Dead Rising 2 Review

Dead Rising 2 is an excellent game and it’s the sequel to the 2006 Xbox 360 hit. You play Chuck Greene, a motocross superstar, Chuck’s whose wife was eaten by zombies years ago and whose daughter is infected but a daily doses of antivirus Zombrex keeps the virus at bay.

Struggling to make a living Chuck enters a TV reality show where you kill the undead called Terror is Reality. After the show Chuck is framed for a zombie uprising and has to wait rescue for 3 days held up in Fortune City with other survivors. Your job is to clear chucks name save the survivors and get his daughter the medicine she needs. While doing this you have to kill a zombie or two until the military arrive and all the time the clock is ticking.

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Dead Rising 2 is extremely addictive while you may complete the game or die you will always be asking what if I did it this way so you need to balance the storyline against the missions.

If you think you’ve played this before then you have, it’s because you’ve played the original Dead Rising but the developers have made enough changes to make it fresh enough to enjoy it all over again. Familiarity is a bonus and adds to the enjoyment especially if you where a fan of the original. You can still pick up near enough whatever you want and beating the undead back to death with an umbrella, a knife, a billboard.

Collecting points on your combo cards that’ll show you hoe to combine two items and combine them at the maintenance workbench to make one bigger weapon. The weapons are a lot more durable but when they do eventually break you’ll have gained experience points along the way.

Missions are radioed to you via a woman in the security room, you’ll have to leave the safe house though and enter the mall, be careful of the zombies. Everything is against the clock in Dead Rising 2 so you only have a certain amount of time to complete each missions expire. As you level up you’ll earn more experience points and moves.

The more you play Dead Rising 2 the more you learn and you’ll soon get extra abilities plus some of the bosses are really difficult until you’ve mastered them, preserve it worth it. You’ll be able to save at regular times and events to do so,

Dead Rising 2 is an excellent game worth 8.5 out of 10