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Dead Rising 2

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Dead Rising 2

Rating: 4.1 (82 votes cast)

Note: Not available in Germany, Japan or Korea!

The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground. Featuring a new story, two online multiplayer modes (2-player co-op campaign and a 4-player “TV show” themed Pay-Per-View event that pits humans against zombies), thousands of on-screen zombies and more, Dead Rising 2 takes zombie survival horror to a whole new level.  As Chuck Greene, you have 72 hours to save your infected daughter, clear your name and survive the hordes of hungry zombies before the military comes in and nukes the city.  To ensure your survival, you can combine everyday objects to create numerous deadly combo weapons and slaughter the ravenous zombies.  Dead Rising 2, it’s where Creativity Kills. 

Key features:

  • Sequel to the critically acclaimed and 1 million+ selling Dead Rising:  Dead Rising 2 is bigger and better in every way, adding new custom combo weapons, multiplayer and thousands of zombies on-screen at once!
  • Thousands of Zombies On Screen: The undead are everywhere creating a dynamic and challenging zombie-killing experience for the player as weapons will be created to kill massive amounts of zombies at one time! 
  • Combo Weapons: Players can combine two everyday items using duct tape to create the ultimate zombie killing creations such as the Portamower and Paddlesaw. Unlocking combo cards along the way will give players the advantage as the helpful cards will show you what items are best for combining.  
  • New Storyline and Characters:  A new protagonist, Chuck Greene, must save his infected daughter, clear his name, and survive 72 hours in Fortune City.
  • 2-Player Co-Op: Online co-op play is introduced to the Dead Rising universe for the first time as players can invite their friends to partner up with them at any time to take on the zombie massacre- tag-team style! Killing zombies with a friend is always more fun!  
  • 4-Player Terror is Reality: 4 players compete in a gladiator type TV show named Terror Is Reality that pits zombies against a group of players in the ultimate Vs. multiplayer blood bath

 

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Dead Rising 2 review

By trusteft posted 14th April

It's Dead Rising 1, only now also for the PC. More of everything, only this time with a different protagonist. Kill an insane amount of zombies, in a huge number of ways with everything you can find or built in the game. Perform your main missions and side missions in a long enough, very very fun third person action shooter game. If you like killing zombies, you will love this one.

Dead Rising 2 review

By iamkyo90 posted 18th February

No está mal, al igual que el otro dead rising, hace renegar renegar en windows 7 con el tema del sonido. Un error grave a estas alturas.

Dead Rising 2 review

By CitizenGoat posted 23rd September 2011

Really entertaining game, if you're fan of zombies and/or free roaming sandbox-ish games, then you will love this game. It's not perfect and it can get repetitive pretty fast even with multiple endings and the multi-player mode is dead, almost void of players but these flaws doesn't stop this game from being really fun and I don't regret the purchase.

Technically speaking it's very well optimized, and there isn't any framerate issues even when you're facing an ocean of zombies...

Dead Rising 2 review

By Daykain posted 2nd August 2011

Excellent zombie game and looks great in 3D! Love the mix of quests and zombie killing. Be aware you always need to watch the time and it is tough to do all the quests since time will run out. The boss fights are pretty fun as well requiring different tactics. Weapons will degrade over time as well so keep a lookout for items to collects to make the weapons.

Dead Rising 2 review

By Pjotr84 posted 23rd July 2011

Dead Rising 2 revolves around Chuck Greene, a competitor in a live broadcasted zombie-killing game Terror Is Reality (TIR), who is wrongly blamed for the zombie outbreak in Fortune City, the city he was competing in a TIR event. Together with other survivors of the outbreak Chuck tries to clear his name and find the people who framed him, while also keeping his daughter Katey, who was bitten by a zombie, supplied with Zombrax, a kind of medicine that keeps her from turning.

The story in Dead Rising 2 is fairly simple and is portrayed clearly, with the help of frequent cutscenes. In between the story missions there's enough to do: Gambling, rescuing other survivors, gambling, collecting certain kinds of items and, of course, hunting for Zombrax. The mini-bosses, who have to be beaten sometimes in order to rescue survivors, all have their own little backstories and are designed well.

