Dying Light
Dying Light is every zombie slayer’s dream come true. As a skilled parkour runner, you explore a dangerous urban environment, scavenging for supplies and crafting weapons that can help you defeat the hordes of flesh-hungry enemies created by a mysterious epidemic. Once the sun sets, the hunter becomes the prey as the infected grow in numbers and strength – and the even more lethal Volatiles leave their nests to feed on human flesh. You must use all your skills and any available tools to survive till dawn. Go anywhere and climb anything as you seamlessly traverse a vast, open environment. Whether you hunt or escape the hunters, you can move around the city with ease and speed. Jump between rooftops, climb walls, and attack your foes from above. Weaponize your parkour skills and use them for creative combat. Dying Light gives players a freedom of movement never seen in open world games before. Cooperate with other players in the extreme conditions of a zombie apocalypse. Take your friends on a thrilling survival trip to the quarantine zone, tackle the story campaign together, and take part in special co-op challenges. Show your individuality and customize your character with dozens of unique outfits. Experience the horrifying tension of the night. In daylight you explore the city searching for supplies and weapons. After nightfall, though, this infected world undergoes a dramatic transformation that gives the gameplay a new dimension. You, a hunter by day, become prey. The infected grow in strength, but something even more sinister looms in the darkness to begin its hunt.
Dying Light Review
That Dying Light’s world is so entertaining is important, because it’s unexpectedly huge. Finishing the campaign took me more than 34 hours, with a 68 percent completion rate. The story is serviceable enough, focusing on an undercover agent who becomes a savior to infected survivors and a thorn in the side of a maniacal warlord, but the most surprising thing about it might be its lack of surprises. Similar games have primed me to expect shocks and betrayals that will yank the metaphorical rug out from beneath me, and yet apart from a few big twists early on, Dying Light plays it mostly straight, with little nuance and few hidden agendas from its interesting (but underdeveloped) characters and entertainingly cliché villains. In a way it’s almost refreshing, even if the end result is nothing special.
Well, I’ve ruined a ton of my time on this earth playing Dying Light. Played through a few ti9mes, did just about everything, and still may not be done.
The good: There’s simply a ton to do, and once you find your favorite weapons and tactics, its pretty consistent to play hard and fast with whatever you like. You can play how you like, play during daylight, play at night, do both, whatever. The parkour is nice, and once you get the hang of it and the rythm down, you can move pretty fast around the cities. The characters are decent, some really eccentric NPCs, and some nasty villains. The game looks good, plays well, and I had zero technical problems with it.
The less good: It does in fact (like most games) get repetitive. After a while it became pointless to wander around. I also hated the addition of idiotic timed missions in the DLC. Most gamers hate timed missions, and Techland should know better, as they are very gamer friendly.
All in all, Techland did an amazing job of building a great game, with amazing depth, plenty to do, and lots of zany characters.
While it’s entirely playable as a single-player game, Dying Light is – like most things – better with friends along. Up to three co-op partners can jump in at any time to help you carve up undead hordes, watch your back while you’re picking locks, or pursue campaign missions, and while the online matchmaking is still fairly hit-or-miss on PS4, online sessions are smooth and stable once they get going.
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