Acrobat vs zombies: Dying Light 2 has made it to release

Seven years of development, the efforts of 1,500 Techland employees, a script the thickness of "Anna Karenina", scandals with Chris Avellon, the promise of 500 hours of playthrough, and the anti-piracy protection of Denuvo - Dying Light 2: Stay Human went through a lot. Nevertheless, its release still took place. Today it is available to PC users, as well as current and previous generations of Sony and Microsoft consoles.

Critics, who received a copy of the action game in advance, published the first reviews on February 2 - with the end of the embargo. Judging by the reviews of journalists, the game was beautiful and dynamic, but partly illogical and monotonous, which usually suffers from such long construction. Nevertheless, the average score of Dying Light 2 is high - gamers and professional reviewers are mostly satisfied.

The story focuses on the adventures of a courier who keeps communication between cities after the end of the world. The world lies in ruins, zombies roam the streets, and the survivors band together to counter the threats. This is the environment in which the hero is forced to act. To fight the enemies he uses edged weapons and a bow, and to move around the location - running and acrobatic tricks. If you want, you can run on the roofs or fly in a paraglider. By the way, the role of one of the key characters of the game was performed by the "father of parkour", French actor and stuntman David Belle.

Development of Dying Light 2: Stay Human began seven years ago, and the first teaser was published in 2018. Chris Avellon, the designer of Fallout 2 and Planescape: Torment, was involved in creating the script. But because of the harassment scandal, Techland Studios declined his services. After the announcement of 500 hours of gameplay fans assumed that it was a lot of homogeneous tasks "for numbers" - partly this guess was correct, since the passage of the story takes 20 hours. The anti-piracy protection Denuvo was added to the action movie just a few days before its release, which also caused a storm of indignation. However, now Dying Light 2 is at the top of the ratings for the number of gamers online. The price of the game on Steam at the time of release is 2,499 rubles.