Upcoming Zombie Games that Proves the Genre Just Won’t Die
Dying Light 2
The first Dying Light has to go down as a sleeper hit; not that it wasn’t a great game we didn’t expect to do well, but 13 million copies well? It’s astonishing stuff, and developer Techland is certainly keen to follow-up on that with the upcoming sequel, Dying Light 2.
I’m more than confident it’ll find success, too, after what I saw at E3 2018. The off-hands gameplay demonstration I saw impressed me so much, in fact, that Twinfinite awarded Dying Light 2 one of its prestigious Game of the Show awards.
Techland really has put something together that looks extremely compelling, adding more RPG elements to the experience such as decision-making through branching narrative and a big focus on the story.
I got a flavor of how player-decision impacted the environment during the demonstration, which showcased a completely different outcome depending on a key choice made in the playthrough.
The map is also four times the size of its predecessor and seemingly packed with content. The melee combat still seemed as hefty and impressive as the first game, with even more brutal animations. And the series’ hallmark parkour looked even more streamlined.
