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My Dead Rising 2 review for anyone who's interested.



Gonna start with what i don't like about the game first.



CO-OP multiplayer

There's two types of multiplayer in the game, co-op and versus. The co-up is accessible during the game's story but is - in my opinion - a poorly thought out concept. Just something thrown in there for the sake of having it. When two people play together they play as the main character, Chuck Greene. The second Chuck just appears right next to the main character in whatever outfit the player has him in. The actual game play isn't too bad but the whole "clone" thing bugs me. Also I advise to only play multiplayer with a trusted friend, not some random player, otherwise you run the risk of the player being a dick and killing your survivor party.



And now for all that I DO like!



TIR

The versus multiplayer is actually a game show called Terror Is Reality, which is a separate game from the storyline. Normally I'm against playing the multiplayer before going into the story but this time around I actually recommend it. It gives an interesting introduction to some of the key characters of the story, is really fun, and the money you earn from winning is transferred into the story for you to use. And depending on how good you are, you can win a lot in a short amount of time, like $300,000 in an hour.



You play as 4 anonymous characters. The red, blue, green or yellow guy and compete in a series of 4 events involving creative ways of killing zombies. Like riding in an arena on a motorbike outfitted with chainsaws. Riding in a giant hamster ball in a mini pinn0ball arena, and putting explosive hats onto zombies.



There's also an introduction from the host "TK" for every event which is fairly elaborate. And there's announcer commentary from two anchors during the game play. They comment on how well - or horribly bad - each player is doing and made crude but hilarious jokes about each other and zombie ... balls.



It's a little difficult to get in first, there are some real bad ass players out there, but unless you're overly competitive, TIR is so much fun it doesn't matter.



Storyline

Not gonna spoil anything of the story, but it is a good plot, and the case files are more forgiving than in Dead Rising, where you were always down to the wire on every case and still had to rescue a bunch of poorly AI controlled survivors. You generally have a 6-12 hour window before each case, plenty of time to explore, find Zombex - which is easy but mandatory, hence the extra money from TIR - and save survivors.



Survivor AI

Saving survivors is incredibly easy this time around. Their AI is better so they can fight better, and follow you more effectively. Throughout my entire game I've never had a survivor die - or come anywhere close - no matter how large my party was. Ever got the Hero of Fortune City achievement for saving 50. There's also a book on Leadership you can find during the Code Blue mission that further increases their abilities, which i Recommend getting.



Way points you assign for survivors persist after cut scenes as well, unlike in the first game. So you can make the survivors hide out in a bathroom or some other area if you feel a psychopath boss coming on, and know they'll still be safe in the event of a cut scene.



Custom Weapons

I honestly didn't use this feature much. Mainly stuck with the spiked bat, and sometimes the flaming boxing gloves, but other than that i didn't touch the stuff. But it is still an interesting feature with a hell of a lot of variety if you find something useful. I'm just able to do a lot with a little so i didn't need to experiment.



My favorite one though is the beer helmet, which is effective against zombies but not psychopaths. What it does it heals you 2-3 blocks of health depending on if you've found a health increase book, takes up only 1 inventory space and has somewhere around 20 uses. Only downside is drinking anything 3 times in an hour ( 5 real minuets) time frame will make Chuck sick, causing him to constantly throw up, leaving himself vulnerable for attack. You're likely to lose twice the health you healed from it if fighting a boss.



The little explanation for it though is hilarious. "The only thing better than a little beer is more beer!"



Psychopaths!

The bosses are my personal favorite part of the game, so many interesting - and sometimes funny - fights. Most of the music is done by CellDweller though, and while i really like CellDweller and was happy i could finally recognize a Dead Rising dong during the boss fights, it didn't have as much variety as the original Dead Rising did.



I recommend saving before each boss, even if you're confident in your skills. Most of them attack really fast and leave little time to analyze them on your first go around. One in particular uses flamethrower pistols that both stun you and do major damage. Got killed in 30 seconds my first go.



