I've been waiting for a sort of re-release of Dead Rising 2 with both the prologue and epilogue DLC put into the same disc, like a Special Edition/Game of the Year release...
And instead we got that...
Dead Rising 2: Off The Record!
This won't be a DLC episode.
Noooo!
It's instead a big What if... scenario, putting Frank West back as main character, instead of Chuck Greene from DR2.
Photography will be back, as well as DR1's point and grading system. Snapping pictures to earn PP, which levels up the character unlike the DR2's system.
Frank West's core gameplay isn't strictly built around photography. You'll also build combo weapons, and there will be new weapons to tape together, letting you form new zombie killing tools.
They've tweaked the engine and gameplay as per critics from DR2. Better system, same story, same environment to explore, brand new locations as well...
Also no Zombrex vaccine to keep an eye on, since he will not have to take care off Chuck's daughter.
Since this one won't be made by Dead Rising 2's developer Blue Castle but instead Capcom Game Studios Vancouver, I'm guessing this game will be retconning Chuck out of DR 2... Weird, right?
Here's some pics:
A new game nobody really was expecting.
Capcom always loved re-releasing games. This one started out as a director's cut for DR2...and ended up kicking Chuck out of the series! XD
(can't imagine how this would turn out if it had happened to the Resident Evil series...)
And here's the official launch trailer:
