DEAD RISING 2.
POSTED BY : DYLAN SCALLY  
DATE : 1st Oct. 2010

INTRODUCTION.

CAMPAIGN.
In the world of Dead Rising 2, there's an activist organization known as CURE that pushes for the humane treatment of the living impaired. If only CURE realized just how much fun it can be to maim, behead, or otherwise plough through hordes upon hordes of the brain-craving zombies. Dead Rising has not changed since the first title was released four years ago, but obviously there's added sugar and spice and a couple of items that may seem not so nice to the Squeamish. Slice Shoot, pummel, punch, chop and drive your way through hordes of zombies.

The Hero is Chuck Greene an ex motor cross champion and now, a contestant of a game show, known as "Terror Is Reality" named. After one show there is somewhat of a zombie uprising. Chuck gets the blame, races through a sea of dead to make it to the safe zone. Chuck's daughter has been bitten in the last outbreak and must be given "Zombrex" in order for her to survive, but she needs a shot every 24 hours. This means you must get out and save people from infection and try and clear your name, there are survivors that carry Zombrex or you can purchase it at a pawn store as well. All this must be done by the time the Army arrive to clear things out and settle things down.

Levelling up in Dead Rising 2 is crucial as some of the moves you learn are important for when you face the bosses are they are Uber Hard to defeat, when you first start off you can jump and kick to knock over the undead, as you go on you can learn curb stomps. By the time you can't level up anymore you will be able to tear limbs off! Dead Rising gives you three days in order to clear your name. This can be looked upon as a hindrance or it can be considered as a great idea adding hours of playing. You can go back again and save someone you missed the last time. Makes you say next time I'll try that. Dead Rising 2 has hours of playback time. You can send thank you letters to Blue Castle. When playing you genuinely try to save Chucks daughter and all the while solve the puzzle as to who has framed him. Some of the voice acting is ropey in some cut scenes but the slow moments make the shocking ones that much more ridiculous, the same can be said about the funny moments.

But unfortunately Dead Rising 2 still suffers slightly on the performance. The frame rate can be slow and the models look a bit block like. The loading is also lengthy as you soldier on through them as you enter a new area. Most of the visuals are sharper and the game does dump a load of zombies on the screen, but the smoothness of the movement does suffer cause of this. Some of the animations are also sacrificed as they look too stiff on the mini-games like poker.

Just like the original, the guide arrow at the top of your screen can be misleading and some boss battles do have the controller squeezing effect. The main enemies have patterned, often at times annoying attacks that will lead to a red face of rage. Again Chuck gets stronger and the boss battles will get easier.