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by Adam Blue • Impressions

I’m sure you know I’m talking about Dead Rising 2. If not, it has some serious load times. I hate load times to death, but DR2 has enough to make me speak up. I even installed the game to my harddrive in hopes of conquering these time wasting bastards. But, no.

Load times aside, DR2 is a lot of fun so far. There’s really nothing wrong with it, as it is exactly like the first game, what I consider a perfect game. But, I think the series could have used some things to set it apart. The 360 exclusive prequel, Case Zero, had a totally different setting which I enjoyed a bit more. DR2 is really just set in a mall like the first game. Yeah, it’s a bunch of malls with casinos…but it’s really just the same. The next Dead Rising game would do itself much good to be in a different setting. My idea would be a suburban area that goes as far as a school and grocery store. Being able to go into different houses would be great; finding survivors or various items (weapons) people would have.

One thing that has changed, which I don’t know if it’s good or bad, is the smarts of the survivors have greatly improved. It made the first game a lot more frustrating (to me, in a good way) but really gave it that survival horror feel. I guess you can say for the second game, it just made people as intelligent about surviving as they may be in real life. So, I’m cool with that aspect of making the game easier.

Anyway, this was meant as just impressions. I still have a little ways to go in my first play through, yet It has been pretty easy hitting all the missions. Maybe I’ll have a review up later.

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