’s Gone was released… ok bad pun.
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