If you're an ADD gamer, with a taste for zombies, gore, and mall-rating like myself; then one of your favorite games of the last couple of years was Dead Rising for the Xbox 360. Bringing back the old school arcady feel of a brawler in the vein of your Streets of Rage, and Battletoads style game play rendered in modern day 3D graphics with the additional bonus of a nearly unlimited selection of weapons to tool around as your plowed way through endless hordes of zombies towards your genocidal achievements inspiration would strike in the form of varied household options (or mall-hold if you want to be a dick about it) like using a sprinkler head to impale a zombie's head so you could bathe in their blood.
But there were several questions that you would inevitably ask yourself as you played through the time-restricted variation on the classic hack and slash zombie killing mania: Why can't I duct-tape chainsaws on either end of a mop handle and go at these guys like the star wars kid? Or alternatively: Why can't I paste a couple of chainsaws along the sides of a vehicle and run it through the center of town pretending to be an airplane who's wings are just too stubby to ever take off.
Well those questions were answered earlier today with the posting of a video of game play from the new Dead Rising 2 trailer. There's been speculation as to what they would be adding to the game that would be ramping up the crazy for a second iteration of the now franchise. When you have the ability to run through crowds of zombies with a umbrella plucked from the dinning tables in a mall food court, or the opportunity to dump oil on the floor and watch hilarity as the zombies fall time and time again while making their way towards you while mentally playing "Yakity Saks" in your head, where do you go from there? The answer my friends, came in the form of a moose head.
The trailer does little more that the required service, showing off nothing of the games story or plot for the second incarnation, but does do a great job of teasing new weaponry and the new locale. It appears as though the age old question of "We've shot a zombie movie/game within a mall where to now?" has been answered by a change of scenery to what would appear to be a Vegas-esque location, the majority of the game shown in the trailer would lead us to believe the game will now be back dropped by a giant casino. Personally I couldn't be any more excited for this game, and I hope they drop a demo ASAP so I can get my greedy little zombie-blood stained mitts on it before the release date, I wait on the edge of my seat with bated breath for the day when I have my chance at a rampage with the little airplane that couldn't through the winds of the casino floor.
Also, there is co-op. If you feel your head spinning feel free to take a seat, you just had your mind blown!
[Video Posted by Shogun Member Ghetto Sithlord]
If he gets a t-shirt for a byline, then I demand a mug!
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It's trapped in the future! This is the one time I actually need Stupa to login and provide a back to the future reference. I'll try and get a hold of him. lol
Awesome vid,it reminds me of State of Emergency for the PS2.The game is looking good and fun to play.
I'll be interested the type of multiplayer they will have for this title. They need to have co-op but something tells me that they wont
I want some sort of Zombie vs. 1 guy MP mode. give me 41 zombies and 1 human character who needs to survive and that'll become the ultimate game for hilarious griefers.
I'm very interested to see if they pull off their past claims of having 6,000 zombies on the screen at once. Hell, if they get 1000 I'll be impressed.
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