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Dead RIsing 2

This is one of the 3 PS3 game titles I bought during my trip back to SG last week - Dead Rising 2.

Just began playing not too long ago, and seems that this game - while pretty easy to navigate and all - requires some degree of exploration and trial and error before you can fully understand and enjoy the game.

Firstly, it doesn't have any sort of "tutorial" level that runs you through the basics of the game, and immediately throws you into the deep end of the pool expecting you to know exactly what to do.

Secondly, there is a minigame in the beginning sequence involving a motorcycle race to kill the most number of zombies, which a player could totally miss/skip with the simple press of the [X] button. Cutscenes are also easily cancelled and "forwarded' to the next part of the story with [X], albeit unintentionally for first timers.

There is one feature, however that attempts to redeem itself - if you somehow get killed in the course of the game, there is an option offered to you to restart the game but retain all the items, clothes and experience gained from the previous game, sans the quest items, of course.

Overall, the game seems to keep working a pretty simple concept to search, locate and rescue survivors, while (mostly) avoiding zombies and picking up / combining swell items to bring the world of pain to your regular undead critters roaming the world outside your zombie-free safehouse, and last but not least, try to keep your already-infected young daughter from turning into an undead, flesh and brain-eating zombie by regularly injecting her with an anti-zombifying drug aptly named "Zombrex".

For those who love brainless carnage, want a game that does not require thinking skills and possess good finger-eye coordination and agility, this is the game for you.

Stay tuned for more reviews on my other two PS3 titles - Star Wars: Force Unleashed 2 and Fifa 11!

posted by Jeremy @ 6:48 PM