Dying Light 2: Stay Human Reviews
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Dying Light 2 may have needed more tweaks before, but now, this game is an incredible addition to your library!
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Enjoy scaling heights and engaging story, yet deal with the AI issues and pray. Do not go gentle in that good night. Parkour, parkour in the Dying Light 2.
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With a beautiful open world, great narrative side missions, and enough tension to raise even the calmest player's blood pressure, Dying Light 2 wrings a mountain of slick fun out of the most dire of settings. Scary to play solo and a ton of fun in multiplayer, Dying Light 2 will keep you entertained for a long time with its fantastic mission structure and groundbreaking day/night mechanics. It took a while, but Dying Light 2 was worth the wait.
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Techland's undead sequel improves upon the strongest element of its predecessor, but things like story and characters drag it down.
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When it was first released back in 2014, the original Dying Light was a breath of fresh air for the survival horror genre, with some exciting new ideas that made for a unique and epic open world zombie slasher, combining Mirror’s Edge parkour with a Far Cry-esque open world to explore. It ended up becoming one of my favourite games of the now previous generation of consoles, despite having some rough issues that brought it down a notch. After a long development time, with plenty of anticipa...
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It’s hard to believe at this point, but Polish game publisher and developer Techland have been long at work crafting and gradually refining some of the biggest zombie horror games to date. In eleven years alone, we’ve seen the release of Dead Island, Dead Island Riptide and, most notably, Dying Light in 2015. Seven years later, we finally have a follow up to the latter of the bunch in Dying Light 2 Stay Human. With the survival horror adventure comes living proof that good things come to ...
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Techland's open world zombie parkour sequel is bigger and better than the original.
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It’s been four years since the developers at Techland took to E3’s stage to reveal Dying Light 2, though it feels like a lifetime ago. For fans of the original, the rollercoaster ride that was Dying Light 2’s development cycle was – at times – agonizing. After a red hot trailer peaked player interest, Techland stayed unusually quiet on further details surrounding the project. Following several delays, Dying Light enthusiasts were left wondering if this would all end up as some sort of bad fever dream.
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Dying Light 2 Stay Human combines a branching narrative, a massive open world and satisfying first-person parkour. It’s a potent mixture, but repetitive combat and serious technical issues often spoil the fun.
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Dying Light 2 Stay Human is an entertaining game with enjoyable characters and fun parkour elements. Unfortunately a lot doesn't hold up to scrutiny. If what you're after is more Dying Light though, then this is your game.
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Techland has a hit on its hands with Dying Light 2! While the game has been a long time coming, it is a fun, enjoyable game that features well-written characters and great world-building, along with some amazing parkour. However, the combat can be repetitive, voice lines constantly repeat and there’s a few concerns regarding the bugs I encountered. Other than that, Dying Light 2 is solid.
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Its combat is as brutal as one would hope while bringing the mechanical density and numerous options to engage any type of player. Its narrative is gripping with veins of humanity throughout that make it nearly impossible not to get invested in it. While sometimes feeling a bit sluggish or as though they just need a tiny bit more tuning, its new mechanics have brought new life to the series in a monumental way.
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Dying Light 2 is a messy, brilliant game. For all my issues with it, there is no denying just how fun it is to play. Some of the best movement in a first-person title is matched by solid combat and choices that helped me shape the narrative how I wanted. It doesn’t always hit, but boy, when it does it hits hard. Literally and figuratively, for as many times as I picked myself up after taking a beating, I had to pick up my jaw up off the ground after an incredible set-piece. Alone or with friends I’m not sure...
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Dying Light 2: Stay Human is finally here after a tumultuous development period. Looking past the pre-launch drama to the game itself, does this follow-up to 2015’s parkour-fuelled zombie survival title do enough to push the series forward in terms of story and gameplay, while also leveraging the power of the new-gen systems? Not quite.
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Trying to follow the development of Dying Light 2 Stay Human over the past several years has been a bit of a rollercoaster. The game was announced with much fanfare at E3 2018 and showed off a very impressive demo at E3 2019, but then creative director Chris Avellone left the project amid accusations of personal misbehavior at previous studios, the game was delayed multiple times, and reports of behind-the-scenes turmoil at Techland emerged. Ultimately, when Dying Light 2 staggered back into the light last year, it looked rather different than what was originally promised and demoed.
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Dying Light 2 still retains many of the key factors that made the original enjoyable and exhilarating. Unfortunately, it's also bogged down by technical issues, janky mechanics, and a restrictive save system that prevents you from readily seeing outcomes.
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Dying Light 2 Stay Human is a great sequel to a pretty good game. With fun traversal mechanics, combat encounters, and agonising choices in the story, it could be very much worth the playtime.
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There's no doubt about it, Dying Light 2: Stay Human is a sequel of epic proportions. Everything fans loved about the original title is still very much present, but now with a bigger story, new features, and a vast open-world filled with areas to explore and loot.
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“With a slow plot and uninteresting characters, Dying Light 2: Stay Human's few redeeming qualities are what sets the franchise apart from other zombie games out there.”
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Combining engaging combat, some of the most thrilling traversal you’ll find in a video game, and a truly rich narrative, there’s very little to find fault with in Dying Light 2: Stay Human. Whether or not you’ve played the first game, if you enjoy open world adventure games – particularly with a touch of horror – Dying Light 2 should be high on your must-play list. With its delays and long development, Techland almost had us worried, but we had no reason to be. It has delivered an experience which might just be one of the best open world games...
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20 years after Dying Light 1, a new hero finds himself leaping and beating through an open world city, this time with disappointingly well-behaved zombies and map-filling faff.
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Dying Light 2: Stay Human has been a long time coming, and thankfully it's worth the wait. I loved the time I spent exploring Villedor; finding random events and scaling buildings took me back to the old days of Assassins Creed II. While I wish I wasn't being timed on the occasions I went into a dark building or decided to explore at night, it's a minor issue to overlook when most of the game is so brilliantly executed and fun to play.
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