Dying Light 2 - Angry Review 

Theres something wonderfully wholesome about the production quality of the skits. Always feels like old youtube. Just a group of friends being silly and having fun.

“Gravity, it’s deadlier than zombies, every time.” -OJ That got me 😂

"Is it loaded?" "It is loaded, LOADED WITH POWER" I'm dying

11:35 I like how she jumped off the building and respawned in front of him. OMG JOE I WISH you would’ve saw that, tears would’ve been rolling down my face laughing.

When the PK soldiers told you their life stories in the VCN tower mission, I immediately knew they all gonna die horribly. Subtlety isn´t really a strength of this game

“Joe do you wanna play a zombie game?!” Love this bit

Idk, DL 1 is a far superior experience for me personally. I felt they really dumbed everything down: especially the combat

My biggest disappointments were the volatiles. They were essentially what made the game for me in the first addition. In the second game they're not even out and about at night just within tedious POIs or in the case of actually managing to be chased into chase level 3 which was extremely easy to prevent in the first place. There's honestly a lot I could go on about but in my opinion it's their biggest fail.

Alex the zombie was hilarious 🤣 "we prefer differently animated."

They should've kept crane as the main character after he became a sentient volatile, maybe work in the "stay human" mechanics and make it so that he has the appearance of a human for the majority of the game/masks himself and becomes a volatile in dark areas, maybe they could've had a story of him having learned to control himself yet fully use his volatile powers to protect humans. It could allow for a skill tree specific to volatile powers, maybe dlc? i know i'd buy that. Imagine how awesome that would be, not to mention story wise it would be interesting too. Something tells me this was the initial idea with some of the mechanics, like when you have to escape areas before you turn.

I think my favorite part about this game so far was that house that you have to search, I took my time looking at the glasses, the books, the DJ set, trying to create the mental picture of their last moments, and then I started to value how they choose different activities, some people were sun bathing, enjoying the sun warming your skin, other hugging their loved ones, reading a book, chating with friends, and I'm not going to lie, I teared up a little bit.

I think the most scared I've ever been in a game was in Dying Light 1, meeting my first fast common infected, in broad daylight. it was so unexpected that a zombie jumped me while the sun was out, screaming and jumping all over the place. I straight panicked and started swinging like fucking crazy and had to take a break for a few days before going back to the game.

AJ, thank you for being one of the few to cover the co-op. Everyone else rushed out their review on single player just so they could get high views

Love that you haven't changed the intro music, it always gets me excited for reviews!!!!

Man it's crazy how long Angry Joe and Other Joe have been doing these skits and there still just as good, if not better. Great guys.

I find dying light 1 better than this one

"gotta wear armor because sometimes stuff leaks out of it" that got me 💯😂

Still having fun with this one! But I do think Techland played it a little too safe. They also promise ongoing support which is great too

The absolute best part of the first game for me, and it's small and I hope they at least kept it, was hitting an infected zombie, that is just screaming and raging, and that zombie all of a sudden changes from a face of rage and hunger to a face of sorrow and desperation and the human within comes back out and says "No, please" as they cower in place begging for mercy and then after a second humanity loses and the zombie takes over and attacks again. Fucking brilliant, jarring, humanizing and wonderfully telling. This could have been the campaign, discovering that the human is still in there which means every zombie you kill now becomes a mercy killing of some kind. The one note I feel all zombie games miss on, is what the zombies are supposed to represent. Do they represent how we shamble through our every day lives never realizing our potential? Do they represent our inability to think for ourselves and thus because of this those that do are able to navigate life more freely and ascend to the skies as we sit idly on the ground, useless and waiting? I feel if they figure that out, they could make something special. Also . . . You don't need a final boss fight, Halo proved this a long time ago, but you do need an ending . . . and how text is what they landed on for a epilogue is just . . . They had to have run out of time.

