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December 3rd Game Review: Dying Light
Dying Light is an open world first person survival horror action-adventure video game developed by Techland. It was released in January 2015 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Story
The game revolves around an undercover agent named Kyle Crane who is sent to infiltrate a quarantine zone in a city called Harran. It features an enemy-infested, open-world city with a dynamic day and night cycle. The day-night cycle changes the game drastically, as enemies become more aggressive and more difficult to deal with during night time. The gameplay is focused on weapons-based combat and parkour. The game also features an asymmetrical multiplayer mode and a four-player, co-operative multiplayer mode.
The game was seen as something brand new in the world of gaming because it combined games like 7 Days To Die and DayZ with the parkour style of Mirrors Edge. Players can perform action such as drop-kicking when engaging combat with enemies. A grappling hook is also featured in the game, allowing players to climb up buildings and travel between places quickly.
Dying Light is one of very few zombie survival games to have a story aspect to it as well as a multiplayer aspect. However, in this case, (in my opinion) the story mode open world part of the game was miles better than the multiplayer mode. However the developers at Techland were smart and combined the two by allowing players to play a 4 player co-op story mode with friends this definitely was a major part of the game’s success.
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