Dead Rising 2

"Dead Rising 2" offers more zombie-killing goodness, and is easily picked up by anyone who's played the first game. The game is largely improved, but these improvements have found strange ways of affecting the game as a whole.Like it's predecessor, "Dead Rising 2" has a fairly simple premise: You play as an average character trapped in a mall for 72 hours. Your mission is to fight zombies, rescue survivors, and uncover the plot behind the outbreak. In DR1, you were playing as photographer Frank West. In DR2, the player takes the role of Chuck Greene, a motocross superstar trying to pay for his daughter's anti-Zombie medication. The location is changed from a large shopping mall to "Fortune City", a Vegas-like strip full of casinos, movie theaters, and restaurants, but the basic gameplay is the same: use whatever you can to defeat zombies and save your fellow humans.One of the main differences between DR1 and DR2 is the character's "special ability". In DR1, you played as a photographer, so the player could take pictures to earn experience points. In DR2, you play as a character with a mechanical background, so your special ability is to combine things to form new weapons. Dead Rising had a lot of improvised weapons (basically anything you found in the mall could be picked up and used as a weapon, from park benches to trash cans to handfuls of jewelry), but in DR2 these items can be combined. Some of them are simple (baseball bat + nails = baseball bat with nails in it), some of them are peculiar (jewelry + leaf blower = shotgun-like gem launcher), and some of them are outright insane (it's possible to make a fully-functional lightsaber).Another change from Dead Rising 1 is that the game feels a lot easier overall. The zombies present more of an obstacle, but survivors are much smarter (compared to DR1's survivors, who had to be led around every step of the way) and solving the main plot is pretty hard to mess up. One feature of the Dead Rising games is the fact that you can restart the game with your earned experience. In DR1 this was necessary because it was difficult to beat the game on your first try, because of how much time it took to rescue survivors. In DR2, it's pretty easy to beat it on the first or second try, which sort of cut down on replay value. Dead Rising 2 is full of little changes that make the game a lot more convenient - better AI, easier missions, the radio is less annoying, and so on. The funny thing about this is that while these are all good changes, they almost make the game "too" easy. It's not a bad thing, just a notable change.The graphics are pretty good. There's a wide variety of environments, from shopping areas to different theme casinos, and basically it feels like a place where people would really work and shop (for the most part). This helps drive home the nature of the zombie apocalypse scenario. In competing zombie franchise "Left 4 Dead", many of the environments seemed deliberately made, rather than depicting "actual locations". Dead Rising 2 does a better job at seeming like a real place overrun by zombies.Overall, Dead Rising 2 was a lot of fun to go through. Veterans of the first game may find a lot of stuff familiar (things like which foods restore the most health and so on), but the new combination system will give even the most invested DR1 players something new to experiment with. Those new to the series will be able to spend a few hours trying out different weapons, items, and foods to see what works best for them, as well as exploring the whole of Fortune City. Dead Rising 2 is a game with a lot of meat to it, and is both fun and content-rich.Rating: 9/10.

While it may not have Frank, this game is incredible. It's a shame what happened to the series after this, but at least it had such a high peak!

I just played Dead Rising ,two days ago , I really enjoyed playing it there is never a dull moment But I just purchased part 2 The charicters move the same , Better weapons right from the start and the zombies are faster ....The Action packed game has amazing special effects , more blood , missing limbs ..... IF you liked dead island than you will love this over run game full of nothing but ZOMBIES TO KILL.......... The game is cheap enough for all you zombie lovers to try it .... only 1 down fall ,, the save game is still lame trying to find one between levels and than you die and pow right back at either begining of level or over wrote your last save and start ALL THE BLEEPING WAY BACK TO THE START OF THE GAME !!!!! I say 4 1/2 stars

I started with this game, Dead Rising 2, and got hooked. There are so many different ways to play that it never gets dull. You can do the main storyline, skip it if you choose, only rescue survivors, only defeat psychopaths, or just ignore everything and spend the whole of the game killing zombies. With so many ways to play, this game is well worth the money. If the first Dead Rising bored you, as it did me, don't let that stop you from playing this one. MUCH more fun than the original.

If you enjoyed the last game than you will love this one just as much (if not more). There is a lot of improvements to the game, most importantly the save system. Your now allowed up to 3 saves so you won't have to worry about mistakes. If you haven't played the first, you have a set time to complete all missions and before what ever you did couldn't be changed so you had to be careful with what was one save. The other things are more zombies. There is a lot more! They added a combo system which is like the ability to make weapons like in Fallout 3. There will be certain stations that you can go to in order to make weapons. To make weapons you have to level up or find special cards throughout the game. These weapons allow you to gain experience quicker so you can level up your attributes faster.I won't give away much of the story but your a guy who plays in a game that involves killing zombies in Los Vegas. An outbreak happens and you have to go save your daughter and you end up frame. Your whole mission is to find out why and to try to get out of there. When you do this (like the first) you go do side missions of saving people and come across psychos that are tough enemies that often hold people hostage. It helps boost your experience much faster. Anything in the environment is useful to kill zombies. If you see it than likely you can use it. You all can mix up drinks to boost abilities like move faster and such.I have enjoyed this game a whole lot and recommend it highly. It is very fun, has an interesting story, and the controls work a bit better than the last title. This game surprises me. It is much better than I expected. Right now I am at the last boss encounter and can say that the story has some surprises.