If one spots Crane, it will go hell for leather to turn him into a red smear on the tarmac. The Volatiles are fast, strong, and ridiculously agile. If that was the only problem, then maybe it wouldn’t be so bad, but a particularly nasty kind of light-sensitive infected emerges as the sun sets. They become quicker, more alert, and more aggressive, so the last thing you want to be doing is faltering in the dark as unknown numbers of tetchy rotting mouths loom in the inky black of night. In the daytime, it’s a good way to avoid getting into a brawl with the plodding populace, at night, the floor may as well be lava for how deadly it is.
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The risk/reward of climbing higher and higher to be relatively safe is that, initially at least, a drop is fatal, and even if by some miracle you do survive it, there’s a good chance you’ve stumbled into a street full of shambling infected. Techland had to rework the entire original story to better suit the newfound verticality, which turned out to be a smart move as the precision movement system works wonderfully in tandem with the agile melee-based combat. Outside of Mirror’s Edge, games hadn’t really tried to tackle first-person parkour. The day/night cycle, and parkour.įirstly, parkour. So far, so Dead Island, but two major aspects separate and elevate Dying Ligh t from its past self. Unfortunately for Crane, he gets infected not long after arriving, and finds himself working with various factions to not only complete his original mission, but to maintain levels of the Antizin suppressant that stop him from becoming another of the walking corpses stumbling around the streets of Harran. The player enters the fray as GRE operative Kyle Crane (voiced by regular zombie slayer and boulder-punching enthusiast Roger Craig Smith) who is sent into Harran to retrieve delicate files that could lead to a cure for the virus. Harran’s housing is packed together tightly, leading to narrow pockets in which to move at street level, with plenty of obstacles, both inanimate and flesh, to navigate. Sailing away from the tropical sun-kissed shores of Banoi, Dying Light brings the undead to the fictional Middle-Eastern city of Harran, where a viral outbreak has been contained via quarantine, leaving its remaining resident surviving on supply drops from the Global Relief Effort, and embroiled in a constant life or death struggle against both the undead and vicious mercenaries. It wasn’t just a spiritual successor, it was almost an evolutionary leap forward in so many ways. Such were the lowered expectations set by the Dead Island deflation, Dying Light sort of crept out quietly by comparison, and happily, it gradually gained recognition and grew as a game as the years went on.
It’d be generous to say the jury is still out on development hell resident Dead Island 2 coming good if it ever resurrects, so it’s somewhat fortunate Techland headed off to make Dying Light a spiritual successor that proved to be everything Dead Island promised, except maybe fulfilling the artful melodrama of that trailer, but honestly, that’s a bit of a relief. That promise never really came to Dead Island ’s follow-up Riptide, and certainly wasn’t found in the miserable cel-shaded spinoff Escape Dead Island. It was disappointingly ordinary and riddled with technical hitches, but there was something in its island resort setting, co-op action, and reliance on makeshift weaponry to shatter festering skulls that showed promise. It’s not to say Dead Island was particularly bad. Unfortunately, the game itself fell a fair bit short of expectations. As a selling point, that now-infamous E3 trailer for Techland’s zombie RPG Dead Island was an all-timer.
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