Dying Light

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  1. Popletovich
    Jan 29, 2015
    9
    As much as I was disappointed by so many games in the past year, I was at first surprised and then delighted by Dying Light. Sure, the story is mediocre (but it does take 30 hours to go through it all), characters are barely fleshed out and the vast majority of what is in Dying Light was somewhere else before (Far Cry 3 comes to mind most often). But as with Shadow of Mordor, all of theAs much as I was disappointed by so many games in the past year, I was at first surprised and then delighted by Dying Light. Sure, the story is mediocre (but it does take 30 hours to go through it all), characters are barely fleshed out and the vast majority of what is in Dying Light was somewhere else before (Far Cry 3 comes to mind most often). But as with Shadow of Mordor, all of the diverse influences come together to make something amazing. Parkour is a lot of fun and stays fun as new skills are learnt and give new movement options. A new environment appears 2/3 through the story and you can finally run along rooftops like a true parkour champion. Melee fighting is well-balanced and feels great and also changes significantly as new skills are unlocked and better weapons found - at first (and by that I mean many many hours), running is the only option, then some moderate fighting, only towards the end does fighting make sense, still without being too easy, as the zombie hordes can still easily overpower you and there are new types of much tougher zombies. Then there are the nights that change things around even more - adding stealth, making things more scary, making you run away in terror every time you are spotted by the much faster night hunting zombies.

    It's a good game. There is so much in it and despite being somewhat repetitive, it doesn't get boring. Some gameplay moments are pure gold - having to cut a path through a hall filled with a 100 zombies, trying to save a friend on the other side. Your first fight with an enemy sporting an assault rifle, shooting at you from a roof, making you plan your approach so that you can find a way to rush him with your baseball bat without being headshot. And so many others. Some other moments are not so good - the ending fight sequence comes to mind.

    Still, this is by far the most pleasant gaming surprise I've had in the past year. Thank God this is nothing like Dead Island.    … Expand
  2. mathewdbarlow
    Jan 29, 2015
    7
    I have been eagerly awaiting this game for some time since seeing a teaser trailer released last year. Unfortunately I've been left slightly disappointed with the end result. Not being a great fan of multiplayer, I like to complete a game on my own first so this review is based solely on single player action. I'm around 18 hours into the game and at 45% story completion.

    First the    I have been eagerly awaiting this game for some time since seeing a teaser trailer released last year. Unfortunately I've been left slightly disappointed with the end result. Not being a great fan of multiplayer, I like to complete a game on my own first so this review is based solely on single player action. I'm around 18 hours into the game and at 45% story completion.

    First the bad:
    The most disappointing element for me was the very limited map size, which you can run across end to end in around 7 minutes. I explored the entire map area and restored all safe houses within 8 hours of playing, leaving little in the way of exploring for later in the game. As far as I can tell there are no areas inaccessible that will require later missions to unlock. Compared to a truly open world game such as Skyrim or GTA, Dying Light's world is minute. With other games soon to be released with maps 20-30 times bigger than this (eg.The Witcher 3), this doesn't seem enough to satisfy my adventurous side.

    Another disappointment is the repetitive nature of the environments, NPCs and zombies. There are around 5 or 6 types of zombie lurking around so far, and they all wear basically the same outfit or carry the same injuries etc. The same can be said for the rival gang members you encounter, with each roving band being the same as the last. Buildings and textures are continually repeated throughout the landscape as well, and many buildings are not accessible, again questioning whether it is truly an 'open world' experience.

    Now the good:
    Story is engaging and voice acting is good quality. The NPCs are well characterized, some likeable, some genuinely sinister. The day/night mechanic adds a new dimension to the zombie/survival genre I have not encountered before and being chased by the virals in the dark can be an edge of your seat experience as you strive to make the nearest safe house with your survival points in the bag!

    The graphics are also gorgeous, even without being on the highest settings, and the world is well designed to accommodate and test the parkour mechanics.

    Level up system is also well balanced and nicely opens up new skills such as crafting and extra combat techniques, as the story progresses.

    Performance:
    In terms of optimization and performance, personally I have had no issues and have been averaging around 45FPS outside on low/medium settings (which still look good). This is with an ATI HD 6870 gpu and a 3rd generation i5 processor at 3.3ghz. I am running the game off a dedicated SSD which I think helps, and have windows 7 running of another SSD. I have turned down field of view (FOV) settings below default which boosted frame rates instantly, given the limited RAM onboard my graphics card.

    In summary, it's not a bad game and a great concept, I just think they could have done so much more with the size and depth f the environment in order to make it truly immersive.    … Expand
  3. Gigatless
    Jan 29, 2015
    8
    The whole game is pretty much a combination of Mirrors Edge + L4D2 + Resident Evil + Assassins Creed + Dishonored. Which was damn awesome at first.

    First impression (Pluses): Stunningly beautiful, amazingly optimized, promising, unexpected, thoughtful dialogues, great character profiles, great delivery (story). The guy you are playing for is not obviously a good or a bad guy (finally    The whole game is pretty much a combination of Mirrors Edge + L4D2 + Resident Evil + Assassins Creed + Dishonored. Which was damn awesome at first.

    First impression (Pluses): Stunningly beautiful, amazingly optimized, promising, unexpected, thoughtful dialogues, great character profiles, great delivery (story). The guy you are playing for is not obviously a good or a bad guy (finally its not as simple as in fairy tales) The game felt pretty much alive during the first three hours. Crane has a great voice actor and its not Troy Baker Смайлик «tongue»

    Last impression (Minuses, SPOILERS): So it happens that there is a FREELANCE SOLDIER which government sends to retrieve the super important documen TO SAVE THE WORLD. ALONE. Its like blazing the olympic flame on national tv using just a single match. Okay, Im fine with that, whatever. Lets see how you guys can pull this out.
    During the story it becomes obvious that Crane is not a professional at all. They send this guy who has absolutelly no professional attitude to the job alone. And at the end of the game he drops F-bombs in every_second_dialogue, and even with his boss. Im.. out of words. This is a really weird character.
    But that's not it yet. At the second half of the game (which is not that long to reach) Crane rushes to another city for our main female character (Jade). To make sure: so far he had just a 5-10 dialogues with her but it already feels like they've been deep in love for 5 years. Or at least he was. This whole passionate hero-princess thing escalated too quickly . Not enough premises to make characters that close. The devs were obviously in hurry to release it because it should be twice longer, and with way more main characters interactions.
    And as soon as he reaches the second town everybody go like "OMG, R U CRANE? UR A HERO HERE I SEEN A POSTER WITH YA!". But in fact it's been only a week in the game since he arrived at the island and the guy already has **** posters everywhere saying how cool he is. Shiiiiiiit.
    The main villain is just terrible. Such a cliche. Im not even speaking of the ending battle, which was as much predictable as the main vaillain's lines "U CANNOT DEFEAT ME, NOBODY CAN DO DAT!11 UGHHHHH, U DID DAT, IMPOSSIBIRUU".
    So the whole second half of the game Crane doesn't suprise us at all and the storyline is pretty much straightforward: they find the cure, the bad guy takes it, you fight the bad guy (casualties involved). And thats what I hated the most. Such promising game at the first half, such predictable at the second half.
    And the last thing that I didn't like: 2 assault rifles, 1 shotgun, a couple of pistols and **** OF COLD WEAPONS. Srsly, I hate when devs are greedy for powerful weapons.

