Dead Rising 2 is official!

[abundant]

London – February 9, 2009 - Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today confirmed that Dead Rising 2 is in development for three different gaming platforms: the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment's PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) and the PC.

The sequel to the 1.5 million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 will take the franchise to a new level of zombie-killing fun with tens of thousands of zombies, the all new gambling paradise of Fortune City to explore and conquer plus a host of new in-game objects that can all be used as deadly weapons to stave off the zombie assault.

Dead Rising 2 is set several years after the infamous zombie invasion of Willamette. Unfortunately, the zombie virus was not contained at the conclusion of Dead Rising, spreading unchecked throughout the United States and Dead Rising 2 depicts a country where zombie outbreaks continue to strike.

Dead Rising 2 is being developed in partnership with up and coming Canadian developer Blue Castle Games. A number of members from the original Dead Rising team will be working alongside Blue Castle Games throughout the development process, including Capcom's global head of research and development, Keiji Inafune, who as the game's Producer will play an active role in the project.

Released in 2006, Dead Rising won praise across the globe for its mix of intense zombie action and dark humour, garnering numerous awards including IGN's "Most Innovative Design for Xbox 360", Gamespot's "Best Action-Adventure Game" for 2006 and "Action Game of the Year" at the 2006 Spike TV Video Game Awards.

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Edited February 9, 2009 by abundant

[TKz]

PLAYSTATION 3! GOD YES, GOD YES, GOD YES!

This and Gears of War are the only things that make made me wish I'd bought an X-Box 360.

Bootleg trailer for the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d87f8pqEsU8

I'm cannot wait for this, I love all things Zombie related and I will be buying this the day it comes out.

[Ruki]

Sweet deal, but is that Frank? Hard to tell from the screens...kinda looks like him, but at the same time...

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Here's hoping you'll actually be able to read the darn on screen text this time around.

I didn't LOVE the original like a lot of people, some controls were awkward and the combat could have been better, but it was fine and I'll probably check this out.

[King Ellis]

Co-op please.

[Universal]

Dead Rising was a very unpolished game, but I do remember thinking it would make a great sequel (as long as they improve on the original and don't just change the setting and add a few extra elements).

[Maxx]

Co-op please.

True that.

For me, no co-op = no buy

[zero]

It doesn't look like you're Frank in this game, which is fine. New city, new game, new character.

Glad it's coming out and I'm glad PS3ers get to join in on the fun.

[The Kraig]

As long as they fix all of the first game's failings, I'm in. I still haven't completed Dead Rising because it was just so dumb.

[King Ellis]

Do you class those failings as 'bad save system' and 'dumb friendly AI' like most other critics?

[The Kraig]

That. And the retarded superhuman bosses. I don't care who you are, getting shot in the face over a hundred times should by golly kill you~!

[King Ellis]

Eh, I think being able to save anywhere would remove a lot of the tension. And it's a mall full of zombies, you're not gonna have some old biddy suddenly become Rambo and want to run through the horde with guns blazing or 2x4 swinging.

[SRN]

The first one was great, and for some odd reason I never encountered any of those discussed glitches. After about two tries of shooting the bosses, I just said "fuck this!" and smacked in the gob with the sledgehammer. That got them down pretty quick. But yes if the failings (horrible save systema and annoying AI) Dead Rising 2 is going to be fucking awesome.

[Cactus Drags]

I swear I'll get Dead Rising back and finish it, just as soon as I finish Skate, and PoP and Burnout and Gears 2 and Pure and Saints Row 2 and...you get the point.

I loved the first one, but I just couldn't get very far. At all. Ever.

[SRN]

It is sad that I've completed it at least three times?

Edited February 9, 2009 by Al SRNow

[zero]

I've been wanting to go back through it again to get some of the more ridiculous achievements, but there's just so much shit to do in that game that it's a bit daunting.

[SRN]

I tried to get that achivement where you have to kill a thousand zombies with your bare hands. So I kill a 1000 zombies and.. no achivement. How do you get that one again? Do you need to have an empty inventory? Not use your special abilities?

Edited February 9, 2009 by Al SRNow

[King Ellis]

I tried to get that achivement where you have to kill a thousand zombies with your bare hands. So I kill a 1000 zombies and.. no achivement. How do you get that one again? Do you need to have an empty inventory? Not use your special abilities?

Like it says, bare hands, nothing selected in your inventory. It helps if you get a certain magazine that increases your strength with your bare hands. Then it's a case of kicking some ass.

[SRN]

I did it with bare hands, when I say inventory I mean the likes of apples and coffee creamer and whatnot that give you health. If I cannot even use that how the hell am I supposed to kill a thousand zombies bare handed?!

[Johnny Latino Heat]

Never did finish the 1st, since I can't read the freakin' assignments

Still will pick this up for the PC, probably.