On April 26th, 2019, PlayStation gamers were introduced to Days Gone, an open-world zombie game. You travel over a vast range of maps with different terrains, making the experience immersive and an adventure of a lifetime. The best description that can be given for Days Gone is that it’s Dead Rising and Far Cry mixed. And luckily, it isn’t just PlayStation gamers who can enjoy the game-play. It’s been released on PC, with all the updates and bug fixes. No more invisible bike is impossible to find, no more freakers that glitch right beside you and kills you right away, just smooth gameplay and visuals.

With more options to set up the game in the style you want, making the graphics and sounds to the specs you want for the best gameplay, you will not miss a thing. Following the main storyline, with a wide variety of side missions, we will take a look into what you can expect and the fun yet challenging adventures you will have ahead.

New is Always Better

There are always the gamers who want the fully-customizable option when it comes to certain aspects, and this open-world experience is precisely made for that. Being able to customize the mouse and keyboard buttons is a huge benefit. It helps craft items faster, heal your player, and change weapons to make sure that you survive the attacking zombies.

A Rough Start

At the beginning of the game, you start as Deacon St John, trying to escape with your wife and your best friend. You’re a part of a biker gang that works together to survive and help each other as much as possible during the zombie apocalypse. But in this case, the zombies are called “freakers.” Most games start with the bare minimum, not many materials and having to work for transportation, building up your weapons chest, repairing your bike to become more beneficial to you. Going around Oregon helping out different outposts to enhance what they can provide you, running into lots of freakers and enemy outposts armed to the teeth with heavy weapons.

Destroying freakers nests all over the place and trying to be stealthy so that you don’t get attacked by several freakers can be a hassle, especially if you don’t have the fire materials to burn the nests properly weapons to defend yourself. Luckily you can be stealthy and kill a few at a time and use melee weapons found all over the place.

Bikers can craft

Deacon is a great salvager and can make lots of different objects that can help. As the game progresses, you earn experience, which you put towards better options to help you through the game, such as improving melee weapons and crafting certain types of throwable items.
Melee weapons only have so much durability, and once they break, they are gone, but you can choose a perk to repair them with materials if you have enough; as long as the durability doesn’t hit 0%, you can repair it. The same goes for your bike. Building it from the ground up, you can fully customize it as long as you have the funds to buy the parts from the campsites. You are improving the gas intake and the durability of it as well. There is the option to find gas tanks to fill up as you ride and using parts from cars you can repair on the go as well. This makes the game more of a challenge and certainly improves its playability. If you need to run on foot because you ran out of gas, then you get to explore more while finding additional items.

Verdict

With the extensive upgrades they made for Days Gone to be played on PC, many gameplay hours were to be had. Every side mission may seem along the same line as the last one, but they are all different by objective in the end. By choosing a path of the storyline or wanting to upgrade your skills, weapons and bikes, there is always a lot to do while enjoying every bit of it. If you do like extended gameplay, then this is the game for you, or even if you want a game that you can log into, do a little bit of the fun, and log off, and jump back on later, that is always an option. This is an open-world experience that you need to buy, and the visuals are excellent, along with the sound play to go with it. Knowing where freakers are is a huge advantage so make sure you have a good headset when playing, and you’ll survive no problem!
With so many positive words for Days Gone, there are always harmful to go along with them. Sometimes there are too many enemies, and you can’t hide anywhere. Ammo can become scarce, making sure that you have the adequately crafted items, such as pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails and bandages for healing. Having to restart the mission each time you die can become a hassle because you need to change the mission’s strategy. Snipers are also a little bit of a problem since they can knock you off your bike in one hit, and they are challenging to avoid, and trouble to get your bike back up and still having to avoid the sniper and men on foot with guns.

In any case, this is a must-have game. Hours of fun and lots to come back to; even just running around or riding your bike is always fun. So there is no rush at all to hit the end game. If there are any questions, leave a comment, and I will be happy to answer them.
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