To do that, you will have to run missions for the leaders of the aforementioned camps. In addition finding things to craft, you will also need to buy certain things like guns and bike upgrades. They even change based on the conditions, such as roads getting more slick when it rains or when you are driving on dirt as opposed to pavement. You will use the bike to travel everywhere, and thankfully the driving mechanics for Days Gone are very good. Over time, you can build it back up into a heck of a machine. He has a nice bike at the start of the game, but loses it and has to revert to a glorified scooter. Most of them contain crafting supplies that can be used to create weapons or to fix up your ubiquitous bike.Īnd speaking of bikes, another ongoing mission is to have Deacon fix up his bike. There is nothing like driving into a little town, capping all the wandering freakers (and gang or cult members), and then taking a stroll through the wrecked grocery store, pharmacy, bar, apartments, factories, warehouses, gas stations and other buildings. There might be a building or two that you can’t get into, but almost nothing is just there for scenery. There is a good mix of rural and somewhat urban settings (mostly towns) in Days Gone. It even has a realistic day and night cycle, with freakers much more active at night. The world itself is one of the most amazing open world experiences that I’ve experienced in this genre, or perhaps ever. You will also be doing lots of missions for friendly camps, and just generally exploring the world. So much of the plot revolves around trying to keep Boozer alive and investigating what happened to Sarah. Sarah is still missing, and Boozer gets injured again very quickly into the game. It’s pretty much every other videogame apocalyptic world in terms of flavor. The freakers have overrun the world, and normal humans are living in small, fortified camps trying to eke out a living, or are out in the world robbing and killing as raiders. So you might start at 745 Days Gone and then get into the 800s as you play. The game begins some 700 days later, and as time passes, the main menu screen says how many days have passed whenever you save or check your stats. So Deacon puts Sarah on the chopper and stays with Boozer to help him fight his way out of the city. Then the chopper can only take two more people. But Sarah gets stabbed in the stomach and Boozer gets cut in the leg. Deacon, his new wife Sarah and longtime friend Boozer – who is also a fellow biker – are trying to make it to the last government helicopter leaving the city. But they serve the same role as zombies in every other game that features them, only you don’t have to shoot them in the head to get a kill, even though that is the quickest way to bring them down. Freakers are actually still alive and not technically undead, as they are people who got infected with a mystery virus. Zombies, which are called freakers in this world, are overrunning the city of Farewell, Oregon. The game starts in a prologue scene that takes place about 700 days before the game. He’s just a guy who fought for his country and then joined a motorcycle club – one that doesn’t sell drugs or promote racism (as we are told in more cut scenes). So Deacon is not some career criminal from GTA Vice City Stories. He served in the Army’s 10 th Mountain Division and saw some bad stuff during the Afghanistan War and became a biker afterwards. But Deacon was not always a biker, as the game goes to great lengths to show you in copious cut scenes. While I think some of the criticisms, which I will address, are valid, Days Gone still manages to deliver a unique and fun experience. I don’t think anyone says that Days Gone is a bad game, just that it failed to live up to its hype. Since release, the reviews have been more lukewarm than anything else. I am talking about an open world, zombies, survival horror, a post-apocalypse setting and even vehicles – or at least motorcycles. From the trailers and clips, the game seemed to combine lots of great elements that gamers tend to love. In the leadup to the release of Days Gone, people were legitimately excited.
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