The game also features a co-op and multiplayer mode. The co-op campaign is really fun to go through with a friend and is certainly a lot easier than doing the campaign by yourself. The online part only has a TIR mode, in which you compete against others in different zombie-killing events. Unfortunately there aren't a lot of people playing this game online anymore.

Dead Rising 2 unfortunately suffers from some frequent and long loading in between parts of the world and you may find the controls a bit sluggish at times, but that's pretty much all I can criticise the game for. I certainly don't regret buying the game, but I do think it's a shame Capcom didn't release the prologue and epilogue of DR2 for the PC.

Dead Rising 2 review

By myst1cus posted 17th May 2011

An excellent addition to the Dead Rising franchise, it's essentially the same core game as the original with a lot of the major bugs and annoyances ironed out. For instance, survivors no longer are completely terrible liabilities and the zombie AI seems to focus on you more, making escort missions much less stress inducing that the first game.

Everything else is just better than the first game, the combat flows better, the graphics are better, the story is better, the save game locations are better. The core game has remained, for the most part, unchanged save for the abandonment of the photo-journalism 'ability' of the first game in favor of the 'fashion crazy weapons out of everything' system of Dead Rising 2.

The only real complaint that I have are that loading screens are a bit long, but still better on PC than the console alternatives and the controls take a little getting used to.

By ecliptic posted 28th January 2011

Great game, and well worth the discounted purchase price I paid. Similar in many ways to the first game, but significantly less difficult. While this has a double-edged sword, as I appreciated the nerve-wracking gameplay of the first, this also serves to reduce the frustration. I never had a survivor die on me though (unless I accidentally killed them myself) so this did take a little away from the game. It's also far easier to gather most of the survivors and save them your second run than it appeared to be in the first one. The boss battles can be quite difficult until you deduce a few tricks to put up your sleeves too, but playing these in co-op mode can make them easier.

Regarding the technical merits of the port, it's a very well optimized port that runs quite well. Some aspects of the port do come off as lazy though, as I was unable to get my gamepad working (before installing x360ce) since it appears they only support wired 360 controllers.

The competetive multiplayer component is also rather unimpressive, and it can often take an hour or so for you to find three others to get matched up with. It's likely something you'll try once and never go back to (assuming you can find opponents).

Great buy all around, lacks some of the charm of the first, but makes up for it in great amounts of gory visceral gameplay. Give this a go.

Dead Rising 2 review

By mhofever posted 3rd October 2010

Dead Rising 2 is one of those games make you feel like you can do anything in the game. That is of course anything in Fortune City. Majority of the objects you see around you can be used as a weapon against the zombie horde. Zombie Horde? Yes, that's right! Over 1000 zombies generate right in front of your screen.

You've never seen enough zombies till you play Dead Rising 2. It's a playground of slaughter ready for you to cause more chaos. Humiliate zombies, utterly slaughter them, take them for a ride on a wheelchair.

Combine weapons to make more awesome weapons and see it's effect.

The game has some sort of RPG elements because you have a level system and each level rewards you with either health, increased movement speed, new combat skills and combo cards. Also, you can run into stores and change your clothes into 'ANY' clothes.

The best thing about this game is that you can enjoy it with a friend. I'd highly recommend playing co-op since boss battles are dead hard unless you mastered Dead Rising 2 and can solo them. Yes, the game is a single-player but boss battles scream out for you to complete them with a friend.

Grab a spiked bat and join the fun!

Dead Rising 2 review

By Goergyboy posted 1st October 2010

Dead Rising 2 is much like, not surprisingly, the first one. You end up with a hoard of zombies and psychopaths whom you have to defeat in many amusing and often comical ways. There is no camera this time, but the escorting and hats remain.

Single player is what you would expect, you vs countless zombies in a story set with time constraints. You wont be able to do nearly everything in the first playthrough, and probably not the second, but the clock can give one quite a rush especially when you have to go get zombrex, the amazing cure that only lasts 24 hours.

Online is a fun American Gladiators themed 4 part event, in which ranked also gives prize money which can be used in single player. Though ranked the events are fun and online isn't as frustrating as one would think. From catching a zombie on a pole, to chucking zombies onto a scale with antlers, to the finale slicycles. It is all quite enjoyable, though it can be challenging to get a game started and not drop connection.

There's also co-op, which I have not tried yet though it's good to know the option is there.