Watch Kyle Crane activate beast mode (and drive his new car) in Dying Light: The Beast

An angry Kyle Crane with a scar over his eye
(Image credit: Techland)

This summer Dying Light fans got some news of the "both good and bad" variety. The bad news was that the DLC they were expecting for Dying Light 2 wasn't going to be coming after all. The good news was they were getting a whole new standalone game, and it was free if they'd already bought Dying Light 2: Ultimate Edition.

That game is Dying Light: The Beast, which stars the hero of the original Dying Light, Kyle Crane. Tonight at The Game Awards, we got a look at the baddie of the story, The Baron, who has been subjecting Crane to some pretty awful looking experiments. Unsurprisingly, the mad science goes wrong and Crane goes into beast mode. Take a look:

Dying Light: The Beast — MEET THE BARON - THE GAME AWARDS 2024 TRAILER - YouTube Dying Light: The Beast — MEET THE BARON - THE GAME AWARDS 2024 TRAILER - YouTube
Watch On

That torture and escape sets up Crane's revenge story, as franchise director Tymon Smektala told us about back in August. And thanks to the trailer, we can now take a look at some of the world Crane will be doing his revenging in—and the car he'll be driving.

Yep, just like in Dying Light's DLC The Following, The Beast isn't set in a massive city but a more rural environments, and that means there's plenty of room to speed around in a 4x4. Why use your foot to kick zombies when you can use it to stomp on the accelerator and run over a bunch of zeds at once?

Don't worry, you'll still do plenty of parkour. While there aren't quite as many skyscrapers and office buildings to clown around on, there are still narrow alleys and brick buildings to clamber up and wall-run across. And naturally, you'll find lots of creative melee weapons to bash in zombie heads with.

Dying Light: The Beast is coming next summer, and in the meantime you can check out its page on Steam.

Christopher Livingston
Senior Editor

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.

Read more
Zombies attacking
The OG Dying Light is giving away its first DLC in more than 4 years for free, and it's very shiny
Atomfall Gamescom screenshots
Atomfall dev says Rebellion's open world shooter has 'some experimental stuff' that can have a 'huge influence' on the game world: 'It might work out. It might not'
Fantasy RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker's protagonist, Coen, a half human half vampire being holding onto a pole and staring into the night.
The Witcher 3's director says he has designed his new vampire RPG to explore 'something in pop culture that nobody yet has done' in videogames: 'We will see how people like it'
Coen in The Blood of Dawnwalker cinematic, but lightened a bit so you can actually see the man
The new RPG from Rebel Wolves, a studio founded by Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs, asks a bold question: What if Geralt was a vampire?
A masked sniper pointing his rifle in Nightmare Kart
Superb Bloodborne-inspired racing game Nightmare Kart is getting free DLC featuring sniper rifles and supercharged penny farthings
zoomed in concept art of the Agadon Hunter, a new enemy appearing in Doom: The Dark Ages.
Doom: The Dark Ages already sneakily revealed its 'new Marauder,' and the devs hope he'll be just as challenging, but a little less frustrating
Latest in Action
The First Berserker: Khazan review - Blade Phantom
How to claim The First Berserker: Khazan pre-order bonus and deluxe edition DLC
gta 6 trailer
Publishers 'don't want to be anywhere near' Grand Theft Auto 6 when it launches: 'It's proving to be very stressful'
An image of a Helldiver from Helldivers 2 shooting at a red dragon from Dungeons & Dragons.
'Ok, so dragon builds are a thing now': galaxy-brained Helldivers 2 player incinerates a bile titan with a hover pack and a flamethrower
Assassin's Creed Shadows promo image
Ubisoft scores a legendary ratio against Elon Musk on his own platform—which hopefully marks a final end to all the Assassin's Creed Shadows' culture war nonsense
Assassin's Creed Shadows immersive mode - Naoe holding a tanto in her hand as two guards fall to the ground behind her.
Assassin's Creed Shadows' first hotfix addresses stability issues and a photo mode crash
A plastic duck dressed like a circus weightlifter
The 5th highest-rated game on Steam in 2022 is back with a multiplayer sequel
Latest in News
Image of Ronaldo from Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves trailer
It doesn't really make sense that soccer star Ronaldo is now a Fatal Fury character, but if you follow the money you can see how it happened
Junah beginning a battle in Metaphor: ReFantazio.
Today's RPG fans are 'very sensitive to feeling like they wasted time' when they die, says Metaphor: ReFantazio battle planner—but Atlus still made combat hard anyway
Image of Cersei Lanniser from Game of Thrones: Kingsroad Steam early access trailer
A new Game of Thrones RPG is coming to Steam today with a cast of 'familiar faces,' which is good because it's really the only way to tell it's a GoT game at all
The new Prime Asset featured in the upcoming update for the Outlast Trials.
The Outlast Trials puts its already paranoid players under surveillance for a time-limited story event
A Viera looking confused in Final Fantasy 14.
Old armor continues to fall victim to Final Fantasy 14's bizarre two-channel dye system, unless you're super into changing the colour of teeny-tiny eyelets: 'Why even bother at this point?'
Starfield: Shattered Space
By the time Bethesda was on Starfield, you'd 'basically get in trouble' for breaking schedule, says former dev: 'A lot of the great stuff within Skyrim came from having the freedom to do what you want'