Dying Light

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  1. ReDDx
    Jan 30, 2015
    9
    Awesome game, great gameplay they have to fix a bit the optimization but that will be done i think.
    Good story, non boring side missions and challanges,and I love the locations.
    Tons of zombies & beasts to slap around in this huge map! +Tons of weapons and customizations! +Non linear gameplay, can quest, explore, be the beast, and even Co-op! +Talent tree is awesome! +Night time is    Awesome game, great gameplay they have to fix a bit the optimization but that will be done i think.
    Good story, non boring side missions and challanges,and I love the locations.
    Tons of zombies & beasts to slap around in this huge map!
    +Tons of weapons and customizations!
    +Non linear gameplay, can quest, explore, be the beast, and even Co-op!
    +Talent tree is awesome!
    +Night time is terrifying F#%$ing run for your Life or Fight!
    CONS:
    -Why are you still reading this... GET this game now!!!
    just a great game to start 2015    … Expand
  2. neigenoire
    Jan 29, 2015
    8
    I've played this game for two days now and feel like I can give an honest impression if not a proper review. I have never played Dead Island so I am a clean slate in that regard. I find this game extremely fun. Yes. the gameplay is not very complex but it's polished and fluid and feels very satisfying. Running around, jumping from one rooftop to another never gets old to me and zombieI've played this game for two days now and feel like I can give an honest impression if not a proper review. I have never played Dead Island so I am a clean slate in that regard. I find this game extremely fun. Yes. the gameplay is not very complex but it's polished and fluid and feels very satisfying. Running around, jumping from one rooftop to another never gets old to me and zombie encounters are always exciting and dangerous, especially during nighttime when the game switches its genre to horror. No joke, the stuff that crawls out there during nighttime will make you s***t your pants. Like others have mentioned, the story isn't particularly exciting, but in my opinion is passable enough and even good at certain points. And yes, I am also having significant frame drops. Playing on medium settings I get 15-20 FPS in the worst parts of the city, which is bad but I can accept it for now. I am starting to notice certain patterns though, like the the same buildings that you scavenge for goods and certain elements of interior are encountered a bit too frequently and I start think 'wait, haven't I been here already?', but in fact it's a different place with the same looks. The city does feel very big though and I can't really blame the developers for having filler content here and there. Although I can already sense how it will eventually become boring to me and I will move on to something else, the game is still very fun and enjoyable to me and I expect I will finish the storyline before that happens.… Expand
  3. Novus
    Jan 31, 2015
    10
    I'm only at 8 hours playtime but I can say the game is worth the money. I'm writing this after the first patch 1.2.1 and nvidia drivers 347.25 and the performance is a lot better now than it was at first (at least for me).

    The story is interesting and makes you want to keep going, the characters are very lifelike due to the smooth animations and modern graphics and the voice acting is    I'm only at 8 hours playtime but I can say the game is worth the money. I'm writing this after the first patch 1.2.1 and nvidia drivers 347.25 and the performance is a lot better now than it was at first (at least for me).

    The story is interesting and makes you want to keep going, the characters are very lifelike due to the smooth animations and modern graphics and the voice acting is good.

    Inventory system works great and the fact that you can upgrade and modify weapons on the go is a big plus compared to Dead Island's system where you needed a workstation.

    Some people are complained that the weapons break too fast and, well, yes they do, but that should just give you more motivation to find better weapons, modify and upgrade them. You can also use talent points to make weapons last longer or make repaired easier.

    The talent system works really well. Everything you do helps you to improve some of your skills. With a system like that it's okay to go off course and help some fellow survivors or kill some bad guys. Because it's all rewarding in some way or another, either through loot, money or new talents.

    I'm also really happy that they didn't implement a fast-travel system like we've seen in Fallout, Skyrim and Dead Island. Sometimes you have to run a lot back and worth but again, it's fine as it can be rewarding in new talents or new discoveries.

    They are plenty of side quests that also introduces you to interesting characters. Even though you run about a lot the game does not seem repetitive as all the missions vary a lot in my opinion.

    The ragdoll effects on the zombies are simply amazing and only adds a certain realism to the game. Hands down the best first-person zombie game to date.

    Techland has really payed attention to detail. I was in a random room in a random building and randomly looked up at a wall clock. You know, the ones who are almost always static in games, but this one actually moved. I liked that.

    I was going to give this game a 9, but it gets a 10 because of the character Jade Aldemir. She's a cool character and not bad on the eyes either. She reminds me of of Alyx Vance from Half Life 2. Anyway I'll get back to the game now. Good Night, Good Luck.    … Expand
  4. ThinkSamich
    Feb 1, 2015
    7
    As many have already stated, Dying Light seems to bring together a bunch of good features from other titles without actually trying anything new. It's like a vegetable stew of tried and tested features with Dead Island as a base. The game feels like what Dead Island should have been in the first place, in fact I spent a lot of time saying "oh, I've done this before in Dead Island."

    "Oh    As many have already stated, Dying Light seems to bring together a bunch of good features from other titles without actually trying anything new. It's like a vegetable stew of tried and tested features with Dead Island as a base. The game feels like what Dead Island should have been in the first place, in fact I spent a lot of time saying "oh, I've done this before in Dead Island."

    "Oh hey, it's the office building with an excessive amount of breakable glass, just like Dead Island. Oh, it's that annoying part of the game where I have to traverse the sewers again, just like Dead Island." Techland, no more long corridor sewers please.

    I'm on the fence with Techland, there's so much they do undeniably right. They seem to be experts at setting atmosphere, the city overlooks in Dying Light are beautiful. The map was done by a group of studied individuals who must have planned it meticulously. Walking into a room and reading the story of the last moments from the corpse on the floor, just from the visual cues in the room is something only a handful of games do right. Dying Light is one of those games. One final standout feature, zombie AI evolves throughout the game. The zombies get consistently more aggressive and it's a fantastic touch, most RPGs would have scaled the health and been done with it. Techland goes above and beyond.

    At the same time, there are a lot of issues with the game, and several reoccurring mistakes Techland seems to make. Optimization is one of them, if you think back to the launch of Dead Island, the game was notoriously poorly optimized for the PC to the point where hundreds of Steam users demanded and received refunds. Dying Light isn't quite this bad, but it does have a barrage of optimization issues that will keep the average PC user from enjoying the game.

    From here there are just several design issues that I personally do not agree with. The permanent film-grain effect is horrible. The way the dead island/dying light engine makes the textures of everything in the environment look like they have a thick layer of wax over them bothers me. There seems to be far too many dark places unoccupied by virals during the day. The Parkour system works most of the time, but when it doesn't it will be during the worst times possible. The way the game handles death seems rushed at best, you're slapped with an XP penalty and respawned at the nearest safehouse. You can watch virals spawn from the air endlessly if you make enough noise, shouldn't they stop coming at some point? The way they handle zombie hordes is tricky, there are much more zombies on screen than can be active at one time. It seems like roughly 8-10 zombies can be actively pursuing you at any give time, the other zombies on the screen are idle. There are lots of assets reused from Dead Island. It's important to note that the things listed in this paragraph do not necessarily change the score of the review. I understand they're quite specific, just issues I find bothersome.

    With all of that said, Techland is a company I am excited to see grow. I would be excited to see them on a fresh game engine. They just need to step out of their comfort zone.    … Expand
  5. epeternally
    Feb 4, 2015
    7
    Fun, flawed, and suffering from a story that is so bizarre and stilted that it is substantially worse than if the game didn't have one at all. It's a good game that could be a great one with a couple more patches, and even without is worth playing, even if it isn't worth the $60 asking price. At the end of the day, the sheer amount of fun that there is to be had here carries past the awfulFun, flawed, and suffering from a story that is so bizarre and stilted that it is substantially worse than if the game didn't have one at all. It's a good game that could be a great one with a couple more patches, and even without is worth playing, even if it isn't worth the $60 asking price. At the end of the day, the sheer amount of fun that there is to be had here carries past the awful writing and neverending stream of fetch quests to make this still a good experience overall. It's just a shame that the time and effort wasn't put in to make it a great one, because with more QA and much better writing this could have been an early GOTY contender.… Expand
  6. Dop
    Feb 7, 2015
    8
    Im not into zombies games anymore but i had the cash and a friend recommend the game so i give it a try. Shocking surprise game is good, solid graphics, gameplay is fun and engaging, story is well made with a nice spin off, the city fells really infested specially the second part.

    I had some problems with my ati card at the beginning but after the patch im fine. Play it on i5 4670k, 16    Im not into zombies games anymore but i had the cash and a friend recommend the game so i give it a try. Shocking surprise game is good, solid graphics, gameplay is fun and engaging, story is well made with a nice spin off, the city fells really infested specially the second part.

    I had some problems with my ati card at the beginning but after the patch im fine. Play it on i5 4670k, 16 gb ram, R9 295x2    … Expand
  7. Dampwater
    Jan 31, 2015
    8
    This game in my opinion is great value for money. The elements of this game tie together well and I have not any performance issues yet (Running of GTX 660, AMD FX 3.6 GHz).
    Dying Light is definitely NOT all about killing zombies, Techland have made great use of the parkour element making you climb ridiculous heights that grip you on the edge of your seat. Aswell as the night, which at    This game in my opinion is great value for money. The elements of this game tie together well and I have not any performance issues yet (Running of GTX 660, AMD FX 3.6 GHz).
    Dying Light is definitely NOT all about killing zombies, Techland have made great use of the parkour element making you climb ridiculous heights that grip you on the edge of your seat. Aswell as the night, which at the beginning of the games leaves you panic running from the infected.
    The story is quite good, but I feel it could of been alot more intense if the story wasn't all about the GRE and survival. Therefore you never break to get to know the characters, leaving you feeling detached.
    Story (6/10) Parkour (9/10) Open-World (7/10) Zombie Killin' (9/10) Effort (9/10)
    It is a fun parkour zombie killin open-world game! (8/10)    … Expand
  8. KnightMare077
    Feb 3, 2015
    8
    Where to start? This game takes elements of Far Cry 4, Dead Island and Mirrors Edge and smashes them together with a day and night cycle in a open world thats a blast to explore and traverse. During the day the game has a walking dead overtone and fits that shoe nicely. You will be taking over "bases" infested by zombies and other badies (think farcry 4) in effort to secure safe zones ,Where to start? This game takes elements of Far Cry 4, Dead Island and Mirrors Edge and smashes them together with a day and night cycle in a open world thats a blast to explore and traverse. During the day the game has a walking dead overtone and fits that shoe nicely. You will be taking over "bases" infested by zombies and other badies (think farcry 4) in effort to secure safe zones , which may have more side missions BUT mostly serves as a safe place should you be out during a mission and caught with your pants down as the sun starts to sets and need a place of safety. The map is HUGE and getting around would be a tedious process if not for the climbing and running mechanics. The guy can climb just about anything he can reach either by hand or grappling hook and traverse anything he climb on too.