    But in the end pluses are way too big. The game was absolutely beautiful and it was just a great experience to jump into this world during this winter.
    I already explained why its not 10/10, so its solid 8/10 from me.    … Expand
  4. billay
    Jan 29, 2015
    2
    I was hoping for more graphics wise. Maybe since game is only 11gb they cut down on texture size. Everything seems washed out and needs more colour saturation. Character models look really dated too, especially when compared to games like cod aw.
  5. GuaranaJones
    Jan 29, 2015
    10
    Great game. No killer-issues so far. 4 hrs played, one freeze. Thats ok. Sometimes FPS-Drops for a second. Ok as well. Else, superb open world, graphics on ultra pretty descent. My specs: I7-4790, 16 GB Ram, SDD, Radeon r9-280x. If you don´t mind minor issues, you will have lots of fun.
  6. Sixara
    Jan 29, 2015
    10
    I'm going to be brief.

    This games ability to immerse the player in a zombie survival horror atmosphere works very well. I caused an explosion which caused the local ferals to come running. I jumped in my seat, I never jump! The beginning of the game is a rather lengthy tutorial that will end at the first airdrop mission. The visuals are amazing, the sounds and voice acting are very    I'm going to be brief.

    This games ability to immerse the player in a zombie survival horror atmosphere works very well. I caused an explosion which caused the local ferals to come running. I jumped in my seat, I never jump! The beginning of the game is a rather lengthy tutorial that will end at the first airdrop mission.

    The visuals are amazing, the sounds and voice acting are very good. there are performance problems with a little video lag here and there.I found that turning motion blur off speeds the game up a lot and the video lag is gone. Be mindful that performance issues are going to happen in a first day release pc game. Most developers will eventually have a patch available.Patience is key here..

    The weapons are varied but fun to use. The fighting with zombies is believeable. They are hard to kill and take effort to put into the ground.

    The crafting system reminds me of Alien Isolation's way of crafting items. As a matter of fact, if you look hard you can see where they borrowed from other games. The safe house tower in the Northeast corner of the map reminded me a lot of the comm towers in Far Cry 4.

    I recommend the game if you have the hardware to get it to run. I was going to only play it briefly yesterday and that turned into over 8 hours!

    My rig:

    Core i7-3930k @ 4.1ghz
    ASUS X79 Deluxe
    G.Skill Ripjaw 16gb
    EVGA NVIDIA 970 SC X2 IN SLI    … Expand
  7. Utran
    Jan 29, 2015
    10
    o jogo está incrivel demais, a ambientação o clima de seriedade total da historia, tudo esta absolutamente perfeito, o mais legal é quando tu ataca um zumbi e tu tem nitidamente aquele sentimento de que o zumbi esta sentindo o golpe, tu sente o golpe quando bate

    - graficos incriveis, iluminação tudo é lindo, e ta rodando muito liso mesmo perfeito demais. - historia sensacional te    o jogo está incrivel demais, a ambientação o clima de seriedade total da historia, tudo esta absolutamente perfeito, o mais legal é quando tu ataca um zumbi e tu tem nitidamente aquele sentimento de que o zumbi esta sentindo o golpe, tu sente o golpe quando bate

    - graficos incriveis, iluminação tudo é lindo, e ta rodando muito liso mesmo perfeito demais.
    - historia sensacional te prende desde o primeiro segundo
    - sistema de craft magnifico
    - aba de habilidades com 3 opções com muitas skills
    - o inimigo sente o golpe quando é atacado e isso da uma imersão absurda
    - a movimentação esta muito fluida tudo ocorre de forma explendida
    - cidade gigantesca com diversos lugares diferentes não andei tudo mais garanto que é monstruosamente grande
    - são 2 jogos, o dia e a noite que muda totalmente o gameplay é show demais
    - pode entrar nas casas e construções e vasculhar tudo
    - dezenas de itens que tem serventia para craft ou vender
    - carros, lixos, zumbis mortos, geladeiras, malas enfim tudo pode ser vasculhado atraz de itens
    - multiplayer sensacional, coop desde o começo apos o prologo, é so deixar ativado o coop que sempre entra gente , e o modo zumbi pode deixar ativado pra outros jogadores entrar no seu jogo, ou pode jogar sozinho sem ninguem te encher ai vai a gosto do freguês.
    - são tantas qualidades nesse jogo, diria que esse é o jogo que a muito procurava de zumbis, o sistema de combate é muito show enquanto em outros jogos os inimigos tu ataca e sao uns pedaços de madeira aqui no dying light o inimigo sente o golpe é so jogando pra entender é muito show.

    - a dublagem esta muito mais muito boa mesmo, fizeram um otimo trabalho parabens a warner e techland.
    - o som do jogo esta muito show.

    - quem tiver em duvidas pode comprar, esse jogo merece ser comparado.

    abraços.    … Expand
  8. Captn_wanc
    Jan 29, 2015
    4
    The game is looking great,and the story seems fine just right about until you finish training and go out for run.Then game becomes unplayable even with nice rig,not only that even that beautiful picture kinda fade away...Zombies are looking all the same with same face expression.I`m not fan or middle eastern chracters in game.Even with awsome game optimazation still wouldn`t play game.niceThe game is looking great,and the story seems fine just right about until you finish training and go out for run.Then game becomes unplayable even with nice rig,not only that even that beautiful picture kinda fade away...Zombies are looking all the same with same face expression.I`m not fan or middle eastern chracters in game.Even with awsome game optimazation still wouldn`t play game.nice try on beginning tho… Expand
  9. KarmaCrisis
    Jan 29, 2015
    10
    I've been massively disappointed by all the previous AAA zombie games. Dying Light is different. It really nails the zombie theme. The movement and combat are fluid, the weapon/crafting/skill systems make it surprisingly deep. I'm not often impressed by games anymore but this one has really surprised me.
  10. Dneif
    Jan 29, 2015
    8
    멀티 플레이 시 사용자 경험에 정말 최선을 다 한 작품. 싱글 캠페인을 코옵으로 진행하며 발생할 다양한 문제점들을 개선함. 예) 호스트가 퀘내비를 정함. 루팅은 따로 따로. 모든 플레이어가 인벤토리 등 메뉴를 보고 있다면 게임이 일시 정지 등. 친구와 멀티로 진행하면 정말 재미있게 플레이 가능. 최고 수준의 그래픽임에도 최적화가 제법 잘 되어있다. 다만 한글 IME관련 창모드 버그나 어느정도 스킬이 언락된 이후엔 오픈월드의 프리플레이 컨텐츠가 부족한 부분은 감점요소.멀티 플레이 시 사용자 경험에 정말 최선을 다 한 작품. 싱글 캠페인을 코옵으로 진행하며 발생할 다양한 문제점들을 개선함. 예) 호스트가 퀘내비를 정함. 루팅은 따로 따로. 모든 플레이어가 인벤토리 등 메뉴를 보고 있다면 게임이 일시 정지 등. 친구와 멀티로 진행하면 정말 재미있게 플레이 가능. 최고 수준의 그래픽임에도 최적화가 제법 잘 되어있다. 다만 한글 IME관련 창모드 버그나 어느정도 스킬이 언락된 이후엔 오픈월드의 프리플레이 컨텐츠가 부족한 부분은 감점요소.
  11. JackyBeans
    Jan 28, 2015
    9
    Highly recommended!
    Great game especially for those who liked dead island.
    Graphics are good, the soundtrack superb and overall "tone" is right. The parkour is top notch! Now, how could we ever play a FPS in the future without the "parkour" element? lol Once you get used to it, develop it and master it, its gonna be hard going back to the traditional FPS control scheme... On PC    Highly recommended!
    Great game especially for those who liked dead island.

