25.9.2010

Dead Rising 2 is the long awaited sequel to Dead Rising release back in 2006. The original game had high expectations, while it was fantastic it had a lot of faults. Fortunately most of these issues have been fixed. However some minor issues still remain.Dead Rising 2 is set in Fortune City which is basically a fictional Las Vegas. The city itself is pretty much the mall from the first game reskinned. The city doesn't even feel like a city. It feels like a very large mall with a few casinos. It is a bit larger than the mall in the original game. The similarities do not stop there. Certain characters are very similar to the characters in DR1.For example there is an overweight man who has eaten all the food in the vicinity you must escort to your safehouse. Successfully getting him to the safehouse will end up with him eating all the respawning food in your safehouse. Both games feature this survivor, different people same fat belly. The majority of people who played DR1 will remember the convict in the park. 3 very irritating convicts in a jeep with a machine gun who will never die. This time round we get a less rage-inducing group who won't run you over and can die. This lot appears in the park (much like the convicts who appeared in DR1's park) and will take pot shots at you from a distance. It might seem like nit picking but it seems too similar to me.Dead Rising 2 is set a few years after the events of DR1 where the zombie threat is contained. DR2's man of the hour is Chuck Greene, a motocross champion who desperately needs money to buy Zombrex (medicine to suppress the zombie virus for 24 hours) for his daughter. He appears in a sadistic game show which consists of killing zombies in humorous ways usually involving motorbikes and chainsaws. After performing in the show zombies escape from their prison and attack anything with a heartbeat. Chuck grabs his daughter, runs through the horde and goes to the emergency government shelter where he meets Stacey (an activist who wants zombie rights) and Sullivan (a reserve man). From then on you are framed and accused of letting the zombies out. You must find the truth over the course of 3 days. Like the original game you can choose not to do this and simply kill 3 in-game day's worth of zombies. It is a sandbox game of course. It is now your job to choose your weapon and there's hundreds of different weapons. Pistols, baseball bats, supersoakers.Despite at first the game seeming like a Dead Rising 1.5 there are plenty of new features and changes. Enough to call DR2 a proper sequel. Unlike DR1 you don't get PP (the game's experience points) from taking photos. There is no camera as Chuck isn't a journalist. To obtain PP you must find survivors and killing psychopaths (the game's bosses). These are the best way to gain PP but they aren't the only ways. You can get PP by killing a certain number of zombies or performing special moves. One of the new features is the ability to combine weapons to make one better weapon. You can unlock these by trial and error, levelling up or exploring the city. One of the first combo weapons is combining a box of nails with a baseball bat. Despite it being an early weapon it proves extremely useful. One of the complaints about DR1 was the single save system. In DR2 you have 3 slots to save to but you still have to trek to the nearest bathroom. It is however a huge improvement in comparison to DR1's save system. Another new feature is a money system. Seeing as this is set in city based around money it makes sense. You can use this money for pawn shops who will sell weapons and zombrex (which you need for your daughter but most of the time you will pick up zombrex through other means), playing slot machines, using it to bribe a small number of survivors so you can escort them and many more things you can use your cash. It's worth noting that the game seems a tiny bit easier than the first one, even the psychopaths are easier. You still need to be well prepared to beat them.Graphically speaking it looks no better than DR1 which is a 4 year old game. For those who still have SD TVs I cannot confirm whether the small text is still there but really by now you should have a HDTV. They're quite cheap these days. This may be a PS3 version (as DR used to be a Xbox 360 exclusive franchise. The 360 version seems to be favoured more going by the exclusive DLC) only problem but after a few hours of play there is a drop in FPS. It also gets blurry too.In conclusion Dead Rising 2 is a worthy sequel that removes the issues Dead Rising 1 had. It probably won't win many awards but it is a fantastic game with plenty of replay value.Oh did I mention it also has strip poker?