    When the sun does set and nightfall comes into play everything changes. Zombies are faster more alert, the special hunters are out looming in the darkness and they will relentlessly chase you until you make it to a safe zone , you evade them, you kill them or they kill you. The crafting mechanic lets you piece together any crude weapon with other crude items and forge something that may belong in splatterhouse but never the less it gets the job done with as much gore to soak even the hardcorest of gamers. In my opinion the game needs more guns, it does have them but to say they sparse is both a understatement and a lie at the same time. Every safe zone controlled by a faction has guards , each guard is carrying as assault rifle, yet you as the player have hard time acquiring just one and if you do it likely has around 5-10 rounds in it with little hope of finding ammo. In that sense it doesn't make sense, if that makes any sense. lol

    Its like your surrounded by butter knives yet you cant have one unless your lucky.

    Melee Combat works though and is clearly the main focus, with the different abilities to unlock through 3 separate skill trees as your progress through the story , you will unlock things like drop kicks and different takedown abilities etc that opens up new possibilities to take down hordes of zombies. Speaking of combat..The Collisions...Collisions work so well in this game it will just about spoil you into thinking why isnt every game made with stuff like this?!

    All in all this game is unique with superb graphics (not genre defining or worthy to the PC's immense power now a days but its good enough) and solid mechanics, a decent plot that every now and then seems just a tad stale by repetitive missions types but more than anything else its FUN! Highly Recommended To Any FPS, Open World and especially Zombie Fan

    Id give it a 8.5 / 10    … Expand
  9. Kyle4600
    Feb 10, 2015
    9
    Absolutely fantastic game! A lot of people (especially the "professional critic" reviewers) seem to have "zombie game fatigue" and are wrongly letting it effect their viewpoints on this game as a standalone great addition to the genre. I don't really care if you're "sick of seeing zombie games" or if you think the "genre has been worn out". You morons ("professional reviewers") who keepAbsolutely fantastic game! A lot of people (especially the "professional critic" reviewers) seem to have "zombie game fatigue" and are wrongly letting it effect their viewpoints on this game as a standalone great addition to the genre. I don't really care if you're "sick of seeing zombie games" or if you think the "genre has been worn out". You morons ("professional reviewers") who keep slapping 9's on rehashed FPS franchises are going to dog this great game because you're sick of zombies? Just shut up, sit down in your corner, and let the actual community take the reigns on judging what a good game is, because obviously you have lost your ability to recognize one.

    Is this game new and innovative or industry changing? Nope!
    Is the story revolutionary to the point where it gives you chills and makes you choke up? Nope!

    But is the game just plain fun game-play wise? Yep!
    Does it drop you into an awesomely crafted zombie apocalypse and let you run around doing whatever you want? Yep!

    There really isn't much to this review, because the game is just plain fun.

    *gasp* "Omg! Did he just say fun?!?!, is he seriously just reviewing a VIDEO GAME based off of it's ability to be FUN, instead of trying to compare it to 5 other different games and/or trying to make some weird out of place social political message/argument here?!?! Omg! Fun in a video game?? Who knew?!"

    Seriously. It's a fun game. Just shut up and play it.    … Expand
  10. greaseDonkey
    Feb 3, 2015
    9
    My friends an I have been waiting for a game like this for a while! Seriously this game is more than amazing. It's a mix of Borderland and Mirror Edge. The atmosphere is incredible, they did a great job to immerse yourself. We are 3 grown man in their 30s and we have never ran for our life in a game like this one. The first night was just amazing and will probably be talked aboutMy friends an I have been waiting for a game like this for a while! Seriously this game is more than amazing. It's a mix of Borderland and Mirror Edge. The atmosphere is incredible, they did a great job to immerse yourself. We are 3 grown man in their 30s and we have never ran for our life in a game like this one. The first night was just amazing and will probably be talked about among us again again long after this game is completed.

    Play this game with friends and don't play without them!!    … Expand
  11. thelonewalker
    Feb 4, 2015
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. dying light is an amazing game it should have no negatives the only real bad thing about it is that it has no wall running but apart from that its a great game… Expand
  12. Fantasy_Critic
    Feb 9, 2015
    10
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  13. Swatson
    Feb 24, 2015
    10
    i was absolutely amazed by this game which has found the right mix of differen genres and games: you can find a parcour-game like mirror's edge (which is also working really fine in the combat mechanics!), a shooter / action game like you have dozens out there and as well the role playing aspect which kinda felt like fallout 4.
    what was special to me was the night and day phases. in the    i was absolutely amazed by this game which has found the right mix of differen genres and games: you can find a parcour-game like mirror's edge (which is also working really fine in the combat mechanics!), a shooter / action game like you have dozens out there and as well the role playing aspect which kinda felt like fallout 4.
    what was special to me was the night and day phases. in the beginning you nearly sh*t yourself being on tour at night and trying to avoid it at all costs. later in the game you get more and more used to it and also dare more and more from time to time. you are not forced to play at night and go through these heart-killing passages, you can do almost everything at bright daylight!

    it didn't take me very long to find my self right in the middle of the action knowing what to do, when to do.
    many people already mentioned the hardware specifications and yes - there is some optimizing to do. however, on my i5/r290 it worked just fine with the current patch and some reduced farsight.

    the story itself is being held on a surprisingly high level throughout the whole game, it kept me motivated and was interesting to follow. I got really fond of the main character, whose way of taking things was funny without losing the touch to the story or behaving incorrect/inconsistent.

    one or two points would need a little bit of refining, like the grabbling-hook which in a lot of cases didn't let me hold on to a wall/cliff but just fall into my death or as already mentioned the optimizing of the compatibility which is in work right now.

    the graphic however is a mix. there are passages like character textures which are beatifully rendered, where the wall right next to that person looks extremely blurry. however, it's something that you recognize in the beginning of the game but further on you are happy with the atmospheric just right romantic sunsets, the leafs blowing softly in the wind and the sound of ocean waves and maybe a couple of moans to complete the picture.

    Techland has done A LOT RIGHT with this game, it did surprise me completely and then blew me off my feet. to everyone out there - this game rawks. the mix feels just right and not a copycat of other games, the protagonist is fresh and the story exciting. guys, what do you want more?
    - a definate buy. hoping for a part 2 :)    … Expand
  14. EmanEliforp
    Mar 13, 2015
    10
    Fantastic game. Graphics are amazing, gameplay is smooth, and the grappling hook is a blast. I just changed a game I had at 15% to hard mode after finishing the game. Night time is longer, and man is it tough. This is the game I've been waiting for since Half-Life. Waiting for the DLC. After the bar that this game raised, other developers really need to step up.
  15. iamthewizard2
    Mar 9, 2015
    9
    totally underrated game! you have a whole bunch of juveniles who decided to dip their toes in the game for one or two hrs and then decide to make a review of the game...silly! The game starts off pretty slow but picks up in intensity and fun as you progress. absolutely love the decapitation animations and melee weapon crafting. the free running and parkour is also excellent. graphicstotally underrated game! you have a whole bunch of juveniles who decided to dip their toes in the game for one or two hrs and then decide to make a review of the game...silly! The game starts off pretty slow but picks up in intensity and fun as you progress. absolutely love the decapitation animations and melee weapon crafting. the free running and parkour is also excellent. graphics are pretty nice too! my only gripe is limited AA options, environments all looking very similar making the world look smaller than it actually is, voice acting is also hit and miss. overall a very enjoyable experience with lots of content to keep you entertained for hrs on end.… Expand
  16. Jodeth
    Aug 28, 2015
    9
    I'm only reviewing the demo. Yes, it came far later than the full game, but it's never too late to pull in potential buyers. I used to not care to have it on PC since I already have it on PS4, but the demo has changed my mind. 60 fps, plenty of options, 1:1 mouse aim, pretty good visuals (tho I wish there's a way to disable pointless camera effects like chromatic aberration and lensI'm only reviewing the demo. Yes, it came far later than the full game, but it's never too late to pull in potential buyers. I used to not care to have it on PC since I already have it on PS4, but the demo has changed my mind. 60 fps, plenty of options, 1:1 mouse aim, pretty good visuals (tho I wish there's a way to disable pointless camera effects like chromatic aberration and lens flares. My head isn't a ****ing camera, you know? lol. Maybe there are ways I don't know about.) Anyway, I'm sold. No telling when I'll have money to freely spend but I'll get there. This is a demo done right. Good job, Techland.… Expand
  17. SportsareCrap
    Feb 16, 2015
    9
    Dying Light is True Open World Co Op Game unlike Outdated Far Cry 4

    Dying Light Pros: Co Op once First Mission Finshed afterward Co Op for Good. Pros: 4 Player Online Co Op once First Mission Finshed afterward Co Op for Good. Pros: Co Op for both Side Mission and Story Mission. Con: No Fast Trave to Saferoom. Outdated Far Cry 4 Cons: No Co Op until Beaten 3/4 Game. Cons: No Co    Dying Light is True Open World Co Op Game unlike Outdated Far Cry 4

    Dying Light
    Pros: Co Op once First Mission Finshed afterward Co Op for Good.
    Pros: 4 Player Online Co Op once First Mission Finshed afterward Co Op for Good.
    Pros: Co Op for both Side Mission and Story Mission.
    Con: No Fast Trave to Saferoom.

    Outdated Far Cry 4
    Cons: No Co Op until Beaten 3/4 Game.
    Cons: No Co Op for both Side Mission and Story Mission.
    Cons: Only 2 Player Co Op.    … Expand
  18. peterf28
    Feb 20, 2015
    10
    This game is unbelievable fun. I am playing it now for one week every day, it is just pure fun. There are no stupid boring long cut scenes (like in Far Cry series), just conversations, or action cut scenes (which you can skip if you don't want to watch, not like in stupid Far Cry series) . You have always something to do in the game, you can choose what you like to do now, there are randomThis game is unbelievable fun. I am playing it now for one week every day, it is just pure fun. There are no stupid boring long cut scenes (like in Far Cry series), just conversations, or action cut scenes (which you can skip if you don't want to watch, not like in stupid Far Cry series) . You have always something to do in the game, you can choose what you like to do now, there are random encounters which are so refreshing. Also you have fear because of the zombies, but when you know the environment it is normal fear, you don't have to worry about some super monster appearing out of nowhere because you picked up some storyline object. I hate game which just want to create fear in you just for the sake of it. Were nicely and balanced game. I did not have so much fun since years. Also difficulty is very balanced, you can choose weapon and strategy for fighting. I love this game !!! And you are always jumping and running over the rooftops or cars, it is so much fun, and the controls are perfectly made. Unbelievable cool game, definitely my favorite for very long time.… Expand
  19. perlbuilder
    Dec 6, 2015
    7
    I paid $20 for this game along with some DLC during a Steam sale. I can't really say anything great about this game since I've yet to find it immersive. I haven't even gotten past the first tower climb and wanting to hang it up and go back to playing Just Cause 2. I have formed some thoughts so far and I apologize if I echo others.

