Days Gone
DEACON BLUES
DAYS GONE leaves PlayStation exclusivity behind
By Andy Kelly
An outlaw biker drifting through a Pacific Northwestern post-apocalypse is a killer premise, and Days Gone occasionally lives up to it. When you’re alone on the broken road, riding your scrappy motorcycle between missions, it’s easy to get swept up in the desolate romanticism of it all. It’s just you, your bike, and an unforgiving land. No job, no bills – just two wheels, a thirsty gas tank, and all the time in the (end of the) world.
You play as Deacon St John, a young Oregon biker who wears a backwards baseball cap at all times. Two years after a mysterious outbreak has turned half the population of America into zombie-like cannibals called Freakers, Deacon embarks on a quest to find his missing wife, Sarah.