Dead Rising 2 offering Psycho, Ninja, Sports, Soldier DLC to all, for a price

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 6th 2010 3:00PM

The Dead Rising 2 pre-order bonus DLC will be made available for purchase on PSN and Xbox Live Marketplace over the coming weeks. Each pack will cost $1.99 (or 160 Microsoft Points). Bonuses in the packs can be combined to form the ultimate Chuck and include:

Psychopath Pack (Oct. 12) -- Bonus when using iconic horror movie weapons (chainsaws, cleavers, axes)
Soldier of Fortune Pack (Oct. 19) -- Doubles ammo, increases shooting and headshot accuracy; special bullet spray attack when using automatics
Sports Pack (Oct. 26) -- Golf balls, basketballs, etc. bounce more before stopping. Chuck will also "earn more from gambling, gain more health while eating and drinking and not get sick from drinking too much." So, essentially, he's your fun uncle.
Ninja Pack (Nov. 2) -- Stealth mode requires zombies be closer to detect presence. Throwing items do more damage and are tossed faster; bonuses with sword weapon

So, zombies better watch out when Chuck's camouflaged with a viking helmet and ninja slippers ... or they can just laugh. Wait -- do zombies laugh or just sorta joyfully gurgle?

Tags: Blue-Castle-Games, Capcom, dead-rising-2, DLC, microsoft, playstation, ps3, psn, release-date, xblm, xbox

Reader Comments (40)

I remember when these used to be cheat codes

Yeah It stinks of what the hitman games did back in the xbox ps2 days where the ps2 "cheats" were free but the xbox cheats had to be purchased via micro transaction.

We as the customers really need to stand up and put our collective foot down or crap like this will never stop.... sadly most gamers posess spines made of gelatin and failure as can be referenced from the modern warfare 2 boycott.

@KingOfGods

We can thank EA for setting those trends. I still remember when they started releasing games like NFS for you to have to buy cheats...

Yes I realize that both consoles are being charged for the DLC my comparison to the Hitman days of yore was simply to point out that they didn't do it because they "needed to" they did it because they could, just as they are now.

@Scuffles

I believe its because of Microsoft not the company that made Hitman
same with the Left 4 Dead PC add-ons are free unlike the Xbox ones.

@Quayle Nah the Hitman cheats were exactly that game cheats, they were included on the disk. The only differance between the PS2 and Xbox versions was that the Xbox at that point supported micro transactions where the PS2, not so much. There was no legitimate reason not to include the cheats on the 360 version save they wanted to see if they could push people.

Companies are like poorly trained dogs...

If you don't correct them when they get up on the counter and eat sneak your food ..... then don't be surprised that the second you turn around your sandwich is gone. Who do you blame when a dog is ill behaved .... the owner and in this case the customer base. For not growing a pair.

I hope to see a future where gamers rebel against overpriced DLC and pay for "enhancements" or unlockables by refusing to purchase games when they come out and waiting for the final GOTY or Complete version. The generation of consoles that can easily download a $2 outfit for your SFIV character is ruining the value of games.

EA is one of the worst at this where every sports game comes with about $30 of unlocked cheats.

@ijustw1n
You tell em preach brother.

When I got DR2 these were up on the marketplace for free

@LuckyEMS
Only allowed you to play with someone with this dlc,otherwise i believe they revert to normal outfits.

@LuckyEMS All of the items you see available for free just allow you to play with people who have that content already.

@LuckyEMS

That wasnt pre-order DLC...that just allowed me to play with you (for example) if you owned one of the pre-order deals

lol @ the ppl paying $50+ for the psycho code on ebay

"earn more from gambling, gain more health while eating and drinking and not get sick from drinking too much"

and he even looks like bret favre in the picture too.

@TheMCFacemanBandcampcom OH SNAP! But seriously I'd only be worried if he looked like Jay Cutler. If the zombies tackle you 9 times you're pretty much done for.

ohhhh so that's what my pre-order does...

$2 a piece so the devs can adjust some in-game variables for you. If they weren't trying to steal your money they could've made sliders in the options menu for that.

@dxrebirth
amazon has been pretty cagey about whether or not the DR2 preorder items are coming out. promises have been made but no results yet

and capcom wonders why they do such a piss poor job selling games?

stop being dicks game publishers.

Lame, at least include some new weapons with them.

Mel Gibson?

2 doesn't seem that bad easily could have been 5 each like some companies would try to pull

Ugh, I think I'll just wait for the ultra special edition of this game to come out in the next 6 months, lol

Obligatory "DLC isn't going anywhere/don't like it? don't buy it" comment. Feel free do downvote or ignore at your discretion.

I find that this headline is much funnier when you remove the commas: "Dead Rising 2 offering Psycho Ninja Sports Soldier DLC to all, for a price"

@Cdy2007

You missed one.

Wow. Capcom comes up with some of the silliest stuff as paid DLC.

It's almost balanced by the sweet price they put on Case Zero...almost.

Some people are saying that this is like paying for cheats, but regular free cheats would disable trophies, and these will not. I'm not saying that they are worth $2, but they might be worth it to some people who need help and still want trophies.

Wait.. . Stealth Mode?

There's a Stealth Mode?

I've been playing the game for a week and I had no idea. Is that always available or do you have to unlock it by leveling up?

I bought my game at Best Buy and it came with the Sports Fan costume. I equipped it and grabbed a baseball bat. I think I saw an icon in my inventory showing that my bat had extra durability. I combined the bat with nails and it went away. Maybe it was unrelated to the sports pack because I did have a few magazines in my inventory, but I wonder if it doesn't count the weapon combos for the bonuses that you get?

Thanks for the info guys!

Yep, I downloaded these for free a few weeks back on XBL Marketplace. Ya gotta keep an eye on it daily!

@madninjaish

Its not the same thing, pay attention

How about a "no time" mode? This game really begs for a mode for just fooling around.

@(Unverified)

Dear God this would be awesome. I'm tired of this archaic time limit system. A game that stresses creativity and screwing around, yet imposes some old school time limit? At least make the missions untimed until you reach a checkpoint WITHIN the mission. IMO, this is the biggest flaw with this game.

@(Unverified) You don't have to do the missions. You can just fool around without worrying about anything as much as you like, and as long as you save it your progress will carry forward whenever you feel like doing the missions in a new game.

@Benjamin It's not the same. If I do that I'd be constantly thinking that I missed something, that I failed at something. A "no time" mode or just a "survival" mode to explore and fool around without time constraints, would make it a much, much better game for me. Heck, I even would overlook the awful loading times, since I wouldn't need to be constantly racing from area to area.

@(Unverified) that would be amazing i mean no time just shoot the shit, kill zombies with no time limit somebody please send that idea to capcom.

What?! $2 for better aiming, double ammo, more damage, better tossing. WHAT?! if people actually buy these then the world's gone mad. this is almost as bad as horse armor.

@dennisb407

Yes massa, I'll get right on that. My mistake...

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Dead Rising 2 offering Psycho, Ninja, Sports, Soldier DLC to all, for a price

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