« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2018, 07:44:43 AM »
Friday 2018-08-31 - Dead Rising 2
Format: Xbox 360 (also available on PS3, PC, PS4 and XB1)
What it is: Shockingly, it's a sequel to 2006 zombie slaughterfest Dead Rising (which I finally played through from beginning to end last year after a few prior attempts that didn't get far). Same universe, storywise a sequel as well, features a different protagonist who seeks to rescue his daughter, from what I understand (but Frank West from the original is involved somehow and is playable in the expansion/sidequel/something Off the Record, which I also own). Features some things that weren't in the first game, like combining weapons. Does not feature photography like the first (presumably does in previously mentioned OtR, though), since this protagonist isn't a journalist.
Release date: 2010-09-24
Owned since: Technically 2016-08-16, since that's when it became free on Games With Gold
Status: Thoroughly unplayed.
Available: Physically and digitally.
Verdict: So what I ended up playing today wasn't actually Dead Rising 2 proper, but Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, a short prequel game released only digitally about a month before DR2 was released. It was also free when DR2 was on GWG, so I had that, so I played that first. And finished it - it was quite short, did one restart (since it's perpetual NG+, if you start over you keep all experience and money you had previously) when I died, and the save from that can actually be imported to regular DR2, so I'll start at level 5 (the max level in Case Zero). Maybe with some itens from it too, I don't know. It was pretty nice, anyway, and the reason I picked DR2 for Friday was because I figured that was most likely the game I would want to keep playing, so that's for the weekend, and probably a bunch next week as well, since while I might do another week of this, it won't be next week. The only real improvement from DR1 I found was the weapon combinations, even if I didn't do overly much with that, but I'm pretty sure everything will be better in the actual game. So there! I did mean to actually start DR2 after I had had dinner, but a friend asked me to Smash, so I did that instead.