    Graphics are good, the soundtrack superb and overall "tone" is right.
    The parkour is top notch!
    Now, how could we ever play a FPS in the future without the "parkour" element? lol
    Once you get used to it, develop it and master it, its gonna be hard going back to the traditional FPS control scheme...

    On PC it looks really really good as long as you have the hardware to run it.
    I'm on GTX 970 and mostly running full bling bling (at MAX settings with only View Distance set at 50%) at 1080p60.

    Recommended.    … Expand
  12. Captainrazel
    Jan 28, 2015
    7
    My first horror game to play and make me feel good, Game made me feel like surviving in Zombie world type off. The graphics are nice, clean textures- great environments, and good character models but not completely Polish. Characters are not that much good but ok. { RAHIM was my most like/favorite person in game },

    Gameplay- It plays much like a cleaner, better looking, more fluid, and    My first horror game to play and make me feel good, Game made me feel like surviving in Zombie world type off. The graphics are nice, clean textures- great environments, and good character models but not completely Polish. Characters are not that much good but ok. { RAHIM was my most like/favorite person in game },

    Gameplay- It plays much like a cleaner, better looking, more fluid, and more fun dead island.Soundtrack is arabic kind of theme which is OK.

    {Credits to Alecmann} Story- This is the underwhelming portion. The story is far more serious than that of dead island. No dark humor, no super cheesy characters (well not as cheesy). You find yourself helping the few survivors in the city with fetch quests and the typical point A to point B. There are a couple surprises- and a passable story to match. None of it is bad, but none of it is great. It is clear the time was put into the gameplay. On the plus side the game is sizable. If you are a completion you could get 70 hours out of this game, though the average gamer can expect 30 to 40. [7.5/10]    … Expand
  13. Monkfish
    Jan 28, 2015
    5
    Positively uninteresting and mediocre. A copycat game.

    Good points: The graphics are stunning, although the setting is highly repetitive. The Day and Night cycle adds some strategy to the game. Animations look very good, especially combat. Leveling and perk system. It has variety. Bad Points: It feels absolutely contrived, made simply to appeal to the most people and tick all    Positively uninteresting and mediocre. A copycat game.

    Good points:
    The graphics are stunning, although the setting is highly repetitive.
    The Day and Night cycle adds some strategy to the game.
    Animations look very good, especially combat.
    Leveling and perk system. It has variety.

    Bad Points:
    It feels absolutely contrived, made simply to appeal to the most people and tick all the standard boxes.
    Music and Sound effects, or lack thereof.
    Voice Acting is bad for the most part.
    The story is highly uninteresting.
    It borrows HEAVILY from better games such as Far Cry even The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim with the exact same Lockpicking.
    It'll make you nauseous. Even as someone who has never felt nauseous from a video game or movie.
    It's a "go and do this, find me that" game. Every mission is the same, and it feels like you're just being dragged around.    … Expand
  14. Alcalientre
    Jan 28, 2015
    3
    1) Weird film grain effect for no reason, can't be turned off.

    2) Save system makes certain boss battles anti-clamactic, instead of starting over from a save with medkits still if you die, you don't keep your medkits and somehow you have come back to life but enemies involved in the fight haven't, so it's easier. I died three times in one fight before beating it because I suck, instead    1) Weird film grain effect for no reason, can't be turned off.

    2) Save system makes certain boss battles anti-clamactic, instead of starting over from a save with medkits still if you die, you don't keep your medkits and somehow you have come back to life but enemies involved in the fight haven't, so it's easier. I died three times in one fight before beating it because I suck, instead of letting me get better and actually get satisfaction, the enemies kept the damage I had dealt so the last time I ran in I only had to hit the one guy left alive once to end it. Stupid stupid stupid.

    3) Parkour phsyics is not very fluid to me. You can make jumps that, visually you seem like you shouldn't be able to. You can't climb onto overhanging ledges above you. You can't actually sprint, there's only walking and "sprinting" which is just running. You can't slide under obstacles or wall run like Mirror's Edge, or else you have to level up a bunch first. The game would be better if all of that fluidity was just given to you in the prologue. If that means you can't have a bunch of trivial reward levels to engage players with and you actually have to write a good story, too bad.

    4) Story disappoints. No explanation for why they are sending you out to do these critical missions from the beginning and not the people they already have trained with better equipment. If you are doing a super critical mission why can't you have the baseball bat that some dude in HQ is just sitting around with. Stupid. Just standard "you're the video game hero so here do all the most important things from the beginning" with an absolute minimum of story to explain.

    Just a bad mashup of Assasin's Creed, Mirror's Edge, and Zombie games that doesn't do any particular thing well.    … Expand
  15. enut_butter
    Jan 28, 2015
    0
    Terribly optimized, mediocre zombie game.

    What else is there to say? I should have known not to waste my money with this developer, but I thought I would give it a shot. Needless to say, I want my money back.
  16. Smackk
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    Wow Im really impressed with this game. Solid game play mechanics, great questing system, fun coop, great optimization. I genuinely dont have a single bad thing to say about it. The people saying the optimization is bad are most likely not very savvy and have no idea how to adjust settings, lowering view distance and forcing triple buffering through the driver gives massive FPS boosts. ImWow Im really impressed with this game. Solid game play mechanics, great questing system, fun coop, great optimization. I genuinely dont have a single bad thing to say about it. The people saying the optimization is bad are most likely not very savvy and have no idea how to adjust settings, lowering view distance and forcing triple buffering through the driver gives massive FPS boosts. Im getting 55+ FPS at all times at 1440p just by turning down View distance with my SLI 780s. Game runs great, looks great, and plays great, definitely worth the price.… Expand
  17. pimpus
    Jan 28, 2015
    9
    for those they have performance problem with vsync turn on triplebuffering(gogle it),after this i have const 60 fps.i had 20 to 60 fps and after this -magic .Game is very good but console oriented.Now i have no prob with perf.
  18. dulifuli69
    Jan 28, 2015
    1
    Aside from the things others have said, I still can't believe that the main character, who is a special forces guy of some sort, who can instantly parkour and stuff still does not have the stamina to wave a freakin gas pipe 4 times. Totally ridiculous. And to go further a simple iron pipe goes wreck on zombies' heads. Seriously what the damn hell goes wrong about a simple iron pipe???Aside from the things others have said, I still can't believe that the main character, who is a special forces guy of some sort, who can instantly parkour and stuff still does not have the stamina to wave a freakin gas pipe 4 times. Totally ridiculous. And to go further a simple iron pipe goes wreck on zombies' heads. Seriously what the damn hell goes wrong about a simple iron pipe???

