Ranking January & February 2015’s Video Games From Worst To Best

5. Dying Light

Dead Island will remain in infamy as that 'one time' it felt like the entire gaming populace got completely enraptured by one trailer, talking for hours on end about how amazing it was going to be and how emotionally affecting its portrayal of a zombie apocalypse could turn out. Then it released, and was about as enjoyable as an undead infestation in the middle of your otherwise tranquil holiday would be - prompting developers Techland to abandon ship and create another IP. Over to Dying Light, the spiritual successor to the series that positively revels in its action-movie tropes in every sense from the overly shouty evil villain character to your 'rogue cop' hero who slowly realises what he's been asked to do is beyond the book. Forget the trimmings though, because it's in both the co-op and the general sense of traversal throughout the single player where Dying Light really shines. First-person platforming/parkour feels just as strange as it did in Mirror's Edge if you didn't get on board with that, but for the most part it allows you to spring around the city at great ease, providing a pendulum swing of confidence when you stay out too long and all the night-versions of the zombies start challenging you to learn the world geography like the back of your hand.