    - Graphics. I turned up the graphics with my GTX    I paid $20 for this game along with some DLC during a Steam sale. I can't really say anything great about this game since I've yet to find it immersive. I haven't even gotten past the first tower climb and wanting to hang it up and go back to playing Just Cause 2. I have formed some thoughts so far and I apologize if I echo others.

    - Graphics. I turned up the graphics with my GTX 970 and remain unimpressed. It's too easy to visually miss the spitters. Gee, I wonder where the spitter idea came from? At least in L4D2, you can see and hear them.

    - Story. Didn't I play this already in a game called Dead Island? No because you play as an SF operator. Wait, that was Just Cause.

    - Controls. Meh. Lots of players seem to like the Parkour, but I get hung up in it. I fall, lose health and then must loot for supplies to create a MedKit. I am I having fun yet?

    -Looting and Crafing. It would have been an OK concept like Far Cry 3 or even Dead Island but this game takes it overboard. Really, it adds nothing to the game play since you must refocus from your mission to looking for supplies that suddenly dry up. All just to remain in the game and not die.

    Right now I'm between games so I'll keep playing and maybe my opinion will change. Maybe I'll get used to the controls and getting hit by spitters that I can't see or hear coming.

    Happy gaming!    … Expand
  20. LordGab
    Mar 25, 2015
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. "It's like far cry 3 with zombies"

    Real Score: 8.5/10

    I'll give it a 9 because they announced some really cool content coming in the future.

    Gameplay: Killing zombies with different melee weapons never gets old, really, it's so much fun to just run around the map killing zombies, opening chests for better weapons, doing these little random events like save some guy from zombies or from Rais's (bad guy) men. The way the game scales is simply brilliant, you start weak, you have to avoid zones full of zombies most of the time because your weapons are weak, after some missions you get EXP, you start leveling and getting new skills, finding better weapons until you get stronger, and you'll just 1 shot zombies or multiple zombies at the same time, your parkour skills will get better aswell so jumping from house to house will get easier and more fun. On top of all that, during the day the game is a survival game, find loot, get weapons, do some quests, lvl skills, during the night is more of a horror/stealth game, because at night, really strong, fast and vicious zombies roam around the map and they will chase you and pretty much shred you to pieces if they catch you. The multiplayer (COOP) (Recommended) is really fun, people can just join your game and help you around with some quests of main story, you can get invaded by a special zombie, controlled by another human. The coop is up to 4 players. 9/10

    Story: Now serious, it feels a lot like far cry 3/4, and it's full of cliches: the bag guy is crazy, you appear out of nowhere and you volunteer for everything, you can do everything people there couldn't do for ages, long story short you are the typicall hero. So for the story I would give 6.5/10

    Graphics/Environment: The graphics are amazing, the environment is perfect, it does feel like you are in a post apocalyptic city, it's really immersive. The 2nd and last place you go to is actually really beautiful. 8/10

    Content: Main story, around 40 side quests, lots of challenges, little events, some chests/cars to lock pick to find better weapons and outfits. I finished the main story, all side quests did some challenges, events and wandered around just killing zombies and lock picking chests/cars to find better weapons, and I have 35 hours of gameplay, but I'll probably play more later since they already added (free) new content like 50 new weapons, new weapon rarity, some outfits and difficulty, and they teased us with CARS! to be added in the future. 8/10

    Played on:
    GTX 970 4gb
    I5 3570K 4.2 GHZ
    FPS: Min: ~55, MAX: 120. AVG: 65    … Expand
  21. xXDrowXx
    Feb 14, 2015
    9
    9/10
    FPS drop
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  22. SarudeDankstorm
    Aug 19, 2015
    7
    Dying light takes all the good elements from the Dead Island series, adds parkour and then gives you an open-world playground to explore. While the free-running is no-where near at the same level as Mirror's Edge, it still allows you to fluidly travel across the map.

    Game play wise, the game is very fun; melee combat is brutal and satisfying (as it should be) and firearms are used at an    Dying light takes all the good elements from the Dead Island series, adds parkour and then gives you an open-world playground to explore. While the free-running is no-where near at the same level as Mirror's Edge, it still allows you to fluidly travel across the map.

    Game play wise, the game is very fun; melee combat is brutal and satisfying (as it should be) and firearms are used at an appropriate rate through the campaign. The main thing that I dislike about Dying Light is the lack of character development. For a game that primarily focuses on a single player experience, only a few of the characters that are introduced in the story are really developed, and this means that you don't really feel connected to them as you would to characters in say, Last of Us.

    Overall, a very good game to pick up and play, although I would recommend purchasing it at a discounted price, as it's highly likely that you will finish the main story and a few side quests and then never touch the game again.    … Expand
  23. DB11
    Jan 2, 2016
    7
    One of the more frustrating games I will ever play. In nearly every facet of the game the devs came very close to making something amazing but fell just short. The combination of these shortcomings is a poorly executed mess that leaves the player saying "it was so close, yet so far away.. from a good game".
  24. lesiuML
    Mar 3, 2022
    4
    I watched countless reviews before purchasing dying light... Every recent review was optimistic and almost everyone was shure that game aged pretty well. But in my opinion this game is very bad... Plot of the main story is kinda interesting but the gameplay, dialogs and cut scenes are so poor and badly designed... I couldn't even stand any side mission... I loved first mirrors edge gameI watched countless reviews before purchasing dying light... Every recent review was optimistic and almost everyone was shure that game aged pretty well. But in my opinion this game is very bad... Plot of the main story is kinda interesting but the gameplay, dialogs and cut scenes are so poor and badly designed... I couldn't even stand any side mission... I loved first mirrors edge game and I thought dying light would be similar... But it is not. And why the hell in game about free running there is so much tunnels and underground missions that are so freaking boring!... Gameplay itself boring and very repetitive same as missions and locations! Be prepared to do exact same missions as blowing up the building or finding missing access cards but in different areas. First 3 hours were fun, but after first sight I started to see bigger picture. If you thing you like parkour and zombies then head without any doubts straight to dying light 2 it's more modern and better designed overall. This game does not aged well at all. Complete waste of time...… Expand
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. Jaggedgod
    Jan 31, 2015
    10
    With the new patch available most of the lag & frame rates are dealt with. Love the fact zombies are hard to kill so avoiding them is part of survival.
  28. Rushrush2meyayo
    Apr 4, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What I liked:
    - You are Spiderman's protege, complete with a web shooter, spider sense, over the top parkour and climbing abilities
    - Noise attracts the dead!

    What I disliked:
    - Water, guts, the sun, and other effects gets into your eyes. At least learn to wipe the first 2 off.
    - Glasses don't break, like car windows
    - The dust? particles flying in the air
    - The seizures, oh god not now...
    - Not enough variety with the zombie models, very noticeable since it's a first person game
    - Lots of swimming, switches to flip and generally uninteresting fetch quests
    - Clunky melee combat
    - Guns for the most part are useless, silenced versions would have been fun
    - Cheap deaths from exploding zombies
    - What a finale to make you climb the top of the world for a QTE boss fight.

    Parkour, First person melee combat, a bit of FPS, a bit of stealth, Crafting and random loot system, and all star zombie casts are here (slow, fast, exploding, spitting, etc.). This is a fun game during the early hours but gets repetitive and cumbersome in the long run. I'll just play pepsi man if I want to run for my life, the Mosou series if i want to hack and slash repetitively, and Dead Rising for a satisfying zombie apocalypse experience.    … Expand
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. ARIONCHOKO
    Feb 1, 2015
    10
    I think, this is the best game for playing with friends! After Dead Island of couse. Dying Light got zobies, parkour, awsome story... So go and Bye this game if you have funny friend! And finily I want to say, that me and my Bro played a lot in Dead Island, and this game takes you in a new world with a new opportunity! I hope you'll follow my advices! Dying Light-the best game (for now)I think, this is the best game for playing with friends! After Dead Island of couse. Dying Light got zobies, parkour, awsome story... So go and Bye this game if you have funny friend! And finily I want to say, that me and my Bro played a lot in Dead Island, and this game takes you in a new world with a new opportunity! I hope you'll follow my advices! Dying Light-the best game (for now) for guys with sence of humor!… Expand
  33. blackbird1
    Feb 11, 2015
    9
    great title for em as single player who likes a creative world and to be creative.
    performance wise....
    only ppl who have not much idea of their PCs or are not willing to try different settings have problem i can run the game flawless beautiful with a MSI R9 270X 2GB and an I5-4690K

    GREAT GAME even for me as console hater
  34. Veska
    Feb 2, 2015
    7
    It is Dead Island with parkour. However, do not expect more. The best thing in this game in night and fight in night. But take 321895656 weapons, because every thing, that i use for killing sweet zombies was destoyed until 10 maybe 15 zombies. What is this? Some people say, that this game has nice graphis and i say it is true, but in some parts. Face and texture are very nice. But others?It is Dead Island with parkour. However, do not expect more. The best thing in this game in night and fight in night. But take 321895656 weapons, because every thing, that i use for killing sweet zombies was destoyed until 10 maybe 15 zombies. What is this? Some people say, that this game has nice graphis and i say it is true, but in some parts. Face and texture are very nice. But others? Boring environment, repeating textures and building were created by CTRL+C and CTRL+V.

