Summary
- Techland unveils its new game, Dying Light: The Beast, with protagonist Kyle Crane returning as the main protagonist.
- Originally intended to be the second DLC expansion, Techland instead expanded the scope, making Dying Light: The Beast into a standalone title.
- Kyle's return in the new game seems to confirm the canon ending choice from Dying Light: The Following, offering players a fresh experience.
After teasing its fanbase, Techland reveals its latest game, Dying Light: The Beast, with a new trailer that also confirms the return of protagonist Kyle Crane. Following its work on Dead Island, Techland moved on to the Dying Light franchise, a series which takes the zombies and open world elements and mixes them with first person parkour. Naturally, the series has become hugely popular with players, going on to spawn an expansion and sequel in the years after.
However, Dying Light 2 pushed the game's narrative forward, leaving the events of the first game and its characters in the past. Similar to the first game, Dying Light 2 would receive extensive post-launch content and updates, keeping players engaged with new content ranging from cosmetics, seasonal events, and tons of crossovers with franchises like The Walking Dead, For Honor, and more. While Dying Light 2 would go on to be another big hit for Techland, many wondered what was next for the franchise, and at Gamescom 2024, Techland finally answered those questions with a big reveal.
Dying Light 2's Nightmare Mode Explained
Dying Light 2's latest update adds a horrifying new difficulty setting called "Nightmare Mode," and it certainly isn't for the faint of heart.
During Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2024, Techland revealed its next game as Dying Light: The Beast. The trailer opens with soldiers seemingly on the hunt for something, unknowingly being hunted from the shadows by something not human. Eventually, the soldiers come across the slaughter of other members of their squad before being struck down by the monster. Before long, the shot turns to the sunrise over a city and the appearance of Kyle Crane looking out over it. With a bloodshot eye, it's heavily implied that Kyle may have been that Volatile stalking the soldiers during the night.
Kyle Crane Returns in Dying Light: The Beast
While details for Dying Light: The Beast remains scarce, just the fact that Crane is back seems to confirm the canon ending. While players were given a choice of how they wanted to end Dying Light: The Following's story, it seems Techland has gone with the non-nuclear option to craft this new game, where Kyle essentially falls to his infection and becomes a fully sentient Volatile.
Fans were made aware of Dying Light: The Beast thanks to a recently filed trademark, though many assumed it was intended to be a second expansion for Dying Light 2. As it turns out, that was the original plan, until Techland decided to expand the scope of this new standalone experience. Techland has confirmed that Kyle's return is set inside of a new city alongside a new set of gameplay features. Better yet, owners of Dying Light 2 Stay Human Ultimate Edition will be getting this content at no extra cost.
Dying Light
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 74 /100 Critics Rec: 49%
- Released
- January 27, 2015
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language
- Developer(s)
- Techland
- Publisher(s)
- Warner Brothers Games
WHERE TO PLAY
From the creators of hit titles Dead Island and Call of Juarez. Winner of over 50 industry awards and nominations. The game whose uncompromising approach to gameplay set new standards for first-person games. Thanks to its legacy and seven-year post-launch support, today it goes down in history as one of gaming's greatest zombie titles.
Survive in a city beset by a zombie virus! Discover the hard choices you will have to make on your secret mission. Will loyalty to your superiors prove stronger than the will to save the survivors? The choice is yours…
VAST OPEN WORLD
Roam the city with unprecedented freedom and bask in its unique atmosphere. Use parkour to scale every building and reach remote areas.
CREATIVE COMBAT
Engage in gory combat and discover limitless options to confront your enemies. Use the environment paired with various weapon types and abilities to gain an advantage.
DAY AND NIGHT CYCLE
Experience the dramatic shift in the world as you go from hunter to hunted at sundown. Face the coming threat or run away without wasting your time looking behind.
4-PLAYER CO-OP
Join forces with other players and raise your chances of survival in an exciting co-op mode. Tackle the story campaign together and see how far you'll go as a team.
- Multiplayer
- Online Co-Op
- Franchise
- Dying Light
- Number of Players
- 1-4
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC
- Genre(s)
- Open-World, Survival Horror
- How Long To Beat
- 18 hours
