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  1. Jun 17, 2023
    7
    Maybe it's repetitive but still Fun
    Atmosphere is PERFECT
    Characters are ok
    Graphic is beautiful
  2. Mar 15, 2023
    7
    não amei, mas foi ok. 7,2...................................................
  3. Dec 18, 2022
    7
    REAL SCORE 7.8. Its a original game that plays with the zombie genre so well. Truly an underrated game that deserved more in his time
  4. Apr 2, 2022
    6
    Hostly not bad for a zombie game It can get unbelievably repetitive and has a god awful story that I couldn’t even bother to sit though half the time. Combat is pretty fun but the loot aspect is not great, really slow to get actually useful weapons. The day night aspect is great, really tense at night for those who want it and want to level up faster, but is completely optional for theHostly not bad for a zombie game It can get unbelievably repetitive and has a god awful story that I couldn’t even bother to sit though half the time. Combat is pretty fun but the loot aspect is not great, really slow to get actually useful weapons. The day night aspect is great, really tense at night for those who want it and want to level up faster, but is completely optional for the most part.

    Running and parkour feels good, drop kick is great, the grappling hook makes no sense realistically but at least it’s fun to use.

    Over all good but not great
    The DLC though Absolute **** But this is a review for the main game so that doesn’t factor in here
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  5. Mar 30, 2022
    7
    Combat is excellent, story sucks, really fun with friends. Oh and parkour is awesome at higher levels
  6. Nov 20, 2021
    5
    Bu oyunun neden bu kadar sevildiğini anlamıyorum. Ben bu oyunu önceden hep isterdim almak isterdim sonra indirimler gelince de aldım oyunu 20TL gibi bir fiyata. Oyuna bir hevesle başladım ve 15 saat oynayıp oyunu bitirdim. Şimdi önce oyunun iyi yanlarını söyliyeceğim. Oyunun parkurları falan eğlenceli ama oyunun sonsaatlerinde sıkmaya başlıyor, oyunun en iyi kısmı ise vuruş hissiBu oyunun neden bu kadar sevildiğini anlamıyorum. Ben bu oyunu önceden hep isterdim almak isterdim sonra indirimler gelince de aldım oyunu 20TL gibi bir fiyata. Oyuna bir hevesle başladım ve 15 saat oynayıp oyunu bitirdim. Şimdi önce oyunun iyi yanlarını söyliyeceğim. Oyunun parkurları falan eğlenceli ama oyunun sonsaatlerinde sıkmaya başlıyor, oyunun en iyi kısmı ise vuruş hissi kesinlikle vuruş hissi zombilerin neresine vurursan o yerden güzel bi tepki alıyorsun ve bu çok tatmin edici oyunu tek oynama sebebim bu vuruş hissiydi. Efektler falan grafikler yeterli yılına göre ve göze çarpmıyor. Bence oyunun iyi yanları bunlar. Oyunun kötü yanlarına gelirsek senaryo ♥♥♥ gibi direkt başka bir şey söylemeye gerek yok, görevler aşırı tekrar ediyo ve sıkıyor, bosslar tırt yani baya kötü hatta şöyle söyliyim oyunda yaptığınız boss fightları ileride mini boss olarak görmeye devam ediyorsunuz ama neden bossların zevkinin sikiyor bu olay ve benim için bosslar aşırı önemlidir ve bu oyunun bossları tırt maalesef sinematikler ♥♥♥ gibi 2 kişi animasyonsuz mal gibi konuşuyor ve izlerken sıkıntıdan izlemek istemiyorsunuz