Dying Light forgoes the tongue-in-cheek tone of Dead Island for a more serious, morose and menacing one. Techland is most famous for making Dead Island, another zombie game which is almost the polar opposite of this one. These moments make up a minority of the game’s run time, but they’re leave you with the nagging feeling that the developers could have done better. Abrams blush during a crucial boss fight, it falters slightly. But when it tries to shoehorn you into quicktime events like swimming while you try to fend off zombies, or fill the screen with lens flares that would make J.J. When Dying Light lets the world it has created organically guide the action, it shines. Moments where you feel the visceral thrill of blowing up the undead, mixed in with moments of sheer terror as you look back to see a horde of undead chomping at the teeth as they try to get your hands on you. Because let’s face it, being able to do some seamless parkour across a couple of rooftops and dropkick a zombie clean in the face never gets old.ĭying Light has a lot of these moments. What we have in Dying Light is a rarity – a fresh zombie game which manages to be fun and spine-chilling at the same time. Something which keeps what makes zombies fun intact, and adds variations and mechanics that make zombies fun again.

Something that brings a fresh twist, a new take on the genre.

Even though we can pretty much agree that too many movies and games run to the zombie well for content, there’s still hope.īecause for every sub-par, generic zombie game or movie, there is a Dying Light. “Zombies, zombies everywhere!” is something you might have muttered to yourself about the state of pop culture, or of the world in general.

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