This game is better than the first game, a bit better. However, it suffers from the same thing that game did as it, like its predecessor, is all about timed missions and multiple things going on at the same time. If you are the type of person that can pick a mission and not stress over the meters showing the demise of characters from other missions you have to ignore then you can probably enjoy this game a bit more than I did. I am one of those crazy people that likes to do everything in a game and it just drives me crazy! I had to put this one down as it had me cussing and just stressing way to much. The story has this one guy competing in a contest in the hopes of winning enough money to buy his sick girl some zombrex, a drug that stops one from becoming a zombie. Of course, zombies go on the rampage and the hero is stuck in a type of shelter, however he finds a way out and has to find zombrex for his girl, save random people here and there and unravel the mystery behind who is responsible for the outbreak in what is essentially a huge shopping mall, plaza thing. The fighting is good here, as are the graphics and like I said I had fun for a bit when I was getting all the missions done, but they begin adding up and it becomes a headache. This mall is also very hard to traverse as the first one is. You turn this way and that and become very lost, very quickly. I would hate for all maps to be as useless as mall maps. They have a cool thing where you can combine weapons and really do damage, but that does not make up for the fact that there are some things that are just to insane. Getting run down by a crazed biker and not knowing if you are supposed to attack the guy are get on a bike and fight, trying to decide whether you have enough time to save random people or rushing back to get zombrex to your kid. To much pressure! Some people may thrive in a game of this type, but it just gave me a headache.
Review of Dead Rising 2