I guess im one of the few guys that thought Dying light 1 was awesome with different automatic weapons and it really made a difference gunning at Volatiles at night. After beating the game I felt like they added enough content in the following to make it worth working through your legends tree and using the grapple hook is so much fun lol. Especially during the events where Techland gave us almost unlimited stamina so I felt like a non friendly Spider man with a loaded shot gun swinging through the city. Really wish they had implemented automatic guns in Dying light 2 someway and made volatiles more accessible. Other than those issues I had with the game parkour felt so amazing in Dying light 2 and as always with the custom melee weapons I still shredded through massive zombies once again!

Joe you’re exactly right. They could have done lots of things with you turning into a zombie. Maybe some of the zombies have turned but still have some mental capacity to organize like you said. Maybe the zombies are actually trying to turn back human. Then you could have moments where you are full zombie and have the ability to find a way to turn back human. That would be dope!

I agree, any development in making the infected interesting has taken a backseat. In the first game it was a little intriguing because it seemed that Volatiles weren't actually mutated humans, but the virus recombining infected corpses into a new creature (via Volatile nests). Now Volatiles only appear at pursuit level 3-4 or during scripted story encounters, and none of the actual story has anything to do with the virus.

Spent more time worrying about how to monetize it than trying to make a worthy sequal.

11:34 I love how she jumps off and then respawns in front of you before the cutscene could end lol

I am genuinely happy Joe also calls out the fact that lowana kept shutting the damn door after she said to follow her.

Its a good game but i wish they focused on the zombies a bit more. I was always scared as shit running around at night in the first one. Now with DL2 its barely anything which sucks cause i think they played it to safe making it more player friendly. But with the same support they gave the first game it will only get better

An update now that i finished the game, just some thing i added to my original post: Favorite part of the game is the space bar for skipping dialogue. ;) Sometimes it just goes on and on and on! And on! Ive got stuff to do! That being said I completed it yesterday (main story), I enjoyed it more than I thought. I feel that I did about 50% of what is available. I didn't even get to the underground town! There is a lot more to explore and I will replay it at a later date, but for now, the repetitiveness of the looting interior environments just killed it for me, I got fed up. two things that I liked that worked well that I expected to hate was the paraglider and the grappling hook. I didn't enjoy the final boss fight, or the leading up to it, it was just the same thing repeating over and over. Same renegades, little variety. Every mission felt like "get the power on>it's on>oh no its off again, turn it on> off again>turn it on! I realized what i liked about DL that wasn't in DL2, and that was ground variation. In DL1 there were alleyways, stairs, steps, the roads went up and down, environment were more varied (in DL2 everything feels like it's the same architect that's done every building, and since they repeat so much of the rooms and buildings and they all look very similar, you never get the feeling of a sprawling city, even though the map might be larger. it's like a maze built up of the same square dimension room. I'd rather have a smaller map with more to do than a massive map with very little to do. It's no fun after a while. In DL the actual ground had differences in elevation in DL. In DL2 everything on ground level is flat. I understand that Villedor is a city and Harran was more like an old European village/favela, it felty as if people had actually lived there. But still! More underground carparks and sewer systems, SOMETHÌNG please. In DL1 I felt I could go in to every house, every door. In DL2, 70% are locked. All the loot shops are identical, all the inhibitor hospital stairways are the same. What I found incredibly annoying was the triggering of Virals every time you do ANYTHING, and that there was no stealth to play with. You're spotted immediately by everything. Favorite Biter was the backpacker! All in all, there was very little variety in enemies. same in DL1. The heights were really HIGH haha, every mission where I had to get up a radio tower was a butt clenching, toe curling, upper body swaying ordeal. And the payoff of paragliding down was awesome. I liked the "check the environment with binoculars for landmarks." I did not like the map. It was very static and since its transparent, id find myself on rooftops looking for an inhibitor, only to find that it was several blocks away, just overlayed on a taller building. Weapon modding was no fun. I wish that the key combinations weren't so difficult. Like, dodge, why not just have a double tap in the direction you want to go? Now you press Jump and then the direction, its convoluted, and then you have to remember all the other combinations, there were so many combat and parkour skills i never used bc i couldn't remember all the key combos. And since im a lefty, certain keys couldn't be changed, unless you config the file in notepad. Inventory was also a bit underwhelming, nothing fun to use, nothing inventive. i think I used maybe 30% of what was available to me. I just stuck to the Molotovs. As soon as I got the crossbow, it was game over for Renegades. Very satisfying. Speaking of, why didn't we have bolts and arrows dipped in mushrooms? that would be so cool to have against volatiles and Virals. I enjoyed the faction assigning. It feels like there are 2 completely different games. For this playthrough i went with PK. I liked the feeling of safety in "my" neighborhoods and the feeling of "im in trouble" when i was in a renegade neighborhood. I wish there was a way to interact more with my buddies from PK, casual talk that they could respond to. It was a lot of fun luring renegades and zombies to a gang of Blues and joining in the fight. But if you accidently hit a PK, that's it, they will turn on you, and you have to go to sleep, so they forget about it. The call for help button should have been a key binding and should have had a certain range to it, like 50 meters or something. Im looking forward to the DLC, they did such a great job with The Following, I cant wait to see what they've come up with. Since i didn't play it all, this might be wrong, but i think there should have been some guns available. I liked the tactics involved with them in DL1, loved to find a police cruiser and hope that there was some ammo in there. Just getting to it was a challenge in strategy. Making bullets in a post-apocalyptic world isn't that difficult. There is no point in going up against a rooftop bandit camp. They are all identical and all give the same exact loot. No point in lockpicking Hard chests, the same loot in all of them, stupid clothes that I couldn't care less about, and dont have the time to compare against each other. None of that was intuitive, numbers on clothes made no sense at all, neither did different colored icons. Speaking of that, WHY are clothes so expensive to buy, but give absolutely nothing when you sell them? like; to buy=3000, to sell=9. Same with weapons. if you could sell them for a nice chunk of change, that would make sense having them in Hard lockpicking chests, but you cant. Day cycles are too fast and night cycles are too slow (you can change this by modding) Just stand still and look at the shadows during the day. Nights all have full moons and are way too bright. There is no smooth time cycle. I preferred the slomo look back in DL1 If DL1 is an 8.5/10, then DL2 is a 6/10 for me. Good night and good luck!

