Capcom has announced that Dead Rising 2 is in development and on its way to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. The game is set a couple of years after the events of the original; with the zombie outbreak uncontained, general undeadness has spread across America, to gambling paradise of Fortune City, the setting for the new game.
Capcom has a released a handful of screenshots – see below. Gameplay and specific plot info are coming later, but we can take a punt at the casino locale opening up the size of the explorable environment considerably, including the familiar malls and shopping plazas that made the original so great, as well as the other tackily themed venues. We’re guessing that there’ll be a lot more amusing objects to batter the zombies into wet pulp with too.
Dead Rising 2 is being developed in partnership with Canada’s Blue Castle Games and includes a number of the original Dead Rising development team. Capcom’s Keiji Inafune is the game producer. It’s coming out on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, but there’s no word on release date yet.
A viral teaser trailer was also ‘leaked’ ahead of the announcement, giving a couple of vague glimpses of gameplay footage:
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