Dying Light
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Critic Reviews for Dying Light
High-speed parkour and gruesome zombie massacres make Dying Light a blast, even if the story's just okay.
As a follow up to Dead Island, Dying Light represents an improvement on the technical front, but has lost some of its knockabout charm in the process. It shares its predecessors pace and shape, as things start on a relative high as you explore into the game's systems, but then tail off the hours tick by. Dying Light mixes up Techland's own recipe to enjoyable effect, but can't fully disguise its regurgitated flavour.
'Dying Light' hides all of its best gameplay behind a frustratingly steep learning curve and boring fetch quests, but shows potential once players dig a little deeper.
Despite a clunky story and technical performance, there's a lot of fun to be found in dashing and dodging through a zombie-filled city.
Dying Light parades its lack of invention and frustrates with some unrewarding missions, but it barely matters: there's an immediate joy in exploring this compelling concrete playground of undead, explosions, and bins.
Tense and full of adrenaline-fueled moments, Dying Light is a blast
Dying Light has plenty of rewards to offer as long as you're willing to overlook its frustrations.
Industry Coverage
Dying Light 2 Releases New Update for August 2024
A new update for Techland's Dying Light 2 goes live right as the studio announces a new game in the series at this year's Gamescom.
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Dying Light: The Beast Brings Back Kyle Crane
And he doesn't look any happier.
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Dying Light Fans May Want to Keep an Eye on August 20
Geoff Keighley teases something that captures the attention of Dying Light fans leading up to Gamescom's imminent Opening Night Live event.
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Dying Light Adds Free Story Mode To Hellraid DLC
Just because Dying Light 2 is mere months away at this point, that doesn't mean the original Dying Light is done receiving content. New to the game is a free update to the Hellraid DLC.
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