Dying Light: The Beast Reviews
The Beast is the Dying Light sequel I always wanted. It's dark, literally and tonally, focuses on zombies instead of warring human factions, and expands on some of the more outlandish and interesting ideas hinted at in the original. If this is indicative of what to expect in the franchise going forward, and it certainly looks that way, then I am excited.
Dying Light: The Beast isn't perfect, but it's a dark, brutal first-person survival horror game that's refreshingly consistent in its push for the series into both familiar and uncharted territory.
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Parkour feels more fluid than before, with sprinting through the city and rooftop traversal feeling super smooth (as long as you don’t get grabbed by an infected). Roger Craig Smith does a stellar job once again as Crane, and it was a blast getting to see his story continue. Unfortunately, a few performance issues and audio bugs lessened the experience, but overall, this is a great new entry to the franchise, and one Dying Light fans will be glad to have waited for.
Dying Light: The Beast is a smaller but enjoyable addition to the series, with the return of Kyle Crane and the new mountain setting of Castor Woods. There's nothing groundbreaking here, but it's a very good amalgamation of everything we've seen in previous Dying Light games.
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Dying Light: The Beast is a fun and enjoyable game that can keep you busy for hours. However, a number of problems, such as a regression in crafting, skill trees, and blueprint system compared to the first game, and an excessive similarity to the second version, have prevented this game from reaching its full potential.
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Dying Light: The Beast is faster, more agile, deeper, and without a doubt the best episode in the series.
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Dying Light: The Beast delivers refined parkour, intense melee combat, co-op gameplay, and a fully optimized experience with a dark, gripping story set in new regions.
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Dying Light The Beast doesn't reinvent the formula, but it does bring a fresh take on zombie parkour with its Feral Mode, an open world as beautiful as it is lethal, and a co-op mode that turns survival into guaranteed laughs.
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Dying Light: The Beast is undoubtedly worth buying when you consider that you're more likely to enjoy and appreciate the gameplay for how it was intended. The adrenaline rush that you get from beating up zombies and sprinting around the world doing parkour can definitely outweigh its flaws.
Dying Light: The Beast is an exciting, well-made, and very rewarding game in the series. It brings back the tension, fear, and creativity that made the first game so popular, but it also adds to the story, mechanics, and world immersion.
Dying Light: The Beast is a strong redemption arc for Techland, delivering exceptional fun. Aside from a few bugs that will likely be patched soon, it offers real bang for your buck if you’re a fan of the FPS survival horror genre.
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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 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 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.
The amount of disgusting gore is an absolute delight.
Techland's expansion turned standalone sequel winds up being the most enjoyable Dying Light so far, because it dials back the power fantasy.
Much like Kyle Crane's return, the series has also returned to form with Dying Light: The Beast. Although not a true sequel, it's a meaningful entry that dials down the tone to a much more sinister and grimier one. It's a reminder from Techland of why fans love the series in the first place—a gnarly yet technical combat system, over-the-top gore, and the thrill of freerunning all composited with a decent enough story, one that's sure to invoke the hope to live and die another day. You can effortlessly mow down enemies with a barrage of new unhinged artillery or viciously tear them apart with Beast Mode—it's your playground here, and it all adds up to make it perfect for veterans to experience while offering a slice to newcomers of what makes Dying Light feel so special. The Beast is awake, and so is the franchise once again.
Dying Light The Beast doesn't reinvent the wheel or introduce changes that revolutionize the series, but it does polish many aspects, enrich others, and add enough new features (a new setting, increased vehicle weight, etc.) to make the experience feel fresh, and it succeeds. And, most importantly, it's still as fun as the first day.
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A lot of the fun you can have with Dying Light: The Beast is what you make of it yourself. Exploring the world, unlocking the safe houses, finding cool new weapon modifications and crafting recipes, and generally getting lost. Nothing about the experience was groundbreaking, nor was it as enthralling or immersive as other open-world games. Instead, it was good fun you can enjoy in short or long bursts, whether you want to sink your teeth into zombie hunting or chilling as you wander the wilds and urban spaces of Castor Hills.