Days Gone will be an open world full of fast zombies, wolves, and bears

Days Gone is one of Sony’s big games coming for the PlayStation 4. It had a riveting demo last year, and it showed up again as a much different game at the 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last week.

Last year, the hero Deacon St. John had to dodge hundreds of “freakers,” or really fast zombies, as they chased him around an old sawmill in the Oregon woods after a viral apocalypse. This year, developer Bend Studio returned with a marquee position in Sony’s E3 lineup, and it showed a different side of the game. In this case, Sony showed a trailer where St. John goes to retrieve a friend from a rival human gang. He is chased on his motorcycle by a freaker wolf, and then he gets ambushed by two human thieves. He kills them in a brutal way, sets a trap to distract more humans, and then finds his friend. He unleashes a bunch of freakers by blowing up a fence, and they chase the human gang away, leaving St. John free to kill the enemy leader and free the hostage. Just then, a freaker bear shows up.