This is a fantastic game, hands down. I beat the game and got all of the multiple endings/closed out all of the major story based quests. This took me 36.4 hours and I enjoyed every minute of it. After the first 3 or so hours of the game, is when the real story begins and you'll get into the flow that will carry you through to the end. Days Gone has multiple major story lines that are all incredibly satisfying through and through and will actually successfully answer all of your questions. They occur one after the other so that you don't have to juggle multiple stories occurring all at once.

The world feels alive. The protagonist, Deacon St. John, feels like a real human, he may not be likable in every aspect to every person, but he is done so well and so alive. I enjoyed my time as Deacon St. John and wish it never ended. Being a character in a video game has never felt better to me. It's almost difficult to put into words how much I enjoy him and how he interacts with everyone from close friends to arch enemies. The story had me choked up at times, intrigued at others, and sitting on the edge of my seat a vast majority of the time.

The gun play feels incredibly satisfying, and fairly true to real life, especially with the handguns. Hitting a freak with a round and having it stumble forward towards you, clearly staggered is great. Dropping a human enemy running from cover and having them face plant in the dirt feels good, they don't feel like weightless rag dolls, it feels like you're shots have a real impact on the enemy. Unlike some games where the enemies have a health bar and show no issues until the bar hits zero.

The bike feels amazing, it's so fun riding through the mud and narrow passages on Deacons "drifter" bike. Hitting amazing jumps, drifting around corners, and being able to brake hard and knock down enemies on turns all feel great. On top of that, needing to actually maintain your bike by repairing damage using metal scrap, and getting an emergency refuel at a freak infested gas station are all amazing touch to the bike mechanics.

This game is very clearly a labor of love from a developer who up to this point, has never made a game of this scale. The graphics and environment are all so life like and are designed to take the look of the real world.

Buy this game, pay the full price, get it on sale, get it as a gift. If you enjoy a single player game, with lots of action and tense moments, if you like to feel a real connection to a game and it's character, this is EASILY a must own.

Be Deacon St. John, one of the last surviving members of the Mongrels MC, and ride the broken road as a broken man clinging onto all he has left, while looking for what he's lost.

Farewell.