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Last friday, an interesting little video began popping up at gaming sites all over the internet. It depicted jumbled, grainy footage of a news report referencing something called "The Willamette incident", television ads for a drug reputed to "completely halt the progress of the zombie disease", and a tourism ad for a place called Fortune City. All of this was intercut with footage of a teeming horde of zombies milling about a casino and attacking people violently. Sounds like a viral marketing campaign, eh? Soon after it hit, speculation began on what the add could be for. People soon began to think it was a sequel to Dead Rising, game developer Capcom's 2006 zombie horror game inspired by Dawn of the Dead. Well, it looks like they were right. On monday, popular gaming news blog Kotaku.com reported that the game was real and the video was legit. You'll find the video in question below.
Says Capcom: "Dead Rising 2 will take the franchise to a new level of zombie-killing fun with tens of thousands of zombies, and "a chance to kill them in fun ways in the gambling paradise of Fortune City." The game is set several years after the events of Dead Rising. Unfortunately, the army apparently failed to contain the outbreak from the first game, and now ghouls roam unchecked throughout the U.S.
Dead Rising is being developed in partnership with Canadian developer Blue Castle Games, as well as some members of the original game's development team.
Capcom has promised that additional details about the game's story and gameplay will be made available soon. I'll keep watching this story as it develops. In the meantime, here's everything kotaku has written about the game.
www.kotaku.com/5140686/new-dead-rising-and-lost-planet-mentioned-might-be-multi+platform
http://kotaku.com/5148320/could-this-be-dead-rising-2
http://kotaku.com/5149650/dead-rising-2-its-real-and-its-spectacular
http://kotaku.com/5149262/translating-the-dead-rising-2-trailer
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