Dying Light 2 | Critical Consensus
Danielle Partis
News Editor
Thursday 3rd February 2022
Techland
Tomorrow sees the release of the Dying Light 2, the long-awaited sequel to Techland's 2015 horror survival title.
Dying Light 2 has seen several delays since its unveiling in 2019, first pushed back from its launch window of spring 2020 to 2021, and then again to February 4, 2022.
The critical response has been mixed so far, landing the game at a reasonable 73 on Metacritic as of writing. For comparison, the original Dying Light sits just one point higher at 74.
Dying Light 2 largely sticks to the formula of the first game. Set in a post-apocalyptic setting 15 years after the events of Dying Light, new protagonist Aiden is tasked with deciding the fate of humanity's last settlement in this zombie-ravaged landscape.
It also builds on the mechanics of its predecessor, bringing back its trademark AI zombie hordes, open-world combat and crafting systems, this time with a much bigger scope.
"Dying Light 2 is going to be very familiar -- not just for folks who played the first game or have watched a lot of zombie media, but familiar in general," said Chris Carter, in a 7.5/10 Destructoid review.
"That aforementioned familiarity comes into play in several respects. Dying Light 2 has a detective vision mechanic. There's crafting and lockpicking. And radio towers (windmills). There's also crafting and gathering, and even the materials are going to elicit memories of trouncing around Techland's own open-world romps. But once you actually play it, a lot of what the game is trying to do comes together."
"It looks and feels like the most ambitious Xbox 360 game ever made, and I'm fairly certain I mean that as high praise"
Martin Robinson, Eurogamer
The familiarity to the first
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