-One man, three days, millions of zombies, and one giant adult playground. This is just a small taste of what Dead Rising 2 is all about. You play as the main character Chuck Greene, an amazing motocross star who participating on a television show called TIR or " Terror Is Reality " , located in Fortune City out side of Las Vegas. Without giving anymore away there is a giant zombie out brake inside of Fortune City. Chuck, who's daughter has been bitten needs a special drug that will stop her from turning into a blood thirsty zombie. Chuck must collect the drug every 24 hour, along with doing side missions and solving the case of how the out brake plagued Fortune City. The story holds itself together well. Although I will say, at times I found it was very predictable.
The gameplay it self runs very smoothly. For the amount of zombies and everything working at once I didn't find very much lag at all, which surprised me. The frame rate was pretty good considering. When it did lag, I didn't feel that it took away from the hardcore zombie smashing experience. Compaired to the original Dead Rising, I found this one to be a little more straight forward on explanation on what to do next. Fighting physcopaths, saving survivors and mowing down zombies like its know big deal. With the games addition of online co-op it only adds to the fun. Although while playing online your game progress does not carry over, which I found disappointing. I think they should have re-thought that, along with adding an option of allowing two player co-op on the same game system.
Graphically the game could be polished up. I found I was noticing blurry an odd images when getting close up to the characters and objects, more or less in the cut-scenes. Besides that everything else looked great. Fortune City really captured the look of Las Vegas. Bight lights, shopping malls, casinos and great prices if you hit the jack pot. The setting where the story takes place was well thought up coming from Dead Risings mega mall. In an addition to the game, you are now able to make combo weapons. This is where you can comb ind two different weapons to make one really destructive one. There are over 40 combo cards in the game that you can create. So be creative when your killing your zombies.
Is it easy to kill the zombies you ask ? Using your weapons is very simple. Picking them up and storing other items while you run around is easyer then I remember in Dead Rising. Anyone can pick up the controller and go to town on mutilating zombie brains. You control the camera, so there is no possible screen where you'll become stuck and be over come by a zombie attack. Sound is a big key, this game delivers the moans and groans. The zombies sound real, along with no music it really sets the mood and tone for the game. The sound effects for all the weapons, items, slot machines, everything sounds very believable. As I said before it really sets the mood for the game. The voice actors seems to fit their parts well, although some times it sounded like the voice clip didn't fit correctly with the other clip. Overall this game was great to play. It has great re-play value and I suggest you pick up a copy soon. Weather you want to save innocent civilians, do the missions or just mowing down zombies this game brings fun to all who play it. There are some minor things that could have been done much better, but overall the game is awesome and should have a spot on your shelf.
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- Brandon B
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