bunları. Oyunun hızlıca diğer yanlarını da söyliyeyim oyunun açık dünyası kötü yani sıradan assasins creed açık dünyası gibi yetenek ekranındaki şeylerin çoğunu nerediyse hiç kullanmadım 1 2 yetenek işe yarıyor ama. Benim için oyunun en en en en en kötü yanı son göreviydi buradan sonra spoiler yazacağım isterseniz okumayın oyunun son görevinde Ağa yı öldürmeye gidiyoruz ve ben ordayken lütfen en azından son boss iyi olsun yumruk yumruğa dövüş olsaydı mükemmel bir son olurdu ama ADAMLAR SON BOSSU QTE YAPMIŞ QTE QTE gece 4 gibi bu oyunu arkdaşımla konuşarak oynuyordum ve sövüyordum oyuna ayıp ya qte koymak ne ya son boss yüzünden oyundan nefret ettim benim diyeceklerim bu kadar oyunu 20 lira gibi fiyata bulursanız alabilirsiniz ama fazlasına sakın almayın Expand
  7. Sep 26, 2021
    7
    7/10. Dying Light- крепкая зомби игра(одна из лучших в жанре). Сюжет. Сюжет в этой игре хороший, игра вполне реиграбельна, сюжет не надоедает.
    Геймплей. Геймплей тут безусловно хорош, есть древо навыков, возможность крафтить оружие и разные вспомогалки, бить зомбаков интересно и весело, присутствует расчленёнка, что прибавляет +1 бал.
    Графика. Графика средняя, сама игра в мутных цветах,
    7/10. Dying Light- крепкая зомби игра(одна из лучших в жанре). Сюжет. Сюжет в этой игре хороший, игра вполне реиграбельна, сюжет не надоедает.
    Геймплей. Геймплей тут безусловно хорош, есть древо навыков, возможность крафтить оружие и разные вспомогалки, бить зомбаков интересно и весело, присутствует расчленёнка, что прибавляет +1 бал.
    Графика. Графика средняя, сама игра в мутных цветах, но это прибавляет атмосферы.
    Оцениваю в 7/10.
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  8. Mar 15, 2021
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Вот знаете, Иногда есть хорошие идеи которые хорошо реализовали, и эту идею как бы уже можно закончить, ну чтобы идея не казалась хорошей надо все испоганить, и это в случае с этой игрой, сраный онлайн во время ночи! СУКА КОГДЫ ТЫ ПРОСТО ГУЛЯЕШЬ ПО УЛИЦЕ И К ТЕБЕ ПОДЛЮЧАЕТСЯ КАКОЙ-ТО ДЕБИЛ НА НОЧНОГО ОХОТНИКА! И СУКА ТЫ ЕГО НЕ МОЖЕШЬ КИКНУТЬ! СУКА ЭТОТ ПИТУХ НИКАК НЕ МОЖЕТ ПРОСТО ПОНЯТЬ СТО ОН СВОЕЙ ИГРОЙ ЗА ЗОМБИ ПРОСТИТ ИГРУ ДРУГИМ ИГРОКАМ! КОГДА В САМОМ НАЧАЛЕ ИГРЫ ТЕБЕ ВСЕСТО АВТОМАТА ДАЮТ СРАНЫЕ ПАЛКИ КОТОРЫМИ ТЫ ХЕР ОТОБЬЁШЬСЯ ОТ ЗОМБИ ! ИГРА ГОВНО КРОМЕ СЮЖЕТА Expand
  9. Jan 12, 2021
    7
    Hour 1: Zombie parkour? Awesome!
    Hour 5: Wait there's really no fast travel?
    Hour 10: Oh I'm still fighting zombie hordes with a wrench? And combat with humans is pretty whack. Hour 15: Ok I have a gun now, but I'm starting to think first-person platforming isn't such a great idea. My guy can climb 200ft radio towers, but he somehow doesn't know how to climb down anything. Hour 20:
    Hour 1: Zombie parkour? Awesome!
    Hour 5: Wait there's really no fast travel?
    Hour 10: Oh I'm still fighting zombie hordes with a wrench? And combat with humans is pretty whack.
    Hour 15: Ok I have a gun now, but I'm starting to think first-person platforming isn't such a great idea. My guy can climb 200ft radio towers, but he somehow doesn't know how to climb down anything.
    Hour 20: Aaaand the story finale is just about 100 platforming deaths in a row.

