Get ready: Hideo Kojima’s studio has been deeply involved in the development of Dying Light: The Beast. Guided by Hideki Sasaki, Techland is raising its visual ambitions with improved cinematics and a reworked graphics engine. The result promises to be the most stunning zombie survival experience to date.

Dying Light: The Beast is shaping up to be one of the best open-world games on the horizon, combining parkour mechanics with tense nighttime zombie survival. Techland is determined to deliver a more compact but higher-quality game, with its biggest leap forward in visuals. And for that, they’ve partnered with a true industry heavyweight.

Kojima Productions Pushes the Limits

According to an exclusive report from Gamerant, Techland has teamed up with Kojima Productions to push the graphical ceiling of Dying Light: The Beast. Thanks to Hideki Sasaki, technical art director, the open-world zombie sequel is making a giant leap forward: more resources are being dedicated to cinematics, nothing is being cut, and the visual impact is set to impress.

This “next AAA” installment will stand out for its technical prowess, powered by the next-generation C-Engine. Expect major improvements in lighting, rendering, and how the world loads in the background. On top of that, the studio is “going big on cinematics,” bringing more immersive narrative sequences to highlight the motivations of its protagonists. According to franchise director Tymon Smektala, the leap in scene realism compared to Dying Light 2 is “enormous.”

This has been made possible through Techland’s partnership with Tencent, now the majority stakeholder of the Polish studio. The Dying Light: The Beast team has worked alongside engineers from various studios, with Sasaki bringing experience from Death Stranding, Cyberpunk 2077, and both Horizon games. If expectations are met, The Beast could redefine the open-world action-survival genre. The game is set to launch September 19 on PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X|S.

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