Dead Rising 2
Game » consists of 18 releases. Released Sep 02, 2010
Dead Rising 2 is a third-person action-adventure survival horror game that takes place five years after the end of the original Dead Rising, moving its zombie apocalypse setting into the glamorous Fortune City.
How is the multiplayer?
A fun little diversion. It's not meant to last you all that long, and it's main focus is filling Chuck's pockets with sweet, sexy cash! It can also unlock you some nifty threads for Chuck too so I'd advise you definitely try and least win yourself a match.
As for how it works; it's like a small point based tournament where you go through four rounds, the first three are random minigames from around 7 while the 4th is always you on a chainsaw equipped motorbike tasked with chewing through as many zombies as you can.
The GameTrailers review was very harsh. They went as far to say it's not worth the time it takes to load it, but I think that is wrong. It's not the most engrossing experience but you get to play a couple of randomly selected minigames in the framing of the Terror is Reality gameshow against 4 other players. You get points for each round, person with the most points after 4 rounds wins and everyone's points at the end gets converted in to money. The games are short and have some nice variety. You won't play it much but you don't need to. It's just a nice way to earn some money for the single player campaign.
It's fun to see all the games once, suck at them while you figure out what to do, then play them all once again and do much better. They're not particularly deep, but they will amuse you for an hour or two at least. Plus, you get MAD BILLZ. For, you know, buying mooseheads and stuff.
Cool, seems positive for a small time waster.
What about the co-op? Any lag issues? Anything interesting to do in there other than having just a partner to murder zombies with?
@SlashseveN303: Yes, as much as I wanted to title the thread this, I unfortunately think the joke is maybe getting a little too played out.
The main issue with co-op was that no one wants you to join. I would have thought that they would just put their settings on private or friends only, but it seems everyone's too lazy to change it and decline your offer to join.
I got one guy to join my game by luck and I had quite a bit of fun, actually. The boss fights were less annoying and escorting a larger number of survivors was made easier. I didn't have any conection issues, but I could've been lucky since that was the one time I ever got to experience co-op.
Multiplayer is decent except that one minigame where you have to press as many of the buttons shown on screen faster than your opponent(s). It helps a lot for unlocking the extras in the story (I got up to $65,000 from one full match).
It's fun and I hope it will be TNT at some point, even if it's just an hour and split with another game, it's kinda fun and the commentry is great. It's also handy to get some quick money for your first playthrough, my best was $102,000 in a game, but that all becomes useless once you cheat the slot machines and make millions.
Anyways, I placed 3rd in my first and only match and received $52K in prize money. I might do it again just so I can make it easier to get some Zombrex for Katey and whatnot in the single-player.
" @Sorrowsan: Yes, there are a few achievements that require you to be in co-op even. Also, I think I got the 500 zombies killed achievement while in co-op if that's what you're asking. Anyways, I placed 3rd in my first and only match and received $52K in prize money. I might do it again just so I can make it easier to get some Zombrex for Katey and whatnot in the single-player. "Check my stickied tips thread for a way to make millions of dollars much more effectively than playing TIR.
@dexterslu said:
" I keep getting into matchs and people keep quitting, do I still get the credit for this or do I have to actually COMPLETE an entire episode of the show? "As far as I know you still get your money if players quit.
Yeah it's tough to tell, I had an entire game get disconnected but to I am really enjoying the multiplayer. I think it's a perfect compliment to the single-player game, it's an incredibly smart implementation of something that makes total sense, really cool game design going on in a game that normally is known for it's ass backwards game design.
@dexterslu said:" I keep getting into matchs and people keep quitting, do I still get the credit for this or do I have to actually COMPLETE an entire episode of the show? "As far as I know you still get your money if players quit.
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