4.3.2014

I have to note that, being a PS3 owner, I never played the original Dead Rising. One of the key complaints I heard about the original is that there weren't enough places to save your game. That has been remedied in Dead Rising 2, although there are still not a ton of them, but videogames should strike a balance, methinks, and methinks the balance has been struck here.You play Chuck Greene, a contestant on the zombie-killing show “Terror is Reality”, competing to try to get “Zombrex” medication for your daughter (she's been bitten by a zombie and if does not get her Zombrex dose every 24 hours, will definitely have a palate that is limited to: “BRAAIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNS!”).Unfortunately,something goes very wrong; zombies get released into Fortune City, the mythical Las-Vegas-style town you're in, and to make matters worse, someone is framing Chuck for it. After the outbreak, you have 72 hours before the military arrives; 72 hours to clear your name.This is a sandbox-style game, in that you have many side missions to perform and survivors to rescue. However, you do have main storyline missions, called “Cases”, and if you miss one of them, or don't manage to finish one of them within the time limit, all subsequent cases fail and you basically lose the game (although you can keep playing if you want).You kill zombies with a variety of methods; pretty much everything you can find in the Fortune City casinos and malls. One of the game's key elements is the ability to “combine” certain items into different weapons, which will then give you more “prestige points”, which are basically experience points that allow you to level up, increase your attack strength, your life, and so on. Leveling up provides access to combo cards which allow you to create new weapons, as well, and unlocks combat moves.This game has the feel of trying to run through Resident Evil 2 in under two hours so you can get the bonus material; a feel that has been lacking from Resident Evil of late. In fact, this game is more reminiscent of the original Resident Evil than Resident Evil is — right down to too many loading screens (there's my one big complaint — too many damn loading screens).Besides killing zombies and solving case files, Chuck will also run into a variety of psychopaths that he has to take down — basically, bosses. These boss fights are varied, involve the usual use of strategy and tactics, and are generally very good. Some of them can be a bit glitchy, but most aren't.So, to sum up: You hack zombies to pieces using any old thing you can find, you get your daughter her Zombrex once every 24 hours, and you attempt to clear Chuck's name before the military arrives.The time limits imposed on missions may make you feel a little on edge, but that's the point. And the timing is done very well. I've completed many missions with just minutes remaining. If you budget your time well, you will have no problems taking care of business in Fortune City.If you die, you have the option of loading a game from one of only three save slots, or restarting the whole story with your current level.You can also play co-op; although Chuck is the only playable character, you can dress him up in any number of ways to separate yourself from your co-op partner. I've only played a small amount of co-op, but it was very fun.Here's my one big problem with the game. The guide arrow. The guide arrow is used on missions to get you where you need to go. Unfortunately, STUPIDLY, you cannot manually set a waypoint marker for the guide arrow. Of course, some people are going to put this in the, “It's not a bug, it's a feature” category and tell you that Capcom wants you to learn the layout of Fortune City yourself by acquainting yourself with landmarks and such. However, it just leads to a lot of looking at the map, in my opinion.If you're a fan of zombie games, you're going to love this one. Really. I swear. I'm totally in love with it myself, and it has sparked a few of those increasingly rare 8-hour marathon gaming sessions.I'm giving Dead Rising 2 a solid 9.5/10. That's how much I like it.ANOTHER VIEWPOINT:A friend of mine, who played the original Dead Rising, has a few issues with it. First, he claims the setting in Dead Rising 2 is almost exactly the same as the one in Dead Rising. He also firmly maintains that there are still not enough save points. Mainly he's just not that impressed. He told me he would give it an 8.25/10. So there ya go.

3.8.2011

Right first off, I have finished this game probably about 7 times though the story and about 12 times in total, so hopefully I can give you guys an in-depth reveiw here.Because the original Dead Rising was an Xbox 360 exclusive, alot of people may be trying out Dead Rising for the first time with this game. Firstly, there isnt a game quite like it. It mixes sandboxing and keeping to a time limit, and personally i think this works. The game has no auto-save feature which may put some people off but the way the game is constructed to work around a time scale, and being strategic with when and where you consume food to gain health, i also think this works,personally.This game offers many features that i have come to like and i would point out as the pro's:The single player campaign is long and well paced out thanks to the time contraints of missions, and playing through the gam in one playthrough WILL NOT be enough to see it all, This game allows the player to start the game again at any point, whilst still carrying over thier stats, new moves and unlockables to the new game.The charecter, Chuck Greene can be dressed up in many different clothing found around the various shops and casions around the city including super-hero costumes, baseball outfits, dresses, dinosaur masks and hundreds of others.The co-op in this game as been designed to allow a friend t join in as their own version of Chuck, complete with each player being able to have different outfits and weapons. The competative multiplayer is kind of fun, but not as much fun as the single/co-op campaign, but any money earned by playing online can be transferred to a singleplayer save game of the players choice.However as much as i love this game I am well aware of some of the cons:The loading does take quite a while when moving from area to area, upwards of 20-30 seconds sometimes when playing it on Xbox 360, even when installed, and the game may freeze on loading (but i have only ever seen this happen with a badly functioning Xbox 360 console)The save system in general may annoy some people, as forgetting to save at an allocated save point and playing for an age, then dieing, can come at a harsh shock having to do it all again. Saving comes natural after a while anyway.Co-op gameplay, although fun could have been implimented a tad better, forcing the host to go thorough a loading screen when another player joins can be annoying.For fans of the original game, the controls for the seqeul have been completly changed allowing for easier use of guns, throwing items and pulling of the over-the-top melee zombie killing techniqes. No more annoying phone calls to notify of missions as this time around we have little notifications of missions, sort of like texts messages, acessed through the watch menu.Overall i think Blue castle did a good job with re-creating the seris with betters controls and addin the fun co-op experience. If you can get around the little niggles and quirks that this game has, you could get yourself into a very fun and silly zombie killing game, with a good plot to match.

