{"id":7223,"date":"2010-07-24T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T07:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2010-07-24T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T07:04:30","slug":"dead-rising-2-case-zero-coming-this-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=7223","title":{"rendered":"DEAD RISING 2: CASE ZERO COMING THIS AUGUST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Prologue to deliver taste of Dead Rising 2 exclusively on Xbox Live<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>London, UK \u2013 July 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2010 \u2013 Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today confirmed that <strong>Dead Rising\u00ae 2: CASE ZERO<\/strong>, will be available on August 31<sup>st<\/sup> exclusively to Xbox 360 gamers via Xbox Live Arcade online gaming service from Microsoft at a cost of 400MPs.\u00a0 A unique and stand alone piece of content, <strong>Dead Rising 2: CASE ZERO<\/strong> acts as a prologue, introducing players to the main protagonist, Chuck Greene and provides a glimpse of the action to come when <strong>Dead Rising 2<\/strong> releases in Australia and New Zealand on September 30<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Set two years after the Willamette incident chronicled in the original <em>Dead Rising<\/em> and three years before the start of <strong>Dead Rising 2<\/strong>, Chuck along with his young infected daughter, Katey, find themselves\u00a0 trapped in the zombie infested desert town of Still Creek. It\u2019s up to Chuck to find a way out of town, and locate the Zombrex Katey must take to prevent her from joining the ranks of the undead.<\/p>\n<p>Just like in the full game, players in<strong> Dead Rising 2: CASE ZERO<\/strong> will use Chuck\u2019s handyman skills and a roll of duct tape to combine two items to create powerful combo weapons. Not only do combo weapons make killing zombie sprees more fun but they also have the added benefit of earning Chuck additional \u2018Prestige Points\u2019 which in turn result in quicker levelling up.<\/p>\n<p>Players who download <strong>Dead Rising 2: CASE ZERO<\/strong> and then go on to buy <strong>Dead Rising 2<\/strong> will be able to carry over character attributes earned such as \u2018Player Level\u2019, to a maximum of five, \u2018Prestige Points\u2019 alongside skills, \u2018Combo Cards\u2019 and a number of alternate outfits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith <strong>Dead Rising 2: CASE ZERO<\/strong> we had two goals: provide newcomers with an easy point of entry to the Dead Rising universe, and give fans of the series an insight into what took place after Frank West survived the outbreak at the Willamette Mall,\u201d said Keiji Inafune, Capcom\u2019s Head of R&amp;D Management Group and Executive Producer for <strong>Dead Rising 2<\/strong>. \u201cWe have certainly achieved both of these ambitions but I am equally pleased that we are able to give gamers so much unique and entertaining content at such a great price.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prologue to deliver taste of Dead Rising 2 exclusively on Xbox Live\u00a0 London, UK \u2013 July 22nd, 2010 \u2013 Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today confirmed that Dead Rising\u00ae 2: CASE ZERO, will be available on August 31st exclusively to Xbox 360 gamers via Xbox Live Arcade online gaming service<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=7223\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}