Here's to hoping Days Gone can find a way to do so, as well. The open-world genre has gone many interesting directions since Days Gone was announced in 2016, with Horizon: Zero Dawn, God of War, and Far Cry 5 each putting unique, triple-A stamps on the old formula. But Sony Bend wants us to believe that Days Gone will deliver an interactive, zombie-loaded, 35-hour take on Sons of Anarchy-and from the look of things thus far, the plot will have to go a long way to deliver on that promise. This was enough to prove the game's mo-cap chops. And we only saw one brief dialogue exchange between the game's hero, Deacon, and one of his crucial allies. So it's unclear whether those improvements will lead to enough interesting customization and mechanical systems.
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But whether we'll care is another matter. A series of under-the-hood systems apparently improve the game's progression, but we didn't get a good look at those. Should the pre-release demo's performance issues be ironed out, there's no mistaking how handsome the final Days Gone product will look. The march to a locked 30fps will also be aided by the fact that the game's content is "locked down," which leaves the team more time and energy to fine-tune and polish the engine's performance. Part of that locked performance, according to those producers, will arrive courtesy of an "auto-generative" tool that builds assets based on whatever regional profile is assigned to your current gameplay zone (from rocky to forest to waterside).
Sony Bend producers insisted to Ars that the game will ship at a "locked 30"-and with every single visual detail from my demo intact, to boot. Right now, Days Gone runs closer to 20fps performance. That, unfortunately, wasn't met by solid performance, as I can barely recall a single moment in which Days Gone's pre-release version reached anything near a locked 30Hz refresh. This material-based lighting model, combined with rich plant geometry and roughly carved mud and dirt terrain, appeared to absolutely tax the PlayStation 4 system I tested on. The real-time lighting work in this "maybe I should U-turn" moment is jaw-dropping. I can still close my eyes and clearly recall the soft shadows that appeared in front of, on, and behind my biker as I drove through a wooded enclave that was set off by an encampment's tiki torches. Tree variety is met by a ridiculous amount of untamed shrubs, grasses, weeds, and plants, and these are smothered in lights and shadows that bounce in every direction. I needed to step back and watch other players' sessions at the event to truly appreciate the scenery, and it confirmed that Days Gone's forest density is among the most intense yet this console generation. What exactly stood out in my gameplay session? Just one thing: driving a giant, noise-snarling hog through a dense forest. I could sneak behind and choke a few enemies at first, but once a single compound member caught wind of my existence, the entire base camp of humans bee-lined in my direction no matter where I was hiding. The second mission, which asked me to invade a human compound and kill everyone in sight, exposed awful human AI and familiar stealth-and-kill strategies.
Thus, I didn't appreciate the game's "wow, that's a lot of zombies at once!" moments in my brief demo, and I'm admittedly curious how the final game will leverage such intense moments to stand out from other open-world adventure games. But I quickly learned that I was better off hopping on my bike and driving through this game's brand of high-speed, high-intensity undead. Some of these undead could easily be dispatched with guns or melee weapons, including a powerful spiked bat that had been conveniently left along my path.
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The first required me to find and turn on a power generator in order to help a sick ally-and, wouldn't you know it, this loud generator attracted a ton of zombie attention. Two quests had been unlocked to drive toward, and these were cookie-cutter stuff.
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