Dying Light Video Game Series (Dying Light)

The world depicted in both games is struggling with an epidemic of a mysterious virus that turns infected people into zombies. In the first installment, the protagonist is Kyle Crane, a special agent who travels to the quarantined city of Harran. His task is to recover a stolen file used to blackmail his employer - the GRE organization. Addendum The Following is the culmination of Kyle's story and focuses on the infiltration of the headquarters of a mysterious cult. The action of the second part takes place 20 years after the events of the first. A dangerous virus, researched by scientists for commercial purposes, escapes from the laboratory, spreads across the globe within two years and leads to the collapse of civilization. The main character, Aiden Caldwell, arrives in the world's last city, Villedor, to find his missing sister.

The action in the games Dying Light are observed from a first-person perspective. Their gameplay is essentially divided into 2 elements: combat and parkour. At our disposal we get a number of melee weapons, which we can construct and upgrade ourselves based on schematics. Using them, we face dozens of zombies and the few surviving humans fighting for survival. The parkour system allows us to climb virtually any object in the game, and some of the moves associated with it help us eliminate enemies faster (such as a slide or a kick from a jump). NPCs commission us to do tasks we perform in the open world. For undertaking these activities we receive experience points, needed to upgrade our characters. Dying Light 2 expands on the formula of the first part, adding more options for traversing locations, such as hang gliding, and eliminating enemies. In addition, the continuation relies on an extensive system of choices - we make them often and many times they have a significant impact on the functioning of the presented world.

Series Dying Light is a major commercial success. Already before the release of the second part, it found about 16 million viewers and was transferred to other media. Indeed, in 2015 the book was published Dying Light: Nightmare Alley by Raymond Benson, which tells the story of the beginning of the epidemic in the city of Harran and a heroine completely unprepared for such a turn of events.