CAPCOM UNLEASHING MORE UNDEAD HORDES WITH DEAD RISING 2

That viral video that made the rounds late last week that seemed to point to a new entry in Capcom’s Dead Rising series turned out to be right on the money: Capcom has just sent word that Vancouver studio Blue Castle (they of 2K’s arcade baseball series The Bigs) are currently at work on a new PS3, Xbox 360, and PC version of the zombie survival game.

Details are still scarce, but Capcom says the game is set years after the original game, with the zombie virus spreading to (

), the DR equivalent of the glittering world of Vegas (though it’ll also, happily, be taking us back to

).

The original Dead Rising was perhaps the most faithful recreation of Romero’s conception of the shambling hordes, if a brutally unforgiving one, with its much maligned sparse save-point and underlying forced restart structure that undercut its sandbox appeal for many. It’s something the upcoming Wii remake is making an effort to fix, and something that, hopefully, we’ll see in this sequel.