Summary
As if 2025wasn’t stacked enough with major video game releases, even ifGrand Theft Auto 6 was ultimately delayed, there will be another Dying Light game at some point this upcoming summer.
TitledDying Light: The Beast, the gamewas originally announced during last year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live, and it will put players in control of the game’s original protagonist, Kyle Crane,in a smaller, but still meaty experience. Oh, and Roger Craig Smith will be back voicing Crane.
Now,in a new interview with Insider Gaming, Smith discussed the evolution of Kyle Crane, including his brush with the dark side.
Kyle Crane Is A Changed Man In The Beast, And Players Will Experience That
To start, Smith called his return to the role of Crane an “honour,” though returning after a decade to the role does have him feeling old. Speaking of change, Crane as a character has been very clearly impacted by experimentation and is not how we as players remember him.
Those character changes pushed Smith to up the ante when it comes to portraying Crane while also tying things together.
“This Kyle is a much darker Kyle,” he explained. “He’s suffered so much trauma at the hands of the antagonist, and so we have to implement that while trying to thread the connection between Dying Light 1’s Kyle Crane and this version of Kyle Crane that’s taking place many years later.”
Still, those changes don’t mean that the Kyle Crane we played as in 2015 still isn’t in there somewhere, with Smith admitting to tapping into that personality at points.
“Dying Light 1’s Kyle is more sarcastic, and it’s fun to try and pepper some of that in.”
Given that we’re in May, hopefully it won’t be too long before a release date is finalized so that we can all see how Smith’s performance has evolved. Oh, and also feel old because 10 years is a really long time.
