XP rewards are doubled at night, so you'll have to 'man-up and do the right thing'. By day you can play this like a stealth game to avoid confrontation, but the change of pace keeps you on your toes and brings anticipation when day turns to night.
There is a dynamic day and night cycle effects. You can also use distractions, traps and ultraviolet light to slow down the infected.
The game adds the need for improvisation (common sense and problem-solving skills even under dire circumstances), you can use more than a hundred various objects as weapons to chop, burn, shock, hack or bludgeon the infected when (not if) confrontation is necessary. In a way, this is a cross between Mirrors Edge and Tomb Raider. With the addition of verticality, surviving requires you to learn Parkour (developed from military obstacle course training, focusing on freerunning from A to B in the most efficient way possible) to evade the climbing zombies and complete your objectives. First of all, the new rules to the zombie genre: now zombies not only run, they climb and they jump buildings! There certainly isn't a shortage of zombie movies and games in recent years, but there is arguably only a handful of creative people who have been able to bring the genre up a notch in terms of delivering fear. Dying Light allows you to look back while doing so, and shows you a few different reasons why this game takes the genre to a whole new level. Your mission to find Kadir "Rais" Suleiman becomes side-tracked as you need to decide whether to complete the mission or help the very survivors who helped save your life. Not as dangerous during the day, but at night the creatures' senses increase tenfold, making the infected much deadlier. You are Kyle Crane, an undercover operative infiltrating the fictional city of Harran, where a mysterious viral outbreak has turned the majority of residents into soulless creatures. They are back with another first person shooter called Dying Light. As creators of the Call of Juarez and Dead Island franchises, Techland has a knack for innovation.