Dying Light Review - IGN

Beginning as a furtive, desperate survival-horror experience, Dying Light gradually and gratifyingly evolves into a fast, hyper-violent celebration of vertical freedom and zombie destruction. Its main story is unspectacular, but the memorable side quests and sheer fun of exploring its world do a fantastic job of offsetting that, making Dying Light one of the most engrossing open-world games – zombie-infested or otherwise – I've played in a while

[JMaine518]

A review grade I agree with from IGN.

[KnightRobby]

This game I stand by. As a singleplayer experience, it has no bugs (hardly any so far for me), it's beautiful, and everything from E3 and other trailers looks nearly the same in the game. And I absolutely love when the sun sets!

I really hope the game sells well because I am sick of these games releasing with problems. Nicely done WB Games and Techland! Nicely done indeed :)

[Kryptonite42O]

Agreed. This makes the delay a little more justified. Nice to see that the game is polished and has very few if any bugs. Its a nice change from all the broken games as of late.

[xwilldemise]

Not bad I'll make sure to get this game once it goes cheap

[DragonbornZ]

Really good game. Parkour is a neat addition to the zombie genre, it's fluid, upgrade tree is nice, combat is pretty good, being able to aim at different body parts is awesome, game is pretty challenging and night time is a b*tch and it's DARK! It's not that "the moons a magic flashlight" type of night time it's that "i literally can't see sh*t" type of night time. It's the kind of darkness that obscures your vision and makes you question weather to go out at night especially with those quick ass zombies lurking around.
Love Cranes voice, graphics are pretty and the world is nice and open. The only things I don't like so far are how the aggressive zombies sometimes don't react when they get hit or kicked (it makes sense since they're crazy n what-not, but sometimes they obviously should get knocked off balance or get knocked back)the slow sensitivity of the guns and single outfit customization, but other than dat the games dope.

[showtimefolks]

I will just wait till black Friday and get this for 20 by than who knows maybe it will have the patches to fix every issue and I will know if the DLC is worth getting or wait till goty edition

Till now only next Gen title that lived up to the hype IMO has been sunset overdrive

Here is hoping blood borNE lives up to the hype

[captainexplosion]

Totally agree with u on Sunset Overdrive. Amazing game. I wish Dying Light had more of Sunset's mobility when it comes to the parkour. Solid game though. Worth the rental.

[typittt69]

Sunset Overdrive was amazing. I think Bloodborne will live up to the hype no doubt, From Software never dissapoint... But i think The Order will surprise everyone. At least i hope so, it has a lot of potential... Dying light is great so far quite a surprise considering how broken Dead Island was. Same concept minus the bugs and plus the parkour. Worth a try.

[Meltic]

No issue anymore with the second patch if u have then upgrade CPU

[ShellB]

I bought it for $30 @ g2a and it's alright but I got bored so fast. But, if you play it with your buddies you'll have a great time.

[showtimefolks]

that's what i mean, from everything i have read its filled with generic fetch quests.

[Valenka]

From the way the review was going back when it was a "review in progress," I did not think the score was going to be an 8.5. Good to know IGN thought it was a great game too.

[smoothop]

I'm pretty happy with that review, pleased that its receiving some of the praise it deserves. Me and my bro have had a laugh playing it and that is where games are golden sometimes, its nice when you get a game that's got a let's just have fun attitude. My worst moment was watching my bro rappel down an elevator shaft, tried to follow only to miss the line and break my legs and yes he did "Xbox record that" which was quite funny at the time.

[KorekSAN]

Totally agree with IGN with the score

[WitWolfy]

If they can make it so its 3rd person too I'd totally buy this.

[UnHoly_One]

That would pretty much defeat the whole point of the game and ruin the whole experience.

[xTheMercenary_]

That would slightly ruin the game, how are you meant to enjoy the site of a zombie's head being sliced off in 3rd person. Thats like making far cry 3rd person, it wouldn't make sense.

[WitWolfy]

Why not? It worked for GTA and RDR undead nightmare.

[xTheMercenary_]

Yeah but dying light is a hell of a different game compared to those two. The concept of the game looks and feels better in 1st person. But i guess if they had the option to switch between the two it wouldn't hurt.

[souldestroyer14]

I haven't played the game but to me it looks identical to dead Island except with decent parkour. I was hoping for something a little different. I'll get it eventually I just have too many games right now and by the time I get to this game it will probably be on sale

[jriquelme_paraguay]

lol

[reallyNow]

well, thats pretty much what it is. its a finished and polished dead island sequel that is so much better than its predecessor, they felt compelled to give it a different name entirely. i hated dead island. I absolutely love dying light.

[MysticStrummer]

The big differences are the parkour and the day/night cycle with more dangerous enemies at night, but the game also has a generally darker tone and creepier atmosphere imo. Love playing with headphones on. It takes the things Dead Island did right, improves on some of them, adds some new wrinkles, and seems mostly bug free in my experience on PS4.

[Ashunderfire86]

Glad Ign is with the fans on this one. It really is a great game that deserves more than the low ratings sites like Gamespot, Gametrailers, Eurogamer, and gave it. The parkour is the best thing about Dying Light, and as a matter of fact, the creator of Parkour help with the development of this game. Yup he had a huge influence on the parkour gameplay. 4 player coop campaign makes the game even more fun going through zombies and 4V1 against a player controlled zombie. Dying Light is the best zombie game I ever played before. I give it a 9.0. Fantastic!

[Kingscorpion1981]

I wouldn't go that far. Its a good game but not the best zombie game

[UnHoly_One]

Scratch this comment, I posted in regards to the link still pointing to a "review in progress", but now it appears to link to the final review.

And now it just links to the review in progress again.

WTH?

[PudgeyBurrito]

Hrmmm.. This game seems to be getting a lot of good user reviews. I might have to check it out.

[newflesh]

Agree with the score. The gameplay is very good but the story is pretty bad and doesn't make much sense.