Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

Great game, story line works well, plenty of overarching mechanics involved in player creation.
Always checking, looking, exploring.... fun!

Great story quests, so much content, I haven't gotten bored of the game. I like that there is a lot of different armor types to mix and match as well as use any armor you like as a visual only. There are a lot of weapon choices too. The coolest thing I found is a Dev Easter egg weapon blueprint while out retrieving military drops. I found a generator with a cable and had seen the unpowered relays on my way up.

The only con I see with this game is the very tedious climbs up the very tall buildings. One mistimed jump and you could fall all the way back to the ground level and have to start the climb over again from the last save point unless you survive the fall, then it's just start the climb from where you fell to.

This game is so underwhelming that instead of making the second DLC, they are making a standalone spin-off to distance themselves. Maybe one of these years I'll get around to finishing this.

A bit of a learning curve to get the controls down compared to the original. The exposure meter can be frustraiting. I'm not a big fan of time limits. That said, I come back... and practice makes perfect...I hope.

3/5. If you come to this game expecting it to be like DL1, you will be disappointed. This is AC: Zombies. Which, if you like the AC games, is fine. It has the same type of activities and busywork as AC. The plot is its weakest point. You don't get to know any of the characters well enough to care about the choices you make. Aside from two characters, you interact with the other main ones maybe twice before a "big choice" is to be made. I had no emotional connection to anyone for these choices, which made the story feel limp. Of the two characters you do get to know better, one of them treats you like trash the entire game so you end up not caring about that person, either. It was disappointing and got a full knock off from me for that reason. The other reason it lost a full point is the nighttime chase. In DL1, nighttime was a scary trial. In DL2, it's an annoyance. The volatiles are now on the roofs, too, and there are many of them. The high number of night-only activities means you spend a large chunk of the game being "chased" - an in game activity that does not stop until you get to a safe area. It was exciting the first few times, then it got to be a hinderance in gameplay. Another quibble is the stamina for everything system, but you can mod that out if you want. There are several mods for this game in PC. I would recommend watching the youtube vid Dying Light 1 & 2 - How to Merge Mods (WinMerge Edition) by DocOnHoliday. He explains precisely how to do it so your mods are working correctly.

Overall, the game gets a knock for the story and a knock for the annoying nighttime chases. Still, if you like AC and you like Zombies, you will likely enjoy the game.

Honestly I wasn't even going to buy DL2 however, I did so because of my close friend, and I'm happy I did because we had some incredible moments together. I really really really love this game. Since the release, improvements have been made significantly in combat, parkour, and other areas. I can't deny how much fun I used to have playing it, so even though I hate the present form it's in—with its in-game purchases and nonsense—I won't give it a thumbs down to pay my respects.

This game was disappointment after disappointment. I don't know what happened between the first game and this one, but the balance is off, the maps are boring, and things seem unnecessarily complicated without much reward for it. All of that I could probably handle except the story swings so wildly between trying to be desperately emotional and just... wacky... and not pulling off any of it particularly well. This feels like a first version of a game, not a sequel.

