Dead Rising 2 date, 360 gets prologue

By Tom Bramwell Published 11 February, 2010

Case Zero to precede September launch.

Capcom has said at X10 that Dead Rising 2 will be released in Europe on 3rd September, presumably for PS3 and Xbox 360 despite the Microsoft venue for the announcement.

However, Xbox 360 owners will get an "exclusive taste of the action" thanks to Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, a downloadable prologue that links the first game to the sequel, which sounds a lot like a fancy demo to us and is due out in August.

It will be "standalone and entirely consist of unique content that will not be in Dead Rising 2", according to the publisher.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • MiniAmin #1 2 years ago

    What is this pathetic "exclusive prologue" nonsense? Is this some type of apology because the first game was an Xbox 360 exclusive? This is stupid. Put it on PS3 too ffs, it makes no difference.

  • CosmicFuzz #2 2 years ago

    If it was an apology it would be on PS3, if anything it's rubbing it in PS3 owners faces!

    Ah well, at least everyone will soon get to experience the awesomeness of Dead Rising :D

  • LazyNinjaUk #3 2 years ago

    I'm intrigued now, but I'm sure it will turn to resentment when we find out it costs £10 and is only an hour long.

    However if it helps bridge the gap between the first and second game....I smell another impulse buy coming on.

  • arcam #4 2 years ago

    Hate to be always asking the same questions, but I seem to remember this being spoken of as a PC game too? Any news on that front?

    edit: Found the press release, PC coming release coming same day. Typical of EG not to even mention it one way or the other :(
    Edited by 1 at 11/02/10 @ 22:17

  • Bander #5 2 years ago

    Cool! I've hoped that demos would sometimes do this for a while. Hopefully it will neither be a spoiler for the good stuff, or boring because it's been taken from a dull section of the full game.

  • Monkey_Puncher #6 2 years ago

    If it has Frank West in it I'm there!

    (Still there if it doesn't, but it'd be nice...)

  • bad09 #7 2 years ago

    I liked the 1st but wasn't that excited on 2 TBH. Just saw a chainsaw strapped to a paddle in the screenies and for some evil reason I'm now excited.

  • Shakey_Jake33 #8 2 years ago

    Boo for exclusive stuff, achieving nothing other than giving certain people gloating rights, at the expense of others who might actually be interesting in buying it!

  • monkeywithnoeyes #9 2 years ago

    sound great... till we see the price of it. Not a chance in hell it's going to be free

  • man.the.king #10 2 years ago

    I don't think a short exclusive demo is going to sway my platform preference either way. If I do buy it, I'll be buying it on the PS3.

    My 360 is for 360-exclusives. Hopefully that way my launch model will last till the end of this console generation.

    EDIT: I see 360 fanboys have gone to town marking down my post (which, btw, wasn't intended to be flamebait or anything in the first place)
    Edited by 2 at 13/02/10 @ 08:08

  • Murton #11 2 years ago

    While it's great that this one will actually be multiplatform I wouldn't mind knowing what's happened to the first one. There have been on again off again rumours of a port of Dead Rising 1 to the PS3 for a long time now. It really annoys me when publishers refuse to talk straight and let these rumours go on without any word one way or another, even worse in this case where Capcom have actually hinted that they're working on it but nothing certain.

    And while I've never been a fan of exclusive content on multiplatform games (splitting your playerbase into haves and have nots is really dumb) the decision to make the prologue a 360 exclusive just makes no sense. Surely it should be available to the PS3 owners as a means of recapping the events of the first game as it wasn't released on that platform? We can pretty much assume that the game itself doesn't include a recap as if it did this whole prologue chapter would be rather redundant.

  • Collymilad #12 2 years ago

    The fact the prologue is 360 exclusive could be something to do with the fact it LINKS the two games, and since the first one wasn't on PS3 that would be sort of pointless, wouldn't it?

  • Moribundman #13 2 years ago

    @Murton Publishers aren't going to go back and republish every 3-4 year old game at great expense on a new SKU just to try and have people "catch up". Play the first on the 360 (you've had several years to catch up) or forget about that and just be happy DR2 is out on the PS3. t's not like its ME2 or Bioshock 2... something where playing the first game is integral to your appreciation of the second... Totally different setting et al.

  • GamesConnoisseur #14 2 years ago

    Both platform holders will look for any extra advantages, extra contents for Mirror's Edge or Dante's Inferno (us) for PS3 and GTA4 dlc and this.

    I m feeling that while we got dlc battle going on, doesn't change that most games which would have been tied to one platform or other is now multi-platform, so something for us to be jolly about? THAT Dead Rising is coming to PS3 perhaps as appreciated as DMC series appearing on x360?

    Capcom is looking to make money and not in the business of just being loyal!

  • Lee_Morris #15 2 years ago

    All this does is try and persuade multi console owners to get the 360 version. It's smart business.

  • mkreku #16 2 years ago

    But.. this was supposed to come out on PC too? What happened?

  • bad09 #17 2 years ago

    @ mkreku

    Read arcam's post, EG just left it off.

  • asphaltcowboy #18 2 years ago

    Loved the first game (eventually ;)). Can't wait to see what they've done with the second! Hopefully the NPC AI is less... well, mindless!

  • Murton #19 2 years ago

    Moribudman: I can appreciate that, but Capcom have dropped several hints that a PS3 version of Dead Rising was on the cards but we're yet to see it made flesh as it were. Just seems a shame considering that the two games are meant to be linked.

    When I think all of that time and money wasted on that flop of a Wii port next to the lack of investment on a PS3 version even in light of the sequel going multiplatform it leaves me scratching my head thinking "why"?

  • mkreku #20 2 years ago

    Oh. Damn you EG! and thank you arcam, bad09 and EarlBassett.

  • kinky_mong #21 2 years ago

    Released on my birthday?! Can't ask for a greater present than that!

  • TonyCocaCola #22 2 years ago

    @Kinkymong

    What about a car full of hookers?

  • man.the.king #23 2 years ago

    @Lee_Morris

    "It's smart business. "

    Would you have been singing the same tune were the situation to be reversed and the DLC exclusive to PS3? :)

  • Murton #24 2 years ago

    Would you have been singing the same tune were the situation to be reversed and the DLC exclusive to PS3? :)

    Irrelevant. It's never "smart business" to limit yourself to a single platform. Releasing on a second platform means you have access to more consumers and therefore sales will be higher than if the content was exclusive. Add in the factor that exclusive content on a multiplatform game always results in a negative impact on consumer goodwill and you have to ask yourself, is it ever worth keeping content exclusive when the core game is available to everyone? for me that answer is always no.