Not only are bullets extremely hard to find, but firing off any shots runs the risk of attracting the attention of zombies who are much more difficult to shake by just hopping over a fence. You can always fight the zombies, and there are often situations where you have no choice, but it’s made abundantly clear that this isn’t the most ideal option.įor one thing, guns aren’t much of a factor here. Looking at any surface and tapping ‘R’ will prompt Kyle to climb, and your mobility is often your most important asset to getting through in one piece. Kyle is particularly proficient at freerunning, and this athleticism is crucial to survival as you vault, climb, and jump over practically everything. The bulk of your time will be spent roaming the decrepit streets – crawling with undead – trying to find the most efficient routes over buildings and other environmental objects as you go here to fetch an item or there to kill another special foe. As an open-world action game, Dying Light follows the tried and tested method of giving you a big ol’ playground to explore and complete quests in. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)Īt its heart, Dying Light is a first-person platformer and brawler, with some light RPG elements sprinkled in to keep things interesting. Dying Light may not feature a particularly memorable or gripping narrative, but the story still strikes the right tone and doesn’t much get in the way of the enjoyable gameplay. Of course, things don’t exactly go according to plan, and Kyle is almost immediately bitten, but he’s saved by a local coalition of survivors and soon joins their ranks as a ‘Scout’ who runs supplies around town.
We start with Kyle performing a HALO jump into the city of Harran-which has been wholly overrun by zombies-in search of a man who’s believed to have files related to a potential cure for the infection.
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While there are some undeniable hardware limitations, Dying Light Platinum Edition nonetheless translates the full experience in all its horrifying, undead glory to the Switch with impressive results.ĭying Light places you in the role of Kyle Crane, a member of an organization called the Global Relief Effort which is evidently aimed at curbing the issues that sprung out of the zombie pandemic. As a result, the studio struck out on its own and began development of Dying Light, a much more ambitious release that would hopefully be much closer to the studio’s original vision.ĭying Light released a few years later in 2015 to much more positive reception and sales, and now Techland has pulled off the herculean task of squeezing its flagship release onto the Switch. Still, Dead Island had never quite been the game that Techland envisioned it to be, due both to creative differences with the publisher and hardware limitations. In 2011, Techland released Dead Island on most seventh generation consoles to mostly positive reception. Which appropriately enough sums up the whole Dead Island franchise so far.Note: Dying Light Platinum Edition is unavailable on Switch eShop in Europe at the time of writing pending an issue with the game being banned in Germany. The 16-bit visuals are nice but it all gets old very quickly and ends up feeling like a terrible waste of a good idea. The idea is that you move along the stage automatically, and have to switch between three 2D planes in order to attack zombies at the right instant. At first it seems to be a scrolling beat ‘em-up in the style of Streets Of Rage or Final Fight, but in reality it’s closer to being a rhythm action game. This means that mini-game Retro Revenge may be the closest you get to any genuinely new Dead Island action for a long time. Given the success of the original we find that hard to believe, but it also seems unlikely that a sequel is going to appear any time soon – and certainly not before Dying Light 2. In fact, just this week fans have discovered that all references to Dead Island 2 has been completely removed from Steam, suggesting that the game has now been completely abandoned. Especially after Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager had their work on Dead Island 2 canned. Dead Island: Definitive Edition (PS4) – at least there’s a chainsawīut thanks to the departure of Techland for Dying Light, Riptide is as close as the game has ever come to an official sequel.
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