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Dead Rising 2 is an upcoming survival horror video game with action adventure and RPG elements. The game is the sequel to the 2006 video game,
Dead Rising. It will be developed by Blue Castle Games and distributed by former developer Capcom. Original Dead Rising team members will return to
create the game, including Keiji Inafune. The game will be released sometime in 2010 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows platforms.


Plot
The game is set a few years after the events of the original Dead Rising. The zombie virus that originated in Santa Cabeza has spread all over
the United States. The game will take place in the fictional city of Fortune City, which is modeled after the real city of Las Vegas, Nevada.
The new protagonist and player character, Chuck Greene, is a former national motocross champion who is somehow involved in the zombie attack in Fortune City.

Gameplay
The protagonist and player character of Dead Rising 2, Chuck Greene. (Note that this is not his final design)

The gameplay remains similar to Dead Rising with the player controlling protagonist, Chuck Greene, as he fights off hordes of zombies while
accomplishing specific missions. The game will include several new objects that can be used to attack the zombies, including slot machines,
a giant hamster ball, spiked propane tanks, and others. The number of zombies which can be seen onscreen at any one time has also been dramatically
increased from 800 in the original to roughly 7,000.According to Inafune, the new protagonist will be more "interesting" than the previous hero, Frank West.


There will also be a greater variety of missions for the player to undertake, and the sequel will retain the original's time management mechanic.
However, the original game's photography mechanic will not be present in Dead Rising 2.

Xbox 360 magazine recently announced that Chuck's sports jacket is made by a sportswear company called "Ijiek", which is producer Keiji Inafune's
first name spelled backwards. As previously mentioned in a post on Kramez's Blog on the Capcom-Unity website, Dead Rising 2 gameplay was shown for
the first time at CAPTIVATE '09.

Multiplayer
Multiplayer was at first thought to be announced for the game but was later corrected by Laura Scholl stating, "In my 'During the Dead Rising 2'
presentation at GDC this past Friday, while I was describing how Blue Castle is using mental mill technology in character development,
I mistakenly referred to the game as multiplayer instead of multiplatform. I apologize for the confusion. The game is indeed multiplatform and
Blue Castle has done an amazing job creating incredibly photorealistic characters—from their skin tone to their clothing—in heavily populated and complex
levels throughout the game. Gamers are going to be thrilled with how the game feels, looks and plays."

Later, speaking at CAPTIVATE 09, Capcom R&D boss Keiji Inafune confirmed that Dead Rising 2 will in fact include multiplayer,
but refused to state what the mode would entail.

“We’re at a point in game history that you need to have some form of multiplayer component in a game. Single-player alone is not going to cut it.
So rest assured we are going to put multiplayer in the game, but I can’t go into specifics about what type of multiplayer as that directly relates
to some of the game systems that we don’t want to talk about at this event. It will be online multiplayer, so keep that in mind.”

Development
The sequel was announced on February 9,2009, confirming earlier rumors of the game's existence, as well as a viral video for the game.
The developers Blue Castle Games will be working with Keiji Inafune, the game's producer and Capcom's global head of research and development,
along with other Dead Rising team members.

Chris Kramer had this to say:
"Capcom’s kind of on a 30 year high right now, it’s a pretty amazing place to be. Between everything we’ve got going right now, between the launch of Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5,
and our big titles for next year, Lost Planet 2 and Dead Rising 2."

In March of 2009, in an interview with website MajorNelson.com, Chris Kramer mentioned that Dead Rising 2 would be released in fiscal year 09/10 (April 1 until May 31, 2010)

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