this game isn't bad, but it's just not great or a masterpiece like the original Dying Light was either, the story sucks, the UI sucks, the rarity system sucks and makes 90% of weapons in the game (including legendaries) useless because they took out the repair system from DL1, essentially forcing you to either duplicate weapons (glitch) or constantly farm for more because once they break that's basically it, the performance is hit or miss, the game has a 1/10 chance to crash every single time you open the menu because the ui sucks visually and bugs wise, the world is generic and vastly boring as oppose to Harran being extremely pleasing to explore and look at because it has it's own aesthetic, which this game's world has neither and trades it for a generic looking apocalypse world you could probably find on the Unreal Store with generic ass "biohazard" death barriers. The stamina system is the worst idea this studio has ever had, why would you LIMIT the player on how creative they can get with the game's main system? and make increasing it an item you have to grind through boring dungeons to find more of? this makes parkour horrible at the start of the game and makes climbing the highest buildings almost impossible in one go without taking breaks which feels horrible, But the gameplay is STILL great and so is the music, with the parkour especially being leagues better in multiple ways than what was present in the first game, and the combat is fun if a little repetitive, and the gun combat is LEAGUES above the first game, with the sounds and animations bordering on gun porn with how good they are. It's just a shame everything else surrounding these amazing systems is either boring or just sub par in comparison to how good it was in the first game, overall i'd give Dying Light 2 a 6 or a 6.5/10, good game but by no means amazing. Take all this with a grain of salt because as someone who has been following this game since it's reveal, it could've been so much more if they had just stuck to what they had in their initial vision during the E3 demos, that is the version of Dying Light 2 that could've been a 10/10 and is the one we should've gotten, but unfortunately we got a stripped down version with all the identity that it once had in the demos removed unfortunately. was not worth my 60 dollars at release especially, but The Beast has the potential to right all their wrongs by bringing the best of this game forward and fixing the worst to make an overall better product and i am actually really excited for that game, don't let us down Techland.

This game is alright I suppose except for the slight detail of parkour being buggier than the last game like for example climbing will sometimes just send you to the floor beneath you rather than where you need to go and while the paraglider is by far the best thing to the game it also has paraglider trials which are THE WORST because they aren't actually paragliders just remodels that you use paraglider physics for near the ground checkpoints and to top it off while the story is alright the characters are by far unremarkable or rememberable especially the blood ties dlc and while yes the DLC is great for rewards thats really about it I reviewed the story myself and it really does just comes in snit bits rather than it being coherent half the time and the combat can be it's own mess while yes it is more realistic I think that's its problem because it's a lot slower with more chances of 1v8 fights more likely than a normal fight (and while there is a ton to do around the map it also becomes its hindrance because the side quests are just to much i've spent at least 80% of the game just doing those rather than the actual story and even then the side characters dont have the same spice or depth of character like the 1st game did) despite the parkour enhancements and map size.

I did have fun, mostly because I was playing with my friends and drop kick things. However, there was a lot of bugs we ran into a number of times. People falling through elevators, getting trapped in corners, big mobs "not being there" for some of us. The first game was GREAT, and was looking forward to this game and it was a huge let down. ALL of the characters ended up just becoming annoyances and we just wanted to move on in the game and stopped caring about what was happening with anyone. So just play the first game again if you want a good experience.

while i did have fun it was really only because i was able to play with friends. Now that being said the multiplayer was super janky and buggy even with the game out this long after launch. We were pestered by the same bugs and the elevator was the hardest boss in the whole game. I really loved the first game and DLC but the story and characters were so polarizing and flat. Every choice was to move the story and felt lack luster and the payoff was so subpar. I was looking forward to the new standalone game but i am honestly worried now that i finished this and saw what the final product was. 5/10 just play the first one again.

worse combat, worse characters, pretty much nothing like the first game. big disappointment

Going to be honest..not as good as dying light 1, but it's still a pretty good experience. The story is pretty good, combat is decent as well. They have some new stuff that dying light 1 doesn't. They recently included guns. But in the end, still doesn't capture the feeling of being chased by volatiles as well as dying light 1.

Every time I want to play dying light, I boot it up then instantly close it again and uninstall it. First game was just so much better, especially the combat, the parrying sucks in this one, and all the weapons pretty much had the same designs, the clothing system was poor, trying to add a RPG element when it does not matter is dumb. just play the first game, {atleast it had guns} and dont pre order the next game, its not gonna be worth $70

The game story is ok, but after 2 years of the game being published it has a LOT of bugs that ruin the game experience:
- the first mission was the very quiet sound of the voices, only after changing the language did it fix by itself
- you can fall from the elevator when it riched top while your teammates don't
- after the mill is activated you can spawn at the bottom
- bugged zombies that you can't hit
- bugged walls, which you can get stuck
- not synced speech of the characters
- weird jumps, teleports, and a lot of other bugs and inconsistencies
All this experience from the multiplier

