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Dead Rising 2 to appear next at Tokyo Game Show
Dead Rising 2 was absent from E3 due to concerns over the infamous Swine Flu. So, the next logical place it would show up would be PAX, right? Nope, it seems that Dead Rising 2 will in fact be absent from PAX just as it was E3 with its next public showing slated for the Tokyo Game Show set to take place in September.
Joystiq proceeded to contact a Capcom representative for comment but all they got in return was to look out for the game during the Tokyo Game Show. Bummer.
Dead Rising 2 will be out for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC on March 21st, 2010.
Dead Rising 2 Details
With every video game company releasing gobs and gobs of information at E3 there’s dozens of games to look at, but one title that has hardcore gamers excited is Dead Rising 2. The original had a compelling storyline that offered a lot of challenge balanced by a lot of fun using anything and everything on hand to dispatch hordes of slavering undead. We already knew that despite Frank West’s heroic attempts to stop the impending zombie apocalypse the outbreak wasn’t contained to the Midwestern town, with continued outbreaks of zombies across the USA.
One of the outbreaks strikes in Fortune City, essentially a fictionalized version of Las Vegas. The protagonist is Chuck Greene, former Motocross champion and single father who dotes on his daughter Katey. Since her mother is dead, this is likely to be the main plot hook of the game, with Greene working his way through the city in an attempt to rescue his daughter and then help her escape.
As before you’ll be utilizing anything and everything to slaughter your way through hordes of zombies, hordes that promise to be even greater than the original due to upgrades in the engine that’ll allow huge numbers of undead to be on the screen with very little frame drop.
New Dead Rising 2 trailer
Capcom has showcased a new trailer for the upcoming survival horror title Dead Rising 2. If you’re preparing for a bunch of new media for the game, don’t expect it at E3 due to the swine flu scare, so you better enjoy the video for what it’s worth.
Dead Rising 2 will be out for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC sometime next year.
Swine Flu forces Dead Rising 2 to skip E3
It’s rather ironic that a Zombie game would miss an event because of a real world pandemic, or at least, “concern”. Nevertheless, the Japanese government’s international travel restrictions due to the Swine Flu forces parts of the Capcom team to skip this year’s E3, thereby canceling the showing of Dead Rising 2.
Capcom will still be showing some of their other titles at E3, with the exception of Dead Rising 2, since the Japanese team won’t be able to make it.
Dead Rising 2 to have 6,500 more zombies than the first
Sure, 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 zombies.
During a recent presentation featuring Dead Rising 2, Capcom exec Keiji Inafune explaied to us how the first game’s engine was only capable of rendering 500 zombies on the screen at once. This may seem like a lot but for the second game, Capcom set their sights much higher:
“With Dead Rising 1 we got 500 zombies, but with DR2 we have 7,000, so we could have done much better the first time”, Mr. Inafune was quoted to say
7,000 zombies on the screen at once, a bit overwhelming, don’t you think? Not to Inafune; while he knows that ridiculous amounts of zombies won’t necessarily make the game better, it opens up a whole new ball park in terms of destruction:
For example, in Tokyo subway it gets very crowded with many people. Imagine getting onto a bike in Tokyo subway with two chainsaws attached to it and cutting through all those people, it’s just something that feels really damn good!
Let’s just hope he was using this as an example for what is to come in Dead Rising 2 and not a look into his sick and twisted fantasies.
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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.
Dead Rising 2 Multiplayer Not Confirmed Yet
The internets went into hyperventilation mode earlier today when word came up that Dead Rising 2 would feature multiplayer.
This came from a GDC presentation of the game by Mental Images product manager Laura Scholl who inadvertently confirmed that multiplayer modes would be present in the game.
If that were true, it would be a first for the series, as the original Xbox 360 game and its Wii remake do not feature any sort of multiplayer. However, it’s not, as Laura Scholl actually meant to say “multiplatform” and not “multiplayer”, Joystiq reports.
Meanwhile, Capcom is playing it cool, pointing out that the game is still in its early stages when asked about possible multiplayer support.
Capcom Chief: Lost Planet and Dead Rising Sequels Next Year
While the existence for Lost Planet 2 and Dead Rising 2 was known for quite some time now, up until now no release date was given. That silence has been broken quite unexpectedly by Capcom US chief Chris Kramer, who confirmed that the games are set for release in 2010.
“Capcom’s kind of on a 30-year high right now,” he said, speaking in the latest Major Nelson podcast.
“It’s a pretty amazing place to be, between everything we’ve got going right now, between the launch of Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5, and our big titles for next year, Lost Planet 2 and Dead Rising 2.”
Capcom’s official stance is that of “we haven’t announced a date yet”, but seeing as how this comes from a rather credible source, it simply cannot be disputed.
2010 can’t come soon enough!
Capcom Confirms Dead Rising 2
Zombies are incredibly popular lately. It might be in part that of all the archetypal horror monsters they have by far the largest horror to cost ratio. Get some extras, pillage a thrift store for expendable clothing and add creepy makeup and gallons of fake blood. Instant creep-out. It comes as no surprise then that Dead Rising is getting a sequel.
It is set in the aftermath of the events in Willamette. Unfortunately the zombie outbreak wasn’t entirely contained so the game begins years later in a world where zombie outbreaks continue to crop up. The game is set in the ‘gambling paradise’ of Fortune City and will of course feature hordes of zombies (tens of thousands according to the press release) and even more items that can be used as weapons. A handful of screenshots have been released and it seems that there’ll be a new, sandier-haired and camera-less protagonist.
The sequel is being developed in partnership with Canadian studio Blue Castle Games. Working along with them will be members of the original Dead Rising team including Keiji Inafune who is the producer on the project. The title will be going multiplatform with it being released for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Dead Rising 2 sneak peek?
Now you’re going to have to take this with a grain of sand as it’s not been confirmed if this is actually Dead Rising 2 or not. Although speculation circulating the internet says there is a pretty good chance that this is in fact the game.
Anways, take a look at it while you can because if it is real it will probably be removed as the hype builds. And damn, Capcom really loves their zombies.
Official: Dead Rising 2 in Development
A sequel to the beloved zombie bashing title Dead Rising has been confirmed to be in development at Blue Castle, a Vancouver-based studio.
Eurogamer cites an anonymous source inside the studio, noting that “everyone’s really excited… it’s been hard to keep quiet, but they can’t wait to show off the game.” He wouldn’t offer a date for the public unveiling, though.
The original Dead Rising was released back in 2006 to both critical and commercial success on the Xbox 360. Capcom recently announced a Wii version of the game and has suggested that more titles are in development.