So case zero was released on august 31st on the x-box live arcade
I Spent friday playing the hell out of this game. i beat it and got 3 different endings and had a fun time doing it. so here is what i thought about all the aspects of the game.
A GLORIFIED DEMO?
im starting my review out with this because it was some thing i heard a lot of people complaining about. this game is not a glorified demo. this is a good hour and a half of gameplay that is incredible fun and worth the 5 bucks i spent on it. if it had been 10 i might have been wary. 15 would have been a no sale for me. But 5 dollars makes this worth checking out
ZOMBIES
they are slow and stupid and full of blood. just like you want. the only thing i don't like about them is that randomly one will have a crazy slide ability and latch on to you. while i was playing i was walking up the side walk and one that was on the street instantly grabbed me and took away one of my health bars. it pissed me off and i really hope it is fixed up. sure if im next to one he can get me. but a zombie that can pull the electric slide and grab ahold of my junk and start munching down just pisses me off.
LEVELING
same as in the first game minus the camera part. you kill zombies you get exp. you kill a lot of zombies at once you get more exp. you save survoirs you get a shit load of exp. if you kill zombies with special weapons you get a shit load of exp. if you kill bosses you get exp. Almost everything in witch you kill something or save something gets you experience and with the large amount of weapons you can use it never feels stale killing zombies by the hundreds.
COMBAT SYSTEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFr09VhyqfI
any one who played the first dead rising knows the combat was a hit or miss deal. some weapons felt way to overpowered while some sucked balls so hard they were not even worth using. I am happy to say that this is no longer the problem. The fighting is a hell of a lot smoother and you feel more fluid while doing it. you get a good feeling when you smash a zombie upside the head a bat or stab him with a knife.
GUNS
i wont say much on them. they work better. alot better form the first game. and the ability to move around while aiming is a big improvement. it was fun to use them but it tok away a bit of the fun of beating zombies down with melee weapons.
WEAPONS BREAKING
Weapons still break when you use them to much bit they have been giving a longer life bar then in dead rising one. Instead of a weapon getting a few good hits and then being destroyed they will now last longer and even when it goes into red it still gives you ample time to find another weapon before it breaks. This does not mean that it last forever. If you go into a crowd of zombies and try to fight you way out with just a knife it will break on you. and you will be as they "fucked"
WEAPONS HEAVY ATTACK
Man do these feel good to do. The majority of weapons will come with two attacks tap a for a normal attack. or you can hold it down and do a nice cut scene style attack. I think my favorite is a mixture between the boom sticks stabbing them in the air with a pitch fork and then blasting them to pieces with a shotgun or using the butcher knife for a very classic horror theme stabbing scene.
SPECIAL BUILD IT YOURSELF WEAPONS (noobtoob weapon included)
i was a bit on the bummed side that you cant make a double chainsaw on a stick. But the game still offers a very nice experience of the weapons you can make. IT works in a card system. While you level up you will unlock cards that will tell you what can be combined. But you dont have to wait for these cards to tell you. The first thing i did was take a bat and some nails and combine the two and i was fucking happy to do it. You feel good when you make a special weapon because you realize your about to start kicking some ass with this weapon. It feels good holding them and using them. I am over all happy with the system it uses for it. If an item is able to be combined with something it will have a wrench over it. It wont tell you what you can combine with it but it can only be combined with another item that has a wrench over it. This adds for some very neat moments of "ohh this bucket has a wrench on it and oh this drill has a wrench, well lets see what happens and HOLY SHIT THIS IS COOL WHERE IS A ZOMBIE SO I CAN PUT THIS ON ITS HEAD."
STORY SO FAR
well i cant really say for sure what it is so far. you drive out of an infected town trying to get out of the military blockade. you know that you are chuck green, your daughter is infected and will turn into a zombie unless you give her zombrex (the games drug that keeps you from zombifying) Every 12 hours. You cannot give any to her before the 12 hour period or else she will die from overdose from it. The story starts out with you getting your car stolen form you. you hide out in the gas station with our daughter and you must find her the zombrex. while searching you find parts to a motorcycle. You need to rebuild it and fast because the military is coming soon and they will take her away if they find her. Apparently you are recognizable by face because one of the survivors call you out by name even though you have not met him. when you go to give your daughter her shot she ask why did mommy bite her. So we know that chuck greens wife is dead and it was hert that bit there daughter. Then a boss shows up and tries to kill her. If you get the proper ending the game ends with you driving away from the military and finding the car that the man stole from you. Turns out the man was infected. You get the zombrex and a few other items and drive off into the city.
