Quick Look: Dead Rising 2

I've played this for a while and I can say im likin' it, I mean I had some trouble getting into the first one - but the sequel remedied the most I had trouble with. I was also ready for what I was getting into on this one so that made me more prepared to play this, and its required to have some knowledge of what the deal is with the game to really enjoy it - hence you get to restart the story with all your current character progress (lvl, combo cards). 
All in all its a really good dead rising, I say dead rising because zombie game would be too generic for a game like this - it is completely unique in its own way. 
 
Either you hate it or you love it.  
 @StaticVoidMain: 
Well, if you take some time to explore you would eventually find usefull stuff against the mercs, like combinations of various items to make projectile weapons - or perhaps the 50. cal sniper rifle in the gun shop, also you can combine stuff WITH some weapons to make them better. I breezed through this mission using my knowledge of the game and really it requires you to take some time to figure out your gameplan.

edit: Also I found it waaay more fun playing on pc. But thats my personal preference with this specific game.

Never played the first, 'cause I don't have a 360, but I'll give this one a shot.  I'm apparently one of the few people around who isn't in the least sick of zombies.  Hell, I even have fun with Zombie Apocalypse, and I'm sure this is an overall better game.

" Well im not sure if i should see this QL...It would probably make me shout at the screen down the line (hello Case Zero QL i am looking at you) then again Jeff and Ryan are at the helm...so it's wont be as bad but it also looks like its managing to give a bad impression, to which i say boo. It amazes me to see so many people who have not played DR before, i remember the first being insanely popular but i guess i was living in the clouds or something.  Anyway i love it, and my complaints are all spoilers so im zipping it. "

I wanna get this game but I dunno seeing Jeff play is kinda unselling it to me...

Do they have a weapon like the Mannequin Torso that totally kills everything? In the first Dead Rising, the Mannequin Torso DESTROYED bosses. It took so much health with each hit. It was ridiculous (but useful).

Wait, what? There was nothing that would automatically end the game in the first Dead Rising. 

The game looks pretty fun!

I've been waiting for this.

" @valentin_rad said:

" @StaticVoidMain: Don't forget about the ridiculously hard Boss battles. I've played games that on the hardest difficulty are way easier than beating this game's cannibalistic chef Antoine. How can someone take 200 bullets from a machine gun, several sword swings, multiple spears and still have 90% health left? "

I went and got Jasper first and gave him a merc assault rifle.   Made that fight pretty trivial for me, even without the leadership book. "

got it a couple of days ago and hot dam i love that game :)   - and yea for the bosses just make sure u got good weapons like the lightsabre and lots of orange juice :)

The game not forcing you to do all missions makes me interested, i still don't care for the whole "beat the clock" gameplay, i like to have fun in my games.. i might pick it up on craigslist in a week once people beat it and start selling it for 40$

A lot of game mechanics in this look so incredibly outdated. I'm sure it's a blast but things like the constant timer, the fact that your weapons break super-quickly, all the escort missions, slow moving character and so on really makes me not want to buy it. If they fixed things like that and made it more.. streamlined isn't the word for it, but it'll suffice. I'm sure it would've been more interesting to me, personally.

" @Death_Burnout said:

" Well im not sure if i should see this QL...It would probably make me shout at the screen down the line (hello Case Zero QL i am looking at you) then again Jeff and Ryan are at the helm...so it's wont be as bad but it also looks like its managing to give a bad impression, to which i say boo. It amazes me to see so many people who have not played DR before, i remember the first being insanely popular but i guess i was living in the clouds or something.  Anyway i love it, and my complaints are all spoilers so im zipping it. "

same here. i always thought that the first one was suuuuper popular. weird. also i'm not sure if i want to watch this.  but probably i will because i'm driving around in a SUV trying to get the 72k achievement :d oh and seriously people stop complaining about the boss fights. they're really easy. you just have to be patient and well equiped (i'm looking at you boxing gloves+bowie knife/baseball bat+nails). "

that is one boring looking game.

The game doesn't end if you fail a story mission. 
 
You can ignore the story and just fuck around if you want.