The skills you get from leveling up will make a lot of the bosses easier, since some of your attacks have the ability to stun. One move in particular saved my life once, the two-legged kick, which isn't it's real name, but it makes Chuck jump and kick forward with both feet. It has some distance on it too, which is what saved me. I was fighting these samurai wanna-be people who really knew how to use a damn sword. I got really hurt and was going to heal when one of them charged me. I ran toward the swordsman, jumped and did the 2-leg kick and went right over their head, just as they were bringing the sword around for an attack. The camera was turned just right to see me barely dodge the blade as I flew over their head, it was awesome!



And finally, detail!

There's a hell of a lot of detail to the environment. So many things to look at and use in the casinos and resorts . You'll always have something to do.



Also, the map is huge. It will look daunting at first but you'll get used to it as you find shortcuts and use clear paths through zombies.



If you're looking to get the best ending and save survivors, only kill the zombies that you can't run past, this is especially true for the end of the game - you'll see why when you get there. I just have 4 words to say about it: HOLY CRAP THEY'RE FAST!



Overall an amazing game, gonna replay it again soon and play more of TIR, i love the announcers dialogue.

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Nicnic
16:25 Sep 30 2010

Never did jump on the Dead Rising band-wagon.

However, as I check it out more and more on Steam, the more I'm getting giddy about sodomizing zombies with parasol umbrellas.



I'm trying to be less cynical about over-hyped games.

Tend to be too stubborn to want to play them after heaps of people start crying "BRILLIANT!".



But, I did that with Batman Arkham Asylum too... Never played it for months, now it's one of my favouritest games in all of everty.

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Dead Rising 1 has officially been maxed out! I'm like, 5 years behind everyone else but i finally got all achievements on Dead Rising, the last being Transmissionary, which is not as easy as i thought it would be. This game was the very first game i got for the xbox so i'm really really happy. Now i just gotta go through the remainder of the storyline and then i can start Dead Rising 2!!

My Dead Rising schedule for the week!



Today - Play through Dead Rising 1 for the storyline. Max out the game's achievements.



Tomorrow - Play through Dead Rising Case 0



Tuesday - DEAD RISING 2!!!!!!!!!!



Bah, on second thought I'm gonna postpone playing any dead rising until next Friday.



I got 2 tests and 3 essays due this week, plus the pitch for my movie idea in film and dead rising's really gonna distract me. Knowing me the distraction wouldn't do anything to effect my inevitable A streak but i'd rather not gamble with it in college. High school sure, college no. I'm having a rare moment of responsibility.

Decided to start over on Dead Frontier. Mainly because i wanted to change my name to something with fewer 2's. Normally i got for ocelot0222 or 222222 because no one ever puts that many 2's and it's guaranteed to be open but i don't if i manage to get on the game's leaderboards, i want a cool name.



So i started over and named the character "Matt Ryan" which sounds a hell of a lot cooler and doesn't have any numbers!



As for which profession the character has i picked teacher since that is what i'm gonna be in a couple of years. Has no economic or combat advantages but has a 30% EXP boost so it's not too bad. As far as play style i'm sticking with my fast but fragile melee character.



I'd be playing now but for some reason the game is plagued with random, frequently occurring errors so i'm taking a break.

my mom got to talking about how i was when i was little and i find it kinda funny.



I learned everything late in early development. Like I learned to walk and talk and crawl late, everyone thought I was mentally challenged or something.



Then i 2 days i picked up talking and was making sentences that were complex for my age. And in one day i learned to crawl and walk, i find that really funny.

Took my first economic test of the semester yesterday. Didn't get the grade back yet but I either got an A or a really high B. It was 32 questions and there were only 2 that i was unsure of, involving fractions and i can't do any math to save my life. Then there was one other question which was identifying a normative question, which had one of the identifiers i was used to seeing in a normative question so i had to make an educated guess.



On a different note i'm really starting to dislike my speech class. Not because of having to speak in front of a crowd but because the professor is absolutely anal about these speech outlines. For instance, she wants everything in compete sentences, which is understandable but i can't even use colons! Its really annoying, can't even used my writing style because i get marked off for it.

