Capcom has announced four themed costume packs to be released sequentially next month.
The four downloadable content packs are Psychopath, Soldier of Fortune, Sports and Ninja.
Each downloadable content pack will cost 160 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE Arcade and should cost approximately NZD $3.70 on PlayStation Network.
Capcom has responded to suggestions that it’s alienating PlayStation 3 owners by making both the downloadable prologue and epilogue to Dead Rising 2 exclusive to Xbox 360.
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, a prologue to the multiplatform release of Dead Rising 2, was released on Xbox LIVE Arcade earlier this month and quickly broke sales records.
Last week, Capcom announced Dead Rising: Case West at the Tokyo Game Show, an epilogue to the main game and also exclusive to Xbox 360.
Capcom has announced a downloadable epilogue to their upcoming zombie sandbox title, Dead Rising 2.
Called Dead Rising 2: Case West, the epilogue sees Dead Rising 1’s Frank West team up with new protagonist Chuck Greene.
Like the Dead Rising 2 prologue Case Zero, Case West will be an Xbox 360 exclusive.
As we mentioned very briefly last night, Capcom has announced that Case Zero, the downloadable prequel to upcoming zombie-fest Dead Rising 2, has been downloaded over 300,000 times.
What we neglected to mention was that this means Case Zero has broken all Xbox LIVE Arcade records for first week sales.
We previewed Case Zero some weeks back. You can find it here.
Capcom has dated Dead Rising 2: Case Zero for the 31st of August on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Case Zero is a prequel to the full release of Dead Rising 2 and is considered a stand-alone demo.
Case Zero is set two years after the events of the original Dead Rising, and three years before Dead Rising 2. Chuck and his daughter Katey are trapped in the zombie-infested town of Still Creek. The two must fight through the undead both to escape and to locate some Zombrex to cure Katey.
“With Dead Rising 2: CASE ZERO we had two goals: provide newcomers with an easy point of entry to the Dead Rising universe, and give fans of the series an insight into what took place after Frank West survived the outbreak at the Willamette Mall,” said Keiji Inafune, Capcom’s Head of R&D Management Group and Executive Producer for Dead Rising 2.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Several years have passed since the Wilamette incident, and while Frank West was able to save America from a zombie apocalypse, the cause of zombification was not completely contained. This led to continued zombie outbreaks throughout the United States.</p>
<p align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dead Rising 2 shifts the action from the everyday world of mid-West America to the glitz and glamour of Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground. People flock to Fortune City from around the globe to escape from reality and the chance to win big.</p>
<p align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The game sees the introduction of former national Motocross champion, Chuck Greene, as the main protagonist. Before he hit the big time with a team and sponsorship behind him Chuck was forced to repair his own bikes, leaving him incredibly resourceful; a real handyman. A single father, Chuck dotes on his daughter Katey who, since the loss of her mother, he will do anything for.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">With hundreds of zombies on screen at any one time, the original Dead Rising forced gamers to turn the everyday objects they found in the Mall into improvised weapons capable of fending off attacks. Dead Rising 2 promises to increase the carnage with even more zombies intent on feasting on human flesh and countless new objects with which Chuck can make the undead dead.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dead Rising 2 is being developed by Canadian developer Blue Castle Games in close collaboration with Capcom. A number of members from the original Dead Rising team will be working alongside Blue Castle Games throughout the development process, including Capcom’s global head of research and development, Keiji Inafune, who as the game’s Producer, will play an active role in the project.</p>
