No one has rated this review as helpful yet
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 92.6 hrs on record (47.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 20 Jun, 2017 @ 7:39am

Overview
Dying Light is a fantastic zombie parkour game, which reinforces you to keep looking over your shoulder when you're not on the move.

Coming from only playing the vanilla game, no DLC content, I found the game to be full of content and challenges. The game scales really well with content and player's abilities, so there is a constant challenge to what ever you do. And you'll never be over powered.

Multiplayer
Got friends who equally have a love hate relationship with zombies? Then I highly recommend this title. Don't get me wrong, this game is fantastic on your own. Hell, that's what I did for my first play through, and I am currently doing a second one with two other friends. The game as a nifty competitive system where you can open up a challenge to the other players to try and kill the most zombies, college the most valuables and run the a destination the fastest. This opens up a lot banter with you and your friends, just hope they're not a sore loser!

Parkour
The Parkour side of the games is just fantastic on its own, and opens the game immensely. It enables the player to fight their enemies based on the terrain, be it densely populated housing to open rocky areas outside suburb areas, making encounters ever more interesting. Once you unlock the grappling hook, oh boy, does the game become more fun :D

Quests & Challenges
The main and side quests are interesting. It opens up the player to the world around him, showing the power struggle between innocent people trying to survive, vs the power hungry enemies who want everything for them selves. It also shows what a world like this can do to a person who is separated from communities and try and survive on their own, driving them to insanity.

If you get bored of doing the quests in the game, there are plenty challenges around which mix the game up a bit. These challenges range from parkour speed runs, to raiding heavily infected & enclosed areas to gain beneficial resources for survivors. They're very rewarding as well, and are well worth doing between quests and running around the city areas.

Skill System
The skill system reflects the time / work you put into your game session. Over time as your running, fighting and helping others you gain experience in different areas where you can improve upon yourself and make the game easier / more interesting for yourself as you battle the undead hordes. The skills basically parkour more fun, fighting easier without getting winded after 4 swings and allowing you to craft more interesting items to use.

This balances the game out quite nicely, so you'll level up along with the game as you play.

Conclusion
The game provides a lot of content, what you'd expect from a triple A title. The extra game content, not the cosmetic DLC, will nicely add at least 10+ hours of game play for you. With that estimate, I am taking the year of free DLC into account, assuming it is not just cosmetic lark.

9/10, would jump off a cliff into some rubbish again.
Was this review helpful? Yes No Funny Award