Days Gone (2019)

Well, it's finally done! And it was quite the pleasure (mostly).

4 out of 5, really liked it.

Was just soooooo long and drawn out in the first half. I did enjoy the story, and I didn't find the voice acting that dreadful at all. The graphics were great, gameplay was great, and the sound was pretty good.

Glad I snagged this one off of Steam on a deep sale. Now, on to Terminator Resistance for my next game!! Excited. This is gonna be one heck of a nostalgia ride for me, I imagine.

I would call this the most underrated game I have played from the last ten years if I didn't completely, utterly understand why it wasn't many people's cup of tea.

It feels like a game I would have picked up in Blockbuster as a kid and played the everloving shit out of to the point I'd just ask my mom if we could buy it instead of returning.

It's daunting at first, but it gives you this extremely obvious light of hope that you will conquer pretty much everything here. First I only had enough ammo for two zombies, after which I'd have to flee on my scooter of a bike. But the thought of having enough materials to knock back the entire game population of zombies, as well as having a gorgeously tricked out vehicle to explore the (PS5 version) insanely beautiful world kept me addicted.

Where I'd say its underrated is in the storytelling. I love me some Videogamedunkey, but it's tubers like him that sometimes act as forces for evil in the game development world. Yes, the writing isn't perfect, but this is an abundantly beloved game by the people who made it: the story, the voice acting, the amount of character reserved even for NPCs is truly GOATED effort. Does it always succeed? No. Is it quite possibly politically sketchy? Well, what game that cherishes the use of machine guns isn't? Is it unexpectedly as immense a single player experience as you can possibly play? I think it is, if you don't mind accessibility.

What I mean by that is, accessibility is more and more often hated in the world of gaming. The deserved success of the development team at Fromsoftware has unwittingly created a toxic gaming world that sees any game that can actually be played by the average bear as deplorably infantilizing. You have Youtubers who hate on videogames for having playable cutscene type stuff that isn't really chock-full of complexity, but there's people who need that kind of stuff. Not every game should strive to kick your teeth in and tell you it's amazing because it can do that. Days Gone is a story it wants you to experience, and it's full of gameplay that gets more and more fun if it's the type of game you vibe with. There's a simplicity and innocence to its construction that I adore.

I think games that are massively gorgeous should only receive heaps of hate if the production and behind the scenes stuff involved the abuse of workers' human rights. Otherwise, I truly wish we had a sequel to this game, and more games like it, and I think a lot of the reason they get hated on is for things they can't control. Complain if a game is unfinished, but don't hate it for being what it is.

Simply put, I wish more people who would love this game understood that it's legal to play it. What's becoming the "it" games, or the "right" games of this generation are slowly annihilating people's choices to play the sorts of experiences that are right for them.

See title, for my full review. Some additional highlights were - 'Ahh, boozer, don't do that! Wait until your hand is healed!

Oh, and a couple observations I noted down - Our backwards worn baseball cap of a protagonist made lots of comments when killing bandits and ambushers, insinuating they were murderous bastards - while invaded their camps and... murdering them. It takes one to know one, I suppose?

Also, after the first hour or so, Deacon's actor must of received some interesting direction because he started sounding like Disney's Cronk - breathy, nasally and in the back of the throat. Big fans of the Patrick Warburton over at Bend Studio, I suppose?

In all seriousness, it was a fun open world camp raiding game for the several hours I played it. I feel like I got what I needed out of it, but would go back to cruse around. Speaking of the bike, while it wasn't super customizable at the point I stopped playing, I hope they really leaned into that. Like, maybe you can mount a machine gun? Caltrops dispenser?

Thinking of games like Fallout 4 and RDR2 that did it well in my mind (with the power armor and your horse respectively), being able to upgrade, boost, or bond with your mount of vehicle in a way that is in tune with the world goes a long way to making you want to traverse an open world.

To my amazement, this guy is an even bigger tool that I previously thought:

Days Gone Director Blames 'Woke Reviewers' For Game’s Middling Reception

One of his listed reasons why the game didn’t do better was:

it had woke reviewers who couldn’t handle a gruff white biker looking at his date’s ass

LMAO! More like:

1. No one remembers that scene, nor do they care; and
2. Gruff biker my ass, he was a whiny little bootlicker.

Best and most revealing line of the article:

Garvin has since moved on from Sony Bend Studio, and is now working on a game that has NFTs.