19.10.2010

Picking up several years after the Willamette outbreak, Dead Rising 2 introduces a new protagonist; former motorcycle champion Chuck Greene. During a recent outbreak, Chuck's wife was killed and daughter Katey became infected, meaning life is now a daily struggle to obtain Zombrex, the expensive drug which prevents zombification for 24 hours. Whilst competing in the controversial TV show Terror is Reality to raise money, Chuck finds himself at the centre of a new zombie outbreak in Americas Entertainment Capital - Fortune City.Developer Blue Castle has got the one fundamental nailed; killing zombies is hilariously satisfying. The new ability to combine weapons is also brilliant; chainsaw wheelchairs,assault rifle cuddly toys and pitchfork shotguns add a personal touch to the carnage. Combo cards are collected throughout the game, and as the name suggests, lists the full combination of weapons in the game. The visuals are solid, and the inclusion of an online co-op mode (2 players) and Terror is Reality (4 players) are great additions. Money earned online can be used during the single player adventure, which gives added incentive to compete.The new features are handled confidently and with skill. Yet in other areas, Blue Castle seem terrified of making any decisive changes. The inventory system has been completely overlooked. It still feels like a tacked on afterthought, often leading to the wrong items being used at the worst possible moments. The camera remains cumbersome, and struggles to keep pace during the more frantic encounters. Its full of little glitches, but never game breaking. Combat still involves mashing one button continuously; but like the original its incredibly addictive.The photography aspect is sadly gone. Although this absence is barely noticed, it's a disappointing omission for fans of the original. Psychopaths however, make a triumphant return, and once again prove that in spite of a zombie outbreak, humanity is capable of greater evil. A cannibal chef, a scorned children's entertainer and some delusional magicians all make for chilling, truly memorable encounters.Thankfully, the infamous time aspect has been improved. The original was infuriating in the sense it was far too easy to wander off, making it impossible to reach the next chapter of the story. Coupled with the murderous save system (only one slot), it meant game restarts were frequent and inevitable. The situation is improved with 3 save slots, and a more lenient mission structure.Dead Rising 2 is a fine sequel that improves the more frustrating aspects of the original. The new features really expand the franchise, but it remains a race against time, and a harsh, unforgiving experience.

7.10.2010

I was a big Dead Rising 1 fan, and enjoyed that so obviously i had high expectations for this. They were exceeded, and i LOVE this game, it has improved in every single way from the first.So let me start with the very few negatives:- Long loading screens: At times the game can take a while to load areas up- Lagging Co-Op: It rarely happens, but nonetheless happens, that you have a lagging type of gameplayThe Positives:- Great stroyline: loads of fun missions that make up the storyline with fantastic twists, great graphics, and compelling characters each with a different personality- Epic Weaponry: There are hundreds of different weapons to bludgeon the undead with, ranging from assault rifles and poker tables,

10.1.2011

If it's a zombie game you're looking for then you have found the right game in Dead Rising 2, as this is as true as a zombie game you will find with it's shopping mall setting it's like playing a version of George A. Romero classic film Dawn Of The Dead, lately Zombie's in video games have changed such as the Resident Evil series which doesn't really have zombies any more instead most games now have super zombies, the Dead Rising series has done away with that as most of the time in the games the zombies wander around stupidly and are not strong by themselves however get surrounded by dozens and you're going to be in trouble!You play Chuck Greene who after losing his wife now has to take care

22.2.2011

Considering i had not played number 1 but always loved zombie survival games i wasent sure what to expect but it has good points and bad just like every other game. The good points its ALOT of fun you can use anything in your environment and you can be pretty creative it takes humiliating zombies to a new level. Graphics are good i tried it before and after with a HDMI cable and its amazing either way. controls are easy to use the little online mini games are fun and allow you to earn cash for your main story. The city is pretty big and theres quite abit to explore with about 2000 zombies inbetween you and the nearest door.Also there is alot of side content you dont get to explore to much if you just follow the story line e,g "psychopaths" which are bosses and alot of survivors to escort.

