Talk:Days Gone/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: GhostRiver (talk · contribs) 21:53, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

I'll be taking a look at this! — GhostRiver 21:53, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Infobox and lede

• "video game that was developed by"
• Delink "Oregon" per MOS:OVERLINK
• A pet peeve of mine inspired by COVID talk: "global pandemic" is redundant. The "pan" in pandemic means that it's global

Gameplay

• "Days Gone, an action-adventure survival horror game, is set in a post-apocalyptic open world and is played from a third-person perspective." → "Days Gone is a third-person action-adventure survival horror game set in a post-apocalyptic open world."
• Remove "(Sam Witer)" here, as this is about the gameplay and thus the voice actor has less of a role
• "global pandemic that killed almost all of humanity"
• "nd search for food" → "and search for food"
• "included newts" → "include newts"
• Delink "open world" in the third paragraph, already linked above
• Remove hyphen in "fast-travel"
• "survival sision" → "survival vision"
• "and to enhance his survival skills"

Plot

• The 28 Days Later rule – if they're not referred to as zombies in-universe, they should be "zombie-like creatures"
• "Sarah is believed dead" → "Sarah is assumed dead" to reduce repetition of "believed"
• "Freaker" is only capitalized in "Freaker virus", which is referred to above as the "hooligan virus"
• Comma after "finish the cure at her new lab"

Development

• Comma after "since the 1990s"
• No comma after "during which"

Design

• "open world" and "open-world" are used interchangeably throughout this section
• "a lot of filler content" → "a good deal of filler content"
• "switch between stories" → "switch between narratives"

Music

• "Pacific-Northwest" → "Pacific Northwest"
• "for the game's setting"
• "video-game medium" → "video game medium"

Release

• "officially announced" → "unveiled"
• "planned to be released in 2018" → "planned for a 2018 release"
• "It was followed by" → "This was followed by"

Reception

Critical reception

• "Days Gone for the PlayStation 4 received "mixed or average" reviews, and "generally favorable reviews" for the PC version, according to review aggregator Metacritic." → "Days Gone was met with mixed to positive reviews from video game critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the PlayStation 4 version has an average score of 71, while the PC version has an average score of 76."
• space missing in "the wayDays Gone"
• "Hordes" is capitalized in "to clear these Hordes" but isn't capitalized anywhere else
• "disliked the shooting mechanics for being clunky," → "disliked the clunkiness of the shooting mechanics"

Sales

• "making Days Gone the 7th" → "making it the 7th"

Awards

• Good

Canceled sequel

• Space needed in "release,and"

References

• Inconsistent italicization/use of work vs. publisher parameter
  • PlayStation Blog should not be italicized (16, 29)
  • Game Informer should be (53)
  • GameSpot should be (54)
  • GamesRadar+ should be (55)
  • IGN should be (56)
• [75] (Andy Robinson) is missing a work or publisher

General comments

• Photos are CC or fair use and are all relevant
• No stability concerns in the revision history
• Earwig score looks great at 9.9%

Alright, looks like kind of a lot, but it should be all easy fixes! Putting on hold for now, feel free to ping me with questions, and let me know when you're ready for me to take another look! — GhostRiver 15:19, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

@GhostRiver: - Thanks for the review! All issues have been addressed. OceanHok (talk) 04:44, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks for your quick work! Happy to pass! — GhostRiver 15:14, 27 October 2021 (UTC)