This is very similar to countless other open world games. Towers to scale, camps to clear, safe-houses to find, factions to support, loots to loot, skill trees to fill, gears to upgrade and craft, side quests aplenty ... it's a familiar story. But what sets it apart is the parkour element. It's no afterthought, it's a major part of the experience. And it makes the gameplay a lot of fun, traversing the world like a huge platform game. The rooftops are safer than the streets so it's essential to learn the ways the the parkour.
Night time and day time offer different approaches to the gameplay. Night time is more dangerous on the streets but all parkour and combat gains xp but you must get to morning to cash it in ... die at night and you lose it. The flip side is buildings are quieter at night and lend themselves to some top looting.
I never played the first game so I went in cold. The thing that attracted me was actually the art style. I think the world looks amazing at times. And after around 15-20 hours or so I can say I'm enjoying it more and more as the game unfolds/opens up. The devs reckon there are hundreds of hours play in it but I can't see me spending quite that long in the world. As is sometimes the case with these games they can suffer from repetition but so far I'm finding it's doing a really good job of drip-feeding new things and keeping the experience fresh.
Best thing about it though is simply the joy of being out in the world, running and leaping, smashing thugs and zombies, getting loots and more and more capable.
Night time and day time offer different approaches to the gameplay. Night time is more dangerous on the streets but all parkour and combat gains xp but you must get to morning to cash it in ... die at night and you lose it. The flip side is buildings are quieter at night and lend themselves to some top looting.
I never played the first game so I went in cold. The thing that attracted me was actually the art style. I think the world looks amazing at times. And after around 15-20 hours or so I can say I'm enjoying it more and more as the game unfolds/opens up. The devs reckon there are hundreds of hours play in it but I can't see me spending quite that long in the world. As is sometimes the case with these games they can suffer from repetition but so far I'm finding it's doing a really good job of drip-feeding new things and keeping the experience fresh.
Best thing about it though is simply the joy of being out in the world, running and leaping, smashing thugs and zombies, getting loots and more and more capable.