This was hilarious and wonderful. Between the boss dancing on OJ's corpse and the 4v1 curbstomps in coop, i was laughing and crying throughout the review. GG!

In this game Aiden is truely a killing machine. The only limiting factor to the number of enemies you can kill is not health, its how many weapons you have. He is so strong that gravity was always a much stronger opponent than any zombie or bandit

The thing I loved about this game, through watching, not playing, is that everything takes 40 slashes to kill, but nothing can survive an 8 foot fall.

lost me at "DL2 is better than DL1"

Holy shit. Text ending. Fucking, text, ending. Is it an tribute to the old atari games or something ?

Alex as the intelligent zombie was my favorite sketch. Lol! Well done gentlemen!

Don't rush the reviews Joe just because people want to see them you're doing a great job keep it up

I finally finished this game. I bought it on release and was so bored i couldn't even finish it. Thats how boring it is. I had to take a couple months break from it then come back to complete it. Honestly it just feels like a generic Ubisoft game. Everything good about Dying Light 1 was not in this game

11:48 The Shoe 🤣

I kinda miss the volatiles running around at night...miss almost shitting my pants every time I encountered one lol

That "Joe, do you wanna play a zombie game?" had me rolling. Oh man, what a blast to the past. I'm kind of grateful for Dying Light 2's mediocrity because it makes this Angry Review possible 🤣

Bang Bang! lol. Hearing him say that while watching him swing that weapon like a madman. 😂

I thought Lawan was super annoying and it felt cringe when Aiden kept acting like a total simp. Also how the F does Lawan keep getting into places that are supposed to be "SuPeR hArD tO rEaCh"???? I mean for crying out loud in one mission the doctor tells you there's only two injection against the chemicals.. but somehow Lawan manages to walk through that and save your ass!

I remember in dying light 1 the first night mission, it was actually kinda scary. You had to plan your routes and have an escape plan or you could find yourself trapped and overwhelmed. But eventually they give you the ability to grapple out of every situation and they make you OP as hell. It's unfortunate they haven't really learned and improved.