Days Gone Review

I kept on hearing about this game and i kept on hearing the dev complain about the game wasn't getting a sequel and complain to Sony, it was kinda annoying but i decided to try out finally. I don't really enjoy zombie games anymore there old and boring now. I loved Resident Evil it was the best zombie game but even that has gotten stale and lazy. The games are half-good and half-bad but will always sell because newer fans are blinded that the new Resident Evil's are great...

I think the last zombie game that wasn't Resident Evil i played was Last Of Us 2 and that game was just boring as hell. Before Last Of Us 2 it probably was Dead Rising 4 and that was okay, wasn't nowhere near the 1st and 2nd. The last zombie game i liked was maybe Dead Island. I think i beat that game like 4 times.I tried Dying Light 1 but it was also boring and i couldn't get into it. So i decided to attempt another zombie...er Infected game, lets call it infected game since they don't say zombies. I went into Days Gone expecting not to like it but i actually liked the game.

This will have spoilers because i feel like the Story will make or break the game for people because the gameplay is your standard open world stuff you seen in countless other games.

Characters

Deacon St.John i heard people thought he was a boring character in the game but he is not boring at all. He is a drifter and was part of a motorcycle club, like a gang with his best friend Boozer. He was also in the military but left it. His relationship with his Wife Sarah is  really good they are very fun together. Deacon got like a sarcastic humor when hes with her and hes funny with her and stuff. His relationship with Boozer his best friend is one of  the highlights of the game. Hes the only person he really has left after losing his wife and its like his brother. He does whatever he can for him. Deacon is voiced and modeled after the actor Sam Witwer who is a great actor and has always done great things. He was the voice and model of The Apprenctice in The Force Unleashed, he was in season 8 of Smallville, he also was in a series called Being Human. So hes a great actor and does an amazing job as Deacon. Deacon feels like a really different character the way he reacts to situations, like hes scared and out of breath and has to keep himself together against the freakers, the infected in the game.

Boozer is Deacons friend and considered brother he was with Deacon when the outbreak happened and was also part of the Biker gang or club with Deacon. I really thought i wasn't gonna like Boozer from his character design with tattoos on his head and stuff he just looked like he was gonna be an annoying dick lmao, but he was not. Boozer goes through hell in the game, he gets his arm blow torched and he gets blood poisoning and kinda loses the will to live. Deacon has to kind of bring him back from his depression. Boozer though his interaction with Deacon is really good, and you would think Boozer would be the crazy one of the two but its really Deacon but Boozer will do whatever he can to help Deacon.

Iron mike who you meet later in the game is a pacifist and runs a camp and want nothing but peace and doesn't want fighting and killing. He refuses to kill people. After a tragic event he witnessed occurs he doesn't want to witness the violence and carnage of that again.

Rikki i liked Rikki Deacon i guess was with her in the past until he left because being a drifter he doesn't stay in a place for to long. Shes tough but kind shes also in a relationship with a girl in the game although there relationship never felt that close.

Sarah, Deacons presumed dead wife is really great. No spoilers but you see her in flashbacks from Deacons past. She was a researcher who met Deacon because she wanted to research a plant. She works with a government research agency giving her research to them and stuff. Her and Deacon are great together the way they act with eachother and stuff.

Theres more characters you meet later on and there pretty good to.

Enemies

Theres normal Freakers thats what the infected are called. Theres Breakers which are strong and powerful enemies. Theres Screamers which scream and attract freakers to you, also stun you if your close. Theres Criers which are Crows. There are newts which are infected adolescents. Than theres a fast Freaker.... I forget the name of it its like more evolved.

Than theres the human enemies like the Rippers, The Anarchist, The Marauders, Soldiers. I mean they just got different apperances but act the same really they try to kill you with guns and melee weapons.

Story

A virus outbreak occurs infecting the population. Deacon St.John in a flash back is helping his wife who was stabbed by a little girl. He gets her to a rescue Nero chopper to put his wife on, but theres only two seats available. His best friend Boozer is with him and hes hurt from his leg, Boozer tells him to go on with his wife but Deacon decides to stay with Boozer knowing he ain't gonna make it on his own. He ask O Brian, the Doctor on the chopper where hes heading so he can follow them.

