Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition News

Play Dying Light 2 with ray tracing using Nvidia GeForce Now RTX 3080

Dying Light 2's release date is upon us, and Nvidia just announced that the survival horror RPG is coming to GeForce Now. While the game's ray tracing elements demand a lot from gaming PCs, the streaming service gives RTX 3080 members a chance to enhance Techland's apocalyptic sequel without owning one of the green team's best graphics card.

One of Dying Light 2's key mechanics is its dynamic day-night cycle, which uses ray tracing to hammer home its ever-changing cityscapes. Of course, not everyone has a GPU that's capable of such feats, and Techland's RT system requirements recommend an RTX 3080 for 1080p 60fps gameplay.

It's worth noting that you'll need a reliable internet connection to use GeForce Now, but the cloud service could help fans experience everything Dying Light 2 has to offer. In an Nvidia blog post, Techland's rendering director, Tomasz Szałkowski, says that players can experience the game "exactly as intended with the RTX 3080 membership, even when playing on underpowered devices."

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How long is Dying Light 2?

How long is Dying Light 2? We get it, your time is precious. You want to make sure you're not going to be stuck playing a game for longer than you feel comfortable. Given some of the recent discourse around Techland's new parkour zombie game you may also be worried that Dying Light 2 is too long.

At the start of January, developer Techland claimed that Dying Light 2 would take 500 hours to complete. This is five times bigger than when the studio last spoke up on this issue when it claimed the game would take 100 hours to finish back in 2019.

The studio later clarified in a tweet that the 500 hours comment related to the "time needed to max out the game with all main and side quests, choices, and endings, checking every place on the map, every dialogue, and finding every collectible". Assuming you're not bothered about all that, the main story can actually be completed in around 20 hours.

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Dying Light 2 release time confirmed

Dying Light 2 kicks off an absolutely absurd month of big game releases in February, and if you're looking to jump into the parkour-fuelled zombie smasher the instant the launch arrives, developer Techland has helpfully provided a full breakdown of the Dying Light 2 release times. And hey, in certain parts of the world, you'll technically even get to play before February 4.

If you're looking to read something while you wait, though, the Dying Light 2 review scores are starting to filter through. We gave it a six-out-of-ten score in our Dying Light 2 review. While the parkour and combat mechanics are "excellent", we have found that "bugs, repetitive side content, bad storytelling, and the unfulfilled promise of its choice and consequence system" have left the game falling a tad short.

The devs have already provided the Dying Light 2 system requirements, so you can see if your PC is up to the task of running it ahead of release, too.

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Dying Light 2 reviews - our roundup of the critics' scores

The eagerly anticipated Dying Light 2: Stay Human launches this week, and Techland's zombie game has now been put through the paces by game critics around the world. After numerous delays and a sometimes confusing marketing push in the final sprint to launch, is this a worthy successor to one of 2015's sleeper hits?

As it turns out, it depends on who you ask. In our Dying Light 2 review, senior news writer Dustin Bailey praises the combat and parkour systems, which he says feel just as terrific as they did in the first game. However, the new ideas in Dying Light 2 failed to impress. A variety of minor bugs plagued his playthrough, but worse, he feels the promise of consequential, game-changing decisions was never truly fulfilled. "I spent around 30 hours with Dying Light 2, and I'd say I liked about ten of them," Dustin writes, ultimately awarding it a 6/10.

Over at our sister site The Loadout, Joe Apsey was more taken with Dying Light 2's green dystopia. "We all lost connections during lockdowns, or suffered fractured friendships, and witnessed how people could rise - or fall - in a time of need," Joe writes. "Techland has managed to capture that collective trauma and experience in the narrative of Dying Light 2. And, for that reason alone, Dying Light 2's narrative ends up hitting harder than it would have if we hadn't all experienced the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic."

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Dying Light 2 review - a leap too far

Dying Light 2 makes a bad first impression and an even worse one in closing. There are moments of genuine joy in its robust parkour system and chunky melee combat, but those moments are stretched thin across hours of lacklustre storytelling and repetitive side content. It's a game that promises consequences for every choice you make, but the payoff often feels so thin as to remind you of Fallout 3's infamous slideshow ending.

You play as Aiden Caldwell, a wanderer who's searching for his missing sister in the last standing city after a zombie apocalypse. As with the original Dying Light, you make your way through the streets and rooftops with an array of parkour moves, and fight off both living and undead enemies with a selection of improvised melee tools.

It takes some time getting to grips with the parkour system, and the early hours of the Dying Light 2 - which you can buy here, coincidentally - will see you getting caught on world geometry and running up walls you didn't mean to. It's a shame that failure feels like the game breaking rather than a consequence of your actions, but those moments of frustration become much less frequent as you come to understand the mechanics and the flow of freerunning.

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