    This game gets 1 from me, since people have worked with it, so deserves more than zero.    … Expand
  19. grungebob
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    By far, the best of many games. Amazing graphics, amazing game play, amazing story, crafting, weapon modding and a game that you have to solve without just run and gunning. I highly recommend this... but I think this game was specifically made for me. I love Diablo, Batman and GTA series and I have liked previous zombie games like Dead Island... and every one of those games is mixed inBy far, the best of many games. Amazing graphics, amazing game play, amazing story, crafting, weapon modding and a game that you have to solve without just run and gunning. I highly recommend this... but I think this game was specifically made for me. I love Diablo, Batman and GTA series and I have liked previous zombie games like Dead Island... and every one of those games is mixed in this one.

    Also the Co-Op is great. Ubisoft, take a queue... When I play with on my friend's game in Far Cry 4, it should also save that progress to my game like this game is. No redoing on my local game.

    Also, I have no lag and no frame drops like other people are stating... 8 hrs in... but then again, I'm not like other people that put together crap machines and expect to run modern, amazing graphics.

    I highly recommend it. This is how seriously I like it... It will only be the second game I have bought the season pass for the game. (Bioshock Infinite is the previous). 10/10    … Expand
  20. asafahmed
    Jan 28, 2015
    7
    Bad optimization.And you cant walk smoothly just like dead island riptide.The game play is very fun.Park-our thing is also very fun.They should fix the optimization problem fast.
  21. Zourin
    Jan 28, 2015
    9
    Everyplace Farcry 4 failed, Dying Light delivers.

    Free-movement laterally and vertically through an urban environment is done very well (and gets smoother with skill-ups) never gets old, and the environment reward exploration with valuable loot, blueprints, and trophies. Urban verticality means there is often a way over your problems, and sparser outlying areas make you very aware of    Everyplace Farcry 4 failed, Dying Light delivers.

    Free-movement laterally and vertically through an urban environment is done very well (and gets smoother with skill-ups) never gets old, and the environment reward exploration with valuable loot, blueprints, and trophies. Urban verticality means there is often a way over your problems, and sparser outlying areas make you very aware of how vulnerable you become without a plethora of obstacles to put between you and your pursuers.

    Enemies that don't seem tedious because they always present a 'fight or run' decision at every turn (and running is still fun). At night, this turns into 'run or run like hell' if you get spotted (night is skippable, as is day).

    Anyone who complained about wildlife in Farcry 4 will find DL's zombies a reprieve. NPC's don't exist as badger and eagle fodder (making their often quirky/appalling subquests a part of the story as well as often reward you with unpurchaseable/uncraftable weapon upgrades (or even blueprints for craftable ones).

    As you develop your skills, the hordes grow more numerous and diverse, always posing significant risk to your well being. Expect to get beaten and killed, often, depending on your approach and ability to weigh risks. Firearms are powerful and become more available as time goes on, but will attract measures of unwanted attention which, again, may or may not be worth their use in any given situation. The risk/reward balance feels well measured, and trading an obnoxious threat for a more predictable one can sometimes be worth it.

    Disposable melee weapons keep you on your toes and makes upgrade components all the more valuable as you progress; there's no reason to hoard. Keep the best, upgrade them, use them 'till its last breath, chuck it into the skull of a zombie as a parting celebration, and remorselessly move on to the next. Weapons are tools (literally), and there are plenty of them in Harran, so sell off the spares.

    Dying Light lands as a solid experience well worth the expense, both in story and gameplay. Sound and graphics play perfectly together as you jump, loot, and bludgeon your way through the streets trying to save as many people as you can. NPC's do their best to hold their own, protect their own, and know their city better than you do. Helping them feels rewarding, and I'd give them better than even odds against your average honey badger; having to combat the living is a completely different affair. I've seen pairs go toe to toe against rebar-wielding monstrosities with somewhat even odds, making my casual intervention feel worth it in the end.

    Pick it up.    … Expand
  22. Jetpil0t
    Jan 28, 2015
    7
    A really excellent game marred by fairly significant performance issues on PC. There is a lot to like here, the gameplay is smooth and well executed, difficulty level pis well tuned, story is substantial and interesting and side quests and missions are sizable, diverse and rarely repetitive.

    The enemy design and difficulty level is really well crafted, which is rare, especially in these    A really excellent game marred by fairly significant performance issues on PC. There is a lot to like here, the gameplay is smooth and well executed, difficulty level pis well tuned, story is substantial and interesting and side quests and missions are sizable, diverse and rarely repetitive.

    The enemy design and difficulty level is really well crafted, which is rare, especially in these types of open world games. Enemies are diverse and challenging and while there is no difficulty setting, players can moderate their own difficulty level through their play style which measures anywhere from moderate to quite difficult.

    The quest design is a real stand out too, as you rarely undertake any pointless or tedious quests and unexpected things consistently take place throughout, keeping things interesting and always worth doing.

    However the games performance on PC leaves quite a lot to be desired. I have played this on an R9 290 and a GTX 970, AMD GPU performance borders on unplayable while nVidia GPU performance is merely average despite the prevalence of nVidia Gameworks and proprietary features. AMD CPU performance takes a real hit too as the game seems to be not so well optimized leaving the single core performance of Intel CPUs at a significant advantage. That being said, the game presents with very few if any technical bugs, so hopefully any developer efforts will be focused solely on optimization.

    Quite a shame really as there are so many well crafted systems in the game, it's hard to fault it elsewhere and a real stand out title to get things kicked off in 2015.    … Expand
  23. fatirishman
    Jan 28, 2015
    8
    the game is pretty damn good but you have to grind for about 3-4 hours before the real fun starts. would have rated it higher if there wasn't such bad frame problems right now. it does kinda feel like dead island but it has the right to stand as its own just like lords of the fallen from dark souls.
    I'm running with MSI r 290 with a fx-8370 and 12 gigs ram and still have problems with    the game is pretty damn good but you have to grind for about 3-4 hours before the real fun starts. would have rated it higher if there wasn't such bad frame problems right now. it does kinda feel like dead island but it has the right to stand as its own just like lords of the fallen from dark souls.
    I'm running with MSI r 290 with a fx-8370 and 12 gigs ram and still have problems with frames staying around 15-20 frames that's just unplayable but love the game    … Expand
  24. DustEater
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    It is really funny when someone writes about bad optimalization having:
    Intel Core i7 4960x @ 4.0GHz
    16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM @1600MHz Game installed on 1TB HDD Dual GTX 770s in SLI OC My PC is: AMD Phenom II X4 945, 4GB RAM 1333, AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB, system on SSD, game on HDD. Game is briliant on MEDIUM settings without flushes like blur, gloom etc (useless stuff).    It is really funny when someone writes about bad optimalization having:
    Intel Core i7 4960x @ 4.0GHz
    16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM @1600MHz
    Game installed on 1TB HDD
    Dual GTX 770s in SLI OC

    My PC is: AMD Phenom II X4 945, 4GB RAM 1333, AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB, system on SSD, game on HDD. Game is briliant on MEDIUM settings without flushes like blur, gloom etc (useless stuff).

