Days Gone seems like an accurate reflection of how things would go after an actual, IRL zombie apocalypse: clumsy, violent, and filled with failure.
Bend Studio’s new PlayStation 4 release is a survival-action game with a story that sits in the Venn diagram overlap between Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead. For a great many hours, you manage ever-dwindling resources, kill lots of things (both living and undead), and try not to drown in all the melodrama.
Don’t underestimate that last point. Your post-apocalyptic road trip as biker dude Deacon St. John runneth over with on-the-nose metaphors, emotionally manipulative twists, and character motivations that seem driven more by the needs of the moment than any coherent arc. Read more…
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