So what's left of humanity is forced to carve out a living in the wilderness some band together, some stay alone, some prey on the weak. Cities are dangerous now, a mire of former citizens that have been turned into zombie-like creatures called Freakers. The title refers to how many days its been since the outbreak. John (former Starkiller Sam Witwer), a biker and bounty hunter who is roaming the new landscape of this United States. Instead, I find myself a bit underwhelmed from the section of Days Gone I played at a pre-E3 event last week.ĭays Gone drops you into the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse as Deacon St. I enjoyed Syphon Filter, so I was looking forward to a return to form.
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Long ago, Bend offered the original Syphon Filter franchise on PlayStation and PlayStation 2 before being relegated to portable spin-offs of other developer's titles, like Resistance: Retribution on PlayStation Portable and Uncharted: Golden Abyss on PlayStation Vita. ĭays Gone is the first major project by SIE Bend Studio in some time. Days Gone looked to turn that on its head with 28 Days Later-style runners. Dead Rising offers a horde to kill or avoid, but those are relatively-slow Romero-style zombies. That idea, surviving against a giant, fast-moving pack of the undead, was a unique one. I remember the E3 2016 reveal of the game, with the main character avoiding a literal horde of zombies. I sat down to play Days Gone with little in the way of expectations.