    This is just a **** of a hater who hates because he hates to hate.

    Game kinda the same like Dead Island but made in new way. Here you have to survive not to rush throu massess of zombies killing every one of them. Thinking, planning and executing - its a good plan to survive. Character development is simple but well specified. Nothing more to add. Crafting - fast and simple. One minus to crafting is that you need to craft one item a time Can live with that. Graphic is much better than Dead Island. I cant see all aspects of it cause my 6-7 years old pc but Im happy with that I have. Even with that its still can run high-end games.    … Expand
  25. drdreh
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    Great game! Great ambiance! Great gameplay! The night really scary! Multiplayer mode is great fun! If you like zombie game, open world, play this game!
  26. Optimization
    Jan 28, 2015
    0
    Yet again, a poorly optimized game by Techland. This game has major performance problems, and is unplayable. After the tutorial and you're exposed to the open world, the fps drops and there is major stuttering when moving & turning side to side. After five minutes of being in-game, after the tutorial that is, the game crashes and an error comes up: "ResizeBuffers failed 0x887a0005" withYet again, a poorly optimized game by Techland. This game has major performance problems, and is unplayable. After the tutorial and you're exposed to the open world, the fps drops and there is major stuttering when moving & turning side to side. After five minutes of being in-game, after the tutorial that is, the game crashes and an error comes up: "ResizeBuffers failed 0x887a0005" with the title of the error called "CrashExit..." Techland do not know how to optimize a game properly, proof from past games they've made. Such as dead island, dead island riptide etc.

    My PC specifications:

    Intel Core i7 4960x @ 4.0GHz
    16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM @1600MHz
    Game installed on 1TB HDD
    Dual GTX 770s in SLI OC    … Expand
  27. BurglorHamsack
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    Played the game for 2000 hours and it didn't have one flaw. Like Nicolai Iversen said i can't be tamed. its a great adventure, better than the mediocre Harry potter games hahahhahahahhahahhahahahha
  28. PashaAlex
    Jan 28, 2015
    4
    Boring, unpleasant to eyes (because of the filter), game not gory at all, parkour is buggy, optimization sometimes is awful... and loading screen is just ridiculous. I don't know about story, but something tells me it's nothing special, we have stupidest hero, who can only kill, jump, listen to orders. Haven't seen any good characters, all of them are stereotypical and not interesting.Boring, unpleasant to eyes (because of the filter), game not gory at all, parkour is buggy, optimization sometimes is awful... and loading screen is just ridiculous. I don't know about story, but something tells me it's nothing special, we have stupidest hero, who can only kill, jump, listen to orders. Haven't seen any good characters, all of them are stereotypical and not interesting.

    It's hybrid of Dead Island and Mirror's Edge on another island, but without FUN.    … Expand
  29. sinsro
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    The first horror game I played that is actually genuinely nerve wrenching. Nothing beats the feeling of harrowingly escaping a crowd zombies at night. A beautiful, huge world draws you in, and the harsh environment is unforgiving, but never unfair, and keeps you on your toes at all times. The story is interesting, cutscenes feels rewarding rather than interrupting. The game has some of theThe first horror game I played that is actually genuinely nerve wrenching. Nothing beats the feeling of harrowingly escaping a crowd zombies at night. A beautiful, huge world draws you in, and the harsh environment is unforgiving, but never unfair, and keeps you on your toes at all times. The story is interesting, cutscenes feels rewarding rather than interrupting. The game has some of the best graphics I have seen so far, truly spectacular. Do not miss this game if you have the slightest interest in the genre of open world games with zombies and a tad of RPG thrown in..… Expand
  30. Frozenbyte
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    I like hw everybody with slow video cards are complaining about technical issues.
    Guys... this is new reality after XBOX ONE + PS4 release. In order to play new games you NEED VGA with 4GB VRAM. i have absolutelly no problem with frame rate on my 970GTX.
  31. Pocktio
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    Genre-defining zombie experience. That's what you get. This is a delightful hybrid of Last of Us and Dead Rising, steering more towards the serious tone of survival in The Last of Us than the over the top carnage of DR3. The world is visually stunning, the gameplay is smooth and works exceptionally well together, the story is acceptable and the attention to detail fabulous.

    The    Genre-defining zombie experience. That's what you get. This is a delightful hybrid of Last of Us and Dead Rising, steering more towards the serious tone of survival in The Last of Us than the over the top carnage of DR3. The world is visually stunning, the gameplay is smooth and works exceptionally well together, the story is acceptable and the attention to detail fabulous.

    The cooperative should be a big selling point, it's done very well and is seamless. Playing solo will lend to a more cautious play style, but with 3 friends you can take on large zombie hordes more readily Nightime changes everything, my full coop team got downed by Volatiles within a minute and had be running like a little girl while my friends died.

    The atmosphere is supreme. The city of Harran feels devastated and is filled to the brim with zombies, I have never seen so many zombies in such a detailed open world before. They are truly numberless. The sounds of the city, the gorgeous lighting at night and the noise volatiles/virals make when they're running just far enough behind you that a moments pause would have them catch you....is haunting and well done.

    The RPG system and player development is pretty damn standard, but as with everything else very polished and well done. As you level up you grow in power and speed, which makes a marked difference from your clumsy forays into the city at the start of the game. I'm already running, climbing and smashing zombies faster and harder than before and the development feels fantastic. I'm unsure if you ever become TOO powerful, but I don't think it seems likely. You will always be on the backfoot fighting an entire city of dead things.

    HOWEVER one of the BIGGEST reasons I rate this so highly is because Techland really did it. So many developers promise the world and fall short. So many promise us greatness for it to fall down, promies to be found missing or wanting or the overall experience to be plagued by technical issues and bugs.

    Techland has not fallen into these pitfalls. At all. I've had ZERO technical issues and everything has run smooth as butter. Everything comes together remarkably and frankly my hat is off to Techland for genuinely succeeding in crafting such an ambitious title and more than living up to the hype.

    For that reason I bump the score from 9 to 10/10. If this was from a developer I expect the best from (Maybe Bethesda or any other big name AAA title developer) I would give a 9 as I expect such quality, but they really need to do something different to get a 10. I did not expect such majesty of game design from Techland, at all. Ty Techland, your did good!    … Expand
  32. poppunkreviews
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    I absolute love this game! Techland has created such a wonderful game, even tho it does suck for AMD users not to be optimized yet but the game is 100% working and not broken. Yet i have problems with the sound and a few fps drops the game is beautiful.
  33. MarcelDesperado
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    Gameplay is great, the graphics are absolutely amazing, the story is very good... in my pc run ok

    My PC:
    i7 3770,
    8BG
    Gigabyte GTX 770 2GB Windforce 3
  34. ClipState
    Jan 28, 2015
    8
    While the gameplay is solid and the zombies are fun to battle, the game overall feels very familiar. To some, it would seems like Far Cry 3 with zombies and less guns while to others its a refreshing game that takes the best elements of Dead Island and combines it into a highly enjoyable open world game.

