Dead Rising 2 boasts 7,000 rendered zombies on screen ! ! !

"NowGamer: Dead Rising 2 will increase the amount of on-screen zombies in the original Dead Rising by a massive 6,500

During the first in-game demonstration of Dead Rising 2 in Monte Carlo last week, developer Blue Castle showed off new technology that allows them to power 7,000 rendered characters, the largest amount ever seen in a game.

"With Dead Rising 1 the main idea at Capcom time was that up until that point we had only the Resident Evil series that had 20-30 zombies..."

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/430/dead-rising-2-boasts-7000-rendered-zombies

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MT framework 2.0 >>>>>>>>>all other game engines
but im not really surprised, the original dead rising had thousands of zombies on screen too, it ran smooth 30 fps (better than GeoW and KZ2 most of the time), and it and LP are the only games this gen to have 4x AA, and even with all stuff going on the graphic were still amazing.

I just want some more out door environments, like portions of a town or a city.

Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,IronBass

Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,IronBass

Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,IronBass

[QUOTE="IronBass"]Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,kidonre

Zombie leaves >>>>> zombies >>>>> leaves.

So? Is the frustrating save system slightly fixed? Are the zombies actually challenging? Why should I care about 7k zombies if there are Core mechanics of the original DR i didn't like?

And how will i notice 7k? Whats the point in that number? Seems like a dumb marketing ploy, i mean why do i need 7k? Wouldn't 500 be fine? I mean on my 27inch TV will i even see them, or just see little dots? I don't see the point, I can't see how it will help gameplay esspecially if it means they might have to sacrifice the zombies actually presenting a challenge for more on screen.

why couldn't you up the difficulty of manuevering past the zombies instead of adding thousands on screen you won't even need to deal with at any given time?

Can't wait to see this on the tv screen.

Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,IronBass

wannabe Saolin :P j/k man, 7000 zombies is alot. i still need to play teh first game

Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,IronBass

[QUOTE="IronBass"]Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,Lynx777

And no zombies have ragdoll physics unimpressed, let's see how many you can get with ragdolls.pcgamingisurgod

You have to be weary of statistical claims from games, while it's a impressive number it doesn't really tell you anything about how good the game is.

[QUOTE="pcgamingisurgod"]And no zombies have ragdoll physics unimpressed, let's see how many you can get with ragdolls.kidonre

[QUOTE="kidonre"][QUOTE="pcgamingisurgod"]And no zombies have ragdoll physics unimpressed, let's see how many you can get with ragdolls.pcgamingisurgod

Well, unless you count RTS or games like that, then yes that's a ton of characters on screen at once. It could be done fairly easily, at least in concept (just like how they did the first one, just with more poly-degradation with range).

How that'll be implemented in the gameplay, I have no idea. Dead Rising didn't need it at all. They rendered all the zombies they needed perfectly fine even in the maintenance tunnels.

[QUOTE="Lynx777"][QUOTE="IronBass"]Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,aaronmullan

With the Wii version doing 20! Yay!

I'm just kidding, good to hear. You can never have enough zombies.

Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,IronBass

[QUOTE="kidonre"][QUOTE="IronBass"]Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,BZSIN

Zombie leaves >>>>> zombies >>>>> leaves.

a truer word has never been spoken...ever..

[QUOTE="IronBass"]Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,kidonre

they should have tried to push the engine with 2001 more zombie. That would be epic. navstar29

Thats massive :o

I bet half of those zombies will be just pixels on the background :P

Holy crap! :o Sounds pretty epic if they can actually use it in a context that makes sense and not just do it for the sake of doing it.mr_mozilla

How will you see 7,000 zombies? lol Wouldn't 1000 or EVEN 2000 be a bit more reasonable? But Hey! the more the merrier!sam280992

i'm not sure if any machine can handle that, i mean look what happens to DOOM when you insert 800 imps

[QUOTE="aaronmullan"][QUOTE="Lynx777"] Zombies have AI. Leaves flow in the wind. Zombies > Leaves.Lynx777

*looks out window* Ahhh! The light, it burns!!!

Ya, God pwns all!

So? Is the frustrating save system slightly fixed? Are the zombies actually challenging? Why should I care about 7k zombies if there are Core mechanics of the original DR i didn't like?

And how will i notice 7k? Whats the point in that number? Seems like a dumb marketing ploy, i mean why do i need 7k? Wouldn't 500 be fine? I mean on my 27inch TV will i even see them, or just see little dots? I don't see the point, I can't see how it will help gameplay esspecially if it means they might have to sacrifice the zombies actually presenting a challenge for more on screen.

why couldn't you up the difficulty of manuevering past the zombies instead of adding thousands on screen you won't even need to deal with at