Dying Light: The Following Reviews
The term "expansion" has a dirty connotation to it nowadays.
Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition offers so much more than what the base game did, while also improving upon the already solid base game at the same time. This is easily the definitive way to play Dying Light.
Dying Light with less parkour sounds like a disaster, but the rural setting and buggy racing add a whole new dimension to the zombie-slaying mayhem, along with a meaty new adventure. For £20 it's an absolute steal. The Following might not convince Dying Light's doubters, but it will please its fans. If you're not one of those already, this is all the excuse you need to give both campaigns a try.
The Following keeps the joyous zombie slaughter of Dying Light while refreshing it with a new dynamic. A fine expansion.
Dying Light: The Following isn’t the type of DLC that simply repeats the main game. It takes some of the best elements, adds some interesting and sometimes surprising new elements, mixes them together and creates a great amount of content that isn’t only fun, but actually feels fresh in many ways. The Following is a great expansion that not only compliments the main game, but provides new and returning players with a new and fresh experience that stands well on its own.
If you were on the fence about Dying Light when it first came out – and even if you're still suffering from undead overdose – now's the time to jump in. This is a zombie game that truly deserves its following.
Overall Dying Light's new DLC "The Following" manages to provide another fun filled few hours of zombie killing entertainment. Techland did not mess around with this DLC, it's not some lazy cash in or something that isn't worth playing. It's a totally new area, with a major new mechanic (vehicles), and an interesting story. If you was a fan of the original Dying Light game then this is an easy recommendation. If you wasn't a fan of the original then there's still a chance you could enjoy this DLC as it changes quite a lot to say it's just a DLC.
The Following is a stellar, value-packed addition to Dying Light that not only extends and improves upon the solid experience that fans have come to expect, but also enriches the original product to definitive status.
The Following is an excellent expansion by any measure, combining a fascinating narrative and enjoyable gameplay into a great piece of content for fans of the original game. It's a shame parkour takes a back seat, but running zombies over in the buggy is an attractive alternative.
Albeit with improvements on the abilities tree and story, The Following suffers from bad checkpoints placement and a world that doesn't complement the usage of the car.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The Following may be different than its core game, but in this case I think that helps more than hinders. One of Dying Light's biggest strengths was that it proved that zombie games could still be fun, and The Following absolutely retains that. It doesn't really add anything in the way of enemy variety, and its story, while interesting, isn't as fleshed out as it perhaps could be, but it is a genuinely fun time.
The Following is full of potential that is hampered by a painful lack of in-depth balancing and polish. The expansion highlights its own weaknesses and fails to promote its own strengths in the transition towards a more vast sandbox.
Dying Light: The Following is DLC done right, offering new content for the Dying Light faithful while changing things up more than enough so that it doesn't just feel like the reanimated corpse of the base game. Ultimately, it's the inclusion of the off-road buggy that turns out to be its smartest addition, which coupled with its challenging new setting more than overcomes any of the all too familiar shortcomings.
Despite the fact that less use is made of the free-running parkour skills that Dying Light is known for, adding the buggy is a successful strategy. Your buggy is like a well-oiled zombie-killing machine that you want to take with you wherever you go in the new area of Dying Light. And just like the buggy, the game is a oiled zombie-killing machine in which almost everything is right!
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The Following expansion for Dying Light breathes new life into the year-old parkour FPS zombie game by adding a dune buggy and a huge new map to explore.
Although it still possesses some of the faults that made the game it expands upon frustrating at times, Dying Light: The Following is a very enjoyable, robust and immersive add-on to an already solid title.
With an overly competitive market of zombie games such as Dead Island, Dead Rising, and Telltale's The Walking Dead, Dying Light: The Following steals the show for being a well-rounded zombie action game, featuring tight combat and a knack for intense storytelling that is sure to leave you shaking at the edge of your seat. Regardless of a few underlying faults with character development and the occasional fetch quests, Dying Light: The Following is undoubtedly among the best story-mode expansions I have ever played. I can't wait to continue my exploration and see what else Techland have up their sleeves.
With an overly competitive market of zombie games such as Dead Island, Dead Rising, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Dying Light: The Following steals the show for being a well-rounded zombie action game, featuring tight combat and a knack for intense storytelling that is sure to leave you shaking at the edge of your seat. Regardless of a few underlying faults with character development and the occasional fetch quests, Dying Light: The Following is undoubtedly among the best story-mode expansions I have ever played. I can’t wait to continue my exploration and see what else Techland have up their sleeves.
There is nothing more satisfying in life than mowing down a group of infected with your Buggy. The Following is an exciting expansion to the already amazing base game, Dying Light.
While it isn't perfect, The Following openly embraces everything that made Dying Light a standout hit of 2015 and also injects enough fresh content to warrant a return visit from even the most hardcore of Harran's explorers.