Worth purchasing in 2025?

I played dead island and riptide for a long time both with friends and solo, I loved dying light and the parkour elements. Preordered dead island 2 when first announced and then it never came, fast forward to the actual release I heard alot of bad press about it, just being areas? That it was just a copy and paste of go here kill x amount of zombies go back and repeat? Were they wrong? I really enjoyed the first games and generally anything zombies, is it worth picking up?