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Dead Rising 2: Case Zero

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, will introduce main protagonist and former motocross champion Chuck Greene and provide a link between the original game and the events that await players in the gambling paradise of…

87 31 August 2010

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is an adventure developed by Blue Castle Games, released 31 August 2010 on Xbox 360.

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What Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is an adventure game developed by Blue Castle Games and released in 2010. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Xbox 360 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dead Rising is a 2006 action-adventure game developed and published by Capcom originally for the Xbox 360. The game's story follows wartime photojournalist Frank West, who becomes trapped inside a shopping mall in the town of Willamette, Colorado, during a deadly zombie plague. West must uncover the truth behind the plague before a rescue helicopter arrives in three days to evacuate him.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, horror and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 17 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero launched on 31 August 2010, within three weeks of Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

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When did Dead Rising 2: Case Zero come out?
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero was released on 31 August 2010 for Xbox 360.

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