Dead Frontier's in 3D!!! My favorite online zombie game's just got 100x more bad ass!!!



Its only been in 3D for a day and a half and there are a lot of things they still gotta work out but damn i love that game!



They got a hell of a lot more detail in the environment now. Ally ways, parking lots, parks, court yards and burning buildings!



And, either the zombie AI still needs work or they added in a small sneaking element. From what I've noticed, unless you're right up in a zombie's face, as long as you don't shine your flashlight on them they won't notice you. So i'm bobbing and waving through the wreckage, making sure my light is focused on the wall or a car in front of me and slipping past nearly all of the zombies.



Sadly i'm not sure if there's the different levels of zombies like there was in the 2D version. I ran damn near to the far side of the city and i'm still fighting the basic zombies and getting the very basic loot, which is worthless to me since healing item become less effective at higher levels.



And either i'm not looking hard enough or there aren't any enter-able buildings yet. Gonna comb the forums when i'm done typing this to see about that.



It is a lot scarier when the horde notices you now though, like a moment out of L4D. Like, i was walking down an ally minding my own business when a zombie runs at me from off screen. ?I cut her in half with my katana and not a second later the ally way is flooded with zombies from that direction. I blurt out "shit!" and sprint in the opposite direction. End up having to zig-zag around some cars, do a loop around a small park and bolt out into the street before i was in a good space to fight.



It is really easy to kill the zombies though. That might be because i have the best melee weapon in the game but it was still harder in the 2D version. Now even when i'm surrounded i still can slip out of the horde and reorganize myself before they surround me again. The only times i got hit were at the very beginning when i was getting used to everything. Finally just let myself get killed so i could go back to the HQ and resupply, since i ran out there with absolutely no food or anything on me, which was a dumb move but hey, i'm back now so whatever.



I'll have some screen shots of my misadventures a little later on. The game has no pause function right now so i'll have to find a safe spot to upload them.



oh, almost forgot, i got an example of a bug i saw. I was walking along the street when i see this ginormous horde standing in the center of the road. At first i though "i'm so dead" then i realized they weren't moving. I went up to one ,stood there for a bit, then went into the middle of the horde and they still didn't move. I tried stabbing them with my sword a bit but they wouldn't die either. It was raining out and they looked like they were looking into the sky so it reminded me of how Turkey's look into the rain during a storm and just kinda stand there. It was hilarious.

Death annoys me. Not because it's death but because everyone won't stop crying afterward. And then everyone's all mad at me because i'm not crying with them.



I honestly don't mind death. I don't revel in it or anything but i am indifferent to it. Its a natural part of life and unless someone is murdered and/or tortured, doesn't require all the crying and what not.



And plus, they know what the after life is like now, so lucky them! Probably don't gotta worry about a job, or bills, or taxes, so be happy for them.



I don't want people to be upset when i die. It's pointless. Ideally i'd like to be thrown into a cardboard box, have that box thrown into a furnace and have any remains thrown into the trash. Then everyone go about their business.



I'm curious as to what death is like though. I'm not gonna kill myself - or anyone else - to find out but when my time finally comes, the process will be interesting. I hope i'm awake when it happens. That's not too creepy right?

I did it!!! Survived Dead Rising's Infinity mode for 7 whole in game days!!! And with no electrical malfunctions and/or paranormal forces preventing me from doing it!



I'm actually wide awake now too, with a mild feeling of accomplishment. actually wait, i am fucking tired as hell.



Gonna take a long, well deserved nap and take a 15 minuet break from Dead Rising before i consider playing it again. I've had enough of zombies and steak/pizza for ... 15 minuets.

Gonna write my Infinity mode progress as a time line for no apparent reason at all.



*It is now 4: 45 am, and i love how the in game analog clocks actually work! Such a small but awesome feature.



Hanging out in the safety pf the security room. I switched out of the special forces uniform into Frank's original cloths because i think they look bad ass on their own, that and the pistol on the uniform is just for show which is LAME!



