'Days Gone' is a thrilling and scary ride through the post-apocalypse

Fans of "The Walking Dead" will likely relish "Days Gone," the new video game thriller out Friday for Sony PlayStation 4. The post-apocalyptic premise is similar: Your character has survived a global pandemic, while millions have died or turned into ferocious predatory humanoids. If you've only seen the game depicted in TV commercials, at first glance you might be excused for considering these creatures as cousins of those "Walking Dead" zombies. But no, these beasts are transformed humans called "Freakers." "Days Gone" creative director and writer John Garvin explains: "What we have done here is actually create something that is new. They are not really mutants, they are certainly not demons or aliens or robots. They are not zombies either. They are their own thing."