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Dead Rising 2 (hoping) to push 6000 zombies on-screen

Written by Phil Meza
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Remember when you played Capcom's Dead Rising for the first time in 2006? Remember the joy, and excitement, you got at seeing a virtually endless lot of undead stumbling around, aiming for you? The game's sequel is aiming to dwarf the number of zombies you see on-screen... whenever it releases. Speaking at their GDC panel on the tech behind the anticipated sequel, Izmeth Siddeek, art lead on Dead Rising 2 at Canadian developer Blue Castle Games said that with their new software called Mental Mill, Dead Rising 2 has "the greatest number of characters ever seen in a video game." The hope is to realize nearly 6000 hungry zombies on your HDTV, and without having to settle for 3 or 4 character models or subpar visual detail, claims Mental Mill product manager, Laura Scholl. Did you hear that, *Dead Rising: Chop 'Til You Drop? ‘Dead Rising 2′ deal[s] with the rendering of the greatest number of characters ever seen in a video game. Everything else needed to be subordinated to this requirement.”* That's a lot of undead. Hopefully there's a lot of ammo, or whatever you will find to defend yourself in a not-set-in-Las Vegas casino. Let's just pray that melee weapons don't break this time.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 March 2009 )