When I first relayed the reveal of the post-apocalyptic PS4-exclusive Days Gone, I compared it to The Last of Us and “Sons of Anarchy”. This was before I realized one very cool thing the game is borrowing from Hollywood’s commercially successful, albeit woefully generic, adaptation of Max Brooks’ eponymous novel that ultimately had little to do with the movie it inspired.
The film did do a very interesting thing with its zombies, which it presented with as little humanity as one could expect to movie starring zombies. In World War Z (the movie), the infected behave like a swarm of insects, as tens of millions of us witnessed for the very first time in the trailer, which culminates in the literal hurling of bodies at the walls of Jerusalem, or the equally memorable poster where the infected employ the Jenga method in order to reach a helicopter.
As you’re about to see in this lengthy gameplay demonstration of Days Gone is how it borrows probably the only thing that really worked in that film, and use it to a spectacular effect that offers a glimpse at what our fancy new gaming hardware is now capable of.
