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  1. Jul 25, 2022
    4
    To start with, the RTX implementation is terrible in this game. With RTX on everything is just way too dark, some people will defend this by saying "Night is supposed to be dark", but even in daytime there are huge dark areas. There isn't enough bounce lighting at all, so putting all RTX options on so you can see the pretty reflections and light affects at the cost of about -60fps meansTo start with, the RTX implementation is terrible in this game. With RTX on everything is just way too dark, some people will defend this by saying "Night is supposed to be dark", but even in daytime there are huge dark areas. There isn't enough bounce lighting at all, so putting all RTX options on so you can see the pretty reflections and light affects at the cost of about -60fps means nothing because it's pitch black.

    With RTX off, everything looks washed out and terrible.

    And then there are the character model shadows, jesus, dead island released over 10 years ago and they're still getting this wrong!!! Your guy walks around with his arms stretched out like Boris Karloff from the 1930's movie Frankenstein!

    And finally, the gameplay... it's trash... parkour is fun enough, but it's just another boring bloated open world that isn't exciting to explore and the rewards for doing so are just as uneventful. I'm sorry I spent the money on this game.
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  2. Aug 14, 2022
    5
    Juego del montón , con controles que son bastante macarrón e incomodos sobretodo en el parkour y con el parapente que es penoso de lo mal que se controla. Historia aburrida a la que pronto no le prestas nada de atencion y misiones suicidas en las que como siempre le toca hacer todo al prota mientras el resto de supervivientes se rasca bien los huevos = pesimo guión.
  3. Jul 28, 2022
    4
    Сплошное разочарование, сплошные баги которые ломают игру, сюжет и атмосфера спасли игру от оценки ниже 4ёх. Игра неиграбельна для кооператива, мой партнёр проебал очень много моментов из-за того что кооператив не проработан и забагован очень глобально.Сплошное разочарование, сплошные баги которые ломают игру, сюжет и атмосфера спасли игру от оценки ниже 4ёх. Игра неиграбельна для кооператива, мой партнёр проебал очень много моментов из-за того что кооператив не проработан и забагован очень глобально.
  4. Feb 6, 2023
    0
    I tried to play the game, didn't make it past the settings. Cannot rebind my grappling hook ? There had to be 3rd party articles that showed you how to edit the input script to bind a simple key ? Yeah mate, it's a no from me. Glad I didn't pay any money for this game. No wonder it was a flop.
  5. Aug 21, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ну чтож, наиграл 10 часов, дошёл до мужика, который гладит другого мужика и удалил. Я не гомофоб, меня это, просто, уже раздрожает и бесит. Игру и так хочется удалить после 2-3 часов игры, но ты думаешь, может вот еще чуток и там что-то будет??? Нет не будет... Тупорылейшие диалоги, тупорылейшая мотивация нпс, сюжет писал нил Дракман, или что-то такое, если бы диалоги не скипались, я бы этот мусор удалил еще давно, ибо кровь из ушей не просто капала, она бы хлестала фонтанами. Далее, конечно, Вы помните забитые зомбаками автострады в первой части? Хер там, 4-6 зомбаков, это всё что ты увидишь тут, они тут для галочки, они вообще никакие, они мааааленькая помеха на пути, даже на самой высокой сложности нихрена не меняется, зомби становятся просто 5-7 жЫрных зомбиков. Второе дыхание игра получает, когда гг попадает во вторую локу, где всё высокое и классное, тебе дают параплан, (привет Фар Кряй). Думаешь вот, вот тут будет веселее. Хер там, еще часа 3-4 и всё. Это песочница без песка, это игра уровня ЮбиСофт, это симулятор вышек, это тупейшие диалоги, всё ВСЕ ТУТ одинаковое и продублированое. Геймплея тут часа на 2-3. Всё остальное это самоповтор. Графон ДА, звук ДА. Походить, посмотреть и всё, больше тут делать нехер. Не купил бы даже по скидке. Славься Эмпресс. Гори в аду денува. Expand
  6. May 6, 2022
    0
    It's better and worse than the 1st game. Parkour is more fun, story is better, combat abilities are better, but the bugs and glitches make the game nearly unplayable. While fighting enemies the game randomly lags while doing parkour attacks. Enemies are sometimes grey skinned mannequin looking things. Enemies will freeze in place for several seconds after you hit them then re appear andIt's better and worse than the 1st game. Parkour is more fun, story is better, combat abilities are better, but the bugs and glitches make the game nearly unplayable. While fighting enemies the game randomly lags while doing parkour attacks. Enemies are sometimes grey skinned mannequin looking things. Enemies will freeze in place for several seconds after you hit them then re appear and get a free hit on you, story dialogue is often muted. Sometimes I'll do several parkour jumps, rolls, falls etc.. with no sfx at all. Then roughly 20 seconds later I'll hear all the sounds that were supposed to play earlier while my character is just standing there. I'm currently on the final story mission and its skipping entire cutscenes.. Techland should be embarrassed Expand
  7. Mar 20, 2022
    2
    Buggy mess, that first needed three restarts to stop droppign frames. Voice acting is horrible, story is boring and pointlessly bleak. Now i got f**ing softlocked because fast travle is simply broken. I cannot return to central loop. f**k this game. Try again techland
  8. Mar 23, 2022
    3
    I really hate the fact that I don't like the game but it is just so bad. As a big fan of DL1 I was pretty happy to finally play the sequel. However after playing it for around 30 hours I have to say that it is totally underwhelming.

