Conner Stewart

Takes everything good about the first one and kinda ruins it. Broken quests and bugs galore, defo not worth the price or even a AAA rating. A game all about choices but it’s this or that with either or rewards like either traps around the city or parkour methods dotted about, there is a distinct lack of player freedom. By the end of dying light 1 you had a sprawling city full of free run routes and traps for chases or getting outnumbered, dying light 2 changes it up by offering you one or the other but never the joy of both. Chases! Instead of simply run for your life its now a case of blindly run into a wall (as it’s pitch black even with the flashlight on and full brightness) while a timer ticks down whilst in any darkness adding stress to what was once a frightful and enjoyable experience. I’ve just done my first electrical substation and hope I didn’t miss any of the missable collectibles cos if you don’t find everything on your first run then yours locked out of full completion (that’s if the bugs, glitches or crashes doesn’t close those doors before you get to). They have also made it that you can’t just go into a building and explore/loot, now pretty much everything has to be done at night time because during the day everywhere is full of op night zombies. I’d also like to add that some of the ability unlocks are totally ridiculous like “double jump” and “rotate jump” which has you turn around and completely change direction whilst in mid air. All in all, they tried way to hard to overcomplicate a simple hack and slash runner with the pathetic choices that either way leave you as the bad guy. Complete disappointment, if only a refund was possible 😞

I wanna give 5* as I love MK and this film was a decent watch and pays good homage to the games. It’s downfall is essentially the story revolving around a new unknown character rather than focusing on the earth realm defenders we know and love, they cut any mention of quan chi and the workaround is that scorpion is just a spirit from hell that only comes about because of Cole young, not because he’s a spirit of vengeance nurtured and manipulated by quan chi in nether realm. It leads up to a sequel which could be good as it stands but even better if they just kill off Cole young, preferably off screen 🤷🏻‍♂️ Great cgi and fight scenes, meh story and good casting choices for the most part.