Days Gone

I think this is one of the best zombie games of all time. I have it on Steam, but if you, by any chance don't, then please do me a favor and support it by buying it here on GoG. This game, it's developers and more importantly GoG deserves it.

I played it on another platform. I really enjoyed this game. The shooting is very satisfying the story is pretty good. The zombies are a bit different here than most games, they're very fast and aggressive. They're still not very deadly on their own, but in a horde they can tear to you pieces in a few seconds. That is the game's major innovation. Once you get the right gear and tactics, it is fun to wipe out hundreds of zombies at once. There's a good variety of missions and lots of upgrades and weapons to unlock that are pretty well paced, all the way up to the end of the game. The story is quite dark and the characters can be a little hard to like, but all in all I found myself pulled in. The writing and dialog are good, though at times a bit broody. The acting is great, especially the main character who is a pretty prolific Hollywood actor. There's a good bit a replayability with the challenges (which are quite tough) and new game plus. I'm on my second playthrough. This game is on sale a lot, but definitely worth full price. There is a ton of content and it is a very well made game.

This was a surprise love for me. This game has so many facets that i enjoy. Bikes, guns, romance, revenge, redemption. Just a well written, well paced game. This game has a main character growth arc that is simply fun to experence. There is enough RPG that you can influence your build. By the end of the game you are a total bad-ass but the game is tough at first. I got the game well after an alledged rocky stat but it ran perfectly for me at all times. You can't play thru this game and not identify with the protagonist at some point. Really a surprise hit. Havent been this pleasantly surprised in a long, long time. Just get it. This game is beautiful. The characters are relateable. Pacing is good. Weapon choice is a little meh, but its hardly enough to ding the game overall. I wish there was a sequal, prequal or anything attached to this game world. This game surely deserves it,

Ich bin an sich kein Freund von postapokalytischen Zombiegames, aber bei dem hier fährt man Motorrad. Erstaunlicherweise funktioniert das Spiel auch noch richtig gut. Es handelt sich um eines der wenigen wirklich glaubwürdigen Open World Games, die man derzeit kaufen kann. Man erschließt sich die Gegend nicht durch das Erklettern irgendwelcher Türme (Hallo, UbiSoft!), sondern indem man die Gegend tatsächlich durchwandert bzw. durchfährt. Natürlich wird man im Rahmen die Missionen zu den meisten Orten hingeführt, aber es gibt reichlich zu entdecken, wenn man die Augen aufmacht. Und das ist auch nötig, denn irgendwie hat man immer von allem zu wenig. Man schleppt keine halbe Tonne an Munition mit sich herum, sondern allenfalls ein paar Magazine. Bolzen für die sehr nützliche Armbrust stellt man selbst her, vorausgestzt natürlich man hat die erforderlichen Materialien. Munitionsmangel ist in diesem Endzeitszenario allgegenwärtig. Aber dafür haben die Waffen einen ordentlichen Bumms. Idealerweise vermeidet man jedoch allzu viel Geräusche, denn das lockt zuverlässig die Zombies an. Und die sind schneller und zahlreicher als einem manchmal lieb ist. Nahkampfwaffen nützen sich sehr schnell ab (einer meiner wenigen Kritikpunkte), aber man kann - und muss - sie rechtzeitig reparieren bevor man buchstäblich mit leeren Händen da steht. Richtig gut ist das Motorrad, welches neben dem schnellen Vorankommen auch als mobile Basis dient. Das funktioniert sehr gut und macht richtig Laune. Es gibt zwar ein Schnellreisesystem, aber selbst ist so gut integriert, dass kein Immersionsbruch entsteht. Da kann sich manch anderer Titel eine Scheibe abschneiden. Die Story ist gut genug, dass man am Ball bleiben möchte. Die NPCs sind ok, manche sogar interessant. Das Szenario und deren Umsetzung ist vom Feinsten. Auch technisch gibt es an dem Titel nichts auszusetzen. Es läuft flüssig, buggt nicht und Grafik und Ton sind hervorragend. Ich kann das Spiel unbedingt empfehlen.

The environment is beautiful, the storyline is simple but engrossing, the gameplay is fluid, the whole thing is just an outstanding experience from start to finish. I don't know if I'm just fatigued with modern game developers (money grabbers) or not, but most open world games now are simply linear games but with copy/pasted repetitive mini-encounters between each dynamically loaded "level". A perfect example being most of the Far Cry games, the last in the series being littered with the same checkpoint with the same enemies and the same strategies every, single, time. This is one of the areas that Days Gone shines, of course, it does have filler, but the vast majority of the side-missions are tailored. They are not prefabs that have been spawned around the map with a random rotation, they are purposefully designed around the location, each requiring slightly different strategies. You get around on a bike, you can upgrade the bike to make it quieter, faster, larger fuel tank, more storage etc. Also, you have to maintain the bike, getting it fixed when damaged and topping the fuel up. The fuel situation adds a new level of immersion to travelling because you can fast travel from one location to another, but you use fuel in doing so, so you may have to take a detour to a location with some jerry cans or a fuel station. One of the big technological achievements for this game at the time was the hordes, they are HUGE and the quality of the models and animations is excellent. You cannot take on a horde without planning, finding choke points, setup mines along the route, using the environment (fuel tankers explode). I'm rambling, this is a great game, I've played through on the PlayStation, now I have it on GOG.