Dying Light 2 Stay Human

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  • Summary: THE FATE OF THE CITY IS IN YOUR HANDS It's been 15 years since humanity lost to the virus. The last great human settlement exists within an unforgiving, infected world, plunged into a modern dark age. During the day, bandits, factions and starving survivors roam the streets scavenging forTHE FATE OF THE CITY IS IN YOUR HANDS It's been 15 years since humanity lost to the virus. The last great human settlement exists within an unforgiving, infected world, plunged into a modern dark age. During the day, bandits, factions and starving survivors roam the streets scavenging for scraps - or someone to take them from, by violence if necessary. At night the infected roam free, evacuating their dark hideouts to prey on the living. You are Aiden Caldwell, an infected survivor. Your exceptional agility and brutal combat skills make you a powerful ally and a valuable commodity in this dangerous world. You can achieve things no one else can. Enter places no one else dares. With your unique abilities you have the power to be an agent of change within this decaying metropolis.

    YOUR CHOICES, YOUR WORLD
    You must make tough decisions and hard sacrifices as you decide the fate of a society on the brink of collapse. The effect of the choices you make will have a huge impact on entire regions of the city, uncovering new land masses and areas to explore. Play the entire campaign in up to four-player co-op. Host your own games or join other players' and see how their choices have played out differently to your own.

    EXCEPTIONAL AGILITY AND BRUTAL COMBAT
    On your journey from humble beginnings to a person of great power, you have unprecedented freedom of movement across the city, seamlessly integrated with brutal first person combat.

    A MODERN DARK AGE
    In a desperate city, where resources and power are scarce, unstable, and trust in ruling bodies is all but eroded; humankind has reverted to a dark age. Civilization is gone but the relics are still there. This is a violent, primal & unforgiving world - and so are its inhabitants.

    THE INFECTION HAS EVOLVED
    The infection has evolved and become more sensitive to UV light. Society exists in the relative safety of sunlight, while the infected hide in the shadows of buildings. At night the infected roam the streets freely searching for prey, presenting opportunities for you to explore areas of the city inaccessible by day.    … Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 62
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 62
  3. Negative: 1 out of 62
  1. Gaming Age
    Feb 3, 2022
    100
    My final thoughts on my overall experience with Dying Light 2: Stay Human remains positive. Seeing some coverage come out and be turned off by the bugs and issues that were pre-release was expected, but disappointing since I had faith that Techland would stay true to the fans and make sure the experience is covered top to bottom with prime support for the players and community. I commend the entire development team including Lead Designer Tymon Smektala for being engaged with the community leading to the release and listening to what they all have to say. It shows in the final release and look forward to spending even more hours in Villedor for years to come.
  2. Attack of the Fanboy
    Feb 2, 2022
    90
    Dying Light 2 is a bigger and bolder sequel that improves upon the original in every way. Not only does it have one of the most enjoyable traversal systems in any game ever, but it also provides players with interesting characters and quests to break up all the running.
  3. Malditos Nerds
    Feb 2, 2022
    85
    Dying Light 2: Stay Human isn't a revolution as the first game, but it is a solid entry with hours and hours of content, although probably not as long as 500 hours. It has everything it needs to become a game that fans are going to love.
  4. We Got This Covered
    Feb 2, 2022
    80
    With a significantly improved movement system, an engrossing, branching narrative, and an open world that's consistently engaging, Dying Light 2 was well worth the extended wait.
  5. PlaySense
    Feb 4, 2022
    75
    It's been a long time coming, but finally the Dying Light sequel is here. The parkour is refined, the combat is great and the city is lively enough to keep you entertained for a long time. There is also plenty to do in the game, but at the same time it is mainly more of the same without really big innovative steps forward. The first few hours are also disappointing and the visual modes do not offer a best of both worlds standard. A fine sequel, but perhaps a victim of too high expectations.
  6. GameMAG
    Feb 2, 2022
    70
    As with the original game, Dying Light 2 Stay Human will find its share of audience, while the teams at Techland will continue to expand their vision. The solid base is already there, and it would be interesting to see how the game will turn out in 5 years time.
  7. Guardian
    Feb 2, 2022
    40
    If you’ve played a zombie game in the past decade, this mishmash of tattered post-apocalyptic stereotypes will feel all too familiar.

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  2. Mixed: 154 out of 1206
  3. Negative: 347 out of 1206
  1. Rajmundzikk
    Feb 13, 2022
    10
    Well done game from Techland.
    Good story, great graphics and mechanics.
    Solid production that deserves updates and support as it was on    Well done game from Techland.
    Good story, great graphics and mechanics.
    Solid production that deserves updates and support as it was on Dying Light #1    … Expand
  2. Cc199
    Feb 6, 2022
    10
    If you liked dying light 1 you’re gonna like this one a lot just buy the game
  4. Jasonreidreview
    Feb 5, 2022
    10
    Giving it a 10 because everyone is review bombing because no Italian. Would really be an 8.5 because of the story is a lacklustre at times.Giving it a 10 because everyone is review bombing because no Italian. Would really be an 8.5 because of the story is a lacklustre at times. Graphics are really good on ps5 don’t know why everyone is **** about the graphics I mean have you looked at halo? Now that’s some **** graphics… Expand
  5. amarkey10
    Feb 8, 2022
    9
    Brilliant so far! Few bugs here and there but people giving this game low reviews expect way too much and are hating on it for no reason…
  6. Youreracist
    Feb 9, 2022
    7
    a discreet game, whose problems are quite different from the lack of dubbing in Italian.
    but the amount of non-Italians who are insulting us    a discreet game, whose problems are quite different from the lack of dubbing in Italian.
    but the amount of non-Italians who are insulting us on metacritic frankly disgusts me.
    these creatures think they are better than us and then they lower themselves to hostile, childish and racist behaviors like these.
    painful and disgusting. I am not surprised that racism still exists in the world when there are worms like these people.    … Expand
  7. ctmone
    Feb 15, 2022
    3
    I honestly didn't see such a stupid story and design, the city in the game is surrounded by huge walls, so people who have lived there forI honestly didn't see such a stupid story and design, the city in the game is surrounded by huge walls, so people who have lived there for over 15 years have not been able to clean the streets and buildings of zombies but have chosen to live on roofs where trees grow out of nowhere what a idiot directed the game ??… Expand
  8. ashenone666
    Feb 20, 2022
    0
    In the middle of the game, game crashed and corrupt my save. Support answer after 8 days with template answer: “We can’t restore your save, weIn the middle of the game, game crashed and corrupt my save. Support answer after 8 days with template answer: “We can’t restore your save, we recommend to quit game by pause menu to avoid corrupt the saves.”

    The plot of the game is pretty silly. Biggest part of main missions boring. Fight with boses, especially revenants, made easy and boring, no attack patterns, no challenge, final boss = worst boss in single player games, I ever seen. 20 minutes of fight with enemy, that have two attack types. NPC Textures have load delays and often I have grey models without textures. NPC Voices have load delays and often I have silent dialogues. Items have little and uncomfortable hitbox, when you want to take it, you must find the little point above it. On PS5, we have uncomfortable PC interface without habitual for console gaming interface, but with cursor. Side missions short and silly, so I don’t want to speak about that. Dark zones, at first, they seem interesting, but on 3-4 try, u understand that they all identical. Gameplay, especially parkour, is good and I have a lot of fun, when run across the city, it’s better and more dynamic then in 1st game. But it’s not save this game. Don’t recommend it for play.    … Expand

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