Offering an uncapped frame rate, Days Gone far outshines its PS4 version and can even outperform the PS5-enhanced version currently available in the PS Plus Collection, provided your hardware can carry it beyond the 60fps. In dozens of hours, I haven't had an issue.
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I was worried Days Gone would arrive on PC in a troubled state after PlayStation had previously hit a snag with getting Horizon on the platform, but it's simply not the case here. With dozens of map icons to get familiar with, Days Gone doesn't often subvert the rules of the open-world action-adventure, but it fulfills the zombie fantasy better than virtually all other comers in a crowded genre.
In the game's best moments, Deacon can take on massive hordes of Freakers, which move like violent schools of fish across the Oregon backwoods, intimidating to look at and even harder to put down. He can unlock safe havens and improve passive skills by securing abandoned evac zones, which almost troll players with their unseen alarms ready to blare if Deacon acts too hastily. He clears out Freaker nests to enable fast travel, which provides for more dynamic recurring content than climbing the towers of Ubisoft games. It all makes for a familiar yet captivating story that gives context to Deacon's open-world running about better than some other games in the genre. Some story beats can be seen a mile away, but it's certainly interesting enough to make this 40-hour adventure well worth exploring. While past storylines continue to ripple into the present, Deacon's North Star is always his presumed-dead wife, whom he lost on the first night the world went to hell. Deacon's story is not always as clever as it seems to think it is.
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The full game plays out like a seasons-long zombie epic, and each new community Deacon travels to feels like the start of a new season, like Rick Grimes' group moving from the CDC building to the prison to Alexandria and so on. The world of Days Gone is very much inspired by its undead predecessors, which tend to depict similar disarray, but in the game's long-running story mode, it ends up succeeding despite - and sometimes because of - its tropes. Others still are fledgling, often struggling democracies, where good-natured people are trying to keep their heads on straight in a world where most have abandoned those pretenses once the pharmacies emptied out and the wolves started hunting people. Some survive on slave labor, others are havens for the region's right-wing conspiracy theorists (now feeling vindicated for spending their pre-virus years building prepper stashes). In their place have sprung up several settlements, each with its own leaders and group dynamics. What once were quiet mountain towns are now overrun with the filth and decay of two-plus years of societal collapse.
Real-life vistas like Crater Lake are supplemented with authentic-looking small-town gas stations, general stores, churches, and homes. They ride through a world where most people have been turned into Freakers, crazed albino-like zombies that rip and tear at the flesh of the living when they aren't traveling in massive hordes or curled up in their offensively-scented nests.ĭays Gone is the personification of the adage "write what you know." Taking place in the region where Sony Bend operates, the setting feels rich and well-traveled. While the pair still wear their colors, their biker gang is all but disassembled. John roams central Oregon's jagged forests and snow-capped mountains on his motorcycle and often alongside his best friend and former club member, Boozer. As one of the few post-viral outbreak survivors, Deacon St. It's The Walking Dead meets Sons of Anarchy. The premise of Days Gone is quite simple, as the team once admitted to Game Informer during the magazine's cover-story trip to Oregon.
Thankfully, Sony Bend's "Broken Road" provides for a gorgeous port, giving a whole new player base access to one of the finest post-apocalyptic games in the world. In the subsequent two years, Days Gone has earned something akin to cult status among console players - as much as a game can that was featured on an E3 stage, anyway - and now Days Gone gets a second chance with the mainstream as the latest in a growing list of Sony games launching on PC.īut for Days Gone to receive greater accolades this time around, the PC port would have to be impressive, something prior Sony games have sometimes struggled with.
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