A big part of capturing Days Gone's grim and unforgiving tone is the game's difficulty. While other zombie games like Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead allow you to easily cut a swath through massive crowds of the undead, Days Gone's infected enemies are a constant and deadly threat. Even a handful of freakers can overwhelm Deacon if you're careless, and using a firearm to dispatch one can very well attract several more to your location. Leaving your bike to scope out a location on foot immediately ratchets up the tension, and when things do get overwhelming (say by
accidentally setting off the loudspeakers at a NERO checkpoint), your best tactic is often to run away. Even when you're driving, you have to keep an eye out for roadside ambushes or unseen freakers that can pull you off your bike if you're going slow enough.
The result of all this is that you never feel completely safe once you venture out beyond the walls of a friendly encampment, and Sony Bend is leaning into that sense of danger. "It's definitely unforgiving," Jensen says. "We do stuff in this game that I don't think other games do, where we screw the player over a lot. But I think it's a welcome change, and I think our tagline of 'the world comes for you,' that's what we try to embed in the open world. You're not safe anywhere. If you stand in one place too long, something's going to come for you."
Days Gone's unflinching difficulty gives the gameplay a different feel than other open-world games. It's a feeling that players won't be able to opt out of – Days Gone only features one difficulty level.
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