2 years pass since the outbreak in a post apocalyptic Oregon, and Deacon and Boozer are trying to stay alive together. They ride on there motorcycles to catch this guy who has a bounty on him, this guy beat a girl to death so Deacon and Boozer kill him. Deacon than needs parts for his bike so him and Boozer have to go to an infested gas station to get the parts. Deacon with help from Boozer luring the infected away gets the part but Boozer gets attacked by this group called Rippers. They use a blow torch to burn Boozers arm basically trying to burn off his tattoos on his arm. Deacon saves him but Boozers badly hurt so he takes him to a hideout they stay at so Boozer can recover.

Boozer isn't doing well so Deacon goes out to get him supplies to ease his pain and do whatever he can. During that though Deacon sees a Nero Helicopter fly past him and tails it. He infiltrates where they land and listen to what there doing. The Nero scientist are taking test about the freakers which are what the infected are called.

Deacon hears a familiar name from one of scientist which is O Brian, the same guy who took his wife on the chopper two years ago. Deacon tracks O Brian down figuring since he's alive his wife is to. Deacon confronts him and demands answers and wants O brian to check to see if shes alive. Deacon goes back to Boozer and sees he has blood poisoning from his arm and now he needs to take him to a place he didn't want to go back to, to a guy called Iron mike. This is where the game really picks up and gets good.

Exploration

Like i said its your standard open world game with things on the map to do, things such as Eliminating Enemy areas. There are Marauder camps, there are anarchist camps. Both of these are just killing all the enemies. The marauder camps usually have a bunker to find and these bunkers give a recipe so you can craft an item.

There are the Horde freaker nest scattered all throughout the map, to  clear these you got to burn them with Molotovs.

The Nero Checkpoints are throughout the map as well and these are camps where you have to restore power to go inside. Most you have to find fuel and turn the power on but later that changes to finding fuses. Inside you find a Nero Injector and these raises one thing on Deacon. You can raise his health, his stamina or his focus.

Than there are bounty missions from the survivor camps you get which is just more of the same which is killing a certain person and reporting back. It can also be saving someone whos captured. Doing these bounties missions kind of raise your standing in the camps and this is where you get money in the game. The camps have where you can buy and sell stuff like weapons and sell animal skins and Freaker ears you get everytime you kill one. The camps have levels usually 3 levels, each level unlocks new weapons this is a negative though which ill get to later.

Theres Sarahs grave stone you go to as well. Deacon talks to the grave and talks about whats been happening with everything which i liked.

Last but not least is another highlight of the game called Hordes. Hordes are made up of like 50 to 100 or maybe more zombies and they act as one. If they see you than your gonna have 100 zombies on your ass chasing you. These are very cool when you just have a whole mob after you and your running for you life or your trying to hurry your ass to your bike. You go in buildings and they just break through the windows and they can get go from multiple sides trapping you its just chaotic. You really can't take these on til your prepared.

Gameplay

One of the main things of the game is Deacons bike. Its an important part of the game, you have to refill it with Fuel when it runs out and you have to repair it when it gets damaged from scrap you find. You can also upgrade it from the camps and change its appearance.

Deacons gets guns and traps he can use, its usually one primary, one secondary than a special unique weapon like a sniper. Theres handguns,Shotguns, Assault Rifles, Snipers, Bows, Light Machine Guns and SMG's. Deacon also gets melee weapons which you get from exploring the world but these break after time. you can use the scrap to repair them though and also get stronger crafting recipes to get stronger melee weapons.

I heard some stuff about the guns being horrible in this game and its all bullshit. Thats only because you get bad weapons early on that are low quality but later when you get better weapons the gunplay is fine and is easy. I think people are just impatient, i feel as you progress Deacon gets better and better with combat if you get the right abilities and stuff. Shit i think Last Of Us 2 gunplay was bad and Days Gone is better lol

Deacon also gets skill points you can use in 3 categories. Ones i think Stealth, Survival and combat and there quite a bit of skills to get.

Negatives

It being a standard open world is a negative. It doesn't do nothing new if you complain about Ubisoft games....but not Pokemon.... About being the same your not gonna like Days gone.

The survivor camps getting missions is very annoying. You will accept a mission, report back, and leave and you'll go to a different place but than they will call you and tell you they got another one, so you go all the way back to accept it. I don't understand why you have to leave the damn place to get a new mission, why can't you just accept multiple missions. If you have fast travel thats not an issue, but i hate fast travel and i played on Survival difficulty so there is no fast travel anyway.

