
	Platform Xbox 360 Genre Action Publisher Capcom Developer Capcom Vancouver ESRB M (Mature) Released October 11, 2011

- Frank West is fantastic - Picture taking is back - Co-op - Sandbox mode right off the nail-embedded bat - Instantly familiar and new at the same time

- Took how many Dead Rising 2 titles to focus back on Frank? - If you thought the formula was getting tired, this won't help

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Dead Rising 2: Off the Record

Score: 8.5 / 10

At this point, Dead Rising 2 is like your mom's meatloaf.

Every time she makes it, there's something just a little different about it. Once she added very hot green chilis; another time, diced up carrots; and still again went

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further off the recipe by adding a full clove of garlic and somehow the lid of the paprika fell off and there was tons of it in the mix. The base is still meatloaf, but it tastes different, which is exactly where Dead Rising 2 is at this point with "Off the Record."

Maybe you're getting tired of meatloaf at this point, but this is a Frank West flavored version, with a dash of Herbes du Provence and fresh

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pepper. So, if you've spent any time with the original Dead Rising, the Dead Rising 2 prologue Case Zero, the full Dead Rising 2, or its epilogue Case West, you know exactly what you're getting with Off the Record, which offers an alternate take on the events of the Fortune City outbreak that was originally experienced by Chuck Greene.

I like the general "What if...?" of the scenario, especially because the core of the game hasn't changed. There have been some new areas and psychos, and weapon combos added, the photography feature from the original returns, and deviations from the original Dead Rising 2 story line (or at least how the events are experienced), but it's all instantly familiar, which makes it easy to recommend for those that appreciated the past meatl-- Dead Rising games.

Now the wait for Dead Rising 2: Katey Goes to School begins.

- Aaron Simmer

(October 27, 2011)