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Sliding sideways down a sloped roof, he crashes through a ceiling several stories down, falling further and further into the basement of an older structure. His goal is to turn on the city’s pumps and bring back a source of fresh water for the people.īut, outside the safety of a central hub where starting quests are doled out, one false step could spell disaster.Īt one point in the demo, Aiden scampers across a wooden ledge only to have it fall away. In the demo I was shown, he’s running out on a mission from the militaristic Peacekeepers faction and hunting down the Colonel, a leader of the Renegades. They’re not cooperating, and they are not united.”Īiden’s goal in Dying Light 2 is to work for those factions, to ally with them in an effort to improve the living conditions inside the city. “They begin believing in different things the new religions, new factions that split. “In the same way, people have stopped believing in a religion, in governments, even in science,” Ciszewski says. Meanwhile, the solid, permanent structures have been taken over by the undead. It’s only the most fragile, temporary spaces where humans can live. That kind of layering, explains Techland’s creative director Adreian Ciszewski, is intended to evoke in the player a sense of loss and of shame at how far humanity has fallen. Out of reach of the sun, they’re waiting until nightfall so they can go back out into the streets to feed. It’s inside these abandoned churches, museums, and civic buildings where zombies accumulate during the day. It’s only in the deepest parts of the environment, the oldest places in the city, where the hordes become so large that they block Aiden’s path. Traversal is fluid, and rewards creativity and improvisation. At one point in the demo, Techland even showed how by wrestling with a zombie, and then pushing it out a window, Aiden can use the undead to break his fall. Aiden is able to cut through one or two in a pack of half a dozen, then exit the room quickly before escaping to the next rooftop. Packs of zombies appear more frequently, but are still manageable. Inside some of those buildings were drowsy packs of undead, mute and shuffling in the shadows.īelow that uppermost level of the city, things begin to get progressively more dim. Moving quickly, he passed through tiny living spaces, scattering pots and pans and startling civilians.

During the demo the main character, named Aiden Caldwell, was able to leap and swing from point to point, at times with the help of a small glider and a grappling hook. Immediately below that are the remnants of high-rise penthouses and office buildings. Its highest points are recently built, improvised wooden structures. The environment of the city is built up in layers. Only by staying in the sunlight, or huddled around special ultraviolet bulbs at night, can they hope to keep the undead at bay. Forced inside the walls of a single, pan-European city, small enclaves of survivors have sprung up in bastions on top of tall buildings. Set sometime in humanity’s future, civilization has entered a new dark age brought on by an infection that turns people into flesh-eating zombies. At other times it can be downright frightening, with tense standoffs against the undead deep inside dark, cavernous buildings.īut binding it all together is some very skillful world-building, and a storyline that tends to reveal itself only when things go terribly wrong. It can be dizzying at times, with the main character leaping from rooftop to rooftop, then grappling with enemies at close range.

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Watching the first-person parkour game played well - which I was able to do at this year’s E3 - is like watching an action movie from the first-person perspective. Everything that happens in Techland’s Dying Light 2 happens incredibly fast.

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