Dying Light 2 Reviews - Great Parkour, But Not Perfect
Dying Light 2: Stay Human is collecting good marks from reviewers, despite complaints about bugs in the pre-release build of follow-up to Techland's „undead” game.
Dying Light 2: Stay Human is just around the corner (and in the hands of some gamers), but was it worth waiting the long years for the debut of the sequel to Techland's hit? The answer is provided by first reviews of the game, which appeared on the web. Among them was our text, which you can find under the link below.
It's worth remembering that the developers have promised to release a day one update, which - as stated - will introduce improvements implemented in the past week (that is long after Dying Light 2 has gone gold).
Dying Light 2 - selected reviews:
- Gamepressure - 8,5/10
- Attack of the Fanboy - 4.5/5
- COGConnected - 9/10
- DualShockers - 9/10
- PC Gamer - 84/100
- God is a Geek - 8/10
- Independent - 8/10
- Wccftech - 8/10
- Hardcore Gamer - 3.5/5
- IGN - 7/10
- PC Invasion - 7/10
- TheSixthAxis - 7/10
- VGC - 3/5
- The Guardian - 2/5
The mention of the day one patch is quite important, because although the second Dying Light was to the liking of most reviewers, many of them mentioned technical problems. Some of these were minor things like the bodies of defeated enemies behaving strangely (which, knowing the players, will probably be considered added value).
However, there are also mentions of more serious bugs, including characters falling behind textures and the occasional crashed. It's not, as one reviewer put it, level comparable to "another fresh Polish open-world game," and it's hard to expect a title like this to be bug-free. Nevertheless, it could have been much better - and maybe it will be after the day one patch.
Dying Light 2 - B-rated parkour exploration...
While the reviewers were fairly unanimous about the technical condition of Dying Light 2, it is possible to notice differences in the evaluation of other elements. With one more exception: Aiden's free-flowing parkour runs through the destroyed city are commonly cited as the best part of the game. So much so, in fact, that some people resented the game for limiting their freedom when solving the puzzles (which, however, were praised by themselves).
The visuals also encourage us to explore Villedor. Yes, the locations use the same objects a bit too often, however, the whole thing looks impressive, especially on PCs capable of handling the highest graphics settings with ray tracing enabled.
...and reviewers' disagreement
This, unfortunately, is essentially where the critics' common position ends. Basically, most journalists also appreciated the game's choices, usually with important consequences, but - as some say - in practice sometimes/usually (delete as needed) too superficial.
The same goes for the characters and the story (for many interesting and full of good dialogues, for others - trite and encouraging at most to click through cutscenes), combat, the aforementioned puzzles, etc. Even the graphics - as mentioned, praised by the vast majority of reviewers - were considered "a bit outdated" by some.
Despite this, as you can see from the reviews, just running around (and not only) the post-apocalyptic city gave a lot of fun to the reviewers, even those most critical of Techland's new production. We can therefore conclude that Dying Light 2: Stay Human is a very good production, although no one will call it perfect. Unless some players, who will soon be able to verify the opinions of reviewers.
Dying Light 2 will be released on February 4 on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. The title is also coming to Nintendo Switch thanks to game streaming technology, though we'll have to wait a few more months for that edition.