    Such great ideas in this game, but it eventually wound up more frustrating than fun for me. Worth $15 but not much more.
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  10. Dec 28, 2020
    7
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  11. Dec 9, 2020
    7
    Очень крепкая, хорошая игра. Определенно лучше серии игр Dead Island. Получил много веселья от геймплея, особенно от погонь в ночное время суток (от страшных ебак). Масса приятных воспоминаний и эмоций. Жаль метакритик не позволяет поставить что-то среднее между 7 и 8 баллами. Игра заслуживает оценку - 7,5 из 10.Очень крепкая, хорошая игра. Определенно лучше серии игр Dead Island. Получил много веселья от геймплея, особенно от погонь в ночное время суток (от страшных ебак). Масса приятных воспоминаний и эмоций. Жаль метакритик не позволяет поставить что-то среднее между 7 и 8 баллами. Игра заслуживает оценку - 7,5 из 10.
  12. Oct 23, 2020
    7
    Its been awhile since I played this, but i'm finally getting around to reviewing games i've played over the last five years. I had a lot of fun with dying light. I played the game with friends pretty much the entire time. The combat system was awesome, weapons were fun to loot/gather. The night time had a creepy aspect to the game. The city was well done and looked fantastic. The biggestIts been awhile since I played this, but i'm finally getting around to reviewing games i've played over the last five years. I had a lot of fun with dying light. I played the game with friends pretty much the entire time. The combat system was awesome, weapons were fun to loot/gather. The night time had a creepy aspect to the game. The city was well done and looked fantastic. The biggest con is as soon as we were done with the story, we all lost interest immediately, there just didn't seem to be enough post game content to keep us entertained. Definitely worth playing, but for a coop game I would have liked a bit more to do. Expand
  13. Sep 10, 2020
    7
    Интересная игра, проходил в кооперативе. Бегать, прыгать и бить зомби - очень интересно. Мир красивый , музыка стильная, ночью получаешь дозу адреналина. Из минусов : 1)странная система распределения опыта( мой друг всегда хостовал, и опережал меня на много уровней, за все время я так и не вкачал крюк кошку, это странно), 2) оружие, которое разваливается за несколько ударов). А так играИнтересная игра, проходил в кооперативе. Бегать, прыгать и бить зомби - очень интересно. Мир красивый , музыка стильная, ночью получаешь дозу адреналина. Из минусов : 1)странная система распределения опыта( мой друг всегда хостовал, и опережал меня на много уровней, за все время я так и не вкачал крюк кошку, это странно), 2) оружие, которое разваливается за несколько ударов). А так игра неплохая, жду 2 часть. Expand
  14. Aug 10, 2020
    7
    gameplay vise it is very addictive(mele combat is so sadisfying) and 8.5/10
    Side quests are ok, basically standard "go there, pick up that". The problem is the main story(main quests) that are UTTER **** they are so bad and heavily scripted that it ruins the experience! The ending sequence it is so mediocre, predictable, scripted that I wanted to cry. You kill the fibal boss with the
    gameplay vise it is very addictive(mele combat is so sadisfying) and 8.5/10
    Side quests are ok, basically standard "go there, pick up that". The problem is the main story(main quests) that are UTTER **** they are so bad and heavily scripted that it ruins the experience! The ending sequence it is so mediocre, predictable, scripted that I wanted to cry. You kill the fibal boss with the QUICK TIME EVENT! Jesus Christ
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  15. Jun 26, 2020
    6
    I recently played this game. For the most part I had a good time on the game, for me it was fun and after some practice I managed to get used to the parkour mechanics. Night times, sometimes are too much and unplayable due to I can´t see **** at night, so everytime I was running away from the creatures, I ended up sumbling accross walls, so I avoided nighttime gameplay. Graphics and soundI recently played this game. For the most part I had a good time on the game, for me it was fun and after some practice I managed to get used to the parkour mechanics. Night times, sometimes are too much and unplayable due to I can´t see **** at night, so everytime I was running away from the creatures, I ended up sumbling accross walls, so I avoided nighttime gameplay. Graphics and sound design are average, not much to see in here. Story is flat, none of the characters is remarkable and it´s full of clichés. I finished the game mostly because it was fun to play, but the story is plain and forgetable. Expand
  16. Jun 14, 2020
    7
    The game doesn't deliver the greatest platforming experiences despite being focused around it. Most of the trophies have bugs or glitches. Late game human enemies are bullet sponges. There's a lot of inconsistencies where you can't platform certain things and are greeted with certain doom.
  17. Apr 20, 2020
    7
    7.25 out of 10 - Great game.