They really dropped the ball with this game. The First one was great with fun combat and decent enough story. This one tho damn its just a mess. The combats still enjoyable be it a little clunkier. But the story man it just sucks you can tell that they removed the good writer mid development because its a mess. A lot of it makes no sense and most of the "choices" change nothing and all the endings im pretty sure are decided right at the end. Most the the main characters just show up stay for their part and then you never see them again one way or another. The ending was unsatisfying thats for sure and i thought it was funny that the backdrop for the last part of the game was shown in some trailers years ago like you could make a choice there to change the surroundings nope not really i mean its the end of the game. Aside from combat and story the mobility mechanics are so clunky and i wish i could see how in some stats because im pretty sure i died most from falling because something didnt work properly and i just died. Also soooo much copy paste on the map and the enterable areas are few and far between and copy pasted from like 5 different ones while the first game felt like you could go in almost anywhere and there were a good amount of different designs instead of mass copy paste. ill probably never play this again and just play the first game if i have the itch.

I had high hopes for Dying Light 2, but it fell short in almost every way. First off, the story is a mess. The narrative is confusing, with forgettable characters and choices that don’t seem to impact the game as much as advertised. The writing feels lazy, and the dialogue is cringy at times.

The parkour, which was the highlight of the first game, feels clunky here. The mechanics are unreliable, leading to frustrating falls and inconsistent movement. Instead of improving on the original’s fluidity, they made it worse.

Combat is repetitive and uninspired. Most of the weapons break too quickly, and there’s little variety in how you fight enemies. The AI is embarrassingly bad, and encounters quickly become a chore rather than a challenge.

On top of all this, the game is plagued with technical issues. I ran into multiple bugs and crashes that ruined the experience. The graphics aren’t anything special either, which is disappointing for a game released in 2022.

Overall, Dying Light 2 is a major letdown. It feels rushed, unfinished, and lacking in innovation. If you loved the first one, prepare for disappointment. Save your money.

It's Cardinal Sin is that it wasn't bad, it wasn't good, it was boring.
I've completed the game multiple times, I've achieved legend 250.
the world, the characters, the parkour. it feels so lifeless. drab nothing.
it's an open world with nothing to do. give it a pass.

4/10 updates ain't going to save this one.

Take Far Cry, make the open world a zombie apocalypse, shift the weapon emphasis from guns to melee, and add parkour movement mechanics, and you've got this game.

The story, gameplay, and everything else are an improvement over the original Dying Light in my opinion. I highly recommend this game. You don't need to play the first one, but I think most gamers would enjoy that one as well.

Take this with a grain of salt— while a lot of people were hoping this game would flop, it actually worked out great for me. Coming from DL1 and The Following, I thought this one was absolutely incredible. The plot could’ve been better I guess, but I don’t get why people think DL1 is so much better when DL2 has given you a bunch of updates.

Atmosphere-wise, I didn’t even finish most of the side quests that took place at night. The infected can do more damage than it did in DL1 and I think some people find DL2 less scary because you end up killing more humans than the infected, and I totally get that. It's annoying to kill groups of renegades.

The only real hassle for me is probably the bugs when starting the game. It’s actually my second download after I had to refund the first one because it wouldn’t even install on my PC. Other than that, the map is huge with tons of places to discover, areas to explore, plenty of loot, and some interesting quests that kept me hooked. Plus, the voice acting was cool for most of the characters. Lots of parkour and combat skill sets, good choices of weapons, honestly you can't go wrong with countless selections than a very limited one.

The ending was epic.

I was unable to join my friend in co-op only getting a constant "The game you tried to join is no longer available" whenever either of us tried to join one another. Troubleshooting it only led to hackneyed solutions or going to techland directly for support in fixing the issue which is unacceptable for a triple A game that's at least two years old.