So far I got all 3 health books, killed Otis, Carlito A and Paul, all of which got utterly owned by the Mega Blaster. How is it that Otis - the old janitor guy armed with a frying pan - takes 3 shots to kill while Carlito A - terrorist armed with a SPB 90 - takes only 1? Hell even the punk kid Paul takes 3.



Anyway, I digress. I only got bit twice and shot in the leg once by one of the Hall family snipers. I think it was the older son because i heard a hell of a lot of unnecessary shouting after he made the shot.



The Hall family are beasts by the way. Easy to kill but they got such good aim! Gotta respect someone who can get a head shot on a moving target at 1am in a dimly lit park covered in huge ass trees.



So far I've only eaten one Well Cooked Steak and waiting for the health to drop to critical before eating another, i got 2. I also wanna see if the well cooked versions expire. Kind of a waste if they do but i'm leaving Carlito C - the one in the deliver truck full a' jelly - alive just in case. Though getting to Larry might be a bit of a problem with him throwing bombs at me and everything. Ah well, burn that bridge when i get to it.



Gonna take a stroll around the security room and maybe pose as a zombie and hang out with ma peeps ...... lol ..... and wait for the survivors to spawn.



*11:00am

Bill freakin kicked my ass. The guy with the nail gun who spawns in Crispers. The zombies around me would only hit me, not bite me so they got me in this weird juggling thing between Bill and a group of 3 zombies. Took me down 5 bars of life before i finally got a shot off and killed him. Made up for that by killing Larry, which i forgot to do in my last play through so i evened out as far as health lost and potential health gain from his food stuffs.



Now i'm just waiting for 19:00 for Adam to spawn and kill him. The time is going by really fast which i should be grateful for i guess. Think i'll be going through all of my food waiting for him but at least i got Carlito C still alive with all of his good foods.



Think i'm gonna eat my other steak next because i'm kinda paranoid to be honest. With how this play through is going i don't wanna waste a single scrap of food.



*4:30pm, still day 1 and still hanging in the security room. Leaving at 6 to go survivor hunting and say hello to my favorite dual chainsaw wielding clown Adam.



In the down time i'm pondering what Dead Rising 2's Infinity mode will be like. Most likely it'll be the whole "get Katy Zombrex every 12 hours for as long as you can" kinda thing. I hope the health doesn't go down too or that'll really freakin annoy me.



I wonder if the money from Case 0 carries over too? I got like $200,000 so that'll put me well off. Can't wait for DR 2! Pre-ordered it today. Put $20 down on it, great investment!



I hate that multiplayer aspect of DR 2 though. Dead Rising just isn't a multiplayer game. What they should have done is leave multiplayer out and use the extra resources on adding a little more to the detail of the game.



The way i see it, if you wanna massacre zombies with your friends, play Left 4 dead.



*Day 2, 2am.

Killed Carlito B, Isabella and that girl on the roof with the pistol. I now have an entire inventory worth of food minus the 3 books. Don't even have enough space for the blaster. 3 of them are only 6 block heals so they'll be gone rather quickly, but the others are full heals. I could literally go a day and a half on just the food in my inventory, which is nice.



I'm waiting for the next wave of survivors to spawn and in the meantime eating some of the food i've amassed as well as some real food because eating all these pizzas and steaks is making me rather hungry.



*Day 3, 4am.

I am fucking tired!!! Which is really pissing me off. If i play this in the afternoon, the electricity fucks me over. If i play this at night, my internal clock fucks me over. Well ya know what? FUCK YOU TOO CAPCOM!!! Who ever came up with the idea for a 14 hour consecutive play mode needs to be shot in the leg!



I am yet again in the security room waiting for Kent to spawn in paradise plaza. Killed Jo and Kendal and the Hall family. Spent the entire day in the park eating cookies and attacking zombies with lawn mowers and giant ass teddy bears.



Its getting hard to keep my eyes open though. I got plenty of soda but that's only gonna do so much. I gotta stay awake for 9 more hours to reach my goal. That's unfortunately 9 real hours, not in game ones, otherwise i'd be done in the next 60 minuets.



