Dying Light
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Critic Reviews for Dying Light
'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.
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.
High-speed parkour and gruesome zombie massacres make Dying Light a blast, even if the story's just okay.
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.
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 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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Dying Light Gets Rust Crossover Event
Two of gaming's most grueling experiences, Dying Light and Rust, are coming together in the form of DLC for Techland's open-world zombie game.
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Dying Light Gets New Hellraid DLC This Summer
Dying Light has been a huge success for Techland, and now it's being used as a platform to deliver something of a crossover event with a canceled game.
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Dying Light 2 Delayed
It's been a month of marquee delays so far, and the hits keep on coming. Dying Light 2 has been delayed out of its spring window and has not been given a new date yet.
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