The game could’ve been better if the combat would be like in dl1 and the story would be better and map would not be copy + paste and many other things and aspects, But the game is great (7,5/10 for me) I finished it on xbox and now im deciding about buying the ultimate edition that gives u the new upcoming Dying Light: The Beast. but its basically pre-order so i hope Techland wont mess it up.

Parkour got nerfed with the idiotic stamina bar killing all the fun. Story somehow is even worse than in the first game (didn't think it was even possible), reached Central and stopped playing, it's just boring as hell. There are games where the story is bland (or not important in the first place like in Doom) and you just concentrate on the gameplay, here it's so bad it actively distracts from gameplay because you just physically cringe and roll your eyes half of the time. It's like stories for these games are written by some dev's or executive's children.

Very strange directing too, in one of the scenes you're talking to a character on a roof, turn to her brother for maybe 15 seconds, then suddenly the protagonist asks "Where's your sister?" - and turns out that while you were talking she teleported to another roof a couple blocks further so now you have to go there and continue pretty much the same conversation. What was even the point of all that? I rarely want someone to get fired, but people responsible for writing and directing in this game are not at the right place.

Got this one on a huge discount so I'm not too disappointed. But what if you want a good game in the series? Play the original and The Following, particularly the latter as is actually amazing, even the story is the best in the series so far (not that the bar was high to begin with, but still).

With this trajectory I don't have many hopes for The Beast, if I'm honest.

One of the best games i've ever played, fantastic story and choicebased story that actually matters later on.

I mean the first game was great. That Dying light game got me into zombies. dying light staying alive is great too. The gameplay the music the suspense and the night get your heart going and racing like no other. The first game was something. Great story..... the second game was just a game on pure drugs. This game gets you thinking and moving. Never stop always move. be the best par-core gamer. Just remember when it's dark you best be ready for the run of your life time. I'm leaving this message to anyone who is willing to be a Legend. Run boy Run.

Good luck and good night.

game can be a little buggy every once in a while but its a good game excited for the new one coming soon

Another just mid game from Techland.

Pros
+Graphic
+feeling of killing
+good but not fully used arena mechanics in DLC
+different events every week

Cons
-Boring(both main and side stories)
-repeatable mechanics
-Main story
-"papier"characters without charisma and personalities
-Aiden is annoying
-bugged af (2years after premiere btw)
- if you visit one location of a one type, you actually visit every one (they look the same)
-stamina(whoever came up with the idea of ​​adding a stamina bar to a parkour game is stupid)
-The additional rewards for contracts are almost impossible to get while playing solo

I gave it 5/10 but I'm not sure if I would recommend this game

DL1 was amazing. DL2 was a scam. It had optimization issues on release and it STILL DOES in 2024. I just my rig with a 4070 12GB video card stutter down to 1-10 FPS on their "medium-high" settings.

I'm not sure why, but because of how poorly this game is optimized, you cannot run ANY background processes without overloading your GPU past 100%. My computer screen froze for 3 minutes because I tried to stream\play DL2. No other game does this. Wild.

Disappointing compared to the first game.

I was so excited when I saw the ad for the release. This game has some good story points but it's just not like the first one.

Despite the updates in the "Reloaded" version, Dying Light 2's story still falls flat. Even after tweaking the plot and cutscenes, it doesn't hold up, and by the end, it feels completely disjointed. The last two story missions attempt to ramp things up but instead come off as rushed and chaotic, leaving the narrative a mess. Worse, these final missions are riddled with bugs, further hurting the experience.

On the gameplay side, however, there have been noticeable improvements. The Reloaded, it plays as well as, if not better than, the original. The exploration remains a highlight, and the tension of facing uber-zombie keeps the adrenaline pumping. While some elements feel repetitive, the overall gameplay is still engaging and thrilling.

NOwhere as good as the first one, Story gameplay, Visual, Sounds, All dog water

I didn't like it. Buggy, too many interruptions/transitions, stealth? (yuck), glitches, forced get together of all coops to do the simplest of actions (like flipping a switch), poorly written story, poormans grappling hook... etc. I could go on.