    And story? Ou **** it is as porn. You see (play) it for other things then story. If you like series Dead Island it is game for you. But for others? Maybe but try it then you will buy it.    … Expand
  35. NegativeNine
    Apr 1, 2017
    5
    Worth a buy ?
    No. Nice graphics, freerunning, climbing BUT everything else is mediocre or worse:
    1) The game is too arcade-ish: You'll get too powerful later in the game. 2) There just isn't any survival at all: There's literally no need to search any area for supplies other than for crafting. Injuries, medicine, food, water mechanics aren't present in the game. All vendors shower    Worth a buy ?
    No. Nice graphics, freerunning, climbing BUT everything else is mediocre or worse:

    1) The game is too arcade-ish:
    You'll get too powerful later in the game.
    2) There just isn't any survival at all:
    There's literally no need to search any area for supplies other than for crafting. Injuries, medicine, food, water mechanics aren't present in the game. All vendors shower you with weapons and ammo.
    3) Bad economy:
    Item quality means nothing: Neither how often needed nor found. You'll pile up cash as vendors don't sell any crafting reagents but shower you with weapons & ammo. Totally broken economy.
    4) Combat:
    They tried to make it interesting but only for melee, where the 2h weapons suck.
    Ranged combat is blatant shoot another with no cover system and without any great utility items to craft (smoke bomb / zombie attracting things / flashbang etc.)
    Sneaking doesn't work too well as there's no stealth gameplay within the game despite it needed it (especially at night) nor threat shake off mechanics of some form so one mistake means alert status enemies.
    Camouflage is an overpowered anti zombie talent: Cover in yourself in zombie blood and they won't attack you anymore, even when you start killing them. Shouldn't be in the game to keep the zombie threat a thing.
    Despite being arcade-like I miss fun weapons like a chainsaw, grenade launcher, RPG, sniper rifle, heavy assault rifle etc.
    Ranged weapons don't get any upgrades (supressor, scope, special ammo, melee swing option or anything fun / survival related for a game).
    Weapon types don't matter: No bonus damage vs certain enemies.
    2h weapons deal almost the same damage as 1h weapons. Only upside is their area effect with ground slam (weak, short duration) and windmill swing (can be interrupted mid-animation by enemy attacks; unreliable).
    5) Great features used wrong:
    Freerunning: Just the starting zone is designed to favor this. Later you get a grappling hook and no more exhaustion, trivializing and sabotaging freerunning and -climbing along with the threat enemies then pose.
    Sneaking / stealth: Not in the game. It's just unnoticed vs noticed. Neither shadow nor noise levels, no camouflage gear, no objects to hide in, just nothing except for zombie blood/potion so most zombies ignore you.
    Day & night: Night didn't get it's own mechanic and thus is meaningless, except for some quests. It grants bonus experience but that's it: there's neither camouflage, nor noise, nor sneaking, nor special vendors, nor extra stuff to find just and only during night time.
    Air drops: A fun mechanic, encouraging everything the game offers. Removed during campaign progress and then never makes it back into the game.
    Talent tree: It's just unlock all instead of make choices. No interesting multiplayer builds and different strengths / weaknesses. You get everything.
    Crafting: It's all just weapons, upgrades and grenades with little utility or interesting items, potions and firecrackers being among the most useful of them. Avoid fire / lightning / impact crafts because they either backfire or draw more agile zombies (=bad design, as upgrades you pay for make things worse). Sadly no crafting that allows to access new areas (gas mask, hazard suit etc.). Annoying single click crafting instead of set x amounts to craft. You can't construct or fortify anything on your own. There aren't timers or visual effects for the duration of some potion effects.
    Lockpicking: Unbalanced. With the exception of easy ambulance locks only hard locks are worth the effort. Very hard locks only drop stuff vendors shower you with anyway. Everything below hard just drops garbage. The much needed crafting items you're constantly running low on you'll find in non-locked objects. Bad design.
    6) Story:
    It's pretty lame, made up and you don't have any say in how anything plays out ever. It's annoying whenever it tries to be like an action movie, making you run through a parkour while being chased / shot at because you're in unfamiliar terrain and immediately have to figure out where the designers want you to go (absence of many paths in a freerunning game). Final boss fight mechanics are arbitary and horrendous as all your gear, skills and unlocks don't matter there.

    Programmers, just wtf are you doing with your own game ! The whole game feels like someone had a good concept idea of freerunning and graphics, took the time to design some wonderful maps and then came the other guys and tried to ruin every other aspect of the game as hard as they could.
    I still want to pat the level designers on the back for having done a good job most of the time.
    Just story, mechanics, crafting and economy should get a huge overhaul.
    DO NOT buy the addon. Except for the crossbow everything there is worse.
    Devs: PROMOTE freerunning by level design, don't force it, add the addon's car and subway station fast travel for people who prefer that. Better job next game, pls.    … Expand
  36. masterkiser
    Feb 2, 2015
    7
    Well I Don't really Like to Write Review's but I felt the need to Write One about this game. So Lets get to Optimization Not the best to be honest, I have a 980 and an i5 4670k along With 16 gb of ram and I was barley Pulling 40 fps. That is unacceptable So If you are planning to get this game Keep in mind that you may Encounter issues. Now with that out of the way let me tell you howWell I Don't really Like to Write Review's but I felt the need to Write One about this game. So Lets get to Optimization Not the best to be honest, I have a 980 and an i5 4670k along With 16 gb of ram and I was barley Pulling 40 fps. That is unacceptable So If you are planning to get this game Keep in mind that you may Encounter issues. Now with that out of the way let me tell you how much Fun I had with this game. The Main campaign Is Only about 5 hours long If you rush Through But With side quest's it can easily take you 12+ Hours!

    Now Gameplay Wise It's essentially Dead Island Mixed With mirrors Edge. That can be Either Good or bad But luckily in the game's case They Did it right. The Combat is a little wonky at first but you get used to it and it gets much better when you upgrade your Combat to at least adept. The parkour Honestly Sucks at first as well but Much alike the Combat all you need to do is upgrade it and it will get so much better.

    The Story is alright I mean It's not the greatest But at least it has one (Looking at you dead island) The characters are Forgettable and by the Time you Feel nothing for them. What is nice However is when you are just taking a stroll you can sometimes Grab an airdrop or Stumble upon Someone who need's help. and you can Find people who tell you about what they were doing before the Virus, It's pretty interesting.

    Now one of the major mechanics they Advertised was this Night Time mode. It is Terrifying at first Yes But eventually It Loses it's touch. But your adrenaline always Get's pumping when you're Running From Virals. Then you have this mode called be the zombie which is pretty cool actually but sometimes if you have Multiplayer on They can invade you and it gets Kinda one sided Especially If you are going solo.

    Overall I would recommend the game but it would be a cautious Purchase with the optimization issues so If I were you i would Either wait for patches, Or buy it on a console.    … Expand
  37. dystopeon
    Feb 5, 2015
    7
    The game's not quite a solid 7, but gets a conceded pass in that respect. It runs solid in 1080p but you'll need 4x sli 980's or wait until next gen gfx to run 4k, its still that ól chrome engine. The main story is very, very bad (not CoD bad tho) - however the sides quest missions are imbued with some writing talent and are for the main part, enjoyable.

    The combat mechanics are    The game's not quite a solid 7, but gets a conceded pass in that respect. It runs solid in 1080p but you'll need 4x sli 980's or wait until next gen gfx to run 4k, its still that ól chrome engine. The main story is very, very bad (not CoD bad tho) - however the sides quest missions are imbued with some writing talent and are for the main part, enjoyable.

    The combat mechanics are extended (such as dashing) however the hit detection and pointless weapons/animations (knife) are still left in. Bizarrely, zombie grab animations can break your combat 'flow' - unless you invest in several perks to make the game NOT do that?! Why just not leave it the **** out? These former eastbloc devs need to learn from musicians - what you leave out is more important than what you leave in.

    Also, I have to play this mother****er until level 14 (many gd hrs) to get a gd katana?!, just like the last game. The RPG/Perk/item/crafting aspect is really broken, it borrows from like action/rpg games perk systems - but really it just shouldn't have used one, the items perks should have been passive, using meters. The crafting/weapons degradation system is similarly bizarre (left over from the first game), the devs seek to restrict, level and balance everything at once instead of making the game fun to grind. If they just leveled certain zone enemies and not the weapons, plus created a large variety of melee weapons it would have been fun. The Katana or any weapon should be available right at the beginning, its the weapon type that should receive perks - this would make the game much more fun. Then once you reach much higher levels, add in cool side weapons with one or two perk slots (eg. Tonfa, Nunchaku) please, I just wanna beat on stuff with nunchucks yo. Maybe next sequel?    … Expand
  38. VIDO1122
    Feb 26, 2015
    6
    This game could be SO MUCH BETTER if it was a little bit harder or having a hardcore mode. It's just way too easy. I'm in OLD TOWN and I don't feel any, zero adrenaline rush because dying here is pointless. You die at night and you go straight to a safe house. WTF??? You have none sensation of reward whatsoever. We need a system that when you die, you lose something. Like all your moneyThis game could be SO MUCH BETTER if it was a little bit harder or having a hardcore mode. It's just way too easy. I'm in OLD TOWN and I don't feel any, zero adrenaline rush because dying here is pointless. You die at night and you go straight to a safe house. WTF??? You have none sensation of reward whatsoever. We need a system that when you die, you lose something. Like all your money and stuff and you need to take back by going back to the exact same point of your last death. If you die on the way to take back your stuff, you lose all your money and the 4 weapons you were holding. PERIOD. And leave the CURRENT MODE for noobs. Thats just freaking RIDICULOUS NOT HAVING A HARDCORE MODE. I'm playing this like "MEH, WHATEVER" Dying light had A ZILION TON OF POTENTIAL if TECHLAND had created modes like EASY= **** MODE NORMAL = REGULAR GUY MODE HARDCORE (like when you're so freaking scared that even an oiled needle can't get through your **** THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!… Expand
  39. Pmstz
    Jan 31, 2023
    8
    Excellent game !
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  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. Boris
    Feb 22, 2015
    4
    This game got an overwhelming number of positive reviews, be it here or on the Steam review system. And it's understandable, the game looks incredibly awesome.

    But I would rather look past that. The main two reasons why I rate this game at four is that firstly, it's a console game for PCs, and secondly, I didn't have that much fun playing it. Sure, it looks gorgeous, but that's about    This game got an overwhelming number of positive reviews, be it here or on the Steam review system. And it's understandable, the game looks incredibly awesome.

    But I would rather look past that. The main two reasons why I rate this game at four is that firstly, it's a console game for PCs, and secondly, I didn't have that much fun playing it. Sure, it looks gorgeous, but that's about it.

    And the more I think of it, the more I consider that my two main concerns about the game are just one: I tend to hate all console games for PC on sight, sure; but there's nothing such as a "console game for PC label" that would draw me into hating them before recognizing what they are.

    So why on earth is it a console game for PC? Well, here are my reasons:

    - The interface is optimized for consoles. Like in the vast majority of recent titles, you don't select your weapons/items with multiple keys as in PC games, but with multiple hits (or by pressing that button and selecting the items in a "selection wheel") to one key, as in console games.
    - The gameplay is for consoles too: with the exception of the mouse look, everything plays better with a controller.
    - The linearity of the game is depressing; I have not been offered a single choice so far. This game is an interactive movie for your living room, not a dynamic and fun game for your PC.

    Bottom line: get this game for your playstation/xbox/whatever, but if you're searching for a good PC game to (re)play, head for things like good ol' L4D or S.T.A.L.K.E.R, or Metro 2033; and sequels.    … Expand
  42. hades84
    Feb 8, 2015
    9
    Game is Dead Island clone just with better graphics & with it's boring missions. Not impressive at all. Very repetitive & boring game & so overrated...
  43. pepikJS
    Feb 2, 2015
    5
    This is clear example of an unoriginal budget game. The story is a non-sense mess about some special agent paradropping into some arabian zombie infected city, nobody knows why there are zombies, from where they came from. Basically - you have main quest, you start few side quests, after while you have no idea who is who, what quest is this and that, for who are you making that quest...This is clear example of an unoriginal budget game. The story is a non-sense mess about some special agent paradropping into some arabian zombie infected city, nobody knows why there are zombies, from where they came from. Basically - you have main quest, you start few side quests, after while you have no idea who is who, what quest is this and that, for who are you making that quest... Its a mess. Game is copying parkour from Mirrors Edge, climbing towers from Far Cry 3, customizable melee weapons from Dead Rising, there's nothing original in this game. Pure budget. Techland was always making first person shooters and that sort of games with shiny graphics visuals, but in the inside all of their games were dumb and dull. This game is no exception. Story - ridiculous and banal. Gameplay - run like a darude sandstorm, punch zombies, figure out how to get inside some building... you will get enough of that quickly, its repetitive as shlt.… Expand
  44. ph4nn0m
    Feb 2, 2015
    10
    I read most part of negatives reviews and = low performance . If you want to play with low graphics play at console.
    Game is awesome.Its fresh. Game history is great .Ambientation is cool.
  45. zainyboy18
    Feb 4, 2015
    7
    I pre-ordered this game and finished it recently. I felt I needed to tell people about the serious over-hyping of this game.

