I've always been more interested in the idea of zombie games where the zombies are more obstacles to get around rather than as fodder to bash or shoot at. There are moments like this in Dying Light where the game shines. The first person parkour is really fun (albeit not as well developed as that in Mirror's Edge) and leads to some thrilling moments with the zombies.

That said, there is still a lot of combat that is mostly pretty boring. I just used the DLC that gives you a fairly overpowered bow pretty quickly so I didn't have to deal with the dreary melee combat where the weapons degrade too fast. There's a lot of of crafting options too but I found myself not wanting to really bother with it. The story is pretty uninteresting with no decent characters to latch onto. I still enjoyed my time with it but wouldn't be rushing back to it.