| Dead Rising 2 doesn't have much of a connection with the original -- different main character, less of a story-driven campaign, bigger emphasis on creativity. It's still a lot of fun.
The portion I played puts you in the middle of a Vegas-like strip full of bright lights and ugly zombies. You have ten minutes to rack up 20,000 points to initiate a bonus round. There are zombies everywhere. And I really do mean everywhere. You can barely swing a mallet without knocking down a dozen zombies. And oh the blood. Zombies get crushed, split in half, decapitated, mulched. All that blood splatters on your outfit over ten minutes until you are drenched in the stuff.
The weapons in Dead Rising 2 have seen some serious upgrades. A lawnmower was fun to use in the first Dead Rising, but the portable version in Dead Rising 2 is far superior. You hold the body of the lawnmower, without the long handle, hit the attack button once to rev it up and then go have some fun. Swing this two-handed weapon and you rip the faces off zombies. Hold down the attack button and you hold the mower over a zombie and then push down, turning them into mulch from head to toe. The zombies even spin as they are forced through the mower's blade.
Another great weapon is the bazooka fireworks. While the aiming control is a little sluggish, blasting zombies in the gut with colorful explosives (and having them burst into a bloody fireworks extravaganza) is a special experience.
I got excited when I found a chainsaw -- the perfect zombie killing tool. Then I found out that I could go to a weapon workbench and combine it with a kayak paddle. The end result is a giant pole with chainsaws on either end. Now we're talking epic zombie destruction. There are dozens upon dozens of combinations to unlock. So not only are the weapons by themselves better than the original, but the combos take them to a new level of destructiveness.
So what about the boobs? Okay, so there was no nudity in the demo. However, Dead Rising 2 does feature a sex shop. Hop inside and scan the posters of Space Beaver or jump into some assless chaps just for the hell of it. Be sure to grab a "massager." The eight-inch vibrating pink stick can be thrown at zombies, knocking them down. There are some other great little sexual innuendos to be found in the demo, but really, you should be allowed to discover some of these cute little perversions yourself.
At the end of the ten minute run, I was covered in the blood of about 300 zombies. Some had been barbecued, some had been sliced in half, many more had been pummeled. I'm ready for more.
Dead Rising 2, if it plays out at all like this most recent demo, has been boiled down to a series of sandbox events. It's hard to say if that will stay fresh and exciting for 10-15 hours, but for a short experience, it's a lot of fun. LATEST DEAD RISING HEADLINES | |
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