I still got a shit load of food. Finding it hard to balance it all. Thinking about surviving to day 4, then finding a nice secure corner somewhere and eating all the food in my inventory. that should bring me to day 6.



I'm gonna get the drop on Kent this time though damn it. No drop kicks to the face this time!!!



*Day 3, unknown time

Killed Kent and Sean without taking any damage despite being half asleep. Now I'm hiding out in the back room of one of the clothing stores. Not enough inventory space to carry all of Sean's food stuffs so i have them all in here with me and am eating them one by one as my health drops.



Thankfully zombies aren't smart enough to open doors so i'm safe in here. Haven't even touched any of my reserve food yet and probably won't until day 5. That's when the psychopaths and survivors start to get thin in number.



This store doesn't have a clock in it, hence not knowing the time. The mall's automated music and announcements started up so its somewhere between 9am and 9pm.



Typing helps keep my mind active so i'll be updating a lot more than i have been so far in order to keep myself alert.



Cletus is next on the chopping block but he doesn't spawn till around 7pm so i got a long while to wait i think. Let's see....



Full health takes 6 hours to drain. and i used 2 full heals from Kent so i'm guessing the time is around 5pm, so not long of a wait actually!



One thing i think is really cool is the drink that makes you invincible actually stops the health draining too. It only lasts about 10 seconds but its better than nothing. I wasn't expecting that at all when i drank it so its cool they put that in there.



only 8 more real hours to go.....i can make it.....



*Day 4, unknown time.



Presumably still early morning. Killed Cletus and am hanging around the Huntin' Shack eating the food he left behind. Then i'm going survivor hunting!



shit! The damn automated music just started out of nowhere. Made me jump in my chair. And woke me up, so yay ... i guess.



Still got a massive excess of food. If it wasn't so boring i'd just wait around until my reserve is depleted, but instead i'm still roaming around the mall killing stuff.



Only about 6 hours to go. Gonna pass the fuck out as soon as i'm done.



*Day 5, 11pm.

In the final stretch now. Just gotta hold out another 4 hours and i'll have the 7 day survivor achievement.



I honestly feel sick. I've never felt this tired and bored at the same time and its making my stomach feel uneasy. I'm having to do laps around the house to keep myself awake. I should sue Capcom for emotional trauma. If that joke didn't make sense i repeat - i'm freakin tired!!!! And will laugh at just about anything right now no matter how retarded it is.



I've cleared out the movie theater's static supply of food and am now in the hunting shack again waiting for my health to drop low enough to put this pizza i got from Brent to good use.



I have enough food in my inventory to last a little over a day, so once i reach the 7 day mark i'm gonna barricade myself in a store and wait for the achievement to pop up. Then i'm passing the fuck out.



*Final day!!! 1am

One more day and counting! I just killed the Hall family yet again and am hold up inside one of the clothing stores that has a back room. I got 3 pizzas, 2 oranges and 1 more bag of cookies, plus my full inventory of food. I have all the Hall's stuff on the floor, plan on sitting here for most of the day.



Once i get the 7 day survivor achievement i'm going to the helipad to have a final showdown with Brock. I'm not gonna use the Mega Buster and i might not even use a weapon, depending on what he's using.



If he kills me, i save the game, happy to get my achievements and go the fuck to sleep.



If I kill him, then i'll do a little victory dance and then proceed to get my ass mauled by a zombie until he/she/it kills me. Then save the game, happy to get my achievements and go the fuck to sleep.



So either way - i get to go to sleep in 2 hours!!!

Sweet sweet sleep!!!

ok, Dead Rising Infinity mode take 2!

And if the power flickers again, I'm goin' postal!

the mother fucking power flickered....



I was on the 4th fucking day and the mother fucking power flickered!!! It didn't even stay out! Just a momentary blip and now 8 hours of work is gone!!!



i need to break something...

Playing Dead Rising's Infinity mode and god it is boring! Typing this to pass the time, and will be updating it quite frequently by the look of things.



