Dying Light 2: Stay Human

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is an ambitious zombie action adventure that's packed with top-notch parkour, an awesome open world, and every painful bug in the book.

Techland's undead sequel improves upon the strongest element of its predecessor, but things like story and characters drag it down.

Techland's vast blockbuster buckles under its own ambition and lacks in innovation, but makes up for it with outstanding parkour and combat.

A underwhelming story but a massive, exciting sandbox of parkour and kinetic combat.

Dying Light 2’s appeal is, ultimately, more game than story.

Dying Light 2 offers a great open world playground for zombie survival, but lacks an impactful story or meaningful choices.

Techland has crafted a monster of a sequel that is bigger and better in almost every way.

If you've played a zombie game in the past decade, this mishmash of tattered post-apocalyptic stereotypes will feel all too familiar

Restoring power to different places, searching for people and clearing out areas of zombies are pretty much the types of activities I’d expected. But I was utterly enthralled by Dying Light 2 Stay Human’s mechanical panache, entrancing soundtrack, and charismatic NPCs.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human feels like it lost its direction somewhere along the way. It begins as an interesting zombie game wherein the threat feels tangible, your character feels weak, and the world feels primed for a dynamic story. However, the further you get into the game, a lot of its early ideas feel sidelined for a generic zombie plot, uninspiring combat, and the absence of any kind of danger.