    Movement: In contrast to what mainstream media is saying I truly don't like the new movement at all. It feels very clumsy unprecise and slow. I get that
    I really hate the fact that I don't like the game but it is just so bad. As a big fan of DL1 I was pretty happy to finally play the sequel. However after playing it for around 30 hours I have to say that it is totally underwhelming.

    Movement:
    In contrast to what mainstream media is saying I truly don't like the new movement at all. It feels very clumsy unprecise and slow. I get that you have to level up to increase your stamina but even now after I leveled up a lot it still does not feel close as good as the prequel.

    Fighting:
    Also fighting is a big downgrade. In DL1 fighting was a very satisfying part of the game. When you hit an enemy your attack had a lot of impact. You were able to aim for particular body parts e.g. breaking legs to make your opponent fall on the ground or instantly go for the neck to cut the zombies head off. Now fighting feels like you are swinging a wooden stick on a huge rock. Enemies don't react as satisfying as they used to. You don't receive as much feedback of what part of the body you've hit anymore, hitboxes are really bad and weapons don't feel unique and strong anymore. There are still mods but they are not as interesting anymore when it comes to names, effects and optical modifications of the weapon. Fighting without a weapon is not really an option anymore. In DL1 you were able to dropkick or kick your enemy on the ground and then use a skill to jump on the enemies head to instantly kill your opponent very effectively and satisfying. The dropkick is also available in the sequel but is not nearly as good as it used to be. I actually had many times where my dropkick directly hit a zombie but had no impact at all. And even if the dropkick knocks down an opponent he will stand up before you can stand up yourself. Kicking is an almost useless skill that doesn't do much anymore. I've never made a zombie enemy fall on the ground with the normal kick in the game. It seems like this is not an option anymore. Overall this reasons made me try to dodge as many fights with zombies as I could and beeing really annoyed when I actually had to fight them. This is a shame if you keep in mind how fun it used to be in the prequel.

    Bugs and glitches:
    Another really big part are the bugs. Enemys AI is really bad. Their movement e.g. climbing up vehicles is totally glitched and there are also bugs like dead zombies floating on the ground following you and attacking you and things like that. Coop does work but is also totally bugged. When I see chests to open sometimes my friends don't see them. Enemies are invisible or just standing still for one player while the other one can see them fighting. Parts of the world (e.g. bounce pads) are not visible for some players while others can see them.

