Dead Rising 2 Has Multiplayer
Clearing confusions, rumors and the like, Capcom officially confirmed that Dead Rising 2 has online multiplayer.
"Rest assured we are going to put multiplayer in the game," said Capcom development head Keiji Inafune during a recent press event. "I can’t go into specifics about what type of multiplayer as that directly relates to some of the game systems that we don’t want to talk about at this event. It will be online multiplayer."
He noted that “single-player alone is not going to cut it,” adding that “we’re at a point in game history that you need to have some form of multiplayer component in a game.”
In development at Blue Castle, the zombie-killing simulation lets players take out zombies using guitars, animal heads and whatever they can find near their hands. It’s due out sometime next year on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
April 28th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
[...] Capcom has officially confirmed that the availability of the Dead Rising 2 online multiplayer mode. For your info, the game allows players to take out zombies using guitars, animal heads and whatever they can find near their hands. The Dead Rising 2 online multiplayer will be released sometime next year on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. [DigitalBattle] [...]
April 28th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
[...] we learned that Dead Rising 2 would be getting a multiplayer component but what we really care about are the zombies and more importantly, how we take care of those [...]
April 28th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
In todays gaming industry, why would a game having multiplayer be big news? Mainly because some game developers have no vision for the future.
Back in the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, there were several huge games that were released, but lacked multiplayer, or lacked a good quality multiplayer. One example of this was Diablo II and Sacred. Both games were between good and great. But Sacred lacked a quality multiplayer version. When Diablo II players tried Sacred, there was just something missing. And that something was multiplayer.
Any game that does not have a solid multiplayer side will fall to the wayside. And the developers need to realize that.