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Dead Rising 2 First-look Preview - PC
- April 30, 2009 13:51 PM PST
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Ever wonder what it's like to stare into the faces of 7,000 flesh-eating zombies?
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14 times the number of zombies than Dead Rising 1, that's the bar for Dead Rising 2 developer Blue Castle Games. "Dead Rising 2 is about more zombies. It is about anything and everything as a weapon. It is about taking the chaos from Dead Rising 1 to just a completely different level," says Dead Rising 2 executive producer and Blue Castle Games CEO Dan Brady.
In a city like Las Vegas, Dead Rising 2's Fortune City is full of cash registers that can be used as a weapon against oncoming zombies. Although you can't see it here, every object in Dead Rising 2 has physics and reacts to being hit or bumped. Also take note of Chuck Greene's jacket - Chuck is an extreme sports fan, and we've yet to learn if this may be his unique quirk like Dead Rising 1's Frank West and his picture taking.
The first look at Dead Rising 2 in action was absolutely jaw-dropping to witness. As Brady played the game, he would pause to say, "Look off in the distance; this is what 1,000 zombies look like in Dead Rising 2." He'd continue to kill dozens of zombies with new weapons such as the paddle saw and drill bucket, and then pause again to hack in more zombies and say, "This is 2,000 zombies on the screen," four times the number of zombies in Dead Rising 1.
By the end of the demo, blood ran red on the main strip of Fortune City as Brady ended the demo by seamlessly loading in 7,000 zombies, chopping his way through the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd of shuffling undead on a dirt bike motorcycle strapped with two chainsaws on the handlebars.
Chuck Greene is a not a touchy, feely kind of guy. So he hates it when zombies get up in his face and will vigorously shake them off to avoid being bitten.
Return of the Rising Dead
Dead Rising 2 takes place after the events of the first game. After the government failed to cover up the Willamette mall zombie outbreak in 2006, exposed by photojournalist Frank West, the undead pandemic spread to Fortune City where extreme sports fan Chuck Greene rises to the heroic challenge amidst the chaos. According to the debut trailer for Dead Rising 2, Chuck is a hardcore sports fan, loving father, occasional gambler, social drinker, music lover, touchy feely, snappy dresser, and a handyman.
In the trailer, each of Chuck's traits are accompanied by a short vignette of things Chuck can do in the game. For example, as a music lover, Chuck swipes at zombies with an electric guitar, smashes zombies with a roulette table as an occasional gambler, and constructs a makeshift paddle saw out of a boat oar and two chainsaws that he uses to row through hordes of undead. "Dead Rising 1 had a really interesting sense of humor," said Brady, "the idea that you could be out there killing zombies in a woman's dress or a Mega Man outfit, for instance." So when it comes to Chuck's snappy sense of fashion, Canadian developer Blue Castle Games decided to put a moose head in the game that Chuck can put on and charge through zombies with the animal's massive antlers.
Spiked propane tanks act like sticky grenades in games like Halo and Call of Duty, but pack a bigger punch. Throw spiked propane tanks at a zombie and kite the walking bomb around until you've amassed a huge following of undead to effectively blow up.
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