    Quests and Characters:
    The quests are really really boring and not close as good as masterpieces like the Tolga and Fatin quests. Most of the quests are repetitive and boring and have a seemingly never ending really stupid and unnecessary conversation in it. There are even quests that have no sense at all like a monk that tells you that his fish were stolen but you should not do anything about it and he just wants to talk and thats it - quest done... Another quest was two women who were fighting if they should use water for plants or for washing their hair. You pick one side and thats it. Nothing else. Characters are written very stereotypical without any depth or humour.

    Weird RPG-Features
    Another very weird part of the game is the poor try to implement somewhat RPG-elements. You can find clothes, shoes, gloves hats etc. that not only increase your armor but also support other attributes and classes. Yes you heared right. There are different classes now that are not explained or anything but just there. None of my friends were interested to actually read through all of this stuff and wanted to have this much depth in such an uninteresting part of the game that does not fit to the rest of the game at all. Also weapons are not repairable anymore except you put a very expensive upgrade in your weapon you get pretty late in the game.

    To me this game is a massive fail and a downgrade in every segment compared to the prequel. It doesn't feel finished and overall many concepts have been implemented in the game that better shouldn't have. Compared to the prequel It lost its great fighting mechanics and its movement. After 30 hours of playing I am still waiting for the fun part of the game. I start to believe I wont find it. As a full price title this does not deserve more than a disapointing 3/10.
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  9. Apr 15, 2022
    3
    Initially I did have fun with Dying Light 2 and just tried to look past all the bugs and hoped they’d be resolved in an eventual patch but it turns out towards the end there are so many bugs you can’t actually complete the game. I don't even have the will to finish it anymore because there are so many bugs stopping any progress.
    Also the plot was just weird and tbh I was just blindly
    Initially I did have fun with Dying Light 2 and just tried to look past all the bugs and hoped they’d be resolved in an eventual patch but it turns out towards the end there are so many bugs you can’t actually complete the game. I don't even have the will to finish it anymore because there are so many bugs stopping any progress.
    Also the plot was just weird and tbh I was just blindly accepting what the characters were saying because the plot is weird and not that good.
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  10. May 3, 2022
    0
    Wirklich ein gutes game. Habe mittlerweile 105 Std darin! Kann ich nur empfehlen!
  11. Jun 18, 2022
    1
    I played more than 150 hours on PC. I see lots of bugs even with last patch 1.4.
    Storyline is really boring and stupid. I don't see any new content.
    I had to start new game twice because of bugs.
    Now I'm palying NG+. Enemy's level is very high and they kill me easily.
    DL1 is much better!!!!
  12. Aug 27, 2022
    3
    I played the first episode over and over again. This sequel is an insult.
    I liked the music,scenery, I was quite taken by the city and i liked exploring it. But there is lot of repetitive actions metro etc . side tasks were a waste of time
    Parkour did what it wanted sometimes. Combat was rather annoying after a while. By now it would be like 6/10. But then the story and dialogue comes
    I played the first episode over and over again. This sequel is an insult.
    I liked the music,scenery, I was quite taken by the city and i liked exploring it. But there is lot of repetitive actions metro etc . side tasks were a waste of time
    Parkour did what it wanted sometimes. Combat was rather annoying after a while. By now it would be like 6/10. But then the story and dialogue comes in. You could feel they fired the writer or something and it was probably written by some teenagers . It felt like a cringe Insulting discussion from twitter. Story was braindead
    The choices are more or less for show. The last boss fight was long and boring.
    You could smell the wokism in this game.
    I set up an account and am writing my first review. I'm tired of the brands I like getting trashed all the time.
