A non-canon retelling of the events of DR2, Off The Record replaces protagonist Chuck Greene with Dead Rising 1’s Frank West, giving long-time fans another chance to step back into the shoes of everyone’s favourite photojournalist. Throw in some online co-op for additional fun, and Dead Rising 2 rightly sits as one of the best in the series.ĭead Rising 2: Off The Record takes all of that, and has a bit more fun with it.
The ability to combine weapons also added a flair of inventiveness to the game, as you’d throw two random objects together with the hope of creating a new, death-dealing masterpiece, while limiting that ability to specific workbenches around Fortune City to ensure you’re never too overpowered and the zombies retain some bite. Just being able to tell when survivors you’re rescuing will actually travel with you through loading zones saves so much frustration that the first game caused. On top of that all that, Dead Rising 2 introduced a few quality of life changes that make the core experience more rewarding to play than the original game. The vibrant graphics also add a bit more colour to the screen than the splashes of blood when caving a zombie’s skull in. Fortune City’s mix of malls and casinos, a city exemplified by its excess and greed, feels like a more interesting area to explore than Willamette Parkview Mall.
Part of the reason for that is that Dead Rising 2 is, in a lot of ways, a much better game than the original. I still love it, and going back to it recently was still an absolute joy (remembering where all the secret PP rewards were felt like the gaming equivalent of that guy who always wins your local pub quiz), but Dead Rising 2: OTR just hits different. Some will say that Dead Rising 1 is the real pick for best game, which is understandable, but there’s so many idiosyncrasies in that game that have made it harder to love with age.
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While the troubled Dead Rising 4 wasn’t very good at any point in its life, Dead Rising 2: Off The Record remains fantastic, farcical fun to this day.Ĭelebrating its tenth anniversary today, Dead Rising 2: Off The Record feels like the zombie killing series at the absolute top of its game. The Dead Rising series has had a long and storied history, to the point where you could ask five different fans which game in the series is their favourite and four of them would likely have a different opinion, the fifth being someone not saying Dead Rising 4 is their favourite.
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