However, you have to spend more than half your time with Days Gone playing as a character who’s simply unlikable, from his conception to his execution. To the game’s credit, Deacon’s character actually does begin to go to some interesting places the more you get into it. Deacon’s character is every bit as boring as the game’s setting is banal-he’s a gruff protagonist with a “code” about how to act in a world without rules, who is motivated by his lost love. You play as Deacon, a biker who lost his wife in the Freaker outbreak, and now mostly subsists in the wild by his lonesome, along with Boozer, his brother in arms, choosing to not engage with any of the camps or settlements that still survive except for when strictly necessary. It’s generic to a fault, and first impressions do not lie-the game’s setting and story are all tired and trite by now, and that colors your experience with the title from the get go. If that made you yawn or groan inwardly just at the description, I can’t blame you. This isn’t to say the game isn’t engaging or even fun a lot of times, because it is-but it’s definitely the least accomplished flagship game we’ve seen come out of the Sony stable in years.ĭays Gone is an open world survival action game set in a post-apocalyptic world where society is overrun by Freakers. By and large, Days Gone fails at meeting that watermark across all three metrics to various degrees. There’s a certain brand of game you associate with a Sony product-accomplished gameplay, great storytelling, and a high degree of polish. The ascent of Sony’s first party thanks to the excellent games put out by Worldwide Studios has been spectacular these last few years.
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