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  13. Oct 28, 2022
    0
    One of the worst games ever. Full of bugged side quests! The first one was a masterpiece!
  14. Aug 24, 2022
    3
    The amount of enjoyment in this game offer is far overshadowed by the actual usability.
    The Parkour side of things just makes it frustrating, with often jumping in between the cracks of the game and the constant glitching when I grab a ledge that was not meant to be. Added to this … sometimes jumps and timings require critical timing and accurate button pressing means you come away more
    The amount of enjoyment in this game offer is far overshadowed by the actual usability.
    The Parkour side of things just makes it frustrating, with often jumping in between the cracks of the game and the constant glitching when I grab a ledge that was not meant to be. Added to this … sometimes jumps and timings require critical timing and accurate button pressing means you come away more annoyed and frustrated. I get they were trying to do something more with the series, but it just feels they released this way too early without addressing the major concerns of their showpiece in this game.
    Sad really, and don't get me started on the paraglider. God that unyielding beast is like trying to hang on to bulls balls... and he already woke up in a funny mood this morning. Delays between button presses and actually doing something is not accepted in Gaming. I can already hear how in real life paragliding is blah blah … but I counter that with … dying light world is not set in real life. This is gaming and the difference is so far removed. I want something that works in-game, not real-life experiences … otherwise, I would have taken up paragliding.
    After that there is the mountain of conversation… look lady I don’t care about your singing career in the apocalyptic world. Just give me your quest so I can get my points. And after completing … oh yes I so want more conversation that I am not going to remember, perhaps throw in a song too… Good! God! It seems like the developers were all “visual novel” game designers, where every quest proceeds with a whole life story of the NPC before getting the details.
    This makes you click violently through all conversations regardless of importance. Then suddenly coming to fork road decisions, and you have not paid attention. Now I have to make a decision on a mountain of text I didn’t read and didn’t care about. I googled the correct choice for the first few … after that, I just wanted to see the world burn. Next time, if you’re going to make us read it all, at least show us boobs!
    Then there are a number of smaller things that just pain me, after being wounded deeply by the rest of the game. Some quests completely disappear after I haven’t tracked them, and come back to them later. Parts of the inventory system are also a pain, making the overall stat decisions of armour difficult because you need to switch between multiple screens.
    Which comes to the best … and the worse part of the game. The open world Parkour should have been the jewel … which soon becomes the horse apple (think Shawshank Redemption) of the city. It was actually a true pleasure trying to discover the world and figure out ways to climb buildings. One interesting thing … as I scaled up certain ways, I was left with the impression I was actually making my own way up the wall. That my path wasn’t set in stone, I could actually create/cheat my own way up depending on the level of my character's skill. This made it a puzzle, thoroughly enjoyable and exhilarating to reach the top.
    But coming down was often met with a splat, metaphorically and figuratively, as those little times when the character world physics glitched or downright refused to respond to the commands … it was far more satisfying to walk away from the game and let Aiden meet the pavement.
    Honestly writing this review offered more stress relief than playing DL2. Sad to say as there are some great qualities in this game. The Developers have spoilt their own masterpiece by developing the wrong things in this game.
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  15. Feb 11, 2023
    0
    It is painfully buggy a year after release. I'm on my second play through in new game plus and it's buggier than I remember during my first one. I cannot call for help, I cannot accept distress signals, my game crashed today, the "Renegades" mission glitched and completely disappeared, causing me to lose over an hour's worth of progress.

