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My hands-off Gamescom preview ofDying Light: The Beasthas me grinning from start to finish.
So this made us think, ‘Okay, what can we do with this?'"
But Techland needed the help of one very important person to pull the whole thing off.
“Without the man, it would’ve made absolutely no sense.”
At this, Roger Craig-Smith or the voice of Kyle Crane, as you might know him smiles humbly.
If you thought Kyle Crane died at the end of 2015’s Dying Light, you’re not alone.
“I was, I think, just as surprised as anybody,” the voice actor laughs.
“I was like, ‘but I thought I was dead?’
So I was pleasantly surprised.
Surreal just about covers it.
Day surrenders to night, and along with it, all the horrors that await within.
These monsters are beastly enough, but the game’s title itself is something worth a mention.
“Dying Light: The Beast is a compact, super impactful dose of Dying Light gameplay.
This gives rise to the ultimate question of who or what The Beast actually is.
Does that mean that he, Kyle, is the beast in question?
“I think it’s more connected to the narrative of the game.
It’s kind of easy to make an assumption that ‘Okay, so it’s Kyle Crane.
He has those beast-like powers, so probably he’s the beast.’
Of course, no spoilers.
According to Smektaa, the title, like everything in The Beast, is “a conscious choice.
There were no obstacles in the world that you couldn’t cross or climb on.”
We just realized, okay, so we need to kind of push the boundaries a little.
We need to unleash what Dying Light can be.”
With new weapons comes one very important thing: new bad guys.
After all, “beast-like powers” plus an arsenal of AK-47s?
Is Kyle Crane just The Punisher now?
All of this, Smektaa says, boils down to Techland’s unifying goal.
“We want Dying Light to bethe ultimate zombie experience, the ultimate zombie game.
You think ‘zombie game?’
You say, ‘Yeah, of course, Dying Light.’
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