Side quests in open worlds have a bad reputation as now, but it’s a different story for Dying Light. There is a good amount of side quests here and they are unlocked based on where you’re at in the story. So you’ll help out and make connections with the survivors in The Tower, try to not get overwhelmed (and killed) by zombies, navigate around Rais, and do some sick parkour moves.Īlongside the story, there are also side quests that you can (and should) do.
You also won’t immediately get kicked out of The Tower and you’ll learn how to parkour from Rahim (aka my favorite character). It takes you a while to actually turn into a zombie, with clear and obvious symptoms, and the Antizin that regularly gets dropped are to suppress those symptoms. Bad news, you’re now infected, indebted to The Runners, and what the GRE will call for Crane to do (and the ensuing revelation he will have as well) later on is not going to be pretty. Luckily, he isn’t killed as those from the other faction comes to his rescue, the Runners who mainly reside in The Tower, but that also causes one of them to die to save his life. Having three people from Rais’ gang beat the hell out of him before he draws zombies (which come on, a one of them should have tried kicking the gun out of his hand), which then leads to Crane himself getting bit and infected. So Crane parachutes into the quarantined Harran and… has a not so ideal landing. You’re told that it contains an incomplete cure for the Harran Virus and if Suleiman publicizes it, it will prove to be deadly due to it not being, well, complete. Crane is sent to Harran as an undercover GRE operative to find someone named Suleiman and retrieve a file that he stole. Sometime before the game started, the city Harran has gotten a nasty outbreak, dubbed as the Harran Virus, that causes those infected to effectively become zombies. Anyway, so what is the story in Dying Light? You play as Kyle Crane who is a part of the GRE (or Global Relief Effort). It could have been better, but it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting it to be based on what I heard. While I didn’t quite finish it to get this review out last week like I originally wanted, it’s ready to share my feelings on Dying Light now.Īn aspect that I saw talking about that was Dying Light’s only weakness was its story. And set out to finish it before the sequel came out.
After a watching a video it looked fun, plus I’m sure it also helped the video was praising the game too, so I picked it up before the sale ended. It came at the perfect time when only the Platinum Edition was on sale (and it was so weird that the Platinum Edition wasn’t as well). It reminded me about Dying Light, making me wonder if it actually was a good game and enjoyable. Granted, Dying Light was not constantly in my mind as I forgot all about it. Well, guess which of the two I recently picked up? I also wanted to play Dying Light when it came out, but never got it either. One of the games I had a passing fancy to play was Dead Island, which I didn’t really end up playing, or at least only goofed off in the beginning section after renting it for a day.
And of course, you think “surely next time” and before you know it, it’s gone. It seems that lately I’ve been wanting to play old games that I loved as a kid (which may or may not be because I know I have a whole game backlog to deal with) and games that I remember seeing in stores and wanting, but couldn’t afford it at that time.