I admit that the first time I saw a hulking zombie, my eyes rolled harder than Tootsee’s when employed by the 69 Boyz. Bashing faces and sending jawbones flying, shooting off legs to force zombies to crawl, hacking and slashing all the livelong day it all looks really gross and cool. And the new Flesh system that represents bodily damage to the zombies is pretty gnarly. The color palette pops and is a huge improvement over the muted and nature-overrun look of Dying Light 2‘s game world.

or Hell A, as the developers are calling it - looks fantastic. I didn’t even bother to finish it I simply moved on with my life.īut then the most unlikely thing happened: About six or so months after Dying Light 2 came and went, a brand new Dead Island 2 announcement trailer popped up seemingly out of nowhere. It’s just nowhere near as ambitious as the marketing led us to believe, and its world is nowhere near as ambient or vibrant or well-crafted as Harran from the original game. The characters were also dreadfully uninteresting, the story was pretty bland and the zombies didn’t feel nearly as threatening as I think they were meant to.ĭon’t get me wrong, Dying Light 2 is a fine game. The ability to reshape the game world based on your choices felt about as impactful as deciding whether to use paper or plastic bags at the grocery store. The parkour felt oddly generic this time around, but that could just be that the novelty from the original game had waned in the interceding years. The zombie ragdoll physics made corpses feel like they were full of helium.

And considering Dead Island 2, at the time, appeared to have been stuck in development hell, Dying Light 2 was looking like the only game of its kind on the horizon.īut as excited as I had been for Dying Light 2, the actual game took the wind out of my sails. Back in January of 2022, I was hotly anticipating Dying Light 2, along with all the zombie-slaying mayhem that I expected in the follow-up to one of the greatest zombie games of all time, Dying Light.

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