    The loot and weapons are pretty standard however it allows an easier and more    While the gameplay is solid and the zombies are fun to battle, the game overall feels very familiar. To some, it would seems like Far Cry 3 with zombies and less guns while to others its a refreshing game that takes the best elements of Dead Island and combines it into a highly enjoyable open world game.

    The loot and weapons are pretty standard however it allows an easier and more direct experience but the parts of the game that really stood out include the gameplay at night which turns ordinary zombie bashing into a frantic hide and seek survival game, the fun parkour elements and abilities which make traversing the map a lot less boring and finally the graphics which were vastly improved. Although this does push the system requirements up quite a bit.

    The story was standard. What you would expect from a game like this but at least this time your character is actually interesting as well as the NPCs around you (compared to Dead Island)

    Overall, I felt like this game was very familiar during ordinary gameplay and included good elements from other games but it combined them well enough resulting in a extremely fun to play and somewhat addictive game which will take up a lot if not all of your free time.    … Expand
  35. RommoR
    Jan 28, 2015
    0
    Dying Light, the grainy mud filter is the worst affront to your eye's rather than the rotting fleshing of the same 6 zombies you will be fighting as a standard enemy.

    This game run horribly on most systems, with constant stuttering and choking on the most random of things, lowering setting which shouldn't need to be lowered will make it run "smoother", other than this people had touting    Dying Light, the grainy mud filter is the worst affront to your eye's rather than the rotting fleshing of the same 6 zombies you will be fighting as a standard enemy.

    This game run horribly on most systems, with constant stuttering and choking on the most random of things, lowering setting which shouldn't need to be lowered will make it run "smoother", other than this people had touting this game as fun, after 5 Hours straight I'm still searching for it,

    Problems with this game range from boring generic mash Mouse1 to kill, with enemies dodging and blocking purely at random with no sense of why they do so, having fought virals some will just spam back dodge when your attacking others will let you wail on them till their a pulp, humans are worse because they block by holding their weapon 6 inches from their face and if you attack you just aimless strike their weapon like a cat playing with a toy even if you aren't aiming at this rather absurd attempt to parry your strikes.

    Climbing & Vaulting which they call Parkour seems interesting but gets old very fast with the exact same animation playing over and over with random nonsensical limitations on what you can climb jump and reach, don't expect something smooth and free flowing its far from that imagine having the ledges from Far cry 4 everywhere with the same sort of animation following every time you clamber over anything.

    The story is more laughable with plot points ranging from, meet the mentally challenged psycho wannabe living with his mother who is a pillow and a bucket and then onwards and upwards to one of the Survivors leaders trying to take a "Nest" out by using explosives but rather than reaching there he gets trapped inside a train where knowing he has no way out on his own decides to arm the bomb anyway. . . Why well screw you that's why I don't have to explain myself to you. . .

    It has the same old tired Dead Island talent tree split into 3 specs sort of like Dead Island originally had but each effect your 3 main stats, Survivor skill, Agility skill and Power skill, there is nothing new or unique about the system it just feels like a addon put there just to try and add some re-playability.

    Loot and crafting again just direct copy of Dead Island again with same pointless things, like when crafting a mod with your own material you still have to pay cash, even though its you doing it with your own items, my current theory is that the character is eating the cash in hopes that it will stave off the zombie infection/ Rabies virus pumping through his veins.

    Night time, you remember the video trailer of the Hunters and Night time, the fear of the character as he rushes through the streets hoping he is dodging them and making it to safety the rush and thrill of been truly outmatched and running for dear life, well its not in the game rather at night time the hunters come out to play but are thwarted with the fact you have not only a Mini-map showing you where to go but, it tells you where those hunters are and what way they are facing with a Metal Gear solid style cone of vision, you simply walk the entire way back just avoiding them by walking just past their sight range hell you can even stop and shine your flashlight at the light sensitive zombies and they don't flinch as long as they haven't spotted you.

    A lot of little QTE's litter the game and we have the same old Lock picking system of Elder Scrolls series it seems like a random assortment of broke and hated ideas from other more popular games shoved into another generic cash grab zombie game and hope that people don't notice it.

    Save yourself the money sadly it was a lot of hype and what we got was a buggy, poorly optimized game with, shoddy plot and characters, with the most basic and tedious of gameplay, with very little redeeming features when the charm runs out.    … Expand
  36. MysterE
    Jan 27, 2015
    8
    Not that deep into it yet but I'm really enjoying it so far. Perhaps some may find the beginning a bit of a slow start. Tutorializing was a little long but not too bad. Nice sense of pressure as the sun goes down. Very pretty game, solid combat and fun parkour especially once you start unlocking abilities. Crafting is fun. If youre looking for true survival look elsewhere, supplies areNot that deep into it yet but I'm really enjoying it so far. Perhaps some may find the beginning a bit of a slow start. Tutorializing was a little long but not too bad. Nice sense of pressure as the sun goes down. Very pretty game, solid combat and fun parkour especially once you start unlocking abilities. Crafting is fun. If youre looking for true survival look elsewhere, supplies are fairly plentiful if you bother pressing 'q' (search) once in a while. Story is basic so far but still more or less engaging. It keeps me moving to the next thing at least. Zombies (and more importantly, humans) can be dumb at times. waiting for me to come down to them even though they watched me run up the stairs on the side. I've seen some weird clipping of zombies starting to fall through floor as they stand on the edge of a roof.

    BIGGEST COMPLAINT: as of today, release day, I'm having some horrible frame rate issues. It doesn't actually affect gameplay, it only happens during cutscenes. This does include tiny cutscenes like opening of doors. I'll hear the audio for the scene begin but I'll be stuck at the beginning. and eventually it'll get going, occasionally still at a slow speed. This is really bad because it basically ruins the cutscenes, but tbh I would be much more upset if it actually affected my gameplay which it does not.

    I fully expect them to repair this, but it bears mentioning. Overall a very enjoyable game.    … Expand
  37. Retpally
    Jan 27, 2015
    7
    I have played a few hours of this game, the gameplay is good, the graphics are good, the price is good (49.99$) and the story is okay, the only big problem is performance I am playing the game at high 1080p and view distance at half and my fps is at 30-40, my computer is good (i7 3770, 12gb ram, r9 290), even if I lower the video settings I only get 3-4 more fps. I hope they will patchI have played a few hours of this game, the gameplay is good, the graphics are good, the price is good (49.99$) and the story is okay, the only big problem is performance I am playing the game at high 1080p and view distance at half and my fps is at 30-40, my computer is good (i7 3770, 12gb ram, r9 290), even if I lower the video settings I only get 3-4 more fps. I hope they will patch performance because the bad fps can affect the gameplay.… Expand
  38. zaphod6502
    Jan 27, 2015
    9
    This is the zombie survival game I have wanted for a very long time. The open world feel is perfectly implemented here and the ability to jump, leap, and run through the city is only limited by your imagination. The night and day mechanic is interesting and terrifying and really adds to the tension. The crafting system and UI is vastly improved over the Dead Island series.