Another thing in the camps is leveling the camps is so damn slow. The progression to leveling these up seems like they want you to grind for it, because you can sell animal skins and freaker ears to the vendors in the camps and they give you a bit of points. The missions and bounties give you the most points but this is mainly only enough to level up maybe 2 times. You have to level these up for better equipment and upgrades to. You'll still be fine you wait till you go to more survival camps for better weapons i guess. I don't know if they did this for new game plus or just on purpose to make it a grind to do. If the progressions went faster you could have got way better weapons early, but i did all the missions in the camps and i still wasnt leveled to 3 in 2 camps

Next Negative the game starts out very slow, when i talked about the story that was like the first 10 maybe 15 hours of the game. If your impatient and want things to happen right away than you ain't gonna like it. Stuff don't happen til you meet Iron mike, thats when better characters are introduced. It also felt like the story at the start was all over the place like just random stuff happening and not a cohesive story until you get to Iron mike.

I had one glitch as well where i was fighting a horde in this one part and i guess i ran to far from them and they disappeared and than i went back and l like 100 just spawned out of nowhere, it was quite funny actually.  I had one glitch where i dropped dead near my bike which was odd.

Final thoughts WITH SPOILERS

I went into Days Gone expecting not to like it but i found myself enjoying the story when it picked up. I enjoyed Deacon, Sam Witwers performance was great as him, he did an awesome job. While the open world aspect wasn't anything special really besides the freaker horde, theres not like a dull moment in the open world. I would be traveling and Marauders lay a clothesline trap which is a rope so you ride into and it knocks you off your bike and they ambush you. You could be riding on your bike than a sniper shoots your bike out. The freakers also have behaviors like at night theres not to many of them but morning they hibernate like they stay in caves and dark areas, so you be traveling and you stumble on a cave and you see like 100 damn freakers sleeping in there and you wake them up and they chase your ass. You can also see Hordes when your roaming around the open world and your just terrified and trying to sneak past them.

The game was pretty brutal at times to like the Ripper this cult tortures people to joining them they burn off people tattoos and stuff. They had this girl tied up leaving her for the freakers, Deacon goes to help her but it turns out they broke her legs and Deacon has to ease her suffering.

The story when it picked up it was good now some things were obvious. I was glad Deacon found his wife and was afraid she would be different or change or cheat on him or not get along anymore but that didn't happen and there were still great together. There wasnt really no villian of the game til the end when you meet the colonel in the military camp and you can just tell this guy was out of his damn mind. He hated murderers and thieves and liars and worships god and stuff and you pretty much know this guy is going after people and not the freakers.

It was an interesting thing with Sarah because shes making a weapon to kill the freakers and gets Deacon to help, only to find that she actually was trying to make a cure for them to bring them back, but it failed and didn't work but Deacon encouraged her to keep trying and that she was the only one who still saw them as people

I know people kind of hate when a zombie story kinda shifts to them not being the problem and its more of the humans, its what happens in Days Gone with the Colonel. I think its true though i think humans will be a more bigger problem during a zombie outbreak, from them killing other people, stealing, losing there damn minds, betraying people i think that is a big problem.

It is kind of a shame there won't be a 2nd one theres interesting directions they can take with Sarah if she does manage to make a cure and stuff. Sadly Sony only wants one Infected game and thats Last Of Us.

My score for Days Gone is an 8

Boy, this Jeff Ross guy has no shortage of bad ideas, eh?

After Sony Passed On Days Gone 2, Devs Pitched Open-World Resistance Reboot

Former Bend Studio director Jeff Ross recently revealed that he pitched an open-world Resistance sequel after Sony made it clear it had no interest in a Days Gone 2. There were also talks of a new Syphon Filter reboot. But none of these projects made it very far

Also:

Sony was interested in nearly anything but Days Gone 2.

God bless you Sony, and thank you for sparing us all.

I’ve reached the point where I’m clearly supposed to be a badass horde killing machine. And everything in the game, from story to mechanics to skill trees have been clearly pointing to this moment. I’ve killed all the important narrative related hordes and can now hunt hordes for fun.

And it’s so unbearably boring. It’s the same thing over and over. Set some traps, throw some napalm, mow the rest down with a machine gun. Set some traps, throw some napalm, mow the rest down with a machine gun. Set some traps, throw some napalm, mow the rest down with a machine gun. Set some traps, throw some napalm, mow the rest down with a machine gun. Set some traps, throw some napalm, mow the rest down with a machine gun. Set some traps, throw some napalm, mow the rest down with a machine gun. Set some traps, throw some napalm, mow the rest down with a machine gun. Set some traps, throw some napalm, mow the rest down with a machine gun.

