Review: Days Gone (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Harvard L.

I like to believe there was a collective feeling of apprehension in the audience at E3 when Days Gone was first announced. The game’s elevator pitch is simple. Zombie apocalypse. Open World. Motorcycles. A PS4 exclusive by a Sony in-house studio based in Bend, Oregon, in a time where “Sony in-house” already had a high bar of expectation placed upon it. Everyone was asking – how could this game bring something new when ever part of its premise is already well and truly oversaturated? As it turns out, any doubts were poorly founded. Days Gone is not a perfect game, but Bend Studio does manage to bring many new ideas to the table, reinventing the way zombie games are conceived and crafting an emotionally affecting story in the process. This is a game of pleasant surprises and unexpected tenderness, bringing hopeful optimism out of a genre which we all thought was a closed door after The Last of Us.

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