"Oh that's not the name of my sister" most accurate portrayal of dying light dialog right down to the random punch in the face

I Love Angry Joe's honesty with every game he reviews and i pretty much agree on everything he says. Companies shouldn't waste all this money to make a half ass game and expect us to be ok with it. I much rather have more DLC than this. I stopped preordering games long time ago, cause of these type of business decisions sadly. Battlefront EA was the eye opener for me about feeling ripped off. Im glad i waited for Angry Joe to tell us the news!!! Way to go Joe!!!

Great review as always. I’m just a little disappointed that you didn’t talk about how co-op doesn’t even work at all for some people. My friends can join people and play with each other but I still can’t though even after several updates. When I go into the online menu to invite people it doesn’t say add player it says empty slot and doesn’t even allow me to send out invites. And yes I did complete the prologue

Me during a level 4 chase: “DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH MIRROR’S EDGE I PLAYED BACK IN THE DAY!!!???!!!”

“Zombie how crude. We prefer the term “Differently Animated.”” 😂😂😂

Loved how you brought back the old zombie clips of joe asking to play zombie games 🤣

ugh angryjoe has the worst takes on zombie games...dying light 1 is a million times better than the second one and everybody who played them knows it.

When Joe said "How can she slap!?!" that made me laugh, such a good reference. XD

Apparently, the reason why the story/writing is so ass was due to them firing Chris Avallone and most of the story crew, thus having to start from scratch on most of the storylines/side quests

10:30 wait, she expects you to brave the horrors of a zombie apocalypse for a scarf? A scarf that is more likely than not ruined anyway by the time you'll find it.

Man that chase scene with waltz in the transit were you have to follow the sniper had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Definitely hope there's more moments like that in the game I know I'm a little late but I just started getting into it

I thought the theme of survivors vs peacekeepers virtually non existent... i beat the game and only did two of the locations that allow you to choose which side to allocate resources to.. and then throughout the game the survivors and peacekeepers are just....friendly and constantly hanging out at each others bases...?

One of the things I love about Days Gone is that it is pretty much the only Zombie story that seems interested in the actual Zombies and the lore behind them. So many Zombie stories are about the humans these days.

The 1st Dying Light was so much better. This game doesn't even feel the same other than the parkour.

I think the best part of Dying Light 1 was treating it as a combat/parkour playground with zombies and sometimes people as "playthings" (to punt of buildings and such.)

I love Alex as the well-spoken zombie!

The whole time I played the game I question... is this really 15 years after the Apocalypse?!

What killed this game was how they made nothing special about night time . That was the whole appeal of the first one

14:25 When joe goes into rage mode, I almost wet myself laughing..... Can we have more of that please! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Drink some water." "Go get my scarf." "Have you seen my heels?" So basically..... Its a Zombie Husband, Human Wife simulator.

I love the way AJ and OJ switched up their roles in the review a bit. It would usually be OJ the one with the gun taped to the stick but AJ really made me crack up so hard when he did that role.🤣🤣

My one thing I wanted from the 1st game was. Better gun handling 1 shot kills to heads with guns swords etc A more full open world Hordes/ round survival mode Basically everything we'd want

Its not the game I waited 6 years for.

Came for the "Wanna play a zambie game" running gag. Stayed for the top-quality review! 🤙

I always find myself missing these angry reviews. Hope you're doing well Joe!

The skits in this review are the best i've ever seen from you guys i can't stop laughing with each one keep it up!

“We prefer differently animated” hahaha I lost it

Just something to note, their development cycle got trashed because they had so many disagreements on everything, while their head writer was fired because of allegations, with no proof so far and the sheer fact that HE'S planning on legal action just made that rash decision a joke and you can see that even without him, there were still internal issues in getting to even be the game anyone wanted.

This show has been such a comfort over the years. I'm surprised but also proud and happy you guys managed to keep it funny and interesting. AJ, you and OJ, and Alex, should be proud of what you've built, but more personally, you guys have really helped me out. I hope you guys can all find happiness and have a satisfying life.