So far i've lasted almost 2 days. Currently hanging out in the mall's security room with my food in a nice neat line on the floor.



Using the Real Mega Blaster to make quick work of the psychopaths. I refuse to use it on the main story but on infinity mode, i really don't give a damn.



Thankfully i've done really well. The only static food source i've touched so far was a piece of cabbage on the roof. Got all 3 health upgrade books and have been living off the food from the people i've killed thus far. Which have been



Otis

Paul

Adam

Carlito A, B & C. Yay cloning!

Isabella

That girl in the kids store with the mining pick.

That guy in the movie theater with the toolbox - which hurts by the way.

That other girl on the roof with a pistol.

Cliff, but not before getting a machete stabbed into my spine.

and who else.....i think that's it actually. Damn i lasted 2 days on only that? Sweet!

Haven't even eaten the food i got from Cliff or Isabella yet either. Waiting for my heath to get to almost 0 and then eating the Randomizer drink. Then I'm gonna systematically kill Jo, Kent and the Hall family if they're still there. That should get me to 3 days, then i have no idea what i'm gonna do.



Planning on getting the 5/7 day survivor achievements out of the way, which means my Saturday is spent.



Managed to get the Zombie genocider and gourmet achievements yesterday. So after this i just have

Frank the Pimp

Transmissionary

And the PP sticker one.



Gonna be updating this when i'm bored, which will probably be in a half hour.



***Day 3***

So far so good. Still haven't touched the food from Isabella but i went through cliff's during the fight with Kent. Bastard found me first and landed a drop kick to my head. Hung around on the roof of the camera shop after that and then tracked down Sean, who is pretty bad ass for an old man. Then I went to the helipad to kill Josh and now i'm hanging out in the warehouse, gonna eat the food i got from Sean and then look for more peoples to kill.



At this point i haven't entered the food court except to kill Carlito A so there's a little over a day's worth of food in there. Problem is i'm not sure which hours the glith lasts for.



There's a glitch that when you enter/exit the food court between a certain time the game freezes, and since you can't save in infinity mode, you potentially wasted 3-14 hours of your day. So in between eating i'm looking on the internet for the time frame.



Right now the plan is to keep going off of survivor food till day 4, then eat all the food in Paradise Plaza, which is a day's worth to push me to day 5. Then get to the food court and eat everything there throughout that day to get to day 6. Then eat my emergency supply of food i have in my inventory which is a carton of orange juice and an untouchable/Quickstep drinks. That should push me to 6 1/2, then i'll just go around getting the small static items till i get to day 7. Then i'm getting my ass killed and saving the game for the achievements.



I should be done somewhere around 11pm today. And the ad thing is i've been playing since am. That's how long this damn thing takes. And some crazy bastards on the leader boards got to 17 days! That's over 48 hours of consecutive real time play! They are either gods on earth or the few people alive who are more of a nerd than i am.



Also in Dead Rising 2 - which i pre-ordered today - I hope they have a save feature for their infinity mode. Like something that saves and exits the dame and deletes itself when you load it up. Just so the player can take a break if they want to. At this rate i'm a slave to this fucking game and it is annoying.

In regards to my Dead Rising play through.



-Wasn't able to get the "Frank the pimp" achievement. I was at the wrong place at the wrong time and couldn't get from one spot to the other without some people dieing so I gave up on that.



-I did manage to get the Tour Guide achievement though, didn't even realize I had 8 people with me when i got it. So yay for that.



-Also got the Saint achievement which i am really freakin proud of. That's where you gotta rescue every survivor in the mall. Gave me many headaches but i got it. Which means, after i get the frank the pimp achievement i don't have to worry about the survivors anymore. When i play through the game for the storyline - probably when Dead Rising 2 comes out since i like playing series games one after the other - i'm still gonna try to save as many as i can, but i'm sure as hell not gonna break my back over it ever again!



-And to top it all off i got almost all of the annoying little achievements too. Strike, Karate chop, item smasher, sharp dresser and cloths horse. Now all i have to do is the pimp one, the PP stickers, gourmet and the 5/7 day survivor ones and i'll have completed this game.



