Dying Light: The Beast News

Dying Light The Beast is "bringing survival back," and I'm excited

As someone who has watched far too many zombie movies and played far too many zombie games, I can tell you that nailing the setting and aesthetic is key. Netflix's K-drama Kingdom, for example, takes zombies back to feudal Korea, while All of Us Are Dead fantastically reinvents the classic 'undead high school' tropes. Of all the zombie games out there, however, the original Dying Light's fictional Middle Eastern city of Harran ranks among the genre's best settings. Tight streets ran red with blood; it's oppressive, lived-in, dangerous, yet compulsively explorable. With Dying Light: The Beast, Techland is bringing back the OG game's focus on survival horror and a seemingly grimmer, more down-to-earth setting.

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The new Dying Light game is completely free, for some people

I don't know about you but one of my purest joys in gaming is leaping over stuff. From Mirror's Edge to Dying Light, mantling and running and jumping and landing is always brilliant and is something gaming absolutely nails. That's why I'm looking forward to the newly-announced standalone entry in the latter series; Dying Light The Beast. If you're looking forward to it too then there's good news - you may be able to get the game for the grand price of nothing.

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New Dying Light The Beast spinoff revealed, full of zombie parkour

One thing I like to see in a game series is when it tries something new, or at least dips a toe into newness. Newly-announced standalone adventure Dying Light The Beast promises to do exactly that, mainly by uprooting us from the metropolis-based action seen in prior titles and sending you out to pasture - quite literally.

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