" @Azteck: Breaking weapons aint a bad thing in my view, its what makes a lot of the weapons fun to use, like smashing wooden chairs...sure it is annoying with valuable weapons, but there are books to make them last 3 times longer etc. 

Watching these long load times (and loading time for menus lol) made me glad that I have the PC version. Also, I'm sure someone will figure out a way to mod the game, on the PC version, so that you can play it without the time limits (kind of like Inifinity Mode, but without the constant health drain).

" The game doesn't end if you fail a story mission.  You can ignore the story and just fuck around if you want. "

I 1000-pointed the original game.  This one is just too much of the same thing for me to pay as much as I did for the first one.

Kinda sucks this game has the exact same problems I hated the original for, if they had actually made a good sequel instead of essentially the same game with some slight tweaks I would have bought it day 1.

" @faustyn said:

" @Death_Burnout said:

" Well im not sure if i should see this QL...It would probably make me shout at the screen down the line (hello Case Zero QL i am looking at you) then again Jeff and Ryan are at the helm...so it's wont be as bad but it also looks like its managing to give a bad impression, to which i say boo. It amazes me to see so many people who have not played DR before, i remember the first being insanely popular but i guess i was living in the clouds or something.  Anyway i love it, and my complaints are all spoilers so im zipping it. "

same here. i always thought that the first one was suuuuper popular. weird. also i'm not sure if i want to watch this.  but probably i will because i'm driving around in a SUV trying to get the 72k achievement :d oh and seriously people stop complaining about the boss fights. they're really easy. you just have to be patient and well equiped (i'm looking at you boxing gloves+bowie knife/baseball bat+nails). "

I watched it, it wasn't bad at all. 
 
Jeffs problems so far are true though, but the resetting of things per load screen is a life saver for obvious reasons. at least this time you dont have the 3 dudes in the jeep constantly making your life a misery in the park like last time, the mega buster would clear that up nicely though! :D
 
The boss fights aren't exactly great though...but for nearly every one, i used my witts with combined weapons (which i had a ton of fun making them on my own) and felt super proud for defeating them, which i guess is a good thing. There were 2 fights i will not spoil that i had to use a guide though... "

Nice quick look and it confirmed that I like the idea of Dead Rising, but the game isn't really all that fun. I'll most likely pass on this but I appreciate that it exists.

great QL, I just wish they made the hacker, that axe + sledgehammer is awesome backflipping headless zombies FTW!

I think the fact you have to go to the maintenance rooms to make weapons is really the deal breaker for me.  That's just too annoying.

 There are still just some simple things that would make things less annoying like item storage, a sandbox mode for screwing around, or more usable map / guide arrows.  But really, improved survivor behavior and multiple save slots solves most of the problems without just making an entirely different game. 
 
I would be interested for someone to take the DR engine/concept and make a standard sandbox / open world game though.  Some of the survivor / plot elements would have to be changed a ton, but it could work very well if done right. 
 
The Jeff/Ryan ironic detachment and lack of excitement really bummed me out for this quick look though.

Duct tape can make anything better.

good running man reference there ryan

Too little too late.  Maybe if this had come out a few years ago people would still remember the first game and want a sequel, but for a game to be practically identical to the first game that came out 5 years ago, it just seems thrown together.
 
I'll wait for the bargain bin, which will be fairly soon.

Drinking an entire pot of coffee in under two hours will guarantee maximum PP.
 
I know this from personal experience.

This games awful 

On my third playthrough now, giving that Platinum trophey a long hard thinking about.... 73,000 zombies is rather alot.

" Wait, what? There was nothing that would automatically end the game in the first Dead Rising.  "

No freakin' way!  MY name is Sven.  Fifteen seconds of Internet fame begins.....at around the 1:00 mark.

" No, you wouldn't use vodka to make a molotov.
Nor would you use whiskey.
Neither are flammable.
 
You use gasoline. Whiskey and Vodka don't work. "

I like the darkness of the blood uh uh uh uh uh

Case 0 and The Cranberries are awesome. Can't wait to sink my teeth into this game. Great QL.

Wow, they even reuse the music from the first game.  Awful.