MY TAKE ON THE STORY
The father daughter connection works a bit better then frank wests in my opinion. Sorry frank i know you covered wars and all but i respect chuck for not acting like a slime ball.
It didn't bother me in case zero that you had to run back to your daughter every 12 hours to give her a shit. This could or could not be a problem in the full game. I don't think it will because 12 hours take a while to come around so you get a good bit of playing time before you have to go to this location and press a to not have your daughter die.
Other then that the only part in the story that really drew me in for a damn was when chuck gives his daughter a shot and she asks why did mommy bite me. And chuck says that wasn't mommy. It made me wonder "did chuck have to kill his own wife." hopefully this leads to some nice back story in the full game.
SURVIVOR AI
IS A LOT SMARTER THANK FUCKING GOD. never once did i have to stop and go back to save my dumb ass person i had to save. They were able to defend them selfs and keep moving forward relatively well. If a lot of zombies were around them they would need me to help them but they were a hell of a lot smarter. It was much less of a hassle and i don't think ill be saying fuck the survivors like i did in dead rising 1.
TALKING TO SURVIVORS
is still text based but it is much better
in the first game there would be zombies every where you were trying to get out of there and get the person to safety and the text reading was like this hi frank thanks for coming sorry you cant read it im worried you may judge me if i talk a bit louder,
that is no longer the case instead you get a nice hey chuck thanks for coming to save my ass isn't it nice being able to understand what im trying to say now lets get out of here before that zombie over there tries giving you another undead bj
i think the folks over at capcom wanted to make people less pissed off at the survivors.
FINALE RATING
if you dont want to go out and buy dead rising 2 right away, case zero is so cheap and affordable and fun to play every one should get there hands on it. Its a fun way to spend about 2 hours playing and going back and trying to do other things and explore the town was fun as hell. It Improved over alot of the problems i had when i played with dead rising one. This nice preview sold me on the full game.
i would actually like seeing more demo/games like this. It gives you a much bigger taste then any demo does and it so cheap it doesn't hurt your wallet and they are fun to play for hours.
DEAD RISING TWO CASE ZERO EARNS ITSELF A 8/10 WAY ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT I EXPECTED BUT NOT SOMETHING I CAN CALL PERFECT
review brought to you by Geto Fish
This is an older review i did.
I Spent friday playing the hell out of this game. i beat it and got 3 different endings and had a fun time doing it. so here is what i thought about all the aspects of the game.
A GLORIFIED DEMO?
im starting my review out with this because it was some thing i heard a lot of people complaining about. this game is not a glorified demo. this is a good hour and a half of gameplay that is incredible fun and worth the 5 bucks i spent on it. if it had been 10 i might have been wary. 15 would have been a no sale for me. But 5 dollars makes this worth checking out
ZOMBIES
they are slow and stupid and full of blood. just like you want. the only thing i don't like about them is that randomly one will have a crazy slide ability and latch on to you. while i was playing i was walking up the side walk and one that was on the street instantly grabbed me and took away one of my health bars. it pissed me off and i really hope it is fixed up. sure if im next to one he can get me. but a zombie that can pull the electric slide and grab ahold of my junk and start munching down just pisses me off.
LEVELING
same as in the first game minus the camera part. you kill zombies you get exp. you kill a lot of zombies at once you get more exp. you save survoirs you get a shit load of exp. if you kill zombies with special weapons you get a shit load of exp. if you kill bosses you get exp. Almost everything in witch you kill something or save something gets you experience and with the large amount of weapons you can use it never feels stale killing zombies by the hundreds.
COMBAT SYSTEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFr09VhyqfI
any one who played the first dead rising knows the combat was a hit or miss deal. some weapons felt way to overpowered while some sucked balls so hard they were not even worth using. I am happy to say that this is no longer the problem. The fighting is a hell of a lot smoother and you feel more fluid while doing it. you get a good feeling when you smash a zombie upside the head a bat or stab him with a knife.
GUNS
i wont say much on them. they work better. alot better form the first game. and the ability to move around while aiming is a big improvement. it was fun to use them but it tok away a bit of the fun of beating zombies down with melee weapons.
WEAPONS BREAKING
Weapons still break when you use them to much bit they have been giving a longer life bar then in dead rising one. Instead of a weapon getting a few good hits and then being destroyed they will now last longer and even when it goes into red it still gives you ample time to find another weapon before it breaks. This does not mean that it last forever. If you go into a crowd of zombies and try to fight you way out with just a knife it will break on you. and you will be as they "fucked"
WEAPONS HEAVY ATTACK
Man do these feel good to do. The majority of weapons will come with two attacks tap a for a normal attack. or you can hold it down and do a nice cut scene style attack. I think my favorite is a mixture between the boom sticks stabbing them in the air with a pitch fork and then blasting them to pieces with a shotgun or using the butcher knife for a very classic horror theme stabbing scene.
SPECIAL BUILD IT YOURSELF WEAPONS (noobtoob weapon included)
i was a bit on the bummed side that you cant make a double chainsaw on a stick. But the game still offers a very nice experience of the weapons you can make. IT works in a card system. While you level up you will unlock cards that will tell you what can be combined. But you dont have to wait for these cards to tell you. The first thing i did was take a bat and some nails and combine the two and i was fucking happy to do it. You feel good when you make a special weapon because you realize your about to start kicking some ass with this weapon. It feels good holding them and using them. I am over all happy with the system it uses for it. If an item is able to be combined with something it will have a wrench over it. It wont tell you what you can combine with it but it can only be combined with another item that has a wrench over it. This adds for some very neat moments of "ohh this bucket has a wrench on it and oh this drill has a wrench, well lets see what happens and HOLY SHIT THIS IS COOL WHERE IS A ZOMBIE SO I CAN PUT THIS ON ITS HEAD."
STORY SO FAR
well i cant really say for sure what it is so far. you drive out of an infected town trying to get out of the military blockade. you know that you are chuck green, your daughter is infected and will turn into a zombie unless you give her zombrex (the games drug that keeps you from zombifying) Every 12 hours. You cannot give any to her before the 12 hour period or else she will die from overdose from it. The story starts out with you getting your car stolen form you. you hide out in the gas station with our daughter and you must find her the zombrex. while searching you find parts to a motorcycle. You need to rebuild it and fast because the military is coming soon and they will take her away if they find her. Apparently you are recognizable by face because one of the survivors call you out by name even though you have not met him. when you go to give your daughter her shot she ask why did mommy bite her. So we know that chuck greens wife is dead and it was hert that bit there daughter. Then a boss shows up and tries to kill her. If you get the proper ending the game ends with you driving away from the military and finding the car that the man stole from you. Turns out the man was infected. You get the zombrex and a few other items and drive off into the city.
MY TAKE ON THE STORY
The father daughter connection works a bit better then frank wests in my opinion. Sorry frank i know you covered wars and all but i respect chuck for not acting like a slime ball.
It didn't bother me in case zero that you had to run back to your daughter every 12 hours to give her a shit. This could or could not be a problem in the full game. I don't think it will because 12 hours take a while to come around so you get a good bit of playing time before you have to go to this location and press a to not have your daughter die.
Other then that the only part in the story that really drew me in for a damn was when chuck gives his daughter a shot and she asks why did mommy bite me. And chuck says that wasn't mommy. It made me wonder "did chuck have to kill his own wife." hopefully this leads to some nice back story in the full game.
SURVIVOR AI
IS A LOT SMARTER THANK FUCKING GOD. never once did i have to stop and go back to save my dumb ass person i had to save. They were able to defend them selfs and keep moving forward relatively well. If a lot of zombies were around them they would need me to help them but they were a hell of a lot smarter. It was much less of a hassle and i don't think ill be saying fuck the survivors like i did in dead rising 1.
TALKING TO SURVIVORS
is still text based but it is much better
in the first game there would be zombies every where you were trying to get out of there and get the person to safety and the text reading was like this hi frank thanks for coming sorry you cant read it im worried you may judge me if i talk a bit louder,
that is no longer the case instead you get a nice hey chuck thanks for coming to save my ass isn't it nice being able to understand what im trying to say now lets get out of here before that zombie over there tries giving you another undead bj
i think the folks over at capcom wanted to make people less pissed off at the survivors.
FINALE RATING
if you dont want to go out and buy dead rising 2 right away, case zero is so cheap and affordable and fun to play every one should get there hands on it. Its a fun way to spend about 2 hours playing and going back and trying to do other things and explore the town was fun as hell. It Improved over alot of the problems i had when i played with dead rising one. This nice preview sold me on the full game.
i would actually like seeing more demo/games like this. It gives you a much bigger taste then any demo does and it so cheap it doesn't hurt your wallet and they are fun to play for hours.
DEAD RISING TWO CASE ZERO EARNS ITSELF A 8/10 WAY ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT I EXPECTED BUT NOT SOMETHING I CAN CALL PERFECT
review brought to you by Geto Fish
This is an older review i did.