Yawn of the dead

No,Dying Light 2doesnt take500 hours to complete.

The church spire no local dare climb?

Up there in seconds.

Characters have a party in Dying Light 2

That wind turbine base that has everyone spooked?

Nothing a few drop kicks cant fix.

It has weirdly low stakes for what the devs have talked up as a brutal modern dark ages.

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Empty streets or empty buildings: which is to be?

I wish you could dial down the pointers and hand holding.

you could turn off enemy health bars, which adds a frisson of unknowability.

The player encounters two zombies crouched on the floor in a dark room in Dying Light 2

But it could offer more.

Let me try and screw up for myself.

Yes; its a map icon game where you cant scrub the map icons!

The player holds a knife, ready to shank a zombie in front of them in Dying Light 2

What fresh hell is this?

And to be fair, around its low pressure centre lurk some entertaining distractions.

Modding a katana so it belches flames adds insult to injury.

The player hang-glides through an urban cityscape dotted with trees in Dying Light 2

Up there Dying Light 2 becomes what I wanted Mirrors Edge Catalyst to be.

When Aiden gets going, he really gets going, even at a thousand feet.

Im glad it wasnt 500 hours long.

The player stands behind two other humans, controlled by other players, as they enter a building in Dying Light 2’s co-op mode

Techlands taken something quite distinct and sanded down the edges.

Come the real zombie apocalypse we should all be so lucky to face a world this trudgingly well behaved.