REANIMAL DLC The Prisoner Launches to Very Positive Steam Reviews
The DLC's immediate Very Positive reception signals that the expansion's new characters, camera and axe mechanics, and motorcycle sequences landed with players, even as some criticize its short length.
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THQ Nordic released REANIMAL - The Prisoner on August 8, the first of three planned DLC chapters for Tarsier Studios' co-op horror game. The expansion introduces new protagonists, the Soldier and the Prisoner, in a war-torn city. It holds a Very Positive rating on Steam with 84% positive reviews from 177 user reviews at the time of writing.
The first major expansion for REANIMAL is out, and it shifts the action from the distorted island of the base game to a city ruined by war. The Soldier and the Prisoner, two new characters separate from the main game's siblings, work together using a camera and an axe, with one stunning enemies via camera flash while the other finishes them off.
The DLC adds landmines, flamethrower soldiers, and a motorcycle chase with a sidecar-mounted machine gun. Steam users have rated it Very Positive, with 84% of 177 reviews positive at the time of writing. Some players note the roughly one to two hour runtime feels short for the price, and reports mention local co-op crashes and performance drops in specific scenes.
The Prisoner is the first chapter of The Expanded World, a three-part DLC plan. A patch alongside the release adjusted the HDR tone mapper and fixed bugs and crashes in the main game.
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