    Scoring Scale: 1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed. 2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting. 3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities. 4 - (MEDIOCRE) A game that has its fair share of serious problems with a few glimmers of quality
    7.25 out of 10 - Great game.

    Scoring Scale:
    1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed.
    2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting.
    3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities.
    4 - (MEDIOCRE) A game that has its fair share of serious problems with a few glimmers of quality sprinkled throughout. More than anything it's forgettable.
    5 - (OKAY) For every positive this game has there is just as many negatives. You may be able to find enjoyment in these games however you will likely be met with equal amounts frustration and disappointment.
    6 - (GOOD) There is a decent amount of fun to be had in these games albeit with a few noticeable drawbacks. Worth checking out at some point especially if on sale.
    7 - (GREAT) A game that has some flaws but all in all is a great game worth every penny of its purchase price.
    8 - (AMAZING) Game of the year contender only allowing for some minor flaws.
    9 - (SUPERB) One of if not the best game released that year, truly special.
    10 - (NEAR PERFECT) One of the best games ever made.
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  18. Mar 3, 2020
    7
    It works very well as a fun open-world zombie game, story isn't great but the game is very good for smashing zombies while jumping all around the place.
  19. Dec 7, 2019
    6
    It was an okay game. Preferred Dead Island to be honest. The combat was better.
  20. Jul 19, 2019
    5
    I really liked this game at first. I had 102 hours into it before I allowed it to update. I usually dont allow my PS4 to connect to the internet, because I only play singleplayer, and its always trying to do something or connect to something or download something that i didnt ask it to. BUT I wanted the free DLC. I just wanted some additional content. Not for the fundamentals of theI really liked this game at first. I had 102 hours into it before I allowed it to update. I usually dont allow my PS4 to connect to the internet, because I only play singleplayer, and its always trying to do something or connect to something or download something that i didnt ask it to. BUT I wanted the free DLC. I just wanted some additional content. Not for the fundamentals of the fuggin game to change. It was bad enough how hard the game is in the very beginning, but you couldnt change the difficulty. AT ALL. (unless you update) SO I get completely leveled up and Im enoying the game. I was getting towards the end of the story, so I decided to let the game update for the DLC. Now the ENTIRE damage system has been reworked. I could understand adding a higher difficulty, which they also did, but for the casual player...someone whos already got 102 fugging hours in the game, to so drastically change the way you have to play....its very frustrating. So now my options are 1) quit playing it and dont finish a game i have over 4 solid days in 2) accept it and try to finish a game im no longer really having fun with 3) Delete the whole thing and start completely over again. I think this is Techlands first major success and so maybe they are still things out, but this seems so amateur, and I simply cannot understand their though process. It will ABSOLUTELY make me thing long and hard about ever buying another Techland game. Expand
  21. Jun 11, 2018
    6
    There's a lot of good in Dying Light. The first thing you'll notice is the music, which has a neat 80s synth aesthetic. It's the first tease of an engrossing yet light-hearted experience in a zombie-infested metropolis that feels like a Rio de Janeiro in the Middle East. The city is quite large and detailed, rendered in impressive graphics. And the mechanics go deep, as you'll know ifThere's a lot of good in Dying Light. The first thing you'll notice is the music, which has a neat 80s synth aesthetic. It's the first tease of an engrossing yet light-hearted experience in a zombie-infested metropolis that feels like a Rio de Janeiro in the Middle East. The city is quite large and detailed, rendered in impressive graphics. And the mechanics go deep, as you'll know if you take a peek at the various skill trees available.

