It begins, as Dead Rising 2 did, with host Tyrone "TK" King working the mic in front of an excited studio audience. Leigh's live demonstration of Off the Record's first 15 minutes is designed to convince us the game's worth the full price we'll be asked to pay for it. Think I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! with more zombies (or fewer, depending on your point of view).
He appears on TIR as a special guest zombie killer hoping to reignite his career. But success went to his head and he flushed his career down the toilet.
In contrast, Frank enters Fortune City as a washed up celebrity.įollowing his star turn in Dead Rising Frank became famous, turning out a talk show and a best-selling book. He was trying to earn enough cash to buy his daughter Zombrex. We re-imagined the entire game, as Frank West would have experienced the outbreak."Ĭhuck, you'll remember, was in Fortune City to play the zombie-killing gameshow Terror Is Reality. "We didn't just take Frank and drop him into Chuck's shoes. "This isn't just a replacement of a hero," Leigh says. Frank West's appearance changes everything.įrank West is dishevelled, a tad overweight and proper grumpy. This new offering represents more than a palette swap, more than a new skin, more than a DLC costume pack or patch update.
Having held the title of senior producer on Dead Rising 2 at Blue Castle Games, he's now working at Capcom Vancouver as executive producer on Off the Record. The word "everything" crops ups quite a lot during Jason Leigh's presentation. "The next question people always ask is, 'If you'd been there, what would you have done differently?' My answer? Everything." 'Why didn't you cover it? Why didn't you break the story? Why weren't you there, Frank?'
"The Fortune City incident," West quips in his gravelly Jack Nicholson tone. Off the Record feels like the sequel many Dead Rising purists craved. That's probably over-egging things a bit, but it's an interesting point. As the hack pack shuffles out of the Dead Rising 2 Off the Record presentation at Capcom's Captivate conference, someone says something which sticks: "Well, that will shut all the haters up."
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