Welcome back ladies and gents!
Yesterday I was busy making a Halloween project. Here's hoping the
juicy skeleton looks amazing. Back to the topic at hand, zombies on
the rise! Grr. Yes this beloved subgenre of horror has gone through
spurts since 1968 George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. The 80s,
90s and the 2000s give a bit of zombie craze until 2004 it gets back
up again to ravage the world. The Walking Dead is on its 6th
Season, Z Nation its second and Fear the Walking Dead to Season 2 as
well. So let's get off our butt and get back into smiting the
undead. This is Dead Rising 2.
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| Airball!! |
Following after the exploits of
Willamette Colorado, the zombie virus is a plague running rampant
throughout the states. Five years after the first outbreak is the
town of Fortune City, Nevada. A reality sport game Terror Is
Reality. A game show where the contestants kill off zombies for
money and glory. This time around our protagonist Chuck Greene
(Peter Flemming of Replicant, Good Boy!, Love Sick: Secrets of
a Sex Addict, Becoming Redwood and Almost Human) a former
Motocross champion that is in need of money. His daughter Katey was
bitten by her zombified mom when she was 5 and the only thing to keep
the virus at bay is Zombrex(daily injection to suppress
the zombie viral strain). The show's gaggle of zombies
prepped for the contest get loose and Chuck scoops up Katey head to
an emergency shelter. The lone security Raymond Sullivan (Phillip
Maurice Hayes of Unforgiven, Powder, Adventures of Sonic the
Hedgehog, Sabrina, the Animated Series, Gadget and the Gadgetinis,
Dinosaur Train and Wolves) is hesitant to allow Katey to stay
but Chuck assures him he can keep her stockpiled on Zombrex.
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| Nope, I'm no Frank West but I'm good. |
It looks worse and worse for Chuck as
it looks like he went backstage and let loose the zombies of war to
lunch and munch the competition. Chuck now has to venture out into
Fortune City via air duct (Come out to the coast, you'll have a
great time. Have a few laughs.) and make his way to more
Zombrex until the Army is due to arrive in three days. Yup another
72 hours in our open ended, survival horror game with some new
mechanics.
A Co-Op and Multiplayer option giving
four players to compete in Terror Is Reality. The story progresses
to offer the achievements and trophies. The health bar is a large
collection of squares rather than the two small ones. The AI of
survivors are less dopey. Meaning they can nut up and fight, the
zombies like to have man meat Chuck and makes the escort mission less
painful and maddening. Chuck can get distracted in mini games via
casinos to gamble for more money. The vehicle mechanics are so much
better but mostly bikes to maybe fit Chuck's former lifestyle as a
motocross champ.
Our combo weapons have gotten a bit screwier with
things like: Dynameat (A stick of dynamite crammed in a
ham), the Paddlesaw (two chainsaws duct taped to
a kayak paddle )
the Hail Mary (a grenade taped to a
football) and finally the Spiked Bat (ballbat
with nails hammered in it) and you will need it as your boss
battles are just as loopy psychopaths have either gone crackers due
to zombies or the panic in the air inciting fear giving them jollies.
Love the additional weapon Boomstick (a pump action
shotgun duct taped with a pitchfork) and the ridiculous
activist Stacey (Robyn Ross of Mega Man, Juno, Dead Rising 2,
Fairly Legal, Suck it Up Buttercup and Cedar Cove) who was at
the show protesting for zombie rights and equality.
It is dark humor, warped mini-games,
squashing a zombie with a motobike so yes this is gorefest of
goofiness.
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| Zombie combo platter!!! |
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