I really wanted to like this game, I love the first two dying light games but man this was not it.

I beat the game and completed every side quest (check my achievs) in the hope that something would stand out and make me love this game like I did the previous iterations but it never happened. The overly open map made parkour much less enjoyable, they added cars to the game and took away any form of fast travel so I spent large amounts of time just sprinting or driving to objectives. The fun sweaty palm climbing of giant towers and buildings was almost non existent. The skills and leveling system got significantly dumbed down and simplified. Its so weird to me that a studio could see all the things that made their game series great and decide to minimize those aspects. The games not outright bad, it looks nice and the combat flows smoothly but overall its a step down from the first two games.

The story was fairly engaging and the ending was cool but overall I just did not enjoy this game nearly as much as I did that last two. If you are a fan of the series buy it only if it goes on sale for $20 or less.

It was really cool. The Beast is very well made, but there is one serious drawback.
Techland originally conceived The Beast as an DLC to Dying Light 2. The problem is that there is a serious lack of content. I really hope that new activities will be added in the near future, because The Beast has the potential to become a full-fledged game.

Bugs since launce. Items and loot clip through the floor constantly and cant be picked up. Something that affects the gameplay this much should have been fixed already. No excuses.

Bugs aside, my opinion is mostly positive. The constant grappling is infuriating. It happens way too much. Even if you are beating the absolute crap out of a zombie. It'll suddenly trigger QTE grapple holds. It can happen from unreasonable distances too. Normally you would be able to see it running at you raising its arms giving you time to evade.
Unfortunately there are moments where it feels like it doesn't give you a single frame and it just happens. Even worse it can happen over and over again. You get passed around like a volleyball.

I feel a lot of frustration playing in Co Op. There is no load feature and so all my items that clipped through the floor are gone forever. I got killed running in a "run away" sequence because co op partners ran ahead and zombies followed them into doorways and blocked the tunnel exits.
I also died because a swarm of volatiles and when I respawned I was surrounded by the same exact volatiles that killed me. I was killed maybe 5 times and couldn't do anything about it, but wait for the sun while I watched in frustration. Being able to load a save while in multiplayer would have been a fix for this. Or let me choose to spawn somewhere else/a certain distance away. If I could load a save, I wouldn't have lost my items "forever" when they clipped through the floor as well.

Its really not a bad game when things are working as intended. This game probably just wasn't ready for release yet.

The story has been really good. Everyone is annoyingly aggressive as usual, but the story is interesting, intense and a bit mysterious. Kyle coming back as the main character is awesome. I also really love that vehicle mechanics made a return as well. Gameplay has been a huge blast. If it wasn't for the few things I mentioned above, I would say its maybe 8 or 9/10. The game is basically a Dying Light game, improved upon with all the things they've learned in the past Dying Light games.

Unfortunately I cant recommend. Until items no longer fall through the world I would wait to buy.