EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: deadrising2
The latest edition of the Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week has shambled onto Xbox LIVE Marketplace to provide Xbox LIVE Gold members with special price offers on a collection of zombie-themed games, as well as add-on content for undead games (i.e. older games that are kept alive thanks to fantastic on-going support from their developers… with brains).
Available until July 18th, exclusively to Xbox LIVE Gold members, here is that list of price reductions:
It’s that time of the week once more! The time when we all mull around the Xbox LIVE storefront window, hands out, begging for special price offers on previously released downloadable content.
And this week, we won’t be left wanting as the kindly Major Nelson has exited the shop to deliver the good news: This edition of the Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week will save us some MS Points on a variety of Dead Rising 2-related digital content!
Bless you Major. Bless you:
Over the course of Capcom’s Captivate 2011 event to announce and showcase the publisher’s upcoming titles, something called Dead Rising 2: Off the Record was revealed, and rather than continuing the string of downloadable episodes related to Dead Rising 2, this new title is a full release.
And get this: Dead Rising 2: Off the Record stars original Dead Rising protagonist, Frank West, and replaces Dead Rising 2’s hero, Chuck Greene, in a retelling of the sequel’s story.
Now that we at least know the release window for the next Dead Rising 2 downloadable content, Dead Rising 2: Case West, it’s time to get a new glimpse of the game to see Frank West and Chucke Greene, together at last, ‘posing danger’ to any zombie that dares cross their paths.
Check out the rest of the new shots below, accompanied by an extremely bloody gameplay video showcasing the pair tearing up roomfuls of the walking dead:
When a publisher releases a fully-featured and playable prelude to one of the year’s most anticipated games, there’s bound to be a bit of interest, and when that prelude costs only 400 MS Points on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, you can bet gamers are going to pay it even more attention!
So it is with Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, which has recently been revealed to be the fastest selling game on Xbox LIVE Arcade in 2010.
Capcom has announced that its latest zombie-destruction simulator, Dead Rising 2, has shipped two million copies around the world. According to Capcom, this brings the total number of units of the Dead Rising franchise shipped worldwide to an impressive four million.
Legendary game developer, Capcom veteran and Mega Man steward Keiji Inafune has announced his resignation from the publisher and developer that he’s called home for 23 years.
At the end of the month, Inafune will leave Capcom and his position as Head of R&D Management Group, Consumer Games R&D Division and Contents Management Division.
In a blog post entitled ‘Sayonara,’ Inafune wrote:
The second round of downloadable content for Dead Rising 2 is now available for zombie-bashing fans to download on Xbox LIVE, the PlayStation Network and PC.
The Soldier of Fortune Theme Pack costs 160 MS Points or $1.99, and gives players “extreme firepower to plow through hordes of zombies with Chuck’s new amped up arsenal of guns.”
The NPD Group has released its sales report of the videogame industry in the US for the month of September, sadly the first of its kind to not include exact unit sales.
NPD no longer reports the unit sales figures for the Top 5, neither does the Top 10 show a single title on a single platform but rather the combined sales of an individual title across all platforms.
When the going gets tough, the tough rough up the zombies while the greedy cash in. At least, that’s how post-zombie-apocalypse America has learnt to cope with the aftermath of the Willamette outbreak five years earlier. Terror Is Reality (a Gladiators-like game show where gladiators compete to wreak the most havoc against captive zombies in a variety of gory ways) is the country’s response to the terrifying realisation that they’re slowly losing the fight against the unrelenting zombie apocalypse.
In Dead Rising 2, Terror Is Reality XVII: PAYBACK (TIR) is being hosted in Fortune City - seemingly the last surviving stronghold of good ol’ American excess: an amusement resort located somewhere in Nevada and modeled after pre-apocalypse Las Vegas. Our protagonist, Chuck Greene, a former motorcross champion, competes in TIR in a bid to win money to afford the life-preserving drug Zombrex for his daughter, Katey. Katey was bitten by her own zombified mother in the previous outbreak, and Zombrex is the medical marvel that staves off the onset of zombie infection in individuals that have been bitten.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Dead Rising 2.
Can you believe it’s that time of the week again? That’s right folks, it’s time for the US PlayStation Store update!
This week you can look forward to a Halloween Collection with Burn Zombie Burn, Silent Hill as well as Halloween-themed DLC and themes. You’ll also be able to download Episode I of Sonic The Hedgehog 4 and Dead Space Ignition! The demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II has also arrived along with the new Psycho theme pack for Dead Rising 2.
Finally there’s a whole bunch of content on special as well as the usual assortment of downloadable content, themes, trailers and songs for you to enjoy.
The full list of new content now available on the US PlayStation Store follows below:
The first set of new downloadable content for Dead Rising 2 is now available on Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network and PC. It will set you back 60 MS Points or $1.99.
Pyschopath is the first of a series of four theme packs that Capcom will be releasing to allow gamers to customise Chuck and give him new weapons and abilities.
Even in the face of a host of debut game releases all jockeying for position and aiming to become No. 1 on Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing this week, and despite a 63% sales decrease over the week previous, FIFA 11 has managed to comfortably retain the top spot on the chart, importantly ahead of football rival Pro Evolution Soccer 2011.
Capcom has announced that new downloadable content for Dead Rising 2 will soon be available on Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network. Each theme pack will cost 60 MS Points or $1.99.
The publisher will be releasing a series of four theme packs that allow gamers to customise Chuck and give him new weapons and abilities. You’ll even be able to mix and match the different packs so you can create the ultimate Chuck by combining the different abilities.
One of the biggest releases of last week (in Europe and the UK) and this week (in the US) was Capcom’s Dead Rising 2, a harrowing zombie destruction simulator that puts you in the shoes of Chuck Greene, a fellow who is currently tasked with surviving the hostile advances of tens of thousands of zombies in a gambling paradise.
Luckily, Greene has a few… ‘tools’ at his disposal to take care of the zombie menace. ‘Tools’ like a hand-crafted, double-sided chainsaw pole, plus hundreds more.
Dead Rising 2 released on both Xbox 360 and PS3 (and will be releasing on PC shortly), and wouldn’t you know it, as with all big multi-platform game releases, we need to get the lowdown on which console spits the game out onto our screens better and faster than the other.
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