Dying Light Reviews

Dying Light is ranked in the 60th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Feb 2, 2015

'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.

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70 / 100
Jan 30, 2015

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.

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IGN
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
Jan 26, 2015

High-speed parkour and gruesome zombie massacres make Dying Light a blast, even if the story's just okay.

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7 / 10
Jan 29, 2015

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.

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5 / 10
Feb 1, 2015

A small improvement on Dead Island, but there's still barely anything that either works as well as advertised or is isn't just stolen wholesale from other, better, games.

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Jan 30, 2015

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.

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8.5 / 10.0
Feb 2, 2015

Tense and full of adrenaline-fueled moments, Dying Light is a blast

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7 / 10
Jan 29, 2015

Dying Light has plenty of rewards to offer as long as you're willing to overlook its frustrations.

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Polygon
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Feb 2, 2015

Dying Light too often loses track of what it's best at

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Yes
Feb 3, 2015

A thrilling zombie adventure that makes me remember what I love about Dead Island and forget what I hated.

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Feb 5, 2015

Dying Light is a sum of its inspirational parts. It brings together Techland's previous Dead Island with a bit of Mirror's Edge and Far Cry 3. At its best, leaping across the rooftops with zombies milling about below, it surpasses those titles. At worse, it has mechanics that needlessly pad out the game's running time.

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7 / 10.0
Jan 28, 2015

Dying Light often boils down to "Zombies: The Videogame," but it's fun to flip around like a ninja and cause havoc while you shuffle from one mission to the next. For many of you out there, that's basically all you'll need.

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Jan 29, 2015

Killing a bunch of zombies still has its charms in this day and age and I'll likely have nightmares about the dying light of Dying Light, but Techland's latest proves to be an uneven experience. Ultimately it's a game I appreciate for its ideas more so than its execution.

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88 / 100
Jan 30, 2015

‎Dying Light may not be the most original or the best scripted game, but what it does, it does well. Zombies, parkour, co-op... one of those games that as you try it will catch you, and even more so if you play with friends.‎

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6.8 / 10.0
Jan 28, 2015

Fans of zombie survival, open worlds, and first-person shooters will find things to enjoy in Dying Light, but it's a rough ride. The contextual movement and realistic time progression suggest that Techland wants to immerse you in Harran's apocalyptic plight, but the game's realism takes a hit at almost every turn whether it's the graphics, the enemy AI, or the mannequin-like demeanor of the souls you'll attempt to save. Jumping around and smacking zombies is fun, but we're hoping whatever comes next focuses more on realistic living people than realistic dead ones.

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7 / 10
Feb 6, 2015

Although a sound game, Dying Light just falls short of greatness. Compared to its predecessors it looks stunning and has picked up a raft of new and interesting ideas. Several hours in, however, and a familiar sense of fatigue will inevitably set in. Unless roaming Harran with friends in tow, Dying Light isn't one of those games you can comfortably sit and play for hours on end. Zombie enthusiasts are still in for a treat though, as well as anyone looking for an unconventional first person action game.

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7 / 10
Feb 3, 2015

Unfortunately, Techland is still unable to deliver a story worth telling. I didn't feel any emotional attachment to any of the characters, nor did I care if they ended up surviving or not. The addition of an overall weapon durability was also something I could have done without as I prefer to cut down my enemies without having to worry whether or not my weapons will disintegrate in my hands.

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8.4 / 10.0
Mar 6, 2015

There is no shortage of flaws, but if you are looking for horror, exploration, crafting and subjective evolutions, here is the game for you.

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8.5 / 10.0
Feb 2, 2015

‎Funny and gimmicky but hardly revolutionary. That would be the perfect definition of Dying Light, which seems to settle for only parkour to justify a twist on the zombie video game genre.‎

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3.5 / 5.0
Jan 29, 2015

Techland's latest title is by no means perfect, nor is it one of the best zombie games, but it's solid enough to warrant a playthrough. Even though its story will leave most players unsatisfied and its open-world design is questionable at best, its phenomenal side stories and often entertaining gameplay will prevent distaste.

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