Dead Rising 2 - Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator Score
GameRankings (X360) 80.28%
(PS3) 79.81%
(PC) 77.19%
Metacritic (X360) 79/100
(PS3) 80/100
(PC) 78/100
Review scores
Publication Score
1UP.com B+
Eurogamer 8/10
G4 4/5
Game Informer 9.5/10
GamePro
Game Revolution B+
GameSpot 8.5/10
GameSpy
GamesTM 7/10
GameTrailers 8.1/10
IGN 8.0/10

Dead Rising 2 has been met with generally positive reviews. IGN, Eurogamer, and GamesRadar have given the game an 8 out of 10, praising the story, combat, and huge numbers of enemies on screen, while complaining about long loading times. GameZone gave the Xbox 360 version of the game a 6 out of 10, stating, "the lackluster presentation, uninspired story, outright broken multiplayer, and atrocious amount of glitches makes Dead Rising 2 less of a flawed gem and more of a somewhat polished pile that incrementally smells worse the longer you let it sit in your disc drive." Game Informer gave the game a 9.5 out of 10, stating, "Even after playing for dozens of hours, you'll still find new things in Dead Rising 2. I won't spoil anything, but there's a lot of variety to be found in the game beyond obvious things like the number of objects that can be used as bludgeons. This game is designed for multiple playthroughs, and I'm looking forward to each and every one of them." Ben Croshaw listed Dead Rising 2 in second place in his Top 5 games of 2010, praising it for its correcting all of Dead Rising's old problems (as in high difficulty and poor AI) and for the Combo Weapons mechanic.

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