Days Gone - Review on PlayStation

Written by - on 25 April 2019. Posted in PlayStation

BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME

Release Date : April 26, 2019
Genre : Action, 3D
Developer : SCE Bend Studio
Publisher : Sony Interactive Entertainment

Days Gone is an open-world adventure that survived a devastating global pandemic two years ago. The player takes on the role of Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who travels the world, fighting for survival and trying to find the meaning of life. Days Gone tells about the survivors and what makes them human - despair, loss, madness, betrayal, friendship, regret, love and, most importantly, hope. The plot conveys the main idea - even in such a hopeless situation, people find the meaning of life. Hope never dies.

GAME ENGINE

Days Gone is based on the Unreal Engine 4 game engine, developed and maintained by Epic Games.

Thanks to his work, each playthrough of the game is unique and inimitable, which increases the replayability of the game. The first game created on the engine - Unreal - appeared in 1998. Since then, various versions of this game engine have been used in over a hundred games, including Deus Ex, Dishonored, Lineage II, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Postal 2, the Brothers in Arms series, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, as well as in the well-known game series Unreal and Unreal Tournament from Epic Games themselves. Being adapted primarily for first-person shooters, the engine was also used to create games of other genres.

Written in the high-level C++ language, Unreal Engine 4 allows you to create games for most operating systems and platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Mac OS X, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Wii, Dreamcast and Nintendo GameCube. In December, Mark Rein demonstrated Unreal Engine 3 on the iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS. In March 2010, the engine was demonstrated on the Palm Pre communicator based on the webOS mobile platform.

To simplify porting, the engine uses a modular system of dependent components: supports various rendering systems (Direct3D, OpenGL, Pixomatic; previously supported Glide API, S3 Metal, PowerVR SGL), sound playback (EAX, OpenAL, DirectSound3D; previously supported A3D), voice playback tools text, speech recognition (only for Xbox360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Windows, also planned for Linux and Mac), modules for networking and support for various input devices.

For online play, Windows Live, Xbox Live, and GameSpy technologies are supported, including up to 64 players (clients) at the same time. Despite the fact that the development tools do not officially include support for a large number of clients on a single server, the engine has been used to create MMORPG games. One of the most famous representatives of the genre, Lineage II, uses the Unreal Engine.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Days Gone occupies 57 gigabytes on the console's hard drive.

The content size of the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro versions is identical.

CONTROL AND INTERFACE

The control settings in the game are quite enough for fine-tuning to any of your wishes.

All control settings are located in one submenu.

SETTINGS

As in the settings of the PlayStation 4, so the PlayStation 4 Pro, we have absolutely identical graphical menus. Brightness and HDR settings.

There are no additional enhancements in the game.

COMPARISON PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro

In this case, we are comparing the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 4 Pro, that is, how the game looks on these two versions of the consoles:

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Of course, the graphics on the PlayStation 4 Pro are better and the standard PlayStation 4 remains only slightly from it, having a slightly lower resolution. Below is our comparison video review directly in the gameplay:

HDR OFF/ON COMPARISON

In this section, we have presented comparisons of picture quality with HDR on and off through still photography.

HDR gives this game a slightly higher brightness and contrast, allowing you to see the dark areas more clearly and also a slightly wider color range, making the picture a little more real. Also, dark areas in the game are visible much more clearly.

OVERALL VISUAL GAME EXPERIENCE

Days Gone is a clear confirmation of this. Both in terms of graphics and gameplay, the game is just great. It is worth noting that Unreal Engine 4 is certainly a great engine, but games of such visual quality, in fact, have not yet been on it: