Dead Rising 2 to Have Most Characters Ever

[John Funk]

Dead Rising 2 to Have Most Characters Ever

Blue Castle, the developers of Dead Rising 2, are hoping to fill the game with the most characters on-screen simultaneously in any game ever - a whopping 6,000 undead at once.

If you ever played Dead Rising, you know that one of the game's claims to fame was the staggeringly huge horde of zombies that protagonist Frank West had to massacre his way through using everything at his disposal (well, in the Xbox 360 version, anyway). Dead Rising 2 aims to top the mark set by its predecessor, according to Blue Castle's character art lead, Izmeth Siddeek.

"Dead Rising 2 deal with the rendering of the greatest number of characters ever seen in a video game," Sideek said at last week's Game Developer's Conference. "Everything else needed to be subordinated to this requirement."

The massive zombie flood is made possible by software called Mental Mill, which allows Blue Castle to efficiently render tons and tons of zombies at once without sacrificing graphical fidelity (no word on how it'll affect frame rate, though). In a sidenote to Siddeek's presentation, Mental Mill's product manager Laura Scholl told attendees that the Dead Rising 2 team was preparing to fill their casino of the damned with enough zombies to have 6,000 on screen at once. That's a lot of zombies.

An interesting side note - while writing this news post, I almost mistakenly called Frank West "Adam West." Upon reflection, a videogame featuring Adam West slaughtering zombies would potentially be the best game ever, no?

(Via MTV Multiplayer [http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/03/27/dead-rising-2-is-supposed-to-have-most-characters-ever-6000-gdc-2009/])

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[Jack and Calumon]

a videogame featuring Adam West slaughtering zombies would potentially be the best game ever, no?

It would be the greatest game, of all time!

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

Featuring Adam West slaughtering zombies would be awesome. Featuring Adam West partnered with Keifer Sutherland slaughtering zombies would be epic!

 

[Dudemeister]

a videogame featuring Adam West slaughtering zombies would potentially be the best game ever, no?

How about a game where all the zombies are Adam West ?

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Dead Rising 1 was pretty awesome...well not in the beginning but still it turned out to be pretty awesome. I hope 2 will be good too.

 

[Sir Ollie]

Sweet 6000 zombies i can't wait for the kill 1 million zombies achievements seriously this game is going to be great

 

[Pirce]

You could have Adam West and the alternate clothing could be all his famous roles. Batman, Catman, Mayor Adam West, Vacuum Cleaner Sales Guy, the list just goes on.

 

[Lord_Panzer]

"A little softer now, 'Aaaaadaamm Weeeessssst, Aa-aa-aadam Weeest...' "

It would certainly be impressive to see 6000 zombies on screen at once, but you'd pretty much have to use a Fat-Boy just to deal with them all.

 

[ila]

I never had a chance to play Dead Rising (No 360) so I can't comment on the thrill of zombie survival, but am I a bad person for thinking the Mental Mill engine would be great for Dynasty Warriors?

 

[thiosk]

I too missed out on the 360 edition of DR1.

Heres to hoping a PC port could deliver infinity billion zombies on screen at once.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

In Family Guy Adam West covers every grave with concrete, so he's already taken preventative action. Remember Kids when it comes to zombies prevention is the best cure.

On topic: if you have 6000 enemies attacking, then how are you going to kill them all?

 

[protogenxl]

Hopefully the weapons will include a Saiga-12 with a double drum magazine.

 

[KDR_11k]

Well, Demon Chaos on the PS2 claimed up to 65536 enemies, no idea how many of those were drawn simultaneously but fighting them was more like mowing the lawn than actually fighting (a single swipe would kill a hundred and your hyper mode made you spin and slash like a madman so yes, it was like mowing) because in those numbers they simply had to be weak for the player to have any chance at dealing with them. You can only interact with a handful of enemies when using melee anyway as only a limited number of them fit into your weapon range.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Let's hope this one isnt as frustratingly difficult as the first one.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

An interesting side note - while writing this news post, I almost mistakenly called Frank West "Adam West." Upon reflection, a videogame featuring Adam West slaughtering zombies would potentially be the best game ever, no?

We need to make this game. Hell, we need to make tons of games starring Adam West.

 

[Aqualung]

6000 on screen at once? ..This makes my video game idea a step closer to being possible. [insert evil laugh here.]

This game sounds great already.

 

[deletemeplease107]

I didnt do much research into it, because i hated Dead Rising .... but will they fix the FUCKED save system? That save system totally turned me off from this game and now it collects dust.

 

[scotth266]

Adam West is the MAN.
Dead Rising was a fun game. Perhaps I'll write a reveiw in anticipation of this...

 

[Zombie Aaron]

I don't know about you, but Frank and Adam must be brothers. I don't know what's more far fetched, the original Batman or Frank West swinging a cash register full of money.