Why Dying Light: The Following DLC Became an Instant Classic

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The zombie genre has seen a variety of games over the past few years, but Techland's Dying Light offered a fresh take on the familiar formula. Released in 2015, Dying Light helped to alleviate zombie fatigue with its challenging open-world environment and a fluctuating day-night cycle. Players could traverse the urban environments with ease thanks to the dynamic parkour and had a few options when it came to either fighting off the undead hordes or fleeing across the rooftops.

While some thought the main character was a bit too much of a blank slate and the story was slightly predictable, Dying Light still found its fans thanks to its original features and fun gameplay, and a sequel was released earlier this year which saw a switch up of the game's setting and a new cast of characters. Before the sequel launched though, there was Dying Light: The Following, an expansion pack released in 2016 which managed to breathe new life into Dying Light's mechanics and offered a new take on the gameplay.

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The base game was by no means perfect. It had a long list of uninspired fetch quests, and even though the day-night cycle helped ramp up the difficulty in interesting ways, it took a while to actually get good at the game and really enjoy everything that it had to offer. One of Dying Light's best features was the tightly-packed urban environment in which players could flip, run, and climb their way through with Dying Light's great parkour. It seemed like an incredibly bold move, then, for the developer to essentially do away with this element in the game's story DLC.

The Following moves the Dying Light's action to some wide-open farmland with buildings few and far between.