25.9.2010

I'll be honest with you in saying that I have not had so much fun playing a game. Although the premise of a Zombie infestation is utterly horrible, Capcom have fashioned this game into a laugh a minute comedy horror. I normally hate having to repeat levels after getting killed, but this is a total joy as levels never play out the same way twice. The basic premise is that you are in a secure boiler room and can make your way into Fortune City to complete a range of tasks. The joy really begins when you can start to customise weapons and use them. I promise that you will laugh out loud playing this game.One feature that hasn't been mentioned in many reviews is the fact that the online multiplayer allows you to play through a gameshow similar to Gladiators (but with zombies).

21.11.2011

This is a great game. BUT there are some potentially game-breaking issues...1: There is NO way to re-map the keyboard controls in game.This means, unless you know what you're doing a bit, you have to play it right handed - WASD etc.There IS a solution to this based on editting a game file (called something like keymap.txt - google it.)2: This game uses Games for Windows Live - which is only a problem if you DON'T install the game in it's default directory (I, for example put all games in D:/Games/). This means that GFWL cannot update. Which means that your game progress is not saved.SOLUTION: You have to CREATE AN ENTRY IN THE REGISTRY - there is a guide online - google it.Once you sort out

26.12.2010

I'm not a fan of the new flashier games that have been have post 2005. until I saw this advertised. zombies, gore, the ability to use anything as a weapon? it's the perfect recipe for lighter take on what has been wrongly mistaken for 'horror' since 'survival of the dead'but... onto the game itself.after a lengthy (but not too lengthy) opening cutscene you're immediately thrown onto a bike with chainsaws on the side... and placed in a huge arena with loads of zombies. and the hacking and blood-letting begins. some say the story is weak... ok we're not dealing with Silent Hill 2 here or anything, but I think the story of DR2 is there, but it doesn't get in the way of the hacking,

3.10.2010

Fans of the first game, who will be the only ones to understand the title of my review, will love this. Once again you are plunged into hordes upon hordes of zombies, this time as Chuck Greene, a man with a chip on his shoulder and a chin that could carve glass whos not overly fond of our zombie pals. Like in the last game, pretty much anything goes so if you can pick it up you can beat a zombie to death with it but not only that, the new weapon combo system allows you to mix and match weapons so there's even more fun trying to find out what matches so you can create even more carnage and mayhem. The psychopaths return once again with some "interesting" characters to say the least. Also,

4.10.2010

I'v been looking forward to this game since i heard they were making it... which was quite awhile ago. i watched the trialer online as soon as it was released, and it looked like an extremely fun game. Which is exactly what it is! Who wouldn't find it funny to stuff a giant purple elephant on to a zombie? or run through a horde of them with a electric wheel chair? Yes the game is quite violent, but in the funniest way possible.the only downside is the time limits, it's quite hard to manage your time. you end up asking your self whether or not you have enough time to save the short sighted old dear talking to the zombies or whether to let her die because you've got to get back in time to do the next story case.

2.8.2011

First thing i have to say is that this game is brilliant.From the moment you start you're slaying zombies both ease and a twisted smile on you're face.In Dead Rising 2,there is just too many things that you can kill zombies with e.g an infected queen wasp that you squish to make zombies heads explode,i mean come on.Im not complaining though.One of this games strong points is the vast amount of weapons to be used.At first there isn't many zombies to speak of,there is like maybe 20-30 zombies on screen.But by the time you reach the 2nd boss,things are getting hectic and you're almost begging zombies to leave you alone.The really good thing about Dead Rising 2 is that you can combine weapons to

8.9.2011

Just to start off with, this game is not broken in anyway, this is a Games for Windows Live Game which means you need a Games for Windows Live GamerTag just like on an Xbox 360. Also it needs to be updated and have a profile signed in to save any progress. All this might sound daunting but it is very simple. Create an account with Xbox Live, sign in, update and you are on-line 5 mins max if done in the correct way.Please don't pay any attention to the lower star reviewers who could not get the game to work without even contacting the Capcom Tech Support team/even try googling a solution and they are all cries from disgruntled,

7.11.2010

After i ordered this game, i dicided to foresee my expectations by looking at video's etc. By the time it came, WOW .. for the price of £30 -/-, it was very very addicting and the endless opurtunitys kept you coming back for more! By not playing the first one, the only ideas of the game were from videos, but the standard of this game saddens me to say that i did not play the first one :')As you battle through frustrating phychopaths, endless hordes of vicouse blood-sucking zombies and picking up anything your heart desires to defend you and your fellow survivors, there is no way this is less than a amazing well earned 5 stars! Online: Now online is ok,

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