    The only real    This is the zombie survival game I have wanted for a very long time. The open world feel is perfectly implemented here and the ability to jump, leap, and run through the city is only limited by your imagination. The night and day mechanic is interesting and terrifying and really adds to the tension. The crafting system and UI is vastly improved over the Dead Island series.

    The only real negative I have for the game is the lack of an option to turn off the film grain effect the game insists on using. I do understand the reason is for immersion but having clean graphics should be an option and also definitely better for those of us who do not have top of the line graphics cards.    … Expand
  39. Fen__
    Jan 27, 2015
    10
    What a game. It is gripping, the freedom of movement combined to the dead island like melee combat is pure joy. Graphics are top notch, the world of the living dead constantly evolving around you. There are so many nooks and crannies, as you enter a dark building you notice a corpse lying there, will it come alive, do you have an escape route as making noise will certainly attract theWhat a game. It is gripping, the freedom of movement combined to the dead island like melee combat is pure joy. Graphics are top notch, the world of the living dead constantly evolving around you. There are so many nooks and crannies, as you enter a dark building you notice a corpse lying there, will it come alive, do you have an escape route as making noise will certainly attract the brain eating shamblers.

    The night comes along and the meaning of "good night, good luck" resonate as you desperately jump from roof to roof to find a safe place from the hunters screaming in your back.

    The looting system is very similar to dead Island, with many fun crafting recipes to better your weapons and the loot is plentyful. As the character progresses ala Far cry you can really notice the increase in fluidity of movement as you jump over your foes elegantly only to stab their heads from behind in a gory fashion.

    The performances are very good, with thousands of players enjoying the game whereas a few hundred unlucky vocals are making themselves heard, but don't be fooled there aren't many issues here. And the devs will surely get around to fixing those.

    All in all, an awesome game that bid a good start to the year 2015.    … Expand
  40. Sweetew
    Jan 27, 2015
    5
    after having played dying light for a few hours, there´s one sentence that summarizes my feelings about this this game - unoptimised.

    Yep, this is a horrible port job, and it´s no wonder techland gave out review copies 12 hours before launch. Shady as hell guys! Save your money for now. What is here feels decent, and the game will probably be good but HOLD YOUR GODDAMN CASH IN YOUR    after having played dying light for a few hours, there´s one sentence that summarizes my feelings about this this game - unoptimised.

    Yep, this is a horrible port job, and it´s no wonder techland gave out review copies 12 hours before launch.
    Shady as hell guys!

    Save your money for now. What is here feels decent, and the game will probably be good but HOLD YOUR GODDAMN CASH IN YOUR WALLET UNTIL THEY FIX THIS ****    … Expand
  41. AhmedShehab95
    Jan 27, 2015
    6
    Badly optimized,frame drops here and there even on high end rigs.
    it has optimization issues that effects the performance of the game.
    LOD:the load of distance here is the worst part of the graphic settings set it on high takes a huge drop to the frames. AA:not many options for Anti-Aliasing just the On/Off option,and still we have no decent AA for the objects,buildings etc.    Badly optimized,frame drops here and there even on high end rigs.
    it has optimization issues that effects the performance of the game.

    LOD:the load of distance here is the worst part of the graphic settings set it on high takes a huge drop to the frames.

    AA:not many options for Anti-Aliasing just the On/Off option,and still we have no decent AA for the objects,buildings etc.

    AO/HBAO+:not to many options too for Ambient Occlusion just turn AO on and leave the HBAO+

    Shadows:another badly optimized option but at least you still have many choices to improve in game performance.

    Vsync: turning that off makes the game run like garbage,turning it on will cause more fps drop.

    THE GAME STORY IS GOOD AND IT'S FUN.but if they don't patch the performance issues than it'll be another bad port and PC gamers will be Fu*ed again

    not everyone have a God-Like PC with 12GB of VRAM for fu*k sake.    … Expand
  42. KevinCam
    Jan 27, 2015
    1
    10/10 for the tutorial. When you leave to go outside, you cant do much with all the lag. Game is unplayable 0/10. I will give it a 1 just for a great tutorial experience.
  43. Indrigis
    Jan 27, 2015
    5
    The game runs fine. Sure, it has worse graphics than any other modern game and the performance issues are right there but turning all the graphics options to a minimum makes it run ok. Doesn't crash to desktop either, so a huge progress from Dead Island here.

    It has a host other problems, however, like the narrative being awfully stupid with "plot twists" visible from a mile away, the    The game runs fine. Sure, it has worse graphics than any other modern game and the performance issues are right there but turning all the graphics options to a minimum makes it run ok. Doesn't crash to desktop either, so a huge progress from Dead Island here.

    It has a host other problems, however, like the narrative being awfully stupid with "plot twists" visible from a mile away, the cast being mostly annoying and easily forgettable and the protagonist being an unbelievable wimp who can't sprint for more than 20 seconds or swing a weapon more than three times in a row (until you learn to run for a whole THIRTY seconds in a row and master the ancient chinese art of stomping down on fallen enemies heads), and the hugely touted "parkour" being a series of "run forward, aim for a ledge, press jump and watch your hero s-l-o-w-l-y climb it" episodes. It literally has NO tempo.

    Techland seems to have mastered the "first person swing-at-zombies-with-flimsy-weapons" genre perfectly. Now they need to learn to make their games actually interesting.    … Expand
  44. temaxa
    Jan 27, 2015
    8
    I give an assessment in 8 points because of the gloomy beginning. Further the excellent action opens. Very impressive graphics. The plot so-so in Dead Island one many better was. 8 of 10.
  45. Avadon
    Jan 27, 2015
    0
    My 15 minute long experience with Dying Light:

    Long cutscene. Character wakes up. Immediately notice a HORRENDOUS film grain effect that makes it look like you're playing the game on a monitor with 5000 green dead pixels. Look through the options menu. Find NO WAY to turn it off. Oh...wow. Move. My sprint key is disabled because the game thinks it will be too much information for the    My 15 minute long experience with Dying Light:

    Long cutscene. Character wakes up. Immediately notice a HORRENDOUS film grain effect that makes it look like you're playing the game on a monitor with 5000 green dead pixels. Look through the options menu. Find NO WAY to turn it off. Oh...wow. Move. My sprint key is disabled because the game thinks it will be too much information for the player at the start of the game to be able to sprint. So I have to VEEEEERY slowly shuffle around a multi story office building and talk to some dudes. Cutscene. Get mission to save a guy that is trapped on the 13th floor, and noone else dares to go up there because apparently it's a slaughter. Very slowly make my way up because sprint doesn't work. The horrible danger and slaughter that made everyone not even bother to go up turns out to be ONE zombie. I hit it on the head once and it dies. The game now informs me that my sprint key is Shift. I hit Escape and look through the options menu once more, because I find the game unplayable with the film grain effect. It's like the one in Alien Isolation, only 5 times more annoying. Nope, still can't find a way to turn it off. I craft a medikit and patch up the guy on the 13th floor. Cutscene. During the cutscene, the game crashes to desktop. I launch CCleaner and uninstall.    … Expand
  46. Zefninja
    Jan 27, 2015
    10
    The game has got to be the most amazing tribute to taking different game play idea's and translating them into one beautiful master piece.

