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Refined Parkour
Visceral Combat
Repetitive Missions
While Dying Light: The Beast's story and some familiar mechanics feel predictable or uneven, the crunchy combat, refined traversal, and atmospheric tension deliver a compelling zombie-action experience overall.
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Dying Light: The Beast — Live Action Teaser
Kyle Crane is back, and looking for revenge on the evil scientist who's spent 13 years experimenting on him in this enjoyable if sometimes uneven romp through Techland's greatest hits.
Dying Light: The Beast is a goofy, bloody sequel with a monstrous twist, but doesn’t do much else to mix things up.
A more gritty survival horror experience than Stay Human, but Techland's new first-person parkour game still stumbles a bit.
Dying Light: The Beast blends a vicious revenge tale, breathtaking vistas, and feral new powers into one of Techland's most polished nightmares yet.
Dying Light: The Beast might repeat some of the mistakes of previous games, but it also brings back everything that worked and focuses on them while delivering a more interesting story set in the series’ most unique location yet. The Beast might have started as DLC for the more ambitious Dying Light 2, but its contained success ends up being closer to the sequel we all asked for than that game ever was.
Dying Light: The Beast can feel a touch safe at times with a serviceable story, but the high-flying parkour and gorgeous graphics are top-notch. Castor Woods makes for the perfect zombie-slaying playground for you to enjoy. It’s pure adrenaline packed into its 20 hours, continuing to carve out its own corner of the crowded zombie space.
Techland's expansion turned standalone sequel winds up being the most enjoyable Dying Light so far, because it dials back the power fantasy.
The "increased brutality levels" of Dying Light: The Beast has caused the game to be censored in Japan.
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While Dying Light: The Beast brings back Kyle Crane, director Nathan Lemaire argues that this DLC turned spin-off is a great intro to the series.
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Dying Light developers Techland reveal it already has ideas being thrown around for a fourth game in the series after 'The Beast' releases this month.
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Full focus is currently on the upcoming title, though.
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