    I am very disappointed.
  16. Sep 7, 2022
    2
    I think, that the Elder Scrolls Oblivion (2006) is very very more clever and interesting game than this **** DL2 is'nt worth your any time, my opinion...
  17. Sep 29, 2022
    3
    Playing this game really brings a deep sadness to my heart. I really loved the first game despite its flaws, but there is no learning here, no improvement of any kind. Every single annoying aspect of the first game is doubled here... didn't hear the selectively mute zombies creeping up behind you? now there's multiple! didn't like the kung-fu zombies? here's tenfold of them! found thePlaying this game really brings a deep sadness to my heart. I really loved the first game despite its flaws, but there is no learning here, no improvement of any kind. Every single annoying aspect of the first game is doubled here... didn't hear the selectively mute zombies creeping up behind you? now there's multiple! didn't like the kung-fu zombies? here's tenfold of them! found the night time exploring annoying? here's 3 howlers per 10squaremeters! The jump button barely responds, the wide axe swings only hit 1 enemy because the hitboxes are as basic as freaking ps1 games.. and so much more stuff that is devolved over the first game; the visuals are worse, its runs worse than the original aswell, and the first map is maybe the most boring map ever created, ALL the buildings are the same, literally there is like 1 church, 1 hospital and 1 water tower and the rest 99% of the city is just the same house copy pasted. The combat is much less responsive than in the original, combined with the awful collision detection it's just tedious. The parkour stuff is still really fun, with some really cool moments, and the soundtrack is totally awesome, like in the first game! Why this game makes me sad is that although the original had some flaws, it also had all the prerequisites to be a 10/10 zombie sandbox game, instead of that promise they doubled absolutely everything that sucked in the first game and made it more repetitive. Expand
  18. Jan 31, 2023
    1
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  19. Feb 16, 2023
    0
    A sad disappointment, slightly worse than the 1st game in some areas and extremely worse in other ways. Constant bugs, brain dead AI, meaningless choices, worse combat mechanics, glitchy teleporting enemies, lazy fetch quests etc.. but the biggest sin is that it's not scary.. at all.. the 1st one was very scary especially at night. This one is just irritating especially with the annoyingA sad disappointment, slightly worse than the 1st game in some areas and extremely worse in other ways. Constant bugs, brain dead AI, meaningless choices, worse combat mechanics, glitchy teleporting enemies, lazy fetch quests etc.. but the biggest sin is that it's not scary.. at all.. the 1st one was very scary especially at night. This one is just irritating especially with the annoying infection timer. Expand
  20. Jan 2, 2023
    3
    I really like the first part of Dying Light, I was really looking forward to the second part, but I was disappointed. In the first part of the game, literally all the mechanics are made better than in the sequel, it feels like it was actually Stay Human that came out first, and only then just DL.
  21. Oct 26, 2022
    0
    Because of this game my YT channel got hacked and almost gone forever. This game should've not exist.
  22. Aug 18, 2022
    5
    Игра отвратительна во многих местах. Ужасная боевка, далеко не самый лучший паркур. Отвратительный последний боссфайт. Оптимизация и баги тоже хромает. 80 процентов игровых персонажей вызывают только ненависть. Играл только ради того чтобы уничтожить весь город, чтобы хоть как то отыграться на всех мерзких персонажах, что собственно я и сделал. Не играйте в это братья, сам прошел только изИгра отвратительна во многих местах. Ужасная боевка, далеко не самый лучший паркур. Отвратительный последний боссфайт. Оптимизация и баги тоже хромает. 80 процентов игровых персонажей вызывают только ненависть. Играл только ради того чтобы уничтожить весь город, чтобы хоть как то отыграться на всех мерзких персонажах, что собственно я и сделал. Не играйте в это братья, сам прошел только из уважения к первой части игры Expand
  23. Oct 25, 2022
    0
    Такого говна этот обдроченный ускоглазый уебан еще не делал, вся сложность этого высера, которое японский педик называет игрой строится на ваншотах, тебя ваншотит все, от сранных драконов, до ебучего бомжа-мага я такой хуеты даже в секиро не видел, все кто хвалят этот кусок шедевра по определению прожженые пидорасы, любящие получать ваншоты в задницу, искренне желаю узкоглазому чукчеТакого говна этот обдроченный ускоглазый уебан еще не делал, вся сложность этого высера, которое японский педик называет игрой строится на ваншотах, тебя ваншотит все, от сранных драконов, до ебучего бомжа-мага я такой хуеты даже в секиро не видел, все кто хвалят этот кусок шедевра по определению прожженые пидорасы, любящие получать ваншоты в задницу, искренне желаю узкоглазому чукче увидеть в кровате своей мамки-жены столько же черных парней, сколько раз я дох Expand
  24. Jan 2, 2023
    2
    Dying Light is one of my favorite games of all time. Amazing story and characters, lush and detailed world, harrowing night missions and incredible parkour mechanics. Then there's Dying Light 2.
  25. Aug 16, 2022
    0
    this game is simply unplayable and again propaganda most of the characters are black or strong and independent women.
  26. Aug 27, 2022
    0
    ГЕЙплей - 8/10
    Графика - 8/10
    Сюжет - 6/10
    Музыка и звуки - 7/10
    Ставлю 0 из-за ЛГБТ флага. Да,для меня - это повод
  27. Sep 18, 2022
    4
    ICH WILL SCHMERZENSGELD !!!