I’m really tired. Can I start my holiday break now?

I’m struggling to understand what the TLOU fans turn TLOU2 haters love about this game. It’s really nothing like TLOU save for the zombie infested dystopian future. It lacks the tight structure of TLOU and it’s far more forgiving and “fun” with a standard video game power fantasy setup. Frankly isfthe reasons the TLOU2 haters like this game are white dude and zombies, that’s a low bar to clear.

This is far more like a Far Cry game, with things like breakable weapons and bike repair mechanics borrowing somewhat from Far Cry 2 specifically. The packs of roaming drifters that ambush you until you take out their outposts is very similar to Far Cry. Round this off with skill trees, weapon unlocks and crafting and this really is the zombie Far Cry that Ubisoft never made. Sure those things can be easily found in other games, but other games that I suspect were inspired by the Ubi style of open world design. To be fair I need to circle back to TLOU now because crafting and crafting resources in Days Gone are lifted directly from TLOU, except nothing is ever as scarce as it is in TLOU.

Gas as a consumable is pretty annoying mechanic. Having to constantly worry about gas for your bike is an unnecessary layer in a game that doesn’t really grant a sense of realism in comparison to a game like TLOU. But it’s especially annoying that you have a gas gauge and have to fill your tank because the game is littered with magical bottomless gas canisters. You can quite literally fill a gas powered generator and your bike from one gas can. You can also leave and return and still fill your bike up with that same canister. It’s ludicrous when in juxtaposition with a bike gas tank that burns through 50% volume on a short 5km drive. Constantly empty gas tank and magical bottomless gas can is what I suppose game devs at Bend call “a balanced mechanic”.

I enjoy the messy attempt at politics though. Having a radio broadcast that constantly recites conspiracist theories is great. Sure the game tries to undermine the content of the broadcast as a means to illustrate the absurdity of it all, but when the character undermining that commentary is a protagonist/poster child for “private militia” who spends half the game agreeing with the broadcasts, maybe your attempt at satire failed. This is really fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but it does feel a bit sloppy on Bend’s part.

Deek sucks. That’s pretty straightforward. He’s the kind of guy that isn’t aware of the irony of most of his actions, and runs on mercenary autopilot. I’m sure Bend thinks of him as a likeable antihero, but I just find him vanilla as vanilla can be. Not even that good French or Madagascar vanilla bean vanilla, just plain old American white vanilla extract vanilla. You know, the kind that kind of burns your mouth and throat at the end? Yeah, that’s Deek, shitty ass plain chemical vanilla.

You know what was neat? The first time I tripped an alarm at a Nero camp and four hundred zombies poured out of a cargo train and started chasing me. It almost impressive. I might be more emphatic about it, but I’ve already played Halo so you know how that goes.

Also the Prom Queen in Echo Generation scared me more than these freakers ever do. I expected so much more horror but it’s really just a power trip of a game wherein Deek can easily take down five or six zombies without breaking a sweat.

Why do I feel like Sony handed Bend Studios a list of “must have elements for PlayStation single player game design” before they started development on Days Gone? The more you play these Sony game the more you feel like it’s all one standard formula. Sometimes that works and the games transcend the formula. But sometimes you get discount The Last of Us. There’s nothing mechanically wrong with this game, but there’s also not a lot that’s particularly exciting.

I’m still going to play it because I want to know why this seems to have a minor cult following.

This was the game I was waiting on when I decided to play a bit of Echo Generation. Choosing between the two felt like a no brainer after poking around in both, and I’m going to shelve this for now.

I feel like the elevator pitch for this game was “imagine The Walking Dead meets The Sons of Anarchy, but a game.” That seems about right for what a studio would assume audiences for this type of game would want in 2019.

I also feel like I don’t blame Sony for killing the prospect of a sequel in 2021. After all, is anyone going to want to play a protagonist who probably would have been, if he were real, present at the capitol riots? In 2021? I mean, really?

Incidentally riding a motorcycle felt good, but Bend definitely applied the physics and manoeuvrability of a dirt bike to a custom bike that looks like a custom cruiser like a chopped up Softail, Dyna or Super Glide, and it did seem a bit silly.

