By John Walker on August 16th, 2011 at 11:15 am.
The return of Frank West in Dead Rising 2 standalone spin-off Off The Record offers a reinvention of the splendid Dead Rising 2, but from another perspective. And also offers Capcom a chance to put out more of their extremely weird, and rather brilliant, trailers for the game. This one’s a guide to photography! Of sorts. You can see it below.
Clearly the photography nonsense is in reference to the reintroduction of Prestige Points earned by taking great photographs.
The game comes out in the middle of October, and promises lots of updates and improvements to the engine that ran the original sequel (if you will).
16/08/2011 at 11:23 LGM says:
I’m down for this game BUT!.. Is it GFWL again? Say it ain’t so, Viewtiful Joe.
16/08/2011 at 11:26 thepaleking says:
I didn’t have any issues with the GFWL in DR2. In fact, the co-op worked perfectly, better than many games without GFWL.
16/08/2011 at 12:23 YeOldeSnake says:
Well , there wasnt a server list in which you could coop with random people.
Plus , GFWL really slowed down the game.
16/08/2011 at 12:42 PoulWrist says:
They had GFWL in it? Why, it must be because it’s hardly noticable that I don’t recall, even after the 40 or so hours I played DR2.
16/08/2011 at 13:57 Sian says:
Yes, it’s hardly noticeable – if you don’t use it. But as soon as you want to invite a friend, you’ll notice the extremely clunky interface. At least it was that way when I last played Chaos Rising. To me, GfWL doesn’t add anything that couldn’t be programmed directly into any game, and it’s really badly designed.
16/08/2011 at 18:50 daf says:
@thepaleking you got lucky, friend of mine gifted me this game just to play in coop we connected once and then, never again, after a few days of trying everything we could think of we both gave up and it will likely sit in my unfinished game pile forever :(
16/08/2011 at 11:30 Prime says:
Wait…
Dead Rising 2…rises again? Ahma confuuused.
16/08/2011 at 11:43 Armante says:
haha that was great :)
16/08/2011 at 12:23 Kaira- says:
I wonder, has he covered any more wars, ya’ know?
16/08/2011 at 12:53 Khemm says:
Dead Rising 2 was a huge surprise for me. I still don’t know why I decided to buy it on release. I knew it was a “love it or hate it” kind of game and that it had zombies in it – nothing else. The quality of Capcom’s recent PC releases might have been a factor, suffice it to say, I bought it day one – best decision I’ve made in regard to my purchases in a while. LOVE this game, will probably buy Off The Record, too.
16/08/2011 at 12:55 Renfield says:
What the world needs is a Dead Rising 2 / DR2: Off The Record bundle.
16/08/2011 at 13:50 N'Al says:
What the world needs is a Dead Rising 2 / DR2: Case Zero / DR2: Case West / DR2: Off The Record bundle.
16/08/2011 at 14:08 Renfield says:
I stand corrected. Will someone tell Capcom?
16/08/2011 at 13:00 Mithrandir0x says:
I find “sworldo” a suitable sword…
16/08/2011 at 14:43 Jhoosier says:
I dismissed DR2 at first, but it looks like it might have some potential. After playing Just Cause 2, I found I quite enjoyed non-linear silly-fun games.