    The combat is perfectly balanced and the weapons/damage models just make you feel further immersed. The graphics are beyond amazing. On the GTX980, I literally feel immersed. If could play this on Occ Rift, would be a further game changer. GET    The game has got to be the most amazing tribute to taking different game play idea's and translating them into one beautiful master piece.

    The combat is perfectly balanced and the weapons/damage models just make you feel further immersed.

    The graphics are beyond amazing. On the GTX980, I literally feel immersed. If could play this on Occ Rift, would be a further game changer.

    GET THIS GAME people, its EPIC    … Expand
  47. milanbassi
    Jan 27, 2015
    10
    Best game of the year so far. I've played some of this game so far and i must say it is amazing and worth the money. Great way to start the year. You must try this game and you will enjoy it I assure you.
  48. sscott0829tw
    Jan 27, 2015
    9
    A zombie Masterpiece
    A massive game world to explore
    A very fluent parkour system
    Improve so much from Dead island 2
    well design zombies
    Co-op is even more fun
    Love it ~~~~
  49. J4MESOX4D
    Jan 27, 2015
    7
    Dying Light is an enjoyable game from Techland but despite a much more polished title than its Dead Island predecessors, this game still suffers from bad habits that plagued those games along with yet another shaky launch on PC regarding the technical aspect.

    Firstly; the game looks gorgeous, with a beautiful vast and colourful backdrop and fantastic attention to detail. The movement    Dying Light is an enjoyable game from Techland but despite a much more polished title than its Dead Island predecessors, this game still suffers from bad habits that plagued those games along with yet another shaky launch on PC regarding the technical aspect.

    Firstly; the game looks gorgeous, with a beautiful vast and colourful backdrop and fantastic attention to detail. The movement mechanics are easy to use and a joy to execute plus the crafting system is also well-implemented.

    Dying Light however lets itself down with some very mundane missions, forgettable characters and repetitive gameplay. Thankfully the parkour physics and various melee weapons keep the game interesting but the core of the product lacks any real depth. After a few hours of play; once you've seen that; you have essentially seen all that will be offered in the latter stages of the game. The campaign is a fairly weak narrative supported by a largely intolerable cast.

    Technically, the game is a calamitous launch for many. I should be able to run this comfortably as I have exceeded even the recommended settings but this is the only game which I own that suffers from significant frame rate drops and more irritatingly; cutscene stuttering/freezing. It seems to be hit and miss with other players of varying rigs, so be weary of how this could fare on your system before rushing to purchase.

    Overall; Dying Light is a decent game with a stunning setting and great mechanics. However, the story and characters along with the missions are very weak which drags the product down. Technically; the game is inconsistent and doesn't run to a good standard even on the highest-end setups which makes it hard to judge. It is certainly a massive improvement on Dead Island but Techland have not excelled in key areas which is disappointing. At £40; I find it hard to recommend at this pricepoint especially with the potential performance woes but at a cost lower down the line and with possible patches on the way; it's certainly a consideration in the future especially at a cheaper cost.    … Expand
  50. CharlieJHD
    Jan 27, 2015
    10
    10/10 - Just enough zombies, the lack of water was frustrating but you get over that little issue after drinking mountain dew and eating some doritos.
    (Sponsored by IGN)
  51. EarlyGameReview
    Jan 27, 2015
    10
    *It is absolutely amazing. there can't be a negative review for this one. 10/10 The story is phenomenally good and VERY strong. the graphics are insanely good. the gameplay is absolutely fantastic. everything fits perfectly well together, amazing game, thank you Techland. one againnnn 101/10 10/10
  52. busbfran
    Jan 27, 2015
    10
    Yes it has performance issues however, Dying Light is the best Zombie game we have ever had. Techland has gone back started from scratch and smashed it! Better story, better voice acting, amazing atmosphere and done right fun mechanics, we may have our game of the year already. Dying Light is everything and more!
  53. Milkpowder
    Jan 27, 2015
    9
    So much better than Dead Island...The game shines on every single aspect, game play is fluid, graphics are amazing and the story is pretty damn good thus far. I can def recommend the game!!
    The only slightly negative thing is the dynamic day night cycle...Its actually linked to quests and doesn't cycle like an actual day night cycle would. Other than that its a fun and solid gaming experience.
  54. alexmann
    Jan 27, 2015
    9
    I was able to get my hand on a copy of this game about 19 hours ago, and I have been playing it a good deal. Although I am not 100% through the game I am at the point where I have seen all it has to offer- so here is my review

    Gameplay- It plays much like a cleaner, better looking, more fluid, and more fun dead island. It feels like dead island with a larger budget. Running up walls to    I was able to get my hand on a copy of this game about 19 hours ago, and I have been playing it a good deal. Although I am not 100% through the game I am at the point where I have seen all it has to offer- so here is my review

    Gameplay- It plays much like a cleaner, better looking, more fluid, and more fun dead island. It feels like dead island with a larger budget. Running up walls to escape a horde, finding safety as night approaches, using upgraded abilities to kill more zombies with greater zest- it all works and works well. In terms of game play it was everything that dead island was supposed to be. My only complaints are breaking weapons, old school health bars, and stamina meters. I think these things restrict you, but it still works out. [9/10]

    Graphics/sound- The sound is effective at creating a serious atmosphere- when a zombie is right on top of you, you hear it. When a horde is approaching- you hear it. It is all done well enough to keep you engaged though it is not really stand out to me. The graphics are nice, clean textures- great environments, and good character models really sell the experience. Expect some frame rate issues when game play picks up- and also I experienced a crash time to time. However there were no broken quests. In a game this size you have to expect a few bugs right? [8.5/10]

    Story- This is the underwhelming portion. The story is far more serious than that of dead island. No dark humor, no super cheesy characters (well not as cheesy). You find yourself helping the few survivors in the city with fetch quests and the typical point A to point B. There are a couple surprises- and a passable story to match. None of it is bad, but none of it is great. It is clear the time was put into the gameplay. On the plus side the game is sizable. If you are a completion you could get 70 hours out of this game, though the average gamer can expect 30 to 40. [7.5/10]

    In all this game is a great zombie experience. Fun gameplay, great graphics, and a very well done open world make this an adventure worth having, even if the story falls short... An 8.5 out of 10    … Expand
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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 40 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 40
  3. Negative: 2 out of 40
  1. Ten Ton Hammer
    Nov 1, 2015
    80
    Don't let the Dead Island affiliation sway you one way or the other, Dying Light is its own game and it's rightfully fun, but it's not something that is Game of the Year material to me. If you like zombie games and open world games then this is worth the pickup, but otherwise I'd skip it until it goes on sale, because it's still a really fun game no matter how you dice it.
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  2. Washington Post
    Apr 6, 2015
    40
    It’s a game of a thousand house calls, in which everyone needs something they can’t get or do for themselves. Catastrophe has made every doorstep a welcome place, with disease and death the justification for an openness that might seem unthinkable under other circumstances.
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  3. Dealspwn
    Mar 22, 2015
    70
    If you can get past the clunky storytelling and the repetitive missions, you might a diamond in the rough that really empowers you to revel in the design aspects of its zombie-infested sandbox.
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