

But the world of Days Gone has many more terrors, and everything tries to kill you. That’s terrifying, and the drumbeat of the music increases the tension. But when they gather in groups, or you take too long to dispatch one of them, a whole horde can come down on top of you. You sneak up behind them give them a knife to the skull. The infected Freakers are easy to pick off when they are alone. We only know fragments of what happened to trigger a viral outbreak, and we don’t much care about that. I like the fallen world that the developers created. It was very difficult to beat, until I found one of the secret places that made the battle much easier to fight (see below). I spent a long time waiting to play the horde battle at the sawmill, which Sony teased in 2016. Your job is to thin out the horde, picking off stragglers like predators going after a herd. I had to go back and replay some of the horde battles many times before I was able to survive long enough and turn the tide against the Freakers. This is why the stuttering can be a problem. You can play them very carefully and engage in a lot of choreographed moves to get the Freakers to run into traps or trigger explosives. But finally, the main campaign missions require you to take out a horde before you can progress. At first, you have to deal with smaller numbers of Freakers.

The story has a lot of side quests, and the interface is quite good at showing your progress through them and the rewards that will come when you complete the missions.ĭays Gone does a good job of working its way up to the horde battles. That adventure took me into horrifying creature battles, motorcycle chases, hopeless horde battles, stealth missions tracking the secretive Nero agency, and just plain-old surviving in the wilderness.ĭeacon starts as a bitter man, but his experiences change him, and he embodies the hope of a dying breed. I wanted to know what happened, and I was willing to wander the forests and roads for many hours to find out Deacon’s destiny.
