As another player said to me: “You’ll grab everything, but never want to play it again once you do so”. It’s empty greed, of course: another slice of pizza even after you’ve tired of it. You’ll aspire to find everything on the map, own every safehouse. It has a compulsive quality however, helped by how fundamentally well-built it is and how you grow in power by feeding those compulsions. And unlike the better Assassin’s Creed’s from which it pulls, the setting isn’t quite enough to really drag those who tire of zombie-swatting through to the end. That mid-game change I mentioned is welcome, but also obvious as to where it’s come from. What it doesn’t do is propel Dying Light from being a good game (and one that has made me laugh on numerous occasions) into a great one: there’s always a feeling that it doesn’t do quite enough to add to the template laid by its many influences. Items are exchanged, health is divvied out, survivors are downed and not dead when they run out of health. With your mates, there’s an evening of the odds, especially if (like me) they’re already at a higher level and can furnish you with all sorts of Good Shit. Weapons break easily, good parts aren’t that easy to find, zombies are tougher than they look. In its early going Dying Light can be both a little overwhelming in its loot and crafting systems, as well as quite difficult, especially against human opponents.
It also adds accessibility, and lessens frustration. Adding friends mitigates the mundanity, while amplifying the fun of free-form play. They improve later on, but often play second fiddle to Dying Light’s real appeal: scavenging, fighting, and reclaiming safe zones.
Storyline missions are reasonable enough, if a little dull, and they sometimes make little sense (you’re given a 36-hour deadline until the city is carpet bombed, but for a game built around time there are no consequences for not meeting it). It also helps with some of Dying Light’s more obvious issues. Whether enforced via the game itself (players can challenge each other directly) or simply by pure ego, your team will soon be bounding around, levelling as they do so, unlocking better (and more outrageous) perks, which then adds to the general nonsense levels.
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The passive upgrade system, which constantly rewards players for being active in combat, free-running, and general survival, dovetails nicely with the addition of new compatriots – and the natural competition they bring. Essentially: what we’d all do.Īll of Dying Light’s outlandish elements are dialled up when running around with friends, especially if your perks are somewhat complementary. Adding other players turns it into Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead: a bunch of idiots with shit-eating grins using the apocalypse for their own amusement. In my first look at the game I said the transition from day to night changes the atmosphere from Romero to Boyle. Which is great, really, and the rewards are obvious. It’s around this time that some survivors will also start to unlock the more over-the-top perks which, when combined with the amount of players (and their undoubted penchant for Dicking Around) turns the whole thing into slapstick.
Instead, the game resembles Dead Rising x Assassin’s Creed, especially after a welcome change of location near the midway point. There’s a sense of menace to the place when playing alone: with a friend equipped with a two-handed bastard sword of doom, or a flaming katana, it’s impossible to be intimidated. Harran becomes less a condemned city, more a dilapidated playground. But add another player (or three) and there’s an obvious – if no less rewarding – shift in tone. They do, and while these additions change the game’s tone almost fundamentally, the resulting systems also elevate Techland’s latest to heights the developer has rarely hit before.Īs mentioned previously, Harran is a well-designed city to run and clamber around in: atmospheric and dangerous, dense and suffocating. Last week I wrote that Dying Light was a pleasant surprise, and that I hoped the perk and upgrade systems, along with the multiplayer, would go on to ensure the game retained its appeal beyond its initial stages.
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