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Confirmed: Dead Rising 2 has multiplayer

by Griffin McElroy on Apr 28th 2009 3:00PM

Hey, remember when a representative from Dead Rising 2's middleware developer, mental mill, mentioned during a GDC presentation that Dead Rising 2 would have "multiplayer sessions," and then another mental mill representative said the first representative misspoke, and meant to say "multiplatform?" Good. Keep that hilariously convoluted exchange locked away in your mind for a minute.

Capcom development head Keiji Inafune recently confirmed to Eurogamer that Dead Rising 2 will have some form of online multiplayer component. No specifics about the multiplayer offerings have been revealed, though it's nice to finally have a clear answer on the existence of this long obfuscated feature.

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Tags: capcom, dead-rising-2, keiji-inafune, mental-mill, Microsoft, multplayer, online-multiplayer, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (46)

Co-op would be a blast!!

having co-op would lose it's feel of the game, I think being swarmed by zombies by yourself gives the sense of loneliness and panic(cough cough* RE5). Personally I think the multi will be surival or racking up kills.

@Snakku

You must have not played the original or something.
From what I remember, most of the game was about finding other people, sticking with them, and helping them get out of the mall while fighting off zombies.

Online co op would be cool.

Local co op would be a gift from the Gods.

Dead Rising wasn't about be scary or atmospheric, it was mostly being about saving people and using goody ways to kill zombies.

FINALLY.

I wonder if Capcom will be greedy enough to charge 10$ this time....

Capcom greedy??? not possible!

I don't think they'll make the same mistake twice. They'll probably find another crucial part of the game they can leave out...

Remember in the original how you save your game in the bathrooms? They probably sell you the "bathroom key" as DLC.

Or maybe they'll sell you the ending. Right before the final boss fight it just cuts to credits.

Nice

about time, this and the ability to read what was going on (without an hdtv) were the things that pissed me off with the first one.

I'm actually slightly worried that if this got online co-op then I would begin to have massive expectations for it. Competitive multiplayer in the form of deathmatch or something like that doesn't immediately peak any interest in me. I'm sure they'd be able to come up with something creative though.

I think it would have to be some sort of PVE multiplayer, like capture the widget, save the people, defend some object.

Co-op survival mode would be amazing, where you both scout around for food/resources, have communal areas to hoard/share loot, team up to kill minibosses. I can see my self playing that for days.

I hate you joystiq...How am I gonna clean up all this jizz in school? Dammit...

Are you saying that when you heard this news you JIZZED IN YOUR PANTS?

@ Brucie

Take a good, long, look at the motherfuckin boat.

Believe me when I say

I F*CKED A MERMAAAAAAAIIIID

Co-op would make this game sooo much better, I got bored during the first one and never finished it, but screwing around with friends in co-op would be awesome!

They didn't say Co-op they said multiplayer. I could really give a damn about multiplayer in this game, co-op would be cool but that's not the way I am hearing it.

Co-op please.

Player 2 - Frank West?

I don't know if you've heard, but he's covered wars.

No no no...wait for it...wait for it...

CONFIRMED: AWESOME!

My boner for this game just pushed the moon 1cm away from the earth, causing massive tidal changes. Billions perish. (Still totally worth it).

I want OFF-line co-op though too :(

That was exactly what I thought when I read the post.

Still don't think it'll be as good as the Wii version.

Why?

Ha. Poe's Law.

extra credit for using the word obfuscated.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

another good reason to own an xbox 360

I don't want to burst your bubble but its also for the PS3

i never said it wouldnt o_o. jeez playslaves sensitive much? i was referring to the wii.
and i have both systems so relax

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/4/27/

What's with the multiplayer bangwagon going at full speed? Bioshock, then Uncharted, and now DR?

I wouldn't be surprised if multiplayer was made mandatory by next gen by MS/Sony

Please co-op!

Are you nuts? I wasn't wearing any pants...

I don't think any of us were.

The first one had online content, too. It was called a scoreboard.
Don't get your hopes up.

Funny how everyone here wants co-op and nobody gives a damn about competitive multiplayer.

(But seeing who could kill the most zombies in 10 minutes would be so sick).

If it has co-op mp it is already bought! ;)

btw. new trailer: http://www.insidegamer.nl/pc/deadrising2/videos/10302

Awesome, I absolutely loved the first one. Remember playing the game over multiple times cause i wanted to rescue everyone (though i could never find the dude who gives you infinite Molotovs)

Thank god this is Multi-Platform too, I sold my 360 cause it Red Ringed on me 3 times (and all 3 times i sent it in to get repaired). After the third time i decided to sell it and get a PS3 :P Here's hoping none of the DLC is exclusive to any of the consoles!

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