    Story: The story is poor and by far the worst thing in the game, filled with cliches and plot points you can see from a mile away. But the characters are by far the worst, seriously. They're so bland and under-developed that you couldn't give 2 sh*ts whether or    I pre-ordered this game and finished it recently. I felt I needed to tell people about the serious over-hyping of this game.

    Story:
    The story is poor and by far the worst thing in the game, filled with cliches and plot points you can see from a mile away. But the characters are by far the worst, seriously. They're so bland and under-developed that you couldn't give 2 sh*ts whether or not they die. Hell, when someone died I spent more time trying to figure out who they were rather than actually paying attention to them dying. I mean, Brecken disappears halfway through the game without any mention of his name again. They really build up the main villain as well, trying to make a discount Vaas from Farcry 3, but it just wasn't working for me. He had no real substance or meaning behind what he was doing, other than just doing it for the sh*ts and giggles. He stands monologuing, telling you all of his evil schemes and actually letting you in on his whereabouts in the end of the game, just before he is about to make his escape and win! Why?! So stupid it's unreal. It takes a darker and more serious tone to Dead Island but it doesn't seem to pay off in my opinion.

    Graphics, Sound and Performance:
    I'm not really an expert on sound design or anything but from my eyes, the sound was done fairly well, it definitely deterred me from going out at night, hearing the agonising screams of the virals. The intense music during pursuits was nice, it did a good job of immersing me in the game. Graphics are nice, not The Last Of Us standard, but nevertheless they are good. However there are performance issues on the PC version, mainly stemming from the view distance. Turning it up or down doesn't really change much apart from the view distance in the interior maps or the pop-in for zombies. FPS takes a nose-dive when you finish the tutorial and go outside.

    Gameplay:
    First things first, the parkour is mostly well-done. However, you can encounter some parkour related bugs, most comical and some just annoying. It can vary from flying through a wall to getting stuck in-between 2 objects, forcing you to commit suicide. Survivor point don't do much for the game as far as I can tell, although I didn't look too intensely into what they did. The combat feels smoother than Dead Island for certain, no complaints there. The new crafting system and player stash are really nice features as well, allowing easy storage for weapons, but from what I can tell, it's used mostly for duplicating items to become a billionaire. Side quests are pretty much the same as Dead Island; "Fetch this for me", "Turn this on for me". Very repetitive point A to point B missions. I do enjoy the free running challenges though, most of them provide a nice challenge and are quite fun to do. However, the main problem from a gameplay perspective is that the game gives you a false sense of freedom. It gives you an amazing open world to explore and run the parkour, but when a story mission rolls around, especially after the halfway point in the game, you're thrown into a cramped and linear interior map. Once you get the grappling hook, the open world actually becomes a bore to traverse, just spamming middle mouse button and flying across the map in no time. The day-night cycle change is one of the games more interesting and better points. The virals become a real challenge until a very late point in the game, making it pretty much your only option to run away. Despite this it just becomes an absolute drag to finish the story, with a lazy QTE final boss battle at the end. It's such a cop-out move to have the villain you tried to big up and make him seem impossible to kill, defeated by pressing 5 or 6 buttons.

    Overall this game isn't terrible, it's definitely an improvement on Dead Island, however personally I just don't think it lives up to the hype. I'd say wait until the price drops or you see it on sale to pick it up.    … Expand
  46. Visko
    Jan 29, 2015
    6
    I wouldn't recommend this game for what it's being advertised as. It's not much of a Survival game at all. Not much of an open world experience. Not much of a story. It is however a good combination of tried and true game mechanics in a zombie-afflicted fictional middle eastern city.

    I haven't tried Co-op, but considering it's nothing at all what's being advertised (as expected), there    I wouldn't recommend this game for what it's being advertised as. It's not much of a Survival game at all. Not much of an open world experience. Not much of a story. It is however a good combination of tried and true game mechanics in a zombie-afflicted fictional middle eastern city.

    I haven't tried Co-op, but considering it's nothing at all what's being advertised (as expected), there was nothing within my soul telling me to bother trying it.

    It is however a good combination of tried and true.. oh yeah, I already said that. So anyways, if you liked playing every single Assassin's Creed, you'll probably like this game too. Especially if Zombies are also awesome in your book.

    If not, don't expect this game to give you any thrills outside of what I already mentioned. Not to say that I can't have fun with it, I just can't recommend it.    … Expand
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. verbal_666
    Jul 31, 2017
    5
    The game is fun at first, but going forward becomes repetitive and frustrating. Too aggressive zombies, few weapons, few bullets, too high difficulty for a videogame, where I just want to have fun and not simulate being in a horror movie or in horror reality :-) !!! Graphics are really brilliant and nice, on a GTX 1060 you can have all at ULTRA in FullHD. Disappointed!!! It could have beenThe game is fun at first, but going forward becomes repetitive and frustrating. Too aggressive zombies, few weapons, few bullets, too high difficulty for a videogame, where I just want to have fun and not simulate being in a horror movie or in horror reality :-) !!! Graphics are really brilliant and nice, on a GTX 1060 you can have all at ULTRA in FullHD. Disappointed!!! It could have been a great game, become a frustrating repetitive horror simulator!!!… Expand
  50. 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
  51. 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.
  52. 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
  53. TheTownDrunk
    Mar 1, 2021
    2
    Do we really need another zombie first person shooter? No. Well, let's add parkour and wild acrobatics! No. Just no!
    DYING LIGHT is just another lazy console to PC port. It's got hordes of zombies to kill with melee or ranged weapons. Nothing we haven't seen or done a gazillion times before.
    They added a ridiculous parkour system so you can go to the quest marker and press "E" at the    Do we really need another zombie first person shooter? No. Well, let's add parkour and wild acrobatics! No. Just no!
    DYING LIGHT is just another lazy console to PC port. It's got hordes of zombies to kill with melee or ranged weapons. Nothing we haven't seen or done a gazillion times before.
    They added a ridiculous parkour system so you can go to the quest marker and press "E" at the location it sends you to so you can go back to X and press "E" to talk to the person who sent you there to end that "quest" and get another "go-to-X-and-press-E-" quest. Don't forget to pick up some firecrackers to distract the zombies. Yeah, someone's literally blocking the exit until you pick them up so you won't forget them. Hand holding at its finest.
    Oh! And they're making a SEQUEL! Seriously?! Who plays this garbage?!    … Expand
  54. 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.
  55. breathfan
    Feb 20, 2015
    0
    Extremely bad game. Stay away. It has it's good sides. It could be really really good. But it is not. It is awful. I hate it. I hate wasting my time with it. I rly do.
  56. Ubir
    Feb 2, 2015
    4
    Another generic and obviously flawed zombie game. First things first, I like how the story is set in a country where things have gone to **** rather than the standard "end of the world" scenario. Feels like you are on a humanitarian mission of sorts. But this is where the creativity stopped, a very very predictable zombie/survival fps with boring straight forward stereotypical characters,Another generic and obviously flawed zombie game. First things first, I like how the story is set in a country where things have gone to **** rather than the standard "end of the world" scenario. Feels like you are on a humanitarian mission of sorts. But this is where the creativity stopped, a very very predictable zombie/survival fps with boring straight forward stereotypical characters, put in an over the top envoirement that doesnt even beggin to make up for the many flaws of the game.

    Now to the performance my 4GB R9 290x 1150mhz runs BF4 in ultra with more than 100 fps. However, in Dying Light (Which isnt at all better looking from my point of view) I have around 30-40 fps most of the time on medium settings in 1080p it seems as though the deadlines were coming up too quick and they just had to put the game out without proper testing.

    All in all: A good looking game with bad characters, bad plot, bad performance in an overused and kind of tired genre. 4/10    … Expand
  57. Ted_Tris
    Jan 31, 2015
    1
    Simply crap.
    Pros: nice music while loading screen
    Cons:
    Sometimes boring, sometimes frustrating hard.
    Hopping on the roofs is boring after a hour of game.
    Terrible hardware requirements but not fine gfx.
    Bad face setup on all characters.
    Only crap weapons

    Not good game.
  58. clarky
    Mar 4, 2015
    9
    It is a decent game, worth playing for sure since they fixed the filter effect. Plenty to do in the open world and we need more quality titles like this
  59. Plutarco
    Feb 9, 2015
    1
    After three hours with sticks and pipes as the only available weapons and jumping from roof to roof, I got bored, simply bored. The graphic requirements are abusive, however I managed to play it because my PC is somehow updated, but only to find out that this game has a very poor story and it´s just an insulting cheap copy of the TV show The Walking Dead. . NO WAY...IT'S MONOTONOUS ANDAfter three hours with sticks and pipes as the only available weapons and jumping from roof to roof, I got bored, simply bored. The graphic requirements are abusive, however I managed to play it because my PC is somehow updated, but only to find out that this game has a very poor story and it´s just an insulting cheap copy of the TV show The Walking Dead. . NO WAY...IT'S MONOTONOUS AND BOOOOOOORING.… Expand
  60. 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
  61. 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
  62. 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.
  63. joshan2
    Feb 4, 2015
    10
    Codename: Dead City 2 (Dead Island), it's just perfect game and I played with Oculus Rift, the experience was amazing! The story is very good, maybe sometimes is repetitive but still very funny with friends :)
  64. webext
    Jan 29, 2020
    0
    It's a trash game. Can't understand how You can play this. So repetitive, old curved mechanics. It's like Mirrors Edge, but worse. It's like Last of us, but much much worse and so on
  65. oohlala
    Feb 18, 2015
    0
    I absolutely love open world games and this game was fun at first, then you realize it's full of **** The four main things that made me quit and uninstall this game are:
    1. Zombies just popping up behind me on a roof with no notice, no sounds at all, until they start hitting me
    2. Human opponents dodging and blocking EVERY **** ATTACK. 3. Not being able to find the **** zombie that's    I absolutely love open world games and this game was fun at first, then you realize it's full of **** The four main things that made me quit and uninstall this game are:
    1. Zombies just popping up behind me on a roof with no notice, no sounds at all, until they start hitting me
    2. Human opponents dodging and blocking EVERY **** ATTACK.
    3. Not being able to find the **** zombie that's spitting and poisoning me.
    4. The poor performance of the game even with a very high end computer.