Patches or should I say break the entire the game is what Techland does best. Ver.1.18.0p broken entirely the game progression.

• New Game+ on normal/hard difficults make volatiles be relentless, enemies in general and special infected are more agile and faster to counter attack against the mighty Aiden legendary level +100;
  
  
• There have been many and countless amounts of issues in the gameplay like Goons in military convoy being there physically but ignoring their existance in the world and others;
  
  
• There are still game-breaking bugs which will never going to be fixed such as screenshots and gifs had the trouble to save in my profile page. Feel free to watch;
  
  
[*]Player's abilities are still problematic to be triggered making as much as hard as it is to play on keyboard+mouse as 'Crowd Runner' won't work and its been 10 months that ability never worked. Grapple to throw enemies have been stuck whether you are not participating community events have been forever stuck in some weird 'Hypermode' that cast enemies beyond. Is just wrong is unrealistic bad.

I've been playing since December 2023 and for 5 months contributing, endorsing notes about what should have been resolved but everything gone away by Techland moderator for wrongfully accusing me of ''trolling''. As much as hard to read they are censoring anyone permanently for criticizing anything about game's flaws, for pointing repeatedly issues that must be resolved or for joking for ignoring what the community expect mostly of them into FIXING THE GAME!

All posts were erased because they can no longer be mature enough in forums and will abuse to anyone that strongly discuss with enough of visual proofs about the game defects. I mean what is the meaning of this? Products are meant to be criticized in bad or good way. Their support to address this violent response could not resolve and who ever is in charge ignore all of my attempts to solve this action in Community Message board. The forum still filled with hate and toxic arguments and yet I'm the one that got misscomprehended and wrongfully accused.

I've stopped 3 months ago because of this irrational action taken and went to Dead Island 2 which calmed things down but now that I'm willing to come back to Dying Light 2 Stay Humanish everything still bad. Not a single improvement have got into since Firearms update, except maybe for perfomance. At February till April patches like 1.15.2 and prior were causing massive impacts at perfomance but patch 1.18.0p got stabled for now.

But leaving all this annoying complaints behind what Dying Light 2 Stay Human reloaded edition does of best? It gives a sweeat locations to ''parkour'' whenever you can. It gives a near enjoyable combat experience but mostly and by mostly...I mean lots of times you will rage, go ape everytime the game trick against the odds.

If you want to spend money on 50% of the game complexity and content this game has. Seriously just wait for the best discount it get because Dying Light 2 Stay Human reloaded edition is evil and will stress your emotions worse than your computer temperatures.

Jesus christ I really wanted to like this game. But from the get I knew something was off, all the handholding, the movement feels like you're controlling the player that is playing the game it feels so airy and unnatural. All the stupid gimmicks just to pad out the game. Compared to dying light 1 this is just embarassing

i just saw it somewhere and its on point :
Dying light 1 : Zombie game with parkour
Dying light 2 : Parkour game with zombies

Absolute garbage. I distantly recall this game being fun a few years ago.
Now you can't play 5 minutes without something screaming, spitting at you. You can't clear any location without zombies being spawned with no cooldown. Even after you do clear the location, it will spawn a lot more after you loot about 50% of the location. Which is scripted and UNAVOIDABLE.
Difficulty scaling is absolute garbage, also. If you pick normal, zombies suddenly start missing on the spot. You're basically playing the easiest game of your life. You pick hard, well, now you can't move without getting suffocated. The difficulty of fighting is also ridiculous, because you can kill zombies much easier on nightmare than you would on hard?!?!?!?!?!??????????????? Exactly. Nightmare for some reason is easier to play than hard, with the exception of stamina depleting twice as fast.
So, game is unnecessary complicated to ruin any actual pleasure. The difficulty is completely irrational and it is best to stick to easiest or normal because you will not be able to play on hard or nightmare unless you've completed the game a few times and have already unlocked every perk.

