RETAILBIZ: DEAD RISING 2 40 MCV 06/08/10
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Capcom revisits its ultimate zombie horror, giving players more ways than ever to tussle with the undead...
by James Batchelor
EVERYBODY loves zombies, right? The brain-eating freaks of our childhood nightmares have spilled out from the typical horror games and into the likes of Call of Duty, Borderlands and Red Dead Redemption’s DLC. They even trigger all-too-serious water cooler discussions about how each of us would survive a zombie apocalypse. But the one thing the undead really excel at is dying – preferably in the most gory and humiliating way possible. Capcom’s 2007 hit Dead
Rising tapped directly into that as it left players to fend for themselves against a zombie army in a typical American shopping mall. Rather than forcing them through linear chapters against strategically-placed enemies like other horror games, Dead Rising for the
first time gave gamers an open world and a seemingly infinite number of walking cadavers to contend with. The true key to the game’s success, though, was that it allowed players to use anything at their disposal to take out their foes. Absolutely anything: from the usual mix of guns and sporting equipment to petrol-driven lawnmowers and nearby furniture. It was a hugely
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manager Karl Reader. “It surpassed our expectations and established the Dead Rising brand as a must-have game. “Even as an Xbox 360 exclusive, we’ve still exceeded multi-platinum status worldwide. Dead Rising 2 will be the series’ PS3 debut, which will widen the audience even further and take limb dismemberment to an entirely new level.”
Dead Rising 2 will be the series’ PlayStation 3 debut, which will widen the audience even further.
Karl Reader, Capcom
appealing mechanic that elevated Dead Rising above any other survival horror games that had come before. “The original game set the stage for barbaric zombie slaying in a shopping mall,” says Capcom’s UK product
obliterate hordes of the undead. The firm has increased the number and variety of weapons the game’s hero Chuck Green can pick up and, as with the original, these are inspired by the Dead Rising 2’s setting.
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BACK FROM THE DEAD So how will Capcom top this with the upcoming Dead Rising 2? By giving players more. More weapons, more game options, and more ways to
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