    Hat das mal jemand getestet?
    Welche Maschine im Pre-Alpha Zustand hat die Dialoge geschrieben?
    Es gibt zwei Gebiete, in dem einen sieht alles gleich aus und im anderen auch!
    Sinn? Game: Ne, aber ich schließ mich mal schnell, kannst mich ja wieder starten, bye!

    Was gibt´s noch zu sagen?... Ich bin Aiden!
  28. Dec 30, 2022
    0
    Absolute garbage. Outdated graphics, horrible game mechanics. Boring story and characters.
  29. Feb 11, 2023
    3
    Wszystko by było fajnie. Gdyby były spluwy. Siekasz te zombiaki tymi tasakami jak nienormalny. Zmienia się tylko wygląd i staty broni. I tak siekasz przez całą grę. A ja oczekiwałem czegoś lepszego od jedynki. Zawiodłem się. Chciałem miotacze ognia, rakiety, granatniki, piły łańcuchowe. A dostałem symulację rzeźnika.
  30. May 22, 2023
    2
    Absolute disaster of a sequel. The first Dying Light is one of my favorite games ever, this one is just a mockery to the franchise. The story is terrible (I even went in optimistically despite the bad reviews), the gameplay is wonky and it becomes so repetitive once you get to the central loop. I mean like come on, every mission was a fly, climb, fight and then you would listen to someAbsolute disaster of a sequel. The first Dying Light is one of my favorite games ever, this one is just a mockery to the franchise. The story is terrible (I even went in optimistically despite the bad reviews), the gameplay is wonky and it becomes so repetitive once you get to the central loop. I mean like come on, every mission was a fly, climb, fight and then you would listen to some half-assed dialogue which culminates to choosing between a **** ending or another **** ending. I quite literally stopped playing it and just watched the rest of the playthrough to find out how badly the game ends. I gave the game every benefit of the doubt at every step, I kept saying "ok it's not that bad, it'll get better" well guess what? IT NEVER GOT BETTER. Save your money, don't buy this game unless you like playing the exact same gameplay loop over and over and over again. Expand
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 47 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 47
  2. Negative: 0 out of 47
  1. Mar 28, 2022
    52
    Despite all my complaints, I initially had fun with Dying Light 2. The first quarter of the game was engaging. I think if the rest of the game played like this, I would have way more positive things to say, but the fact is that it’s just not done. This is clearly an unfinished game mired in mismanagement. I don’t blame the developers at all; the leaders and executives behind this work are responsible. What works here is clean and well done, albeit with some boring AAA niceties. After the first quarter or so, though, the game absolutely falls apart in almost every respect. I’m sad for what was produced here, but if I’m being honest, I’m more sad that I invested nearly thirty hours of my own time into this. Don’t make the same mistake I did.
  2. Mar 14, 2022
    80
    Dying Light 2 has proven to be a brilliant zombie game, thanks to the great parkour and combat mechanics. The story however is a bit flawed due to some really strange twists.
  3. Mar 11, 2022
    60
    There is fun to be had here, but aside from a few moments of joyous parkour, it's the sort of fun you can have in dozens of other open-world games. There is certainly some added fun in co-op with a couple of friends, but in a world where we get another open-world game every week, I just cannot recommend anyone go out and buy Dying Light 2 at full price. Especially not when it came out right before Horizon: Forbidden West and Elden Ring, both of which look far more promising.