As someone who has watched far too many zombie movies and played far too many zombie games, I can tell you that nailing the setting and aesthetic is key. Netflix's K-drama Kingdom, for example, takes zombies back to feudal Korea, while All of Us Are Dead fantastically reinvents the classic 'undead high school' tropes. Of all the zombie games out there, however, the original Dying Light's fictional Middle Eastern city of Harran ranks among the genre's best settings. Tight streets ran red with blood; it's oppressive, lived-in, dangerous, yet compulsively explorable. With Dying Light: The Beast, Techland is bringing back the OG game's focus on survival horror and a seemingly grimmer, more down-to-earth setting.
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