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After the disappointing Dying Light 2, Techland’s Dying Light: The Beast puts players back into the shoes of original protagonist Kyle Crane for a new adventure. Not only will the upcoming standalone game give players a brand-new story to play through, but it’ll also tease what’s next for the series.
Dying Light: The Beast will tease the next game
Speaking to GamesRadar, Dying Light frnachise director Tymon Smektala explained that The Beast will do away entirely with the narrative choices found in the second game. Instead, the game will focus entirely on a single-route story as the team attempts to “get back to what we know” from the original game.
Alongside the removal of narrative choices, Smektala explains that the upcoming zombie game will show players what’s next for the series. Whether that’s a Dying Light 3 or another standalone spin-off, or anything else is unknown, but something is on the horizon.
“We wanted this to be a canon entry into the series,” the franchise director explained. “We’re looking back at what happened to Kyle Crane in the first game, and we want to tell the next chapter of the story.”
“One thing that Dying Light: The Beast does is hint at the future of the series,” they continued. “We really wanted to make sure that at the end of the game, Kyle Crane is where we want him to be, so that’s why we decided to back down from the narrative choices of Dying Light 2.”
While Techland works on finishing up the upcoming standalone game, the studio has also just finished remastering the original game for PC and consoles. The newly-released Retouched update celebrates 10 years of the open-world zombie game with brand-new visuals.
Including higher resolution textures, upscaled skyboxes and clouds, ultra-level quality shadows, remastered soundtrack and modern rendering features, there’s a tonne of improvements that have just been added to the game. While technically an “enhancement” and not a “remaster”, according to Techland, it feels like a remaster.
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