I remember figuring out on my own how to climb the nvd tower before I even had the grappling hook and man that shit was engaging but the sense of accomplishment was a great feeling at the end when I got that indestructible weapon charm lol

Never ever change the music intro Joe

“Is it loaded” “ITS LOADED JOE! LOADED WITH POWER! BANG BANG!” That killed me lmao 😂

I’ve been watching this channel for awhile now. And seeing the old clips of Joe and other Joe made me realize how old we’re getting.

I got this game on release because I played the hell out of the first game. I haven't even gotten past the tutorial levels in the beginning because of how shit this game feels even over a year after it's been out.

That "how can she SLAP?" is so fucking good lmao

When he said “it’s not a bad game not at all but it’s not the one that I’ve been waiting for 6 years either “ I couldn’t agree more

Glad someone said it. This game suffers from "The walking dead" syndrome. Human drama, human problems, and sometimes zombies show up. Rowe could have been a definite "bro moment" where you could have developed a friendship with him. But its so rushed that when what happens happens it has the impact of a wet fart in an empty room. Its a fun game, but the story and quests ARE god awful, and it shows its ass in terms of how deep in development hell it was.

I appreciate Birdie was in the game for 30 seconds but to Joe they were a main character

11:37 She teleported back lmao.

I like how subtly Angry Joe draws attention to mental health problems: "ARE YOU- ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!?"

"We prefer - differently animated" - that is geniously hilarious

with games like this, i kinda wish they just wouldnt bother with a story. Just go no dialogue nothing just gameplay. I feel like if a games going to have a bad story then beating the player over the head with it makes it even worse

The amount of black screens, out of sync cut scenes, and even broken/ missing game mechanics (I am unable to upgrade paraglider cause it isn't there) makes this legitimately one of the worst co op games I've played

The skits are ABSOLUTE GOLD. I was rolling at them and the bloopers

I feel like Joe needed to address a few things, hopefully in an extended discussion. The fact that Chris Avellone was fired throughout the games development cycle, so someone else had to take over and change some things. Or maybe even the fact that the map was hyped to be 4x bigger than the first one, but really it didn’t feel that much bigger.

i think they should have spend the money for rosario dawson salary to improve the story and the side quests i would have been just fine with not very well know artist playing lawan cause honestly i just called he ashoka all the time it broke some imersion

Lol that skeleton on the background for the Sifu review xD

I love how captivated other Joe was with character backstories 🤣

Man Im gonna miss Light, I wish he wasn’t dying he’s such a cool guy

Found out today that I’ve been using my guns all wrong!!!

Since the 1st time I came across your videos, I noticed that you have a lot of the same taste when it comes to games apart from shooters. I'm not so much into that, but I have ALWAYS loved your reviews because you don't hold anything back. I LOVE the brutal honesty. Some Need to hear it 🤷‍♂️

I like whenever OJ messes up he starts with, "Well what had happened was...."

Love that Joe knows "how can she slap" and the bloopers at the end were hilarious! Thanks for another review.

5:50 I can't believe you guys got Anthony Fantano to play a zombie.

"hey Joe you wanna play a zombie game?". Honestly one of the best bits ever on youtube

As someone who has around 80 hours in the game and has done a lot of side quests and exploring. I really don’t know how they got 500 hours. Doing a 100% run 5 times?

If Techland proved anything with the first game, it's that they actually put genuine effort into future dlc and events. The Following was the best part of the first game Edit: not excusing the average story at launch, but it's been good enough to guide me through the fun gameplay and world with friends

I think the soundbug which is responsible that 75% of the dialogues have no sound at all and skips the subtitles in less than a half second was intended, sadly this bug slowly made it into the reest of my game... What a game, im kinda glad you prepared me for that thrilling ending of the game though im pretty sure i wont make it so far

I gotta say, running around the map, grinding for stuff I dont necessarily need, while listening to the Mezzanine album, makes this relatively generic zombie game feel incredibly immersive for some reason. It had and still has a slew of issues and bugs, and the multiplayer is not great (it does have its great moments though), but it's genuinely fun, it's feels good to play, and it's strangely relaxing sometimes. It's at least a 7/10 to me