Dying Light

I finally got round to finishing Dying Lights incredible campaign and finally feel able to judge it fairly. From the game, to all the dlc Dying Light is an astonishing feat.

This first person free roaming zombie epic was often criticised for being a Dead Island imitator, but the truth is they simply used that formula and perfected it.

The storyline is solid, the multiplayer is great and the execution is flawless.

Free running around the fictitious city of Harran is seamless, leaping from roof to roof, climbing pylons and outrunning hordes of the undead is an exhilarating experience.

The combat is unusual in that melee rarely works in first person but is the backbone of Dying Light and works perfectly. Add to that some great gunplay in a world where ammunition is highly limited and you have a great combat system.

The enemies are highly variable each with strengths and weaknesses, the appearance of one can change your entire play style from your generic slow zombies to the fast Virals and the annoying Spitters.

The difficulty balance is ideal, the amount to do outside of the main campaign is decent and the added dlc expands on an already vast experience.

Graphically Dying Light is stunning, not only are the environments and character models great but it all looks so very smooth as you're hurtling through the streets. But that's nothing until you start to climb, at a height being able to see across the city during various weathers and daytimes the beauty is near flawless.

To accompany this we have the score which you simply don't expect in a game like this. Not only is it extremely well made but it's haunting and very retro. The music in the background of certain sections are a true homage to the 70's/80's zombie classics.

Dying Light is a unique experience and I hope we see a sequel, in these uncertain days of video game developers however I question the likelihood.

The Good:

Graphics

Score

Infinetly playable

Incredible adrenaline rush when being chased or stealthing during the night

The Bad:

Some dodgy AI on zombies sometimes

The animation often shows you missing a jump before pulling yourself up

Final boss was an anti-climax

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

All fat people explode when they become zombies, it's the law of zombies in video games

You can fall from an infinite height just as long as you have a pile of garbage bags to land on

Breaking the necks of babies is fine if they're undead

Hand down, the best zombie game I've ever played. A gripping and compelling story from start to finish. Smooth controls and graphics the whole way through.

For a zombie game, this is a fast paced, parkour game while surviving a zombie outbreak. Its at the same scary in some situations where you are cornered or running from the hunters in the dead of night. very scary when the sun goes down and the zombies get more fierce. I for one am a huge fan of zombies games and from the company that created the dead island series I love their new title. Its a more realistic, very well- designed game that was worth the time to create for the gamer's. Wide variety of weapons and intense situations of capturing the air-drops. Overall its an awesome game to play and fun to play online.

Good Night, Good Luck.

This game is a total time killer, I'll be playing at 1:00 and next i know it's 4:30. The game is violent but when you busting zombie heads and kicking them off buildings you feel like a total badass. The story is good and the characters are cool and controls are easy to adapt to.

This is one of the best games I have ever played in my entire existence of gaming.

GAMEPLAY:

the zombies and action packed parkour is beautiful, just running up a wall, dropping down on a zombie 20 feet above and slicing it is just awesome. leveling up is the most satisfying thing I have seen, but when you get the grappling hook from leveling up enough the fun sky rockets to a whole new level. although waiting 10 seconds or so waiting for the grappling hook to pull back all the way can get really annoying. and the competitions can be really fun sometimes

STORYLINE:

The storyline was written together perfectly. The only flaw for me was how short the story was, it was so short that I finished it in only about 3 days.

So dying light is a 10/10 for me