00:00Jeff Rubinstein here from the PlayStation Blogger here at Capcom HQ just came across the street to visit our good
00:05friends Wes and a new friend Mike Schmidt nice to meet you nice meeting you too now Mike you're the
00:09hey let's shake on it let's cement this friendship you're the product manager on Dead Rising 2 correct that's correct
00:16and the first Dead Rising predated the PS3 the PS3's existence but fortunately Dead Rising 2 will be coming to
00:24the PS3 in August so what we're going to do is we're going to get a little walk through we
00:28have Wes here not to be our
00:29silent partner but to play because there's a new co-op mode that is new to the Dead Rising series
00:35and we're going to show it to you so obviously zombies are a big part of Dead Rising but as
00:40you can tell by the way these guys are dressed with the Elvis outfit and the Groucho Marx glasses is
00:46a lot more of a sense of humor in this game well there was a sense of humor definitely in
00:50the first game as well it's kind of something that I guess resonates in the Dead Rising universe what we've
00:57done here is actually you
00:59you know the costumes and the different ways you could accessorize your character in the first game were really popular
01:05so you know we've definitely got that stuff back in Dead Rising 2 and this is just kind of some
01:10extreme examples here of some of the costumes you can get on Chuck
01:15now the difference between Dead Rising and like say a Resident Evil type game is there's no way to kill
01:22every zombie in Dead Rising so you've got to sort of have a different viewpoint on how you're going to
01:28be playing through the game
01:29yeah I think you're basically just trying to stay alive considering the amount of zombies that are attacking you and
01:36you know as you try to accomplish your mission objectives
01:39so we're not playing through the campaign mode here this co-op mode is something altogether different
01:44this demo right here we're looking at is is really just a demo that was built to show off some
01:49of the combo weapons we have in the game and also this is the first look at this particular environment
01:55this is the Yucatan casino
01:57but you know the game does have a full storyline there are mission objectives you need to accomplish in addition
02:03to some of the sandbox stuff you can do for fun
02:05so one of the more interesting things about the first Dead Rising I played through it was that there were
02:10a lot of events that happened whether you were there or not
02:13and while it wasn't the world's longest game there was a lot of replayability because you could see completely different
02:18things depending on where in the mall you were with Frank West
02:22is that the type of thing that you're looking to do with Dead Rising 2?
02:25yeah I mean it does take place with a 72 hour clock similar to the first game so you do
02:31have all your set mission objectives you need to accomplish in order to get through the game
02:35but then you know the environment is so massive and there's so many different things you can do
02:40there's a ton of replayability in there because of all the different side quests you can do all the sandboxing
02:45elements
02:45you know we envision people kind of revisiting the game quite often to find all the stuff they missed the
02:51first time through
02:52a huge new feature in Dead Rising 2 is the ability to create your own weapons
02:56whereas in the first one anything in the environment you can normally use as a weapon
03:02you can pick up any chair pick up this wheelchair for example and use it as a weapon
03:06in DR2 you're kind of tasked with trying to you know find items to put together and create more you
03:15know unique and powerful weapons
03:16that actually allow you to you know level up your player quicker to get you more prestige points
03:21and that's kind of what Chuck's forte is he's a he's a craftsman if you will
03:27so talk about he's there's a spiked bat here we saw that original look like a vacuum cleaner with rotary
03:35buzz saws on it
03:36this is the spiked bat for example it's you know he if he finds a baseball bat and combines it
03:41with nails
03:41then you get you know the spiked bat you'll get some different attacks with it you'll see
03:46if I run up to a zombie here and give him a heavy attack you'll get you'll get often get
03:51custom animations for some of the different weapons
03:54and the way that you find out about these weapons is you collect combo cards in the game they
03:59in a sense give you a blueprint for the different weapons you want to create and you can find these
04:03combo cards
04:04you know hidden throughout the level Chuck may look at a poster and get inspiration and get a combo card
04:10that way
04:11and then also through trial and error you can try to put things together and see if you can
04:15you know stumble upon a combo weapon
04:22all right so would you just make that this is take this is really funny it's it's a radio uh
04:29controlled
04:29helicopter and if you combine it with the machete um it creates kind of like a deadly trap for the
04:36zombies the zombies are attracted to to noises and in things that make sound um so for this little
04:43example here showing some of the cool stuff you can do in co-op you can see Wes he's climbing
04:47to the top of this
04:48structure in the center of the casino here and I'm going to let loose um this helicopter right now
04:54and uh the zombies will be attracted to the heli-blade you'll see them start reacting and kind of making
05:00their way
05:00towards it and um as they do Wes can start shooting at them um and if they get close enough
05:06to the heli-blade
05:07it'll actually cut them apart it's going here they come yeah at the same time I can also torch them
05:27yeah the co-op lets you do some really cool stuff I mean as far as setting traps for zombies
05:32and just
05:33kind of doing these things to humiliate them and it's also cool too because the way that the mission
05:38um structures are set up you know like you know Wes could be out you know doing escort missions and
05:44I
05:45can be doing something else at the same time so you can kind of get yourself some help and just
05:49accomplishing some of your main objectives in addition to just having fun like this this is pretty funny
05:55though this is combining drills with a bucket and you can kind of this really kind of shows the
06:04irreverency of dead rising humiliation of zombies
06:11so yeah this is just a real uh quick look at one of the psychopath battles here
06:31uh oh i think i actually need help now
06:41and luckily i had a bag of chips on me all right and we will save the rest of that
06:45boss battle for
06:46when you get to play you don't want to ruin the story we're still a few months away actually when
06:49does dead rising 2 come out august 31st all right end of august you are going to be able to
06:54get your
06:54hands on dead rising 2 the first dead rising game ever to hit the playstation 3 and uh well between
07:00now and august we have a few months so we're hoping that you'll be coming back to the playstation blog
07:04and uh giving us some more information as we get later into the uh into the development cycle no
07:08definitely we'll be back and thank you wes for playing playing so well you're a whole of a teammate thank
07:13you
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