The best way I can describe the game is if you threw Red Dead, Last of Us, Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead into a blender and it all mixed into this with a sprinkle of Resident Evil on top.
The story though pretty basic and simplistic (At least at first, it gets a bit more complex closer to the end) is compelling enough to make you want to keep playing especially since it's being driven forward by very realistic, charismatic and human characters that are masterfully voiced acted. The world and how it effects the characters and ties into the story is the biggest strength of this game, it's incredibly well designed and immersive.
The gameplay itself isn't amazing but it was certainly fun enough to make me keep playing for 60+ hours. It's got your typical Last of Us stealth sequences (Though the gameplay in Days Gone feels better than that in The Last of Us to me) and your Red Dead cover shooter sequences (Including a time slow down skill called 'focus' for easier precision shots), but the melee combat is my personal favorite and when you hit enemies you truly FEEL the IMPACT.
The OST is honestly beautiful and fit so perfectly with the game. Hearing heartland folky acoustic guitar driven music playing while driving down the backroads of Oregon as a badass biker outlaw is just midwest personified. It's also got some very nice bombastic orchestral pieces for the more tense and epic scenes.
Honestly, the game has quite a few technical glitches and some minor pacing issues with the story and as I said before the gameplay itself while being serviceable is nothing to really write home about, but it certainly isn't anything to be offended at either and I rarely felt bored while playing the game.
Critics have unfairly panned this game and for very shallow reasons. Can it get repetitive at times? Yes. Does it have its fair share of glitches and bugs? You bet. Does that warrant a 5/10 while you give a game like Assassin's Creed a 10/10 even though it suffers from almost all the same problems? Hell no it doesn't. There's a reason the user score on Metacritic is so much higher than the actual critic score. Play for yourself and find out.
As Mark Copeland would say...Don't believe the lies.
The story though pretty basic and simplistic (At least at first, it gets a bit more complex closer to the end) is compelling enough to make you want to keep playing especially since it's being driven forward by very realistic, charismatic and human characters that are masterfully voiced acted. The world and how it effects the characters and ties into the story is the biggest strength of this game, it's incredibly well designed and immersive.
The gameplay itself isn't amazing but it was certainly fun enough to make me keep playing for 60+ hours. It's got your typical Last of Us stealth sequences (Though the gameplay in Days Gone feels better than that in The Last of Us to me) and your Red Dead cover shooter sequences (Including a time slow down skill called 'focus' for easier precision shots), but the melee combat is my personal favorite and when you hit enemies you truly FEEL the IMPACT.
The OST is honestly beautiful and fit so perfectly with the game. Hearing heartland folky acoustic guitar driven music playing while driving down the backroads of Oregon as a badass biker outlaw is just midwest personified. It's also got some very nice bombastic orchestral pieces for the more tense and epic scenes.
Honestly, the game has quite a few technical glitches and some minor pacing issues with the story and as I said before the gameplay itself while being serviceable is nothing to really write home about, but it certainly isn't anything to be offended at either and I rarely felt bored while playing the game.
Critics have unfairly panned this game and for very shallow reasons. Can it get repetitive at times? Yes. Does it have its fair share of glitches and bugs? You bet. Does that warrant a 5/10 while you give a game like Assassin's Creed a 10/10 even though it suffers from almost all the same problems? Hell no it doesn't. There's a reason the user score on Metacritic is so much higher than the actual critic score. Play for yourself and find out.
As Mark Copeland would say...Don't believe the lies.