

The studio seems to have left the IP behind, and now is working on another new open world IP. In early 2021, reports revealed that Sony Bend’s pitch for a Days Gone sequel had been rejected by Sony (or maybe even by Bend’s own local management). That sequel probably isn’t going to happen anytime soon, if ever. But then again, Days Gone had plenty of bright spots as well, and the general feeling among those who played it was that with a sequel, developer SIE Bend Studio could deliver something truly special.
DAYS GONE GAMEPLAY PS4
Pacing issues, technical problems, some half-baked gameplay ideas, and other flaws combined to make for what was probably one of the roughest first party PlayStation releases of the PS4 era (at least in its later years). One of the biggest stumbles for Sony’s first party was Days Gone– a solid enough game in its own right, but not quite at the level that Sony would have wanted it to be. With the likes of God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, The Last of Us Part 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and many more, internal Sony studios were consistently putting out one excellent game after another that could easily rank as some of the best games of the console generation. No one ever complained about the graphics in the console version and yet that’s all that’s improved here.First party releases have always been one of PlayStation’s most crucial cornerstones, but with the PS4 generation, they became even more crucial to Sony than ever.

That at least is a positive but what does it really matter that the graphics are better when the game itself is so workmanlike? Better visuals don’t make the story or gameplay any more exciting, or the drab, empty open world any more interesting to explore. Perhaps most importantly, this is not nearly as buggy as Horizon Zero Dawn (or the original Days Gone at launch), which suggests that if this is primarily a technical experiment it is a successful one. The frame rate is very stable and a 1440p resolution is possible even with relatively modest hardware, so it’s not like you need something 10 times more expensive than a console to run it. There’s no DLSS or ray-tracing but the draw distance is notably longer than the PlayStation 4 version and you can change the field of view to widen out the camera view.
DAYS GONE GAMEPLAY PC
The main positive with this new PC version of the game is that, in terms of technology, it’s appreciably better than on the PlayStation 4. You can’t help but wonder whether this was at one point intended as an official The Last Of Us spin-off, as not only is the back story very similar but so too is the crafting system, where you make traps and distractions to fight the enemy.Ħ new Assassin’s Creed games announced: Mirage, Japan, horror game Hexe, and more The third person gunplay is simplistic but competent and so too is the stealth. Not making the most of concepts is the key problem with Days Gone, which peculiarly wastes the few original ideas it has. But while your bike can be heavily customised, and is your main transport, it’s never used in any very interesting manner, despite the constant threat of running out of fuel. The game portrays bikers as the cockroaches of the zombie apocalypse, being seemingly the only ones to have survived the collapse of society, which is now obsessed with motorcycles and putting on a gravely voice. Although the central problem with the storytelling is that as the protagonist Deacon doesn’t really have a story arc and is fundamentally the same person he was at the end of the story as he was at the beginning.

The script is very and dry and overly serious and yet it has nothing interesting to say that justifies such a dour approach. The plot remains frustratingly aimless for the majority of its running time but while it does pick up in the final act, where it begins to flirt with the traditional zombie theme about humans being the real monsters, it never properly engages with it or the half-hearted attempts at gender politics. For the first several hours the two have no particular goal, and once Boozer is injured early on, well… you can probably imagine the story and side missions already.

John, a relatively principled biker who, following the death of his wife, is attempting to survive a zombie apocalypse with his best friend Boozer. In Days Gone you play as the peculiarly named Deacon St.