I have no idea why every dev out there is trying to make the game a chore. No one will like to play a game that physically and mentally exhausts you. Including you. You clearly haven't played a day. Why do you make garbage?

regardless of how many people critiqued this game , we can't deny that on its own is an amazing game and how the dev team didn't gave up but they improved it and enhanced so many issues .

Most of the things of the game are very good, but the most negative aspects are that the story slows down a lot in one place and most importantly, there is no save system, when I choose something I don't want, I want to go back, but because there is an auto-save system, I close and open the game, I pray that I hope it has autosaved beforehand, which is ridiculous. Other than that the game is good.

until they fix all the horrible bugs in the game i'll continue to not refer this game to anyone. half the skills, quests and combat/movement mechanics do not work, i spent days doing this stupid quest for tolga and fatin (btw most annoying characters in any game i've played) just to be stumped at the very end because the prompt won't show up so i can enter. (which is a common thing btw) not to mention they absolutely butchered some of these quests making them tedious and unnecessary. they even have a level where you have to walk (yes in a game about zombie killing parkour) so slow it takes almost a full minute to walk across the room. lastly, why in the hell did these people ruin the volitiles? they move like cartoon characters and are not scary in the slightest compared to their first game counterparts.

that is all, devs need to fix the bugs and i'll take this down. >:T

As many have said the story is a joke. The DLC is absolute trash. The DL2 fight mechanics are just too terrible for arena showdowns that don't involve any parkour. Some challenges that require you to kill a certain amount of zombies in a determined amount of time depend on what seems to be an RNG spawn rate (you have 1:35min to kill 15 zombies from which the first may take 40 seconds to spawn).
I love parkour, zombie, melee/FPS games. This has everything I want but developed so poorly, I am playing out of addiction at this point. So many tiny things that ruin everything. SOOOOO unfortunate.
I only recommend it as a $10 game.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is the sequel of its predecessor Dying Light that offers a variety of new movement mechanics that are really smooth with a really similar combat system to that of Dying Light 1.

"Sometimes You Have To Become A Monster To Stay Human." - Aiden

Pros:

• From a visual standpoint the game looks quite good, especially with ray tracing features enabled
  
• The main story is quite interesting that grabs your attention
  
• Tons of side activities to do (Even endgame content I believe?)
  
• Great and memorable characters
  
• Great voice acting
  
• You have to make several big choices throughout the game that changes the world and possibly the ending of your playthrough
  
• The movement is really good, jumping and climbing never felt better in a parkour based game since Dying Light 1
  
• Character customization
  
• Skills and abilities to unlock
  
• Tons of melee weapons to find, craft and upgrade to your liking
  
• Great and fun gadgets you can use such as the paraglider and the grappling hook
  
• Photo mode!
  
• Multiplayer component (Co-op)
  
• Community made maps to play
  
• Night time was enhanced, meaning that volatiles roam the streets and if you get spotted by them a chase starts
  
• Pilgrim outpost, a website that is tightly connected to the game giving you access to weekly bounties and an armory where you can earn new weapons and cosmetics for doing said bounties
  
• Frequent updates and events to keep the game fresh
  
• Guns were added back in an update and they are great!
  
• Steam achievements, trading cards etc.
  

Neutral:

• You can only get new guns from Jai after completing his missions which are fine but most of his missions are built to be played in co-op, that can make it an absolute chore to do
  
• Bloody Ties DLC is quite meh, not bad, but not great either
  
• In-game store for skins, completely optional
  

Cons:

• Some side missions rely on time padding
  
• Some side missions were pretty much softlocked
  
[*] Bugs can happen

8.5/10 Honestly a really great sequel, even without our beloved Kyle Crane as Aiden is a pretty great protagonist for this entry as well. Bugs and repetition aside, the game is really fun and I'm gonna revisit it many times to check out new updates and events or just to do achievements.

