Days Gone Reviews
I like Days Gone. I really like Deacon as a character. I think the world is interesting. I like all of this enough to look past the bugs and glitches that I don’t expect from Sony first party games.
Days Gone is a really great product, especially regarding the plot and the characters, that leaves a sour taste. It could be another excellent game made by Playstation if it wasn’t for those flaws we just discussed. Sadly cause of bugs, and textures loaded too slowly, low frame rate and transictions that break the game rhythm, everything gets less enjoyable, even frustrating. Sony missed the chance to make a masterpiece, but there is definitively some chance to reach the perfection with Days Gone 2. There is everything necessary to start a new successful saga. In the end, we suggest you to play Days Gone, even if that means facing some issue. (Ps4 Pro owners will have less problems with frame rate)
Review in Italian | Read full review
Days Gone may not hit the heights of Sony's previous first-party exclusives but it still has enough going for it to be worth your time
I know there is a solid 10 to 15-hour game within Days Gone, but there is too much unnecessary stuff that has been piled onto it that makes it a forgettable and unenjoyable experience.
Days Gone is a game that shouldn't be as good as it is: a harsh and unforgiving world that is almost as difficult to endure as the roller-coaster of hype that surrounded the game since its first reveal three years ago.
Days Gone is one of the most enjoyable and intense games you’ll play this year!
Days Gone might be getting some questionable flack, but this game isn’t a 3/10 or a 5/10 game by far. No, it’s better than that and even if you’re not sure about picking it up cheap, you will for sure wonder what all the negative fuss was about.
On launch Days Gone got a fairly lukewarm reception from critics, and I’d have to say that many of the issues they raised are perfectly valid. The combat is clunky, the stealth is basic, the enemies are essentially just zombies again. It also doesn’t do anything particularly new or innovative. There;s really no single thing I can point to and say, “that, that’s what makes Days Gone good.” But the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts, and while Days Gone does have its issues it’s also shitloads of fun. I doubt you’ll regret picking up this latest in a long line of strong Sony exclusives. I, for one, have certainly loved sinking dozens of hours into Days Gone and plan on playing many, many more.
Your first six-to-eight hours with Days Gone will be your worst. It’s a slow drag of ploddingly introduced mechanics, weapons and characters that eventually does open up to a much more varied and exciting experience.
Days Gone is a generally solid experience that could have used a bit more polish.
While it tries a few unique things, Days Gone's awful writing, abundance of glitches, and boring cookie cutter gameplay doesn't really make it worth spending time on.
Sony can rest easy trusting Bend Studio to make great titles. "Days Gone" offers an adventure with an extraordinary setting, bringing a new element, "the hordes", not seen before in the zombie genre for consoles and hours and hours of fun. The game has failures as we have seen but that do not cloud the excellent premiere of Bend Studios in the big leagues and make it clear that their "Days Gone" have come to stay.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
It had the potential to be as good as The Last of Us, but it lost its way. It’s worth playing, especially as Bend Studio stamps out the bugs.
Days Gone is so clearly inspired by other pillars of video game storytelling, but it fails to meet the standards set forth by those that came before it. While there are good ideas and a lot of heart in Days Gone, it ultimately stumbles in execution and is plagued by a number of technical issues, making it hard to recommend Bend's post-apocalyptic biker adventure.
Days Gone brings unexpected depth and humanity to the post-apocalyptic wasteland courtesy of a cast of believable characters.
Days Gone doesn't rip up the rulebook for open world games, brings very little new to the tired zombie genre, and while its story is enjoyable, it's far from compelling. Yet that doesn't mean you won't have a good time with it. While the riding and horde dynamics elevate the dependable, yet humdrum, nature of the rest of the game, just remember that patience is definitely required for the stretches of repetition between the more interesting parts.
Days Gone sits at the cusp between good and bad. It exists as a wholly mediocre game, relying so much on its inspiration that it never feels unique. When compared to Sony's recent first-party successes in the form of Spider-Man and God of War, it only makes Days Gone that much blander.
Bend have laid some really solid ground work here with Days Gone. It was their first console title in 12 years and if they continue building out the world of Days Gone, take on player feedback and fix the gameplay issues people are having issues with then the sequel game will be well on it’s way to being a title ‘freak’ out over. While there were some technical issues I encountered along the way and I didn’t encounter that ‘Sony level magic’ (which is a pretty high bar to hold things against) I did have a lot of fun with Days Gone surviving the ever-cruel world and doing it in my style.
Even if Days Gone does not quite reach the class of Spider-Man or other exclusive Sony-titles such as Uncharted or God of War, the game is a solid zombie-horrorgame with an intense atmosphere an interesting gameplay aspects. We discover the open world on our motorbike, take part in fast pace hand-to-hand combats and enjoy some solid crafting and stealth features.
Review in German | Read full review
Days Gone offers fun open-world exploration and survival-horror gameplay elevated by a compelling post apocalypse narrative and top-notch presentation.