9/10/2023 0 Comments Days gone bikeThe bike slides and moves into corners exactly how I expect it to and has this deep throaty rumble that always puts a smile on my face. As a biker myself, it’s incredibly refreshing to realise that as I was riding Deacon’s bike around the wilderness, I was tapping the throttle at the same time and in the same way as I do on my own real-world bike. Lastly a handful of colour and decal options to pimp it up, as well as heaps of custom paint-jobs as rewards for quest lines and working with the game’s various factions.Įven still, Days Gone has the best motorbike handling I’ve played in probably any game to date. Then there are cosmetics like lights, fenders, spokes and cowls. You have a suite of options for performance that range from engines to exhausts, tyres and frames. Something that I’ve already spent way too much time doing. But whether you call yours Shadowfax, Captain Rumbles or Licorice Pony, it’s a good idea to let yourself grow attached.Īs you push through the story you’ll join up with camps that give you the option to upgrade and customise your bike. I’ve been calling mine Sascha, in reference to JD’s scooter from Scrubs. ![]() You’re going to spend a lot of time in the wilderness sliding around on the thing, and frankly, by this point, I’m more attached to the bike than I am to most of the characters. If you pick up Days Gone, do yourself a favour and name your bike early on. It’s a lovely piece of machinery and one that I’ve already grown pretty attached to. If you aren’t big on bikes, that means it’s part bikie gang rumble-box and part off-road rock-crawler. This magnum opus is a road hog that’s somewhere between a Kawasaki Vulcan and a BMW R1200 GS if you’re into your bikes. Much like Mad Max of 2015, this game is all about your personal ride. The game starts two years after the end of the world, and handily keeps track of the date on the pause screen, so all up it’s been about 20 in-game days. On my first day with the title I’ve played to Day 750 of the apocalypse, totalling about eight hours and a great deal of dead. He’s trying to survive between hordes of angry wolves, bears and the occasional horde of ravenous infected humans. They’re scrawny, grumpy and don’t much care for sunlight or shotgun blasts.ĭeacon St John (Outlaw biker and man with the most pornstar name ever) is one of a few bands of survivors making their way through the Oregon wilderness. Think of them more like the infected from 28 Days Later or I Am Legend. These aren’t zombies, they aren’t undead and they don’t need brains to eat or a headshot to kill them. ![]() Days Gone Review – 750 Days Goneĭays Gone takes place two years after the fall of humanity in a great plague. We will update the review as we complete more of the game, and give it a final score after the weekend. Note – our review copy has only just landed in our very Australian hands, so this will be the first part of a Review in Progress. And yes, they write it as one word in the subtitles. Mad Max on two wheels and a game that uses the phrase ‘sonofabitch’ like punctuation. ![]() This is Days Gone – America’s answer to the zombie apocalypse. Today the final version of the game is being released, and I’ve been wading through the freaker infested wilds of Oregon and braved the mountain trails in search of truth, justice, and motorbike parts. A few months ago I played Days Gone for the first time and I was pleasantly impressed by its open world, attention to detail and incredible motorbike handling.
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