    However, this game is such a grind before you get a proper foothold in the world that you may well get tired of the game before you reach that point. Earning experience is painstakingly slow, divided as it is across three initial categories before a fourth class opens up. I highly recommend finding tutorials to learn the nuaces of gameplay (which are manyfold) to maximize experience earning potential early on. This will save a lot of frustration. I appreciate that feeling underpowered for a large portion of the game makes the world feel deadly dangerous, but it's a bit overboard here.

    But the final nail in the coffin is how gratingly annoying and badly written every single NPC is in this game. From cliched villains to cliched allies, to whiny fetch-quest givers, to unfunny and tedious blabbermouths, it's simply a chore to speak to anyone. The immersion of the game is killed three words into any conversation.

    A more minor criticism is how samey the city feels. It's very easy to get lost because differentiating buildings or even cardinal directions is nearly impossible without the map.

    This game requires a ton of patience to enjoy
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  22. May 15, 2018
    7
    Although the narrative is awful, and I also found the side quests to be bland, everything else about this game is great. Some of the most fun I've had in a co-op game.
  23. Jul 26, 2017
    7
    This review only covers the base game and the dlcs prior to the following expansion.

    Zombie games have flooded the market for quite a long time and still keep going today. To see Dying Light as "another zombie game" for me is a mixture of going through the motions and simply turning off my critique switch and just enjoying cathartic fun. It definitely is fun, there's a surprising amount
    This review only covers the base game and the dlcs prior to the following expansion.

    Zombie games have flooded the market for quite a long time and still keep going today. To see Dying Light as "another zombie game" for me is a mixture of going through the motions and simply turning off my critique switch and just enjoying cathartic fun. It definitely is fun, there's a surprising amount of stuff to do in the zombified city of Harran. Parkouring over buildings and obstacles is very fun and its often overlooked nowadays in games where you have to glitch up the side of a mountain or building to get to your destination or have some sort of predetermined path to go on. Dying Light doesn't do this and instead allows you to freely explore the city at your own pace and progress.

    So why would this game get a 7/10? I want to stress again, playing Dying Light is fun and I would consider a 7/10 a good game, but not a great one. There are significant problems with Techland's game that makes it difficult to praise it for what it lacks more in. The game can be incredibly buggy and enemy AIs can be underwhelming when reacting to your movements. The plot that the game focuses on is really cliche to the point it's cliche swiss cheese. Name a cliche point in a film or book or show, Dying Light has it, which is a shame because given the music is a 70s and 80s theme that placed emphasis on action over plot in the films at that time this game could have been far better. What I mean is the setting should've been the 70s/80s instead of modern day.

    The durability system is fine, but the need to drop a weapon you like after running out of repairs can be very heartbreaking. The game does have a survival system in place to establish its rules on clearing out hordes and scavenging to survive, but many zombie games have done this to a far greater effect and as a consequence has only dulled the sense of enjoyment when scavenging the city. The repetition is quite taxing after the first few hours go by and the quests and missions you go
    on don't really have much emotion or weight to them. They feel as interchangeable and deaf as the next one.

    I like the enemy variety and the day/night cycle is a really great gamble for players to try to get more stuff at the cost of being killed easier on the surface, but the losses are so minor that it doesn't bother me because you don't lose the items you get, only experience. Later on the devs would update the game to make a mode that makes death more meaningful but really Dying Light doesn't make dying have any weight, rather it just spawns you back to your checkpoint area instead. The co-op is really nice, the dlc is underwhelming and weak, the pvp mode is bad and really the amount of fetch quests and backtracking can be really taxing for me to want to get back into for a second run.

