Days Gone is about as safe and non risky of a production as you can get for general audience consumption. It'll sell very well.
A third person action adventure cinematic Zombie Walking Dead-esk game with heavy emphasis on story and realistic graphics
Yikes... another Days Gone thread turned to scheiss*. :/
Anyway, I'm trying to wrap my head around the concept that we apparently had too many open-world zombie games this gen. Even if they take games from last gen, there is not that much more open-wolrd zombie games either. Only a few were open-worlds and even fewer were memorable or even close to be anything like the bold part.
PS3/360 Era
7 Days to Die
Dead Island (open-world)
Dead Rising ("open-world-ish")
Dead Rising 2 ("open-world-ish")
Dead Rising Off The Record ("open-world-ish)
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
Dead Space 3
Lollipop Chainsaw
Dead Nation
Zombie Apocalypse
The Last of Us
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 6
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmares (open-world)
State of Decay (open-world)
Escape from the Dead Island
PS4/XB1 Era
Dead Rising 3 (open-world-ish)
Dead Rising 4 (open-world-ish)
Dying Light (+DLC) (open-world)
Evil Within
Evil Within 2
Resident Evil VII
Resident Evil 2 Remake
The Last of Us pt.2
Days Gone (open-world)
... but when it comes to the bold part, there is one released game that could match that description and it would be... The Last of Us. Despite sharing some similarities with it, Days Gone doesn't feel or play that much like TLOU based on the impressions I've read and watched here and online. Don't forget that Days Gone is at heart, an open-world action game. We don't know how big is the emphasis on the story, but I am confident that if it's anything like the first RDR system-wise when it comes to its "living" world, it could surprise a lot of people... like Horizon did.
