Dying Light: The Beast is coming in August with the usual mix of rooftop parkour and zombie blasting

Zombie endurance spin-off Dying Light: The Beast has crushed down a merchandise day into pulverization and injected it consecutive into your brainstem. It's August 22nd. Oh, there's a caller trailer too.

The Beast is releasing arsenic a standalone game, successful which you'll reprise the relation of the protagonist from the precise archetypal game, Kyle Crane. He's retired for revenge for reasons I've agelong since forgotten, but the important bits are that you'll beryllium moving crossed rooftops, bumsliding, and firing guns astatine zombie faces.

Dying Light: The Beast was announced astatine Gamescom past year, astir 2 years aft Dying Light 2 brought players to an undefined European metropolis overrun by gargling punchbags. And a aboriginal trailer teased a vague "summer" merchandise window. It was primitively expected to beryllium a portion of DLC, but yet ballooned into its ain crippled arsenic developers tarted adding much and much bits connected top, astatine slightest according to manager Tymon Smektala successful a chat with Gamesradar.

The Dying Light games get a mixed reception astatine RPS. They laic connected their underwhelming stories rather thick, but connection an inviting unfastened satellite of parkour jiggery-pokery. You're fundamentally planted successful a ruined metropolis with a cute day-night rhythm gimmick whereby the zombies are sluggish Romero eejits erstwhile the prima is up, but horrendous building-leaping speedfreaks erstwhile nighttime falls. Slow zombies and accelerated zombies? Why that sounds similar a video game, sir!