Recs.
Updated
Dying Light is an open world first person action survival game with a four player co-op campaign. Taking advantage of the games intuitive parkour movement you can easily traverse the zombie filled city, collecting an inordinate amounts of supplies, which are used for crafting tons of visceral feeling weapons you can then use to slay zombies.
SpecsUpdate
Pros
Pro Satisfying combat
The combat is impactful, visceral and offers a great deal of variety in terms of available weapons and different enemy types. It presents a reasonable amount of challenge that is rewarding to overcome and offers multiple ways of emerging victorious in each encounter.
Pro Expansive weapon-crafting system
There are blueprints found throughout the gameworld that can be used to modify existing weapons in a wide variety of ways by adding various elements to them and creating weapons such as enemy seeking grenades, exploding throwing stars, and makeshift bats with nails through them.
Pro Smooth parkour
Although it goes slow in the beginning, once you have levelled up a few times the parkour in this time is excellent and a basic form of survival. As the streets are filled with zombies you have the climb the roofs. The system for this is extremely good, although it isn't Assassins Creed-level parkour.
Pro Zombies are actually dangerous
Not only are there overwhelming hordes on zombies on the streets you have to avoid, you also have different kind of zombies that can ruin your say. For example, the virals that can actually climb buildings, which gives it a harder challenge to run away after encountering zombies.
Cons
Con No basic survival mechanics like food, water, and such
The fact that you don't need to find food or water in this game is a real downside. You can find food, but you will eat it immediately and it gives you some health. Even if you are on full health, you still eat everything. If you had to look for food and water and such you would be forced to loot more often and get off the safety of the roofs, which would add a lot more to the Dying Light experience.
Con Poor multithreading
Sadly Dying Light does not do multi-threading very well which results in low framerates. For a modern game that is to be played on consoles with 8 cores or PCs that also have multiple cores, to not take advantage of proper multi-threading is pretty mind boggling. Really it just comes down to laziness, something that is not new to Techland and their poorly optimized ports.