It’s ”certainly not how we’re regarding this game,” rebukes Jason Leigh of Capcom Vancouver. It’s a ”re-envisioning and bringing Frank back” to fans.
Co-founder Leigh admits there’s the ”possibility” of that cynicism, ”but that’s certainly not how we’re regarding this game. We’re regarding this game as something that is actually very different and very fresh and very new.”
”Yes it is Fortune City, it’s the Fortune City outbreak, but in this re-envisioning and bringing Frank back into the game, even that first 15 minutes is quite different than it was.” Essentially it’s Frank West retelling the events of the Fortune City outbreak as if he were there.
”If fans have any reservations about this, hopefully the stuff we’re rolling out in the next several months as we approach the release in the fall, things like E3 which is next, there will be more big announcements and more of those big features being shown off, very quickly people will realise, wow, there’s a lot of added value in this game.”
In Off the Record there are tougher enemies, new combo weapon cards, a new area of Fortune City to explore and a mysterious new game mode. ”We were very diligent with the trailer to try and say, ‘what’s different about this game?’ Frank West says, ‘Everything,’” said Leigh. Dead Rising 2: Off the Record releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC this year.