    I will never buy another game from this company. Save your money. Don't make the same mistake I did.    … Expand
  66. 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
  67. 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
  68. NixSar
    Feb 3, 2015
    6
    Nice graphics with the exception of the inexplicable grainy effect supposedly meant to achieve realism; what kind of realism? Standard story and gameplay for zombie survival porn - boring, tedious and unrealistic (not in a good way). Instead of basing survival on any kind of creative and interesting mechanics it is mostly just an item crafting vomitarium where your huge steel wrenches,Nice graphics with the exception of the inexplicable grainy effect supposedly meant to achieve realism; what kind of realism? Standard story and gameplay for zombie survival porn - boring, tedious and unrealistic (not in a good way). Instead of basing survival on any kind of creative and interesting mechanics it is mostly just an item crafting vomitarium where your huge steel wrenches, which in reality would last a thousand years, break after ten strikes into rotten flash. Normally unrealistic behaviour in games is not a bad thing, but survival games should really get more imaginative than that. Parkour is fraught with problems - collision detection, volume measuring (player squeezing through impossibly small spaces), positioning of body parts as they participate in movement, etc. This is unfortunately nothing special these days and is the continuation of trying to push computers to do stuff beyond their current capabilities. The "best" example being Ubisoft's ACU mechanics when home computing today is just not ready to do real-time collision detection, positioning and similar on a level required by such complicated movements and fast gameplay. All in all a mediocre result.… Expand
  69. Ansatsu83
    Feb 12, 2015
    4
    This game has some good elements to it, unfortunately it is beyond poorly optimized and definitely feels like a console port. If you are running an ATI GPU then stay away from this as even the best ati cards are getting piss poor frame rates.

    The developers are not known to optimize their games, properly, and this is worse than dead islands optimization. On top of this, the game really    This game has some good elements to it, unfortunately it is beyond poorly optimized and definitely feels like a console port. If you are running an ATI GPU then stay away from this as even the best ati cards are getting piss poor frame rates.

    The developers are not known to optimize their games, properly, and this is worse than dead islands optimization. On top of this, the game really does feel like a more-urban version of dead island, so it doesn't bring too much new, to the table, unfortunately. I cannot give this game anything above a 4, as a result of the poor optimization and recycled gameplay from the companies previous games... Sorry its just not that good, its average at best.    … Expand
  70. KuriousJorj
    Apr 3, 2017
    6
    Overrated. Lazy. Phoned in. A very average game... The parkour becomes more of an annoyance than actually being enjoyable. There is often only one, specific way to climb or move, making it very contrived. The looting and crafting also becomes tedious and feels 'copy n paste.' Only a half dozen zombie models. No story to speak of.

    The whole thing is just really shallow, boring,    Overrated. Lazy. Phoned in. A very average game... The parkour becomes more of an annoyance than actually being enjoyable. There is often only one, specific way to climb or move, making it very contrived. The looting and crafting also becomes tedious and feels 'copy n paste.' Only a half dozen zombie models. No story to speak of.

    The whole thing is just really shallow, boring, and tedious. Almost feels more like work than fun. Doesn't compare to real post-apoc games like FO3.    … Expand
  71. MadclownJack
    Feb 11, 2015
    5
    Since i had my last review removed for whatever reason, i'm writing a new one. I didn't get to play Dying Light on my own machine, since i use a notebook, whose specs have been able to handle almost all of the newer titles, excluding only those that inexplicably refuse to recognize and support a dedicated gpu (titanfall and wolfenstein). It's an I3 2328m, 12gb ram and a GeForce635m. I'veSince i had my last review removed for whatever reason, i'm writing a new one. I didn't get to play Dying Light on my own machine, since i use a notebook, whose specs have been able to handle almost all of the newer titles, excluding only those that inexplicably refuse to recognize and support a dedicated gpu (titanfall and wolfenstein). It's an I3 2328m, 12gb ram and a GeForce635m. I've seen the game played on a configuration, worse than mine, and it performed quite well. I've also seen it play on a configuration similar to mine, same gpu, lesser ram. It worked. This game wouldn't even start for me.

    I did play it however and it's the same as Dead Island. The same clunky movements of the zombies, the same detached attack animations, mostly stupid game AI (they keep stabbing themselves on spikes) added parkour, night/day shift, some new weapons and a bigger map than DI had. Now, graphically it's satisfactory but pales in comparison to newer titles and i can't see for the life of me why it would require such a high configuration to run such mediocre graphics. With that said, i can't help but give this game a low score. A badly optimized Dead Island clone, whatever the additions is still a badly optimized clone. I love Dead Island, even Riptide, but I'm having trouble digesting this. If they patch it, i'd probably rate it higher. As is, it's a shameful release for a supposed AAA title.    … Expand
  72. rickrey
    Apr 29, 2018
    5
    This game was fun for a few hours but then the constantly spawning horde of zombies with little in the way of effective weapons and ammo made this game a boring disaster. Stealth is not a valid option as the zombies are so dense they will see you or smell you out soon enough. The only option is to run and hide up high somewhere.
    Yes the game looks great but the developers seem to think    This game was fun for a few hours but then the constantly spawning horde of zombies with little in the way of effective weapons and ammo made this game a boring disaster. Stealth is not a valid option as the zombies are so dense they will see you or smell you out soon enough. The only option is to run and hide up high somewhere.
    Yes the game looks great but the developers seem to think that the player runs around looking through the lens of a camera. How does that work? There is also this annoying visual rocking motion of the camera. Don’t developers realize that the brain filters that stuff out?
    Many of the missions include silly jumping and climbing puzzles, great for kiddies with good reflexes, not so much for a casual player like myself. I’ve gotten to the last mission but it’s too difficult to complete. There are too many zombies, and no matter how or where I run, smothered in zombie guts or not, wielding the best weapons I can find, I get killed. I didn’t particularly enjoy the over abundance of blood and guts without a way to tone it down a touch, or a lot.
    Maybe someone will develop a cheat that will allow me to finish the story and allow me to try the DLCs.    … Expand
  73. Griaule
    Dec 23, 2016
    1
    Bought the game 2 years after it's release. I do this with most of the game because I hope they fix the bugs by then. BUT AFTER 2 YEARS THIS GAME IS STILL FULL OF BUGS. Zombies spawns in front of you, zombies randomly explode, if a zombie hits the GROUND metres away of an exploding barrel, it explodes, supply drops suddenly disappear, zombies immune to items/perks they shouldn't... And theBought the game 2 years after it's release. I do this with most of the game because I hope they fix the bugs by then. BUT AFTER 2 YEARS THIS GAME IS STILL FULL OF BUGS. Zombies spawns in front of you, zombies randomly explode, if a zombie hits the GROUND metres away of an exploding barrel, it explodes, supply drops suddenly disappear, zombies immune to items/perks they shouldn't... And the end... This game doesn't really have an ending. I don't know how others rated this 6 or higher they must be completely blind or just some casuals new to gaming.… Expand
  74. Koreenium
    Feb 1, 2015
    4
    Game itself is overall good and I really love some of the music.

    But I absolutely HATE how another terribly optimized game got released to the PC. Having an AMD card means that you will have to play this game not only on low graphics but also with terribly low fps. And no, most badass and powerful AMD card will not save you. Only Nvidia card owners can get ok to playable fps. For    Game itself is overall good and I really love some of the music.

    But I absolutely HATE how another terribly optimized game got released to the PC. Having an AMD card means that you will have to play this game not only on low graphics but also with terribly low fps. And no, most badass and powerful AMD card will not save you. Only Nvidia card owners can get ok to playable fps.

    For example I get 20-30 fps outside with the lowest settings possible. This is unplayable for me considered that most part the game is rather fast-paced and the terribly low fps starts to irritate my eyes. Luckily they added FoV option because the normal FoV was absolute ****
    Sad part is that my PC is by no means bad. I can run most of the modern high end games with 40-60 fps on max settings.

    My PC:
    i5 3570k
    AMD 6950 OC
    8gb DDR3

    If only the game ran well I would give it 8/10...    … Expand
  75. nono5551212
    Feb 6, 2015
    2
    Pros: A good trailer, Voice Acting, Graphics

    Cons: Terrible Controls, Horrible Game play, Slow Downs, Bad level Design, Impair your vision throughout the game. Pacing.

    When I saw the trailer to this game I was excited... But it did not live up to my expectations. This game seriously stinks... It was not fun at all.
  76. Type4101
    Feb 3, 2015
    4
    Half-hearted single player detracts from this otherwise solid survival horror game. This is pretty much a forced co-op game, and really isn't designed to be enjoyed alone, making the solo experience feel ignored. This is a shame, since survival horror is best enjoyed alone. When you play co-op, the experience is much more like a shooter (with fewer guns), and the seriousness and tensionHalf-hearted single player detracts from this otherwise solid survival horror game. This is pretty much a forced co-op game, and really isn't designed to be enjoyed alone, making the solo experience feel ignored. This is a shame, since survival horror is best enjoyed alone. When you play co-op, the experience is much more like a shooter (with fewer guns), and the seriousness and tension are gone. Much like Left4Dead, the game is mechanically solid, but should never call itself both multiplayer and single player....it feels like the developers just say single-player to get people like me to buy (I regret the purchase, not because the game is bad, but because it is not designed with solo players in mind at all).
    Multiplayer score: 7.5/10
    Single player experience: 4/10    … Expand
  77. jseph1234
    Aug 17, 2017
    4
    A EXTREMELY Linear game that is all about doing a bunch of Assassin's Creed jumps with the most unrealistic jumping physics I have ever seen. Super easy and just not worth $10, much less the $60.00 they want for jump-fest, same choices movie/game!
  78. rubencristiano9
    Aug 31, 2015
    8
    Beautifull landscape graphics, the sea didn't have any motion whatsoever though, it looked like a copy and paste picture, didn't move, very weired and took me out of the immersion a lot of times. It actually looked so akward I'm wondering if it was a bug.

    It's a game that doesn't take your hand, it's pretty hard and died numerous times. I enjoyed my time with the game, I did all the    Beautifull landscape graphics, the sea didn't have any motion whatsoever though, it looked like a copy and paste picture, didn't move, very weired and took me out of the immersion a lot of times. It actually looked so akward I'm wondering if it was a bug.

    It's a game that doesn't take your hand, it's pretty hard and died numerous times.

    I enjoyed my time with the game, I did all the side missions in Harran which gave me far to much money way to early in the game, a bit imbalanced there.

    Found that two hand weapons or weapons with that are slow to swing are underpowered compared to the faster ones, you can get an ability to 360 with a two hand weapon which helps but the cost of stamina per swing doesn't justify using one compared to a quick sword by example.

