Days Gone Dev: Our Game Is Unlike Any Other; It Has Extreme Weather & The Bike Plays A Huge, Huge Role

Afterward lots of rumors, Sony Bend'south PlayStation four game was revealed to exist Days Gone, an open world action/adventure gear up in post-apocalyptic USA.

More specifically, players will impersonate Deacon St. John, a bounty hunter who prefers to explore the wilderness of the loftier desert in the Pacific Northwest rather than staying inside the few safety encampments. On the surface it might seem like yet another zombie game, though the creatures (called Freakers) are actually live and don't necessarily need to be shot in the head to be stopped.

Nevertheless, Sony Curve is pretty determined that Days Gone will prove to be unique. Speaking to Venturebeat, Ron Allen mentioned exactly why:

We feel that our game is completely unique to the states. Just running around our globe is unique. Information technology'southward non like any other game out at that place, just cruising around and having fun out in the globe. Starting from at that place, in the Pacific Northwest and in the high desert, we accept some pretty extreme weather condition. We have dynamic weather in the game. I day, it could be 100 degrees, and the adjacent day, it could be snowing. All of that affects the world and affects the gameplay. That lone is unique.

I tin can talk a bit about something yous might have seen, where the footling guy jumped on him. Yous saw the compensation that was chasing him. That might give you lot an thought that there's more than merely what you've seen. There's a lot more that we're going to start unveiling down the line.

Resource direction will be very of import in Days Gone and that includes Deacon'southward bike, likewise.

In that location's definitely resources direction. Yeah, he does have an absurd amount of ammo here, just nosotros fabricated this a little like shooting fish in a barrel, so we wouldn't die all over the place in the demo. Nosotros'll be tuning the difficulty settings in all kinds of ways. Only resource management is a huge element of the game.

There is fuel management. The bike tin besides take damage. The bike plays a huge, huge role in the game. I can't go into likewise much detail, but you lot can wait forward to learning more about that.

Days Gone, developed with Epic'south Unreal Engine iv, is even so a fairly long way from release. In the concurrently, you can bank check out both the trailer and gameplay demonstration videos beneath.