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Dead
Rising 2
is far from perfect.
The load times are
excruciating. The
graphics work isn’t
bad, but it’s not
stellar either.
Saving your game and
finding checkpoints
to save your game
can be difficult.
The control system
can be less than fun
when surrounded by a
group of zombies
too. It’s a little
too rudimentary.
That said, for all
it’s problems,
Dead
Rising 2
is still terrific
because it’s
replayability factor
is through the roof
and the concept
behind the game with
all of the fun
elements thrown in
are fantastic.
Dead
Rising 2
isn’t good with the
normal critic
traits- i.e.
graphics, load
times, etc. but it’s
good with the
average gamer on
those traits because
it’s incredibly fun.
In
Dead
Rising 2,
it’s been years
since the last
Zombie outbreak and
Chuck Greene and his
daughter are stuck
in Fortune City
during another
outbreak. Chuck is a
former motocross
champion and zombie
killing machine and
his daughter is
infected with the
Zombie virus, but as
long as she gets
some Zombrex every
24 hours, she’s
fine. Anyway, Chuck
is competing in a
game show to earn
some much-needed
cash. The game show
is
Terror is Reality
and the point of the
show is to kill as
many zombies as you
can in a time limit.
The zombies are
under control by the
show- there’s no
outbreak yet. But
then someone lets
the zombies out of
their cages, frames
Chuck for it and
Fortune City gets
overran by tons of
zombies. To make
matters worse Chuck
now has 72 hours to
get proof that he’s
innocent, keep Katie
safe, and help as
many as the
unaffected as he
can.
The
cool thing about
Dead
Rising 2
and where all the
meat is, would be
the Story mode. You
can do co-op with a
friend who’s just
getting started, but
this is a game
that’s actually more
fun alone. The cool
thing about the
story mode is all of
the different
variables and all of
the different
outcomes that can go
on in the story. You
have a set time of
72 hours to complete
your tasks, and not
everything is going
to get done. You go
through the story
once, then you’ll
find yourself going
through multiple
times wondering what
would happen if you
did this or this.
It’s a cool story
mode and its fun to
play through.
The
frustrating part of
the story mode is
still saving your
game, like it was
with
Dead
Rising.
You have to find a
bathroom to relieve
yourself and save
your game. In the
first game they were
few and far between,
in this game they
are more abundant
but it’s just a
flawed system. There
needs to be an auto
save feature or
something to that
extent, between the
load times when you
do die and between
the save system-
this game needs some
serious work in
continuity. Normally
that’s a
deal-breaker… with
Dead
Rising 2,
the game is fun
enough to make up
for its
short-comings.
Dead
Rising 2
might not be a game
of the year
candidate, but it’s
still remarkably
fun. The story mode
is a mode you’ll
play through more
than once, and
that’s always a win
for a title. Add
that with some cool
multi-player modes
(including co-op and
competing on terror
is reality with
friends) and you’ll
find that
Dead
Rising 2
is a title you need
to look into.
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