Dead Rising 2

Alright, so I ended up beating Dead Rising 2 last night.  Dead Rising 2 was indeed a thrill ride. For those that have not played Dead Rising 1 or 2 the basic concept is that you are a man trapped inside of a zombie breakout.  You must then navigate through the area your trapped in to complete timed objectives all while killing thousands and thousands of zombies in epic ways.

Dead Rising 2 is all about the former famous BMX rider Chuck Greene and his daughter Katey.  Dead Rising 2 takes place 5 years after the first outbreak of zombies in Dead Rising 1.  The game begins with Chuck competing in a show called Terror is Reality for money.  Terror is Reality is a game show where the contestants must ride around on BMX bikes with chain saws attached to them in order to kill as many zombies as they can in an arena.  This game show takes place in Fortune City, Nevada, a replacement for Las Vegas when it was overrun by Zombies.  After winning the competition you get your money and head back up stairs to meet up with your daughter.  This is when a huge explosion happens and the zombies in the show get released into Fortune City.  Long story short the shit hits the fan extremely quickly and the city is closed off for three days waiting for the military.

The game play is very similar to Dead Rising 1.  You must run around fortune city completing timed objectives both required and non required for the story.  The game is in third person and you can use pretty much anything as a weapon.  There is also a great leveling system in this game as there was in Dead Rising 1 except for the people that liked to take pictures to improve your level in Dead Rising 1 will be disappointed because the camera didn't make a return in Dead Rising 2.  Instead you get all of your experience from killing specific amounts of zombies, completing objectives, doing mini games, killing zombies with crafted weapons or special moves, killing psychos and rescuing survivors.  Whenever you level up you gain hit points, stats, or moves and a combo card.  Now on to the thing that I loved most about Dead Rising 2 that was not in Dead Rising 1 and that is the crafting system.  In Dead Rising 2 there are at least a few hundred weapons  and most of them have a little wrench icon next to it when you see it.  This means that you can combine it with another item to form a combo weapon.  These range from nail spiked bats to an electric wheelchair with machine guns attached to it.  These combo weapons just look and feel epic when killing zombies and I loved finding different combination's of weapons.  Overall in my opinion the gameplay was the best part of Dead Rising 2 and I loved every minute of it.

Dead Rising 2 had a pretty decent soundtrack that includes a few licensed songs and some great music to get you into killing zombies.

In conclusion  I would rate Dead Rising 2 an 8/10 almost everything was perfect except for the story was a little bland for my tastes and I was hoping for a more spread out area like a town.

Thanks again for reading.