Deacon eventually puts his wife on a packed evacuation chopper, her fate out of his hands. John, his wife Sarah, and his buddy Boozer trying to find a way to escape the newly minted freakers that are destroying everything in their path. There's no buildup to the outbreak, there's only the opening setting of Deacon St. Like many zombie stories, Days Gone begins with the would-be hero in chaos. It's like a Las Vegas breakfast buffet: It's probably too much, and you know what everything is, but you might not care. It also does what the new Wolfenstein games did when it came to shooting Nazis underneath the blanket of bullets is a dramatic, almost overstuffed cinematic narrative with characters you love and hate. Bend Studios hasn't presented a survival horror experience but a survival odyssey that definitely - and in several ways, imperfectly - echoes other excellent open-world games while also packing in every possible zombie-lore dynamic. The zombie hordes are still very much present, but they feel more like the hook in the "Days Gone" song instead of the message. My thinking didn't change, even as the game was delayed so Bend could do some more fine-tuning.Ī simple killfest is not what I played for dozens of hours in the past week. I figured it was a basic survival horror/action that was more in the vein of Left 4 Dead than The Last of Us. Again, I thought I knew what the essence of the game would be: a killfest starring Deacon and lots of zombies swarming around him. In the three days of E3, I saw one or two regular joes (people who didn't design the game) pull it off. It became something of the daily challenge in the Sony area to see who could succeed in wiping out the freaker army. The trailer ended with a massive horde surrounding a seemingly defeated Deacon, with no place to go.įast-forward to E3 2017, when I got some hands-on time with the game and found out that you could actually fight these moving mosh pits of doom with a combination of wits, reflexes and some ridiculous firepower. This pack of freakers moved quickly and in a wave of fluid, certain death, not unlike the kind moviegoers saw in "World War Z." Deacon jumped through windows, over debris, up ladders and anything else just to get away.
John, ran for his life from what looked like hundreds of "freakers," the game's contribution to the perpetually expanding compendium of zombie interpretation.
In it, the hero, a biker-turned-survivor named Deacon St. I first saw Days Gone from Bend Studio a few years ago in the form of an E3 trailer that seemed to tell me everything I'd need to know.
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