Game in general from the watching perspective: Holy crap was I bored for the first half. Then I got baited about the “secret plot twist ending” which turned out to be ehhh for me. The last half of the game was much more enjoyable and tolerable plot wise. The whole games lacked dimension, IMO, because they didn’t have the budget to make different characters that don’t look the HECKIN same (I think they used the budget for their music lmao). And the sound/voice acting is soooo bad omgggg. Why does all the girls from camps sound like they got the hots for Deacon St. John all the time. 🤮 I also hates how non-linear the story line is... and why I as boozer acting so fucking weird... and why was Sarah weird... idk the story lines/dialogues just didn’t line up well for me. Hence the story line didn’t feel connected.

Gameplay perspective: it was fun to have an open world zombie game. Twas enjoyable even on the hardest difficulty.

I really struggle trying to decide what score to give Days Gone between 3-4 star. I’m going with 3 stars. I have a ps5 and this game belongs in the ps5. Playing 4K, 60 is gorgeous. There’s some pop ups here and there but it’s fine. The world is gorgeous and the gunplay is ridiculously good! The story is engaging, but I did had some issues.

But here are my problems for the game... the audio... it’s too inconsistent. The fire of the guns are fantastic. The motorcycle sounds great but it’s too long it drains out the conversation during mission. The conversation themselves are weird, one character will softly say something and the other will replied in a yell. It breaks the immersion. The game also has too many load screens for no particular reason. Giving the fact I have a ps5 it goes by fast, but still frequently looking at a black screen is quite annoying.

Overall, the game is good, the gunplay is fantastic, the world is gorgeous, the story is good. However, the game is a little too long, it starts to get boring until you’re able to take on your first horde and that’s near the end. The audio is quite bad, and the loading screens are too much for me. Play the game.

Honestly, I’m trying to find something bad to say about this game and I can’t really. There’s quite a number of zombies games out there, so getting in that segment next to the likes of Resident Evil or The Last of Us can be a slippery slope. Days Gone though does a great job at mastering the foundations and adding a little spice.

First, it does the basics really well. Riding the bike, guns and shooting, character movements, hud, crafting, XP and skills system, enemies and zombies AI, map and minimap. Do any one of these wrong and the whole game experience can go from pleasantly immersive and functional to mediocre and annoying.

The attention to detail is pretty phenomenal from the slick menus to the dismembering of zombies, including the post-apocalypse environments that are as detailed and realistic as a Last of Us, and beautiful lights and weather conditions. The survivor aspects (gas management, crafting, you can’t just whistle to spawn your bike wherever you feel like it like a Red Dead Redemption horse) are well-managed in that they’re here to give credibility to the world without ever unnecessarily getting in the way.

Besides the gameplay my favourite part is the quality of the writing. The story as such may not be revolutionary and turns out quite predictable (borderline cheesy haha) but the characters are credible and endearing and the actors are great.

The hordes are the real originality of the game. Reminding of the World War Z water-like flow management of dozens of individuals, it’s nice to see a game that handles that well. No matter how skilled up you get, dealing with hordes is always fun and challenging, leaving you literally running for your life scrambling to craft your last molotov.

Overall, it’s a nice open world that is not revolutionising gameplay apart from zombie hordes but remains varied and pleasant. I’m wondering why to this day this game is underrated and cannot wait to see what Bend will come up with next.

First off I love this game. I rarely platinum games and for this one I was having so much fun, I basically did everything. The open-world felt developed and interesting in engaging side missions and captivating storylines. Outside of the map being huge the weather effects in the game for some reason left a big impression on me, they were great mood setters. Characters were amazing, they felt fully realized and complex and I found them very memorable, especially the protagonist who was not what I was expecting. Lastly, the hordes and zombies, in general, were not easy to deal with and offered a real challenge at points. However, the game does suffer insanely from bugs, glitches, frame rate issues, and odd decisions such as the protagonist can't swim? Another thing that bugged me was the lack of character customization, the motorcycle can have a billion skins but I can't change my character's hat (just a nitpick)? In general, this game had spots where it was lacking but overall it had fun gameplay, enemies to fight, a story to follow, and is just a good zombie shooter.

I just loved this. I was hesitating to buy it for a while, then, after some encouragement from fellow users on this website, I decided to go at it.

Absolutely worth it, graphics are beautiful, music is awesome, the atmosphere is bewitching and the gameplay is fun and diverse. It can have some little bugs, but honestly nothing that bad.

The story can feel dragging at times, but if you go through the mud, the ending is worth it.

I finished the game in about 40 hours, and I'm looking forward to getting the platinum trophy. (It seems like I have a glitched trophy though...).