    (*Minor Spoilers in next paragraph)
    Found that side missions should of had specified which were more essential like the witch woman (which I didn't get the reward till finishing the game) and missed on an essential potion trough out the game which would of made it much easier, as well as the dynamite one which gives you the ability to trough grenades (wich I also got at the end of the story).
    Did over 40 other side missions and the rewards weren't nearly as good, mostly just gives you a worthless blueprint and some cash.
    Also my major criticism at the game is getting the grap hock so late in the game, and I did all the side missions! Can't imagine for someone who didn't do any?! They might not of even unlocked it by the time they finished the game, major flaw.

    Side mission were quite boring, just fetch this for me quests.

    Looting is not rewarding enough, especially late game.

    Plot was great not the best way executed but the concept was great.

    Combat wasn't the best, but really enjoyed the animations of slicing zombies up, greatly animated.

    In general, I enjoyed my time with the game, parkour is very good, and enjoyed the leveling system although I think some abilities could of been there from the start of the game.

    Would I recommend this game?

    Yes, definitely, even though I listed so many negatives is because I wanted it to be a GOTY game, unfortunately it won't be but hey, best game I played this year so far..?!!!

    Spent roughly 30 to 35 hours with non stop looting and 90% of side missions.

    Played it solo but think it would be better with a friend in coop.

    8.5/10    … Expand
  79. RMDsilva
    Jun 22, 2018
    6
    An okay attempt at yet another zombie shooter game.
    Combat is not fun: everything changes once you get access to guns, it just becomes a headshot fest.
    Sticking to melee, zombies are rightfully scary and overwhelming - human combat is just annoying.
    Atmosphere is okay, free running is okay, story is bland.
  80. scotto808
    Feb 3, 2015
    3
    Where to begin, All these positive reviews are so excited about the graphics, the mechanics, etc.
    High detail does not make a game. This game had poor voice acting, mentally handicapped npc's (and not just gazi, all of them), a story so boring that when i reached the finale i thought, oh im at the end...
    While they got the free running and graphics sorted the lacked in almost every other    Where to begin, All these positive reviews are so excited about the graphics, the mechanics, etc.
    High detail does not make a game. This game had poor voice acting, mentally handicapped npc's (and not just gazi, all of them), a story so boring that when i reached the finale i thought, oh im at the end...
    While they got the free running and graphics sorted the lacked in almost every other area, the combat is similar to that of dead island, however i felt it was less controlled with no choice of directional swings. the crafting was quite average, i found many blueprints yet i only had a few basic ones that could do any weapon and then like 5-10 very very specific blueprints, dead island weapon modding is boundless. Every character looked like they were about to do a photoshoot, Its a zombie apocolapse, why does everyone have styled hair, outfits with pointless accessories and just overall no purpose. There are more vendors than regular survivors in this games aswell.
    Overall is a poorly thought out game
    TL;DR

    +Graphics
    +Parkour
    **** npc's
    **** Story
    **** side quests
    - Average weapon arsenal
    -bad modding
    -stupid zombies
    -Antizin timers made no sense    … Expand
  81. Kilasa
    Feb 6, 2015
    4
    Game had fps issue, I play on minimal setting with a decent computer but still felt like I had fps dropping to 15 every few minute. Game is fun but after awhile it gets boring. Zombies are endless and endlessly killing them eventually lose the fun. Crafting is too dull, many of the upgrade you can craft is the same and there isn't much point to craft some of things like flammable liquidGame had fps issue, I play on minimal setting with a decent computer but still felt like I had fps dropping to 15 every few minute. Game is fun but after awhile it gets boring. Zombies are endless and endlessly killing them eventually lose the fun. Crafting is too dull, many of the upgrade you can craft is the same and there isn't much point to craft some of things like flammable liquid since it too weak. No fast travel made traveling annoying as hell after awhile I felt like I am running for errand more than playing.

    The good thing is that the antagonist had a interesting personality, such as Rais had a very bad ass personality.

    It not for the fact that the game had fps issue I will give it a 7.    … Expand
  82. loguerto
    Feb 14, 2015
    1
    I have spent my money and found out that the game is unplayable, i have a fx 8350, r9 290 and i play it between 15/30fps. Horrible experience, optimize it please so that i can play it and make a proper review.
  83. derek10
    Feb 20, 2015
    6
    Bad framerate here, even at minimum settings, they could optimize or think on lower end or older computers, i5 CPU and GT 560 as MINIMUM requirement is so outrageous.
  84. SuperkenGaming
    Feb 23, 2016
    8
    Dying Light
    Not just another zombie game
    dying light is an open world rpg style game from the developer of the original dead island and it shows dead island is very cartoony compared to the more mature toned Dying Light This is a much grittier game that takes itself much more seriously you’re an undercover agent named Kyle Crane sent to infiltrate a quarantine zone as soon as you get    Dying Light
    Not just another zombie game
    dying light is an open world rpg style game from the developer of the original dead island and it shows
    dead island is very cartoony compared to the more mature toned Dying Light
    This is a much grittier game that takes itself much more seriously
    you’re an undercover agent named Kyle Crane sent to infiltrate a quarantine zone
    as soon as you get there you see that the place is crawling with zombies and other survivors
    you’re instantly bit and infected
    you’re rescued by a woman named jade and she takes you back to the tower because she trusts you can help the remaining survivors,
    And to get into their good graces this is exactly what you do..
    You’re an errand boy...
    you do all of the tough tasks that others are afraid or too weak to do...
    As soon as you’re healed up you’re taught how to do parkour and this unlike in Dead Island gives you the opportunity to travel through the roof tops assassins’ creed style….
    Unfortunately though, the parquor system isn’t the greatest….
    There is no flow to it, and this lack of flow really stands out towards the end that I won’t show to prevent spoiler, but unlike in assassins creed, if you don’t stop before you make a leap, your character is going to do a half jump and fall to his death,
    This no flow needs fixed for a sequel, and please let us climb down…
    jumping down while I grab ledges is a little too risky for my taste…
    awkward parquor asside, I was in love with the game for the first few hours, I loved exploring the city and scavenging for weapons and items to craft better weapons but dying light is missing the magic dead island had for me
    While dying light is the 2nd most believable zombie games I’ve played since the last of us,
    nothing about this world feels real or previously lived in… the world in dying light feels insanely generic
    There’s no moments, unless I overlooked them where you see a zombie stuck in the loop of a past life
    sure some will be locked in the bathroom in houses but they just feel like a gamey jump scare not like they belong there..not like they once lived in the house youre going through
    There is no human left in these zombies, ultimately turning them into a nuisance rather than a victim of their circumstances like dead island or even tell tales the walking dead does near perfectly
    It would’ve been so much better for the tone they set out to hit if there was a dilemma or struggle to kill
    Maybe if it were more about panicking humans than just a bunch of zombies…
    Because this really is just completing tasks while zombies bother you
    that’s it
    And it’s a shame…
    Theres so much potential here and it becomes repetitive too fast
    I was so impressed with how difficult the zombies seemed in this game.. id try my hardest to avoid conflict with them, even with insanely powerful weapons…
    There are random side quests and side activities that pop up on the screen where you can help survivors or take supplies from the rival gang..
    You can even use the zombies to attack rival enemies for you by throwing fire crackers to attract them, or just getting them to chase you..
    Helping npcs, climbing buildings, and killing enemies all level up a different skills,
    You have a survivor, agility, and and power skill tree,
    Leveling up can get you awesome perks like added health, learning how to use traps in the city, taking less damage from falls.. and at night all of your xp earned is double..
    Except for one little problem
    At night zombies are on steroids especially the volatiles
    The zombies at night are fast, powerful, they can climb and chase after you,
    It’s a thrill to try and make it to a safe spot before you’re killed and sleep til morning
    Or you can stay out at night and test your luck…
    About 50 percent of the way through the story though dying light kind of turns into more of a first person shooter and this is really where the game starts to fall apart..
    I was so happy thinking, they got it right this time.. one giant city for me to explore.. they didn’t make the dead island mistake of making me go to different places
    Wrong
    In the back of my mind while playing I was thinking..
    If they dare send me to the sewers like every zombie game in existence does…
    and guess what
    they did….
    Just like in Dead Island they send you through the sewers and you end up in what I’m convinced is the exact same place you end up in in Dead Island... I definitely got smacked with some dejavu
    But you end up in a more crowded spot in the city, that’s just no fun….at all…
    I didn’t have even the slightest urge to explore this section…
    and worst of all, you cant fast travel through these 2 spots I understand the lack of fast travel in the actual city The fun of the game is making it back before the light dies. .but at least let me hop back and forth between the 2 sections of the city… “I hate sewers It’s so disappointing how predictable dying light ended up being... at least progression wise… The actual story was throwing me all over the    … Expand
  85. jimbobslimbob
    Apr 13, 2015
    7
    Like expected, it is similar to Dead Island in a lot of ways. So, where does it differ? Well, the graphics and general tone of the game are a lot grittier and darker than Dead Island. Think of this as the Empire Strikes Back to Dead Island's Star Wars.

    The looting and melee part of the game is very similar. You pick up, trade, craft weapons and use blueprints to upgrade them and so on.    Like expected, it is similar to Dead Island in a lot of ways. So, where does it differ? Well, the graphics and general tone of the game are a lot grittier and darker than Dead Island. Think of this as the Empire Strikes Back to Dead Island's Star Wars.

    The looting and melee part of the game is very similar. You pick up, trade, craft weapons and use blueprints to upgrade them and so on. They increase in damage as you level up and unlock rarer varieties.

    The free-running is unique here - I don't think I have ever seen it done in a first person game before. It is both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because when it works, it works really well and gives a new depth to the game that would not have existed without it. It's a curse because it can be extremely fiddly and disorientating. Sometimes things just don't seem to work as well as they should and simple things turn into frustration inducing annoyances. It's a real shame too, since the system is *almost* good. Example: want to climb down and hang on the ledge? Forget it, something this simple is possibly the most frustrating thing you will ever do in this game.

    This game also features a unique night-time experience where you must run, dodge and hide from powerful super-zombies during night time. Unlike the normal Z's, these ones chase you and can run just as fast as you can. When they catch you it's game over - so a race for the nearest safe-zone ensues. This part of the game really fills you with panicked adrenaline and mixes up the pace of the game. It is a welcome and interesting addition.

    The quests suffer from the same thing they did in Dead Island - fetchy and boring for the most part. A lot of time is spent running from point to point doing meaningless fetch quests and trying to climb buildings (and failing) over and over again. It does suffer because of this and the tedious running from point to point doing nothing but boring quests drops my score down from a 8 to a 7. Sure, I can skip this content, but I would miss out on a good chunk of the game as a result.

    It's a real shame that you begin to become OP later in the game, as the "survival" aspect of the game's early hours where you are scrounging for supplies and having to come up with genius plans to tackle the horde are it's strongest, definitive moments. As the game progresses, this gets thrown out of the window and you are left with another zombie smasher game with free-running tagged on.

    Jimbo Rating: 7/10    … Expand
  86. 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
  87. vault2wasteland
    Jan 5, 2016
    5
    I was really enjoying this game until 3 things made me quit.