And on a final note that story that plays if you idol on the start screen is really damn sad. If it were me i'd of taken the kid out of the car and made a run for it into the woods. Still probably wouldn't have ended well but its better than staying in the war waiting for the zombies to surround it.

Man, I swear my Dead Rising game cheats. Trying to get that "tour guide" achievement. The plan was to start with Burt and Aron, give them the automatic pistols, then rescue Bill, then the girl who cries ALL the freakin time, then sophie and when i kill Adam, rescue the mall worker guy and the two Asian people to get the full 8.



So, it worked relatively fine up until the fight with Adam. Granted I wanted to shoot my group several times, the biggest of which was when they outright refused to follow me into wonderland plaza. They all stopped just short of the spot they needed to be, so i ended up having to drop-kick them into place. Would have been a little easier to just carry the crying girl through the zone but i have the big ass mounted rifle from the inmates' truck so that's not an option.



I manage to kill Adam and rescue the mall worker and safely - somehow - manage to escort them all to the bathroom and tell them to wait there. I then went up to the book store only to find out that the Asian guys aren't there. I leave the zone and come back, still not there. I leave and wait til 1am, still not there. Its like the game just decides to delete them. I know your not able to get a group bigger than 8 but does it not let you get a group at exactly 8 either? Because then that acheivement is fucked.



Think when i load the game again i'm gonna kill them all for the hell of it, then re-load it again and try this shit once again ... or maybe kill them all one more time. Its a really good stress release and they - at least Aron, the wimpy little fucker - deserve it.

Got the Case 0 arcade game today and am now in love! Can't freakin wait till 2 comes out!





Only lasts about an hour and it is a very rushed hour but damn it's cool!



You got a small town to explore and can go into a good portion of the buildings and rooftops. Lots of stuff to climb on and over too, though its optional for the most part. Did this semi-complicated jumping routine to get to a rooftop only to see a half-lowered staircase leading to the same spot a few feet behind me. lol





I honestly didn't experiment with the weapon creation stuff. I saw the little tutorial and could easily build a few things but I found that a baseball bat - later replaced with a sword - and an assault rifle works perfectly fine. Not a whole lot of time to go zombie killing too, you only have 12 in-game hours which goes by fast! Think my kill count was around 115.





The ending boss fight was surprisingly difficult too. I remember in Dead Rising 1 you could just go stab-happy and you'd be fine. I tried that my first go around and got a pitch fork to the face followed by 3 rounds of buckshot and finished off with a nice spraying down with a blow torch. Needless to say - i died. Second time through i did better but still had to go through my 2 thinks of juice i had with me. The fight ended so awesome though. The boss fell back behind some cars, i jumped onto the car in front of the boss, jumped and brougt my sword down on it, took a huge chunk of health away and was just enough for the kill.





All in all the game was great! Gonna play it again and focus more on exploring now that i know where everything major is. Glad they finally made a damn town to explore! Still really confined but your confined to open spaces which does not make sense but i do not give a damn.





Also Las Vegas and Fortuna City are apparently 2 different cities. Thought that Fortuna City was the game's version of Las Vegas, like Liberty City was GTAs version of New York but that is not the case, just thought i'd throw that out there.

Got an urge to play the Oddworld games today. Actually still have Abe's oddysee and exoddus, dusty as hell but they work. Really really good cut scene graphics too, more and more ps1 games are surprising me with how good they were.



Managed to beat the first one, after many, many deaths - some of which were slightly embarrassing. And saved 64 slaves so I barely got the good ending. Gonna play the second one when i get back from my parents house. Never actually played Munch's oddessy but i saw it on youtube so i'm all caught up in the series for when/if they make any more. Really like the crude humor in the first two too.

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PAGAN
22:02 Sep 03 2010

GAWD I'd forgotten Abe. My kids used to call each other Sligs when they were arguing. Great game.

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Just saw the Assassins Creed Brotherhood demo and i have only two words to say - holy shit!