    Dying Light isn't bad by any means, but it had come in a point in time where zombie games were exploding with popularity and numerous titles that the game suffers almost from a identity crisis. It plays a safe way and doesn't try to be different, but can be enjoyable if you like something to do.
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  24. Jun 19, 2017
    7
    Dying Light is what Dead Island should of been. A more action free slowing combat game. The story was nothing too special, but overall I did enjoy it. Especially going out at night.
  25. Jun 19, 2017
    6
    This game is a decent fps zombie game, too bad that the idea is overused and they tried to copy dead island idea, they failed miserably, but at least this game is interesting and somewhat fun to play.
    Buy it only if you really like zombie games.
    6/10
  26. Mar 14, 2017
    7
    Quite good game, slashing zombies with home made burning swords/katanas cannot be better but getting boring too early, no boss fights at all (just bigger monsters), final boss in retail is disappointment (no real fight), endless resources farming and endless zombies spawning. I liked graphics and design, as a polish player there is so many familiar things from my country, especially fromQuite good game, slashing zombies with home made burning swords/katanas cannot be better but getting boring too early, no boss fights at all (just bigger monsters), final boss in retail is disappointment (no real fight), endless resources farming and endless zombies spawning. I liked graphics and design, as a polish player there is so many familiar things from my country, especially from communism era, like bikes, ovens, analogs TVs, settlements, sewer pipes, fuses etc. I really liked it. Expand
  27. Feb 15, 2017
    5
    What could have been. Never taking advantage of it's wonderful game ideas (night mode) while also offering a story filled with cliches and plot armor. Some fun to be had but an all round disappointment.
  28. Dec 1, 2016
    7
    One of the best gaming experiences of my life, also the most frustrating. It is an incredibly flawed jewel. Its inconsistencies inevitably start weighing on your mind, to the point of frustration. But you'll stick with it until it lets you down again. It provides challenges the coding of the game just cannot live up to and then punishes you for its mistakes. Its unforgivable. But i cantOne of the best gaming experiences of my life, also the most frustrating. It is an incredibly flawed jewel. Its inconsistencies inevitably start weighing on your mind, to the point of frustration. But you'll stick with it until it lets you down again. It provides challenges the coding of the game just cannot live up to and then punishes you for its mistakes. Its unforgivable. But i cant stop playing it. A famous game developer once said "Anyone can make a great game, but not everyone can finish one" Expand
  29. Sep 13, 2016
    6
    I'm a very huge fan of Zombie media. I find the theme's and the concepts behind Zombies to be very interesting. And it's not that hard for me to enjoy something with Zombies in it. Dying Light made that a little hard. I should enjoy this game more than I did, but at the end of the day with a boring setting and dull characters with little no personality, I was finding it hard to care aboutI'm a very huge fan of Zombie media. I find the theme's and the concepts behind Zombies to be very interesting. And it's not that hard for me to enjoy something with Zombies in it. Dying Light made that a little hard. I should enjoy this game more than I did, but at the end of the day with a boring setting and dull characters with little no personality, I was finding it hard to care about anything that I was doing. The game is fun, and it's filled with a lot of things to do. But I simply didn't find those things interesting or all that worth my time. In fact the most fun I had with the game was only ever had when I was playing online Cooperatively. There's really nothing all that wrong with Dying Light from a gameplay perspective, but I've come to expect a lot more from Zombie games. If I wanted a mindlessly fun zombie game to play without any real intelligence to it, I could go back and play Dead Island. Expand
  30. May 22, 2016
    5
    Run errands, avoid zombies, and deal with the grainy graphics. If you liked dead island, you'll probably like this. Sadly, I did not. The voice acting is pretty bad, you can't turn off the "film grain" which gives the graphics a crappy look, and I can't really recommend this. It's pretty "meh".
Metascore
74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 58 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 58
  2. Negative: 0 out of 58
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Apr 22, 2015
    70
    A slightly better version of Dead Island in everything but name. [Apr 2015, p.84]
  2. Play UK
    Mar 31, 2015
    85
    With some crazy fun online elements and a badass sense of actual achievement, Dying Light is the zombie game we've been working for. Just mute those terrible voices. [Issue#254, p.64]
  3. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Mar 24, 2015
    80
    It's not perfect, but Dying Light is last, brutal and most importantly, fun. [April 2015, p74]