Similarly, the recently Bafta winning God of War shows that blockbuster games that feature preposterous violence can still have affectingly-told, serious stories. Yet there have been better zombie games than Days Gone – like Left 4 Dead, which did not take itself seriously, or The Last of Us, which did, but was better written. Game plots are often much worse than the action movies they ape, often because they take themselves so seriously. Those who can brave the story and make it further into the game are rewarded with full-on battles with justifiably-hyped zombie 'hordes'. It’s extremely entertaining to push an abandoned car off the road as the infected bare down on you, or race away from the game’s various zombie types only to be clotheslined by a lamppost and summarily devoured. This is a shame, because though there are gameplay problems with Days Gone – fall damage is indecipherable the bike can handle like a lawnmower – the bits that have nothing to do with the story are breathless and fun.

It’s cliché to even note the cliché: women act here as both a justification for, and redemption from, being a jerk. See in-game tutorial for complete instructions. Choose from 4 different classes, from melee to magic, in this classic RPG Instructions Classic final-fantasy-style RPG gameplay. At one point, during a flashback of their wedding, she makes him promise “to ride me as much as you ride your bike.” Beyond his aforementioned “old lady”, Deek eventually chaperones a young woman named Lisa (she reminds him of his wife's sister). You are the zombie hero Sonny, and you hunger for revenge And, ya know, brains. The story between Deek and his missing wife is not touching. Really, Bruiser – worse than total societal collapse?īetween exposition as graceful as being battered by a two-by-four – “It's not your fault your wife’s dead!” – Deek and Bruiser mostly communicate through profanity, in the vein of “You hunting shit? Shit? Yeah shit!” The writers have confused the fact that some people may talk like this with the idea that people talking like this is interesting. “We've been through shit worse than this before!” says Bruiser, during the early throes of the apocalypse.

As is typical of stories where protagonists have biceps instead of brains – see also Gears of War – the dialogue in Days Gone is bad.

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