Dying Light 2 has so much going for it. This is my first parkour-esk game. I enjoy story driven games, games like divinity, bg3, ori, hollow knight, elden ring, etc. At its core, I think that this game accomplishes what it was meant to accomplish. A fun casual game that allows you to parkour and mess up some zombies. HOWEVER, if story is important to you, YOU WILL BE DISSAPPOINTED. The story has one of the worst end sequences I've personally experienced. Aiden always feels like he is passing out and getting thrown around like a toy. It also really pushes a narrative to like characters that really aren't that likable whatsoever. Many characters have the critical thinking skills of a 3rd grader, and that is generous. Overall, It did not taint my entire experience. But, I felt it is necessary to advise that the story is very disappointing. Buy the game when it goes on sale, you likely will have fun, just have realistic expectation for the story.

First game was great, i loved running around and flying double kick every enemy i saw, they changed the mechanics around to the point where I am very confused on how to fight, it does not bring back the same enjoyment as the first one did plus the reloaded edition does not get you all the DLC's and the DLC packs are overpriced, I don't recommend this game at full price, wait until the steam or Christmas sale and MAYBE buy it for 20$ dollary doos

Loved the first game, definitely one of my favourites but this game is just bad the story is uninteresting and bland, the parkour is slow, clunky AND is extremely limited by a very restrictive stamina system that cockblocks you from accessing certain areas, the combat is pretty much the same as the first game if it was slower and more tedious because of this god forsaken stamina system. so to recap: buy dying light 1 if you haven't already and do not expect too much from this mess because everything is bad or mediocre at best.

I've been relatively out of the loop regarding this game since it's release, and only bought it since it was on sale. I love the original Dying Light to death, it's one of the most fun and interesting games I've played even though it's story was pretty weak, and I hope that this game would be just as fun at least with hopefully a better story. I will sadly not be finding out if the story is better as I will not be sticking with it or finishing it. I have a lot of issues with this game, but one of my biggest gripes is the zombies.

In the first game, killing zombies felt super fun, meaty, and squelchy in all the right ways, so much so that one of my favorite things to do was just run around and kill things for a couple hours. Whether it be virals, which added some challenge to it, specials, or regular zombies, it was a good time. In this game? It's more than a chore, it's just unbelievably aggravating. Be prepared to spend a good minute or two beating the life out of each individual zombie because apparently all the weapons hit like pool noodles. That's not even the biggest issue, it's the virals.

Virals were so fun in the first game, trying to run from zombies who are fast. keep up with you, and climb was refreshing. They would spawn if you made too much noise in various ways, whether it be car alarms, shooting, explosives, etc. It made. Sense. In this game? Be prepared for virals to appear out of nowhere the first swing of your stick, because apparently they can hear you smack into the soft flesh of a zombie from blocks away. Nearly every single thing you do causes them to spawn, which is aggravating already, but I have yet to see one that isn't armored from head to toe. They're not impossible to kill, but each one takes forever and ever and there's always at least 6 of them, all armored. The easiest way to kill them is to just stand on a roof and kick them off as they climb up, and even then it just takes way too long, and even doing that has the chance of spawning more because they might hear the bodies fall, or the virals scream in pain. I HATE dealing with these new armored virals. At this point, I've killed three times as many of them as I have the normal zombies because of just how easy they spawn. Not only that, but no matter who or where the sound that spawned them is, they ALWAYS come to you. Threw a grenade down into a street and stood on a rooftop? They're right behind you for some reason. Threw some C4, ran a block away and detonated? They're crawling up your ass hole right now. It's so unbelievably aggravating that I just can't keep playing, I'm just angry. I want to have fun killing zombies, not be angry that I have to kill zombies.

This game just pisses me off. Maybe the story is good, at this point I really don't care. I wanted to kill zombies, I can't kill zombies without taking 45 minutes to kill 5 hordes of armored virals that spawned because they heard me killing the previous horde. I'm done.

Upon further reading online and in the reviews, it doesn't seem to get better ever and stays just as aggravating as it is now. Not only that, but it didn't used to be this bad on release and was much more similar to the original game. Why they changed it? Beats me. Plus the developer sold out to Tencent, so that's even better.