The action takes place on a parallel world of Praetorian Earth, not to be confused with Primal Earth of CoH and CoV. This new world takes players to all new locales with some familiar yet oddly behaving faces…
First off, let’s be clear about what you’re getting in Dead Rising 2: Case Zero. This five-dollar download is no paid demo. None of the content is lifted out of Dead Rising 2. It’s a unique location, with characters and places you won’t encounter in the full game. In fact, I’ve seen much of the full game, and I’m pretty sure a key piece of information about the main characters is only available in Case Zero. It’s a small detail, but it’s a detail I would have hated to miss.
Case Zero’s premise is simple and effective. Manly protagonist Chuck is stranded in a small town and needs to find five parts to build the motorcycle that will carry him into Dead Rising 2. But there’s a catch. The military will arrive in 24 hours, at which point his adorable but infected daughter will be locked away in quarantine, effectively dooming her to zombiehood. Unfortunately, while Dead Rising 2 is happy to imply child zombies, it shies away from actually showing them. Too bad. Child zombies are a mean-spirited staple of the genre. I guess even Dead Rising has its limits.
The criminal underground is a ruthless and dangerous place to be a part of. Modern day mafias, gangs and deviants rule in this world and wont hesitate to terminate your existence if you cross them. Some deals made in this type of manner can make a man rich. Others can make a man wish he’d never gotten involved…
#29 and feelin’ fine! Welcome to Lexi’s List! Let’s break into this week’s treasure trove of goodies!
Tron fans can now mark their calendars, as Disney has announced that the upcoming videogame spinoff will be arriving ten days before the film.
Disney also unveiled a sizable collector’s edition, which will retail for $130. The main attraction is a model light cycle, which comes complete with a special display case for the model and a drawer for the game. The collector’s edition will only be available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game.
Tron Evolution will detail the events taking place between the original film and the upcoming Tron Legacy, which is due in theaters December 17. The film will reference events that take place in the game, but will be their own standalone experiences.
Pour one out for the fallen homies
After a trip into the first person perspective in the Prime series, the Metroid series is returning to its side-scrolling roots… sort of. Metroid: Other M takes place immediately after the the fall of Mother Brain at the end of Super Metroid. Other M promises to flush out Samus as a character and help explain [...]
In a tweet to his followers, Major Nelson (Microsoft’s Defacto Xbox Community Manager) announced changes to the pricing model for Gold Xbox Live subscriptions in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Canada. Oddly enough the cost of online play and other gold exclusive content has now been raised in all four territories. A full [...]
Speaking to PC Gamer, Newell revealed that they’ve actually gotten tons of studio offers in the past. “There was a whole bunch of meetings with people from Hollywood [after Half-Life 1 shipped],” Newell explained. “Directors down there wanted to make a Half-Life movie and stuff, so they’d bring in a writer or some talent agency would bring in writers, and they would pitch us on their story. And their stories were just so bad. I mean, brutally, the worst. Not understanding what made the game a good game, or what made the property an interesting thing for people to be a fan of.”
And that, Newell said, is when they decided only one company could get it right: Valve. “That’s when we started saying: ‘Wow, the best thing we could ever do is to just not do this as a movie, or we’d have to make it ourselves,’” he said. “And I was like, ‘Make it ourselves? Well that’s impossible.’ But the Team Fortress 2 thing, the Meet the Team shorts, is us trying to explore that.”
In one of my favorite poems, “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot writes:
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow.
In other words: some of us may be lucky enough to have a fantastic idea, design, thought, whatever, locked up inside our imaginations, but all too often some ineffable force, some unknown obstacle prevents us from making that idea a workable reality.
