In this gameplay video, protagonist Deacon St. John attempts to infiltrate a location filled with freakers in order to acquire an essential bike part. Director John Gavin points out the various options available to the player in terms of how to approach this scenario. While stealth is an option, the video displays a more run and gun style.
More details on the creatures are provided. There are classes such as Marauders and Screamers that the player will have to contend with. In addition, the creatures' behavior will be affected by the weather. Finally the melee combat is demonstrated by Deacon's use of a baseball bat. Extensive upgrade opportunities will be available when the player trades with Merchants from various encampments.
Check out the gameplay walkthrough below.
Set in the beautiful, volcanic scarred high-desert of the Pacific Northwest, Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure game where you play as Deacon St. John, a Drifter and bounty hunter who would rather risk the dangers of the broken road than live in one of the “safe” wilderness encampments. The game takes place two years after a global pandemic has killed almost everyone, but transformed millions of others into what survivors call Freakers – mindless, feral creatures, more animal than human but very much alive and quickly evolving. In the demo you saw two types of Freaks – Newts, which were adolescents when infected, are opportunistic hunters, preferring to hit and run from the shadows; and a Horde. Made up of hundreds of individual Freakers, Hordes eat, move and attack together, almost as one. Some Hordes roam the highways at night, while others, like the one in the demo, have found a food source that keeps it in a single location. Skills learned in his prior life as an outlaw biker have given Deacon a slight edge in the seemingly never-ending fight to stay alive. But will it be enough?
Days Gone will be released on February 22nd 2019 exclusively on the PS4.