It was fun to watch my brother Jeff play the Dead Rising games on 360. They were really more silly than scary. I like the fact that the goblin mask is making a reference to Blanka from SF2. I also like the fact that you can wear a Servebot head.
Zombie Outbreak!
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 On 08/04/2014 at 01:42 AM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
My friend's Xbox 360 hard drive stopped reading discs today so we couldn't play EDF 2025. With a closer look, we saw that it was full of. . . ZOMBIES!!!
The first thing I did when my friend's 360 wouldn't read discs was look up prices of new and used Xbox 360s. The cheapest that Gamestop sells is the old type 360 refurbished, 20 GB, for $99. If I ran out and got that, my friend could just swap in his 250 GB drive and be golden, I thought. I considered too that it would be wise to get an extended warrantee. I think it was $30 for 3 years last time I looked. Not bad, and if there's anything that goes wrong, and with the older 360's that's almost gauranteed, they give you a new one no questions asked. But I didn't do it because I went to Cooptimus.com to look up games we both had digitally that had co-op and found Dead Rising 2. This was one of the Games with Gold freebees a while back and we both had it, so that's what we played.
Dead Rising 2 isn't as much fun as I wanted it to be. The combat is slow and clumsy and the time limits on missions are completely frustrating. You're given a huge mall full of stuff to fashion as weapons, clothes to wear, and stuff to break and they ask you to hurry up and find some soul in danger. "Leave me alone", I say, "and let me explore and mess around". Anyway we pretty much failed the main and side missions over and over and finally ignored them to run willy nilly around the mall finding things to combine into new crazy weapons to dispatch more zombies in more humerous ways. I want this game to drop all sense of story or time limits and be a giant sandbox of zombie destruction.
A Goblin mask plus car battery equals a shocking good time.
My favorite weapon combo so far is the Goblin mask combined with a car battery. You put the Goblin mask/battery on a zombie and watch as electricity jolts it and any zombies around it. The Goblin mask draws zombies to it too, so it gets real messy real fast. Eventually the zombie wearing the hat falls down and you have to run in and grab it to put on another one. I found a T-Rex mask as well, but couldn't figure out what to combine it with.
One advantage of combining weapons into super weapons is that you gain more XP by using them. They don't last forever though and soon you have to make another one. You can solve this by carrying more than one of them or by having a magazine in your inventory that boosts weapon durability, although I haven't found that particular magazine yet. Your inventory is pretty limited to start. I think it was three items (weapons, food, or magazines), but when you level up you get more.
These are the red PJs I wore, but not the hat or shoes.
You can change your shirt, pants, shoes, hat, or glasses by going into stores and just putting them on, coming up with some really wacky outfits. I had a one-piece panjamas on with space boots, a motorcycle crash helmet, and a medical mask. This carries over into cutscenes as well which adds to the hilarity.
Playing co-op online works pretty well, but the guest doesn't gain progress in the story. As I've mentioned, after a while, neither of us cared about the story and we just went pell mell throughout the mall, spanking zombies, and finding maintenance rooms to craft new weapons.
I don't know how much more we'll play of this tomorrow. I'm thinking a little more and then try out Dead Island which was also another Games for Gold freebee a while back. Today was a possible bumber but the zombie outbreak saved the day. Yeah zombies!
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