Flashbacks to childhood times are a regular occurrence (especially in the early hours of this adventure), with progress the only real way for the player to begin to understand what is actually occurring. What we can say is that it focuses on the life and times of a pilgrim, one Aiden Caldwell, as he heads to The City – one of the last standing settlements of humanity – in order to try and understand more about the life that he is currently leading, where that is going and exactly where he has been prior to this. Disclaimer: We haven’t put in half a thousand hours. Even more so when you consider that Techland have mentioned that you may need to throw in upwards of 500 hours in order to fully appreciate what is in hand.

When you then include a huge number of world events that play out, with multiple side missions and quests present, and well, going into the narratives isn’t something that should be done. You can be sure that Dying Light 2 Stay Human has a ton of those, with the main quest that unfolds flipping and flopping this way and that, all as you attempt to understand how the world works, how the various communities come together as one, fighting for prevalence at the same time. Sitting here right now though, we’d not be at all surprised to see the game and its developers build on what is present to once more take the genre to all new heights.Īs with any story-driven affair, it’s tricky to go too in-depth into matters in a written review, for fear of spoiling the twists and turns that play out. But old habits die hard and initial issues hold it back from the utter greatness that it deserves. Well, you’re right, it can’t, for there are some seriously great standout moments found in what Techland has delivered with Dying Light 2. With new technology behind them and anticipation at fever pitch, surely Dying Light 2 cannot go wrong? There’s a time to move on though and that time is now, with Dying Light 2 Stay Human a game that looks to build on all that Techland has learnt, providing a similar open world daylight romp mixed with dark night time scares.

The combination of rock solid base game, developer backing and community love very much turned that original Dying Light experience into one of the finest zombie-fuelled games of all time. Techland have continued to get behind their open world adventure with fixes, patches and a whole ton of DLC both in the big with the likes of The Following expansion, and multiple content drops that would add in new skins. And since that time it’s a game that has gone from strength to strength. It didn’t rock up and immediately blow the world away, and those Techland glitches were most definitely still in place, but as a game to show a ton of promise, it hit home hard.

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