    First was spending half an hour trying to jump up a pole in the rail yard for a mission, second was my first night time mission and the final nail in the coffin was the mission where I am stripped of weapons and thrown into an arena full of zombies....Fair enough, I use the weapons lying around to kill the zombies (for some    I was really enjoying this game until 3 things made me quit.

    First was spending half an hour trying to jump up a pole in the rail yard for a mission,
    second was my first night time mission and the final nail in the coffin was the mission where I am stripped of weapons and thrown into an arena full of zombies....Fair enough, I use the weapons lying around to kill the zombies (for some reason throwing knives disappear). Then a big eff off zombie is thrown into the ring and I'm supposed to kill him without using any of the weapons I just chucked at the regular zombies. Naturally, I get slaughtered. So I try again, and again, and again. No problem, I'll just turn the difficulty down... oh wait , the game doesn't let me do that.
    Waste of $35.

    My friends love this game but it's just inaccessible for me. If the zombies didn't take so many hits to go down this would be really fun. Also the number of times I aimed for landing on the trash bags and ended up missing was extremely annoying.

    I know people say get good, but the game wasn't enjoyable enough for me to want to keep playing. I always felt under powered and overwhelmed. I imagine it would be much better playing multiplayer    … Expand
  88. Razhomon
    Mar 4, 2015
    5
    Great at for the first 5 hours then it loses steam. I am only 15% of the game but it does not interest me anymore. Feel bad because I paid full price for this. Very similar to dead island and that just burns me out not like dead island was great to begin with. To make the story short. BORING. I have not touched the game in 2 weeks now. I don't know if I ever will ..
  89. Chiaro22
    Dec 12, 2017
    5
    Pros:
    Fun parkour
    In-depth leveling system Lots of side missions and activities Good graphics Cons: Boring story and cliché characters Generic and bland (Action heroes in zombie-infested southern city.) Repetitive (Same eternally respawning loot boxes everywhere, you get bored of lockpicking fast.) More gamey than immersive Virals. An open world, good graphics, zombie    Pros:
    Fun parkour
    In-depth leveling system
    Lots of side missions and activities
    Good graphics

    Cons:
    Boring story and cliché characters
    Generic and bland (Action heroes in zombie-infested southern city.)
    Repetitive (Same eternally respawning loot boxes everywhere, you get bored of lockpicking fast.)
    More gamey than immersive
    Virals.

    An open world, good graphics, zombie smashing and an interesting leveling system drove me to this game, but unfortunately the cons started to hollow out the gaming experience after a while.

    The open world of Dying Light is more like a gamey sandbox than a well designed immersive game world. I got frequently lost in the tower headquarters at first, with all its blocked stairs and elevators. Maneuvering the tower is initially more dependant on writings on the wall than easily understandable visual design.

    The city itself looks and feels a bit samey, with the same buildings, shops, encounters, loot and enemies. You'll meet random people that are just waiting around to tell you their whole melodramatic life story, all while the zombies close in on you both. Time and again you'll stumble upon the same shopkeepers that mysteriously end up in trouble, over and over again.

    Enemies and loot are everywhere, but the way lockpicking and looting is implemented, slow and clumsy, it feels like more like a chore than a positive experience.

    Still the worst thing to me was when those virals started to spawn all too often, after a few hours of game time. I tried to keep going, but every time I was in the zone and had some fun, mizing traps and weapons the best I could, I always ended up on a roof with a handful of virals on their way up. After repeating that 10 times for a 5 minute game session, and naively repeating that over a few days, I just started to feel pretty much done with the game.

    So, here you have a zombie killing game with loads of weapons, traps and weapon upgrades which all is fun in itself to explore, but then the game punishes you for using them, with an annoying enemy that takes the fun out of the gaming experience. I can understand that they wanted a game mechanic like that, but the way it was implemented just made my brain implode...somewhat of a waste for a zombie game, perhaps.

    Overall Dying Light is a hollow yet entertaining zombie-killing sandbox that will leave you a little dissatisfied if you crave a more substantial experience. After a while you might feel like you've had cake for dinner a whole week; it starts out pretty fun, but in not too long you just feel fatigued.    … Expand
  90. 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
  91. 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.
  92. 1stBoTToX
    Mar 6, 2015
    3
    Tant qu'il n'y aura pas d'option pour désactiver ces PU.... d'aberrations chromatique je ne recommanderai pas ce jeu, en effet cette saloperie ruine totalement le jeu. Mais qu'est ce que c'est que ces devs qui ajoutent des effets pareilles, ils ne se rendent pas compte que ca pourri completement le jeu ?!?!
    De plus, ils ne tiennent absolument pas compte (comme c'est étonnant) des avis des    Tant qu'il n'y aura pas d'option pour désactiver ces PU.... d'aberrations chromatique je ne recommanderai pas ce jeu, en effet cette saloperie ruine totalement le jeu. Mais qu'est ce que c'est que ces devs qui ajoutent des effets pareilles, ils ne se rendent pas compte que ca pourri completement le jeu ?!?!
    De plus, ils ne tiennent absolument pas compte (comme c'est étonnant) des avis des joueurs qui réclament depuis la sortie du jeu le retrait de cette merde.
    Bref, a moins que vous aimiez les jeux vomitifs, avec des graphismes net qu'au centre de l'écran et tout le reste flou avec des textures qui gerbent dans tous les sens, je vous déconseil pour le moment ce jeu !!!    … Expand
  93. UNSKIALzPSN
    Jan 31, 2015
    8
    The characters could have done with a bit more...Character, and perhaps the game feels a bit muddy in areas (Early melee combat and the stamina bar don't go too well together), but it strikes me as Wolfenstein did - It's just plain fun to play. The game is geogeous and the world is huge. There's lots to do, and hey, it doesn't do a lot of original stuff - But who doesn't like Farcry with zombies?
  94. Skycalamity
    Feb 5, 2015
    5
    Its dog wank. just fu#cking dog wank. the fu#cking FPS is just fu#cking terrible with more than recommended specs . and the fu#cking story is fu#cking stupid . this game should be called drop kick simulator 2015

    i would only pay no more than 10 bucks for this game
  95. MrNine
    Feb 5, 2015
    6
    Graphics wise, very impressive. Even playing on medium settings game still looks amazing. But one thing that really bugs me is that it's almost completly same as Dead Island apart from the settings and parkour. Missions are mostly the same thing over and over, and things you can pick up are just straight from DI.
    End conclusion, wait till you can buy it on a discount sale because it's not    Graphics wise, very impressive. Even playing on medium settings game still looks amazing. But one thing that really bugs me is that it's almost completly same as Dead Island apart from the settings and parkour. Missions are mostly the same thing over and over, and things you can pick up are just straight from DI.
    End conclusion, wait till you can buy it on a discount sale because it's not worth the full price    … Expand
  96. GreenCafe
    Feb 8, 2015
    2
    This game is the definition of mediocre. The beginning starts like any other action adventure game, and has dumb, thoughtless, tropes that setup a similar **** story. Very disappointing.
  97. Clagall
    Mar 7, 2015
    1
    There is a beautiful landscape, that looks far better from a afar. That's it (one point in favor), a wasteland, a misleading image that is powerful enough to sell this game to us, not as good as Banoi in the end but that is my personal preference.

    C.M.Z.A. Childish mutant zombies, again. Here's a small tip: they can't be threatening and ridiculous at the same time. Just like you    There is a beautiful landscape, that looks far better from a afar. That's it (one point in favor), a wasteland, a misleading image that is powerful enough to sell this game to us, not as good as Banoi in the end but that is my personal preference.

    C.M.Z.A.
    Childish mutant zombies, again.

    Here's a small tip: they can't be threatening and ridiculous at the same time. Just like you can't feel like a survivor if you are also an undercover hero swinging from the rooftops.

    The writing? is surprisingly uninspired for a story-driven game. Poorly designed, challenges for a fast paced action game. Too shallow to inspire any fear. The game is basically a giant playground without any real excitement).

    The constant complaints of the foul-mouthed main character make him extremely annoying. That is the one thing that I will remember about this game.    … Expand
  98. Scottisme
    Feb 27, 2015
    7
    Around 22% story completion you could lose all of your levels and equipment. Wish I knew this so I could have backed up my saves. ( This isn't influencing the rating i gave this game at least not intentionally).

    Play time: 6 hours Pros: -Parkour albeit a little finicky at times is very enjoyable makes running between quest far less tedious plus you gain levels -Repairing and modding    Around 22% story completion you could lose all of your levels and equipment. Wish I knew this so I could have backed up my saves. ( This isn't influencing the rating i gave this game at least not intentionally).

    Play time: 6 hours
    Pros:
    -Parkour albeit a little finicky at times is very enjoyable makes running between quest far less tedious plus you gain levels
    -Repairing and modding weapons is far faster than having to go to a work bench
    -Survivor instincts great for those who like to collect everything they can saves allot of time
    -Voice acting
    -Decent story
    -Night time brings another aspect-actually pretty scary to be stuck out in the dark. But also very easy to avoid as there are allot of beds and safe houses around the map waiting to be captured.
    -Good Music
    -Satisfying rag doll zombie. Awesome to see a zombie go flying head over heals with a running drop kick

    Cons:
    -Poorly optimized
    -Film Grain looks bad ( on PC at least you can turn it off)
    - Personally don't like losing Survivor points when I die
    -Wouldn't call graphics next gen but they're good
    -melee weapons feel weak so far.
    Consistently killing zombies faster with running drop kicks alone base zombies take two hits most times with it upgraded one hits fairly often as well.

    Other Thoughts:
    -Miss the analog combat mode from Dead Island

    Overall would give it a 6 if i counted the save deleting bug    … Expand
  99. Acidic
    Mar 24, 2015
    5
    If you wanna smash some zombies head's in, and do some sweet parkour, this game is a 10/10.
    However, if you want some in depth story that will have you on the edge of your seat and wanting to figure out what happens next... you should save your money. Honestly, the parkour, zombie killing, and leveling up systems in this game are great, but the game falls to pieces as soon as the story is    If you wanna smash some zombies head's in, and do some sweet parkour, this game is a 10/10.
    However, if you want some in depth story that will have you on the edge of your seat and wanting to figure out what happens next... you should save your money. Honestly, the parkour, zombie killing, and leveling up systems in this game are great, but the game falls to pieces as soon as the story is introduced. This game is just Far Cry 3 with zombies. Even the main bad guy is a knockoff Voss. Overall, not worth the money if you wanted a story.    … Expand
  100. uttertutte
    Mar 25, 2015
    2
    Such a gorgeous game and fun game play and then it falters by the fact that its sooooo boring with the main character.
    I am so over the same boring white dude over and over and over.
    Please look at other games that solved this and fix it.
    I'm so disappointed after the first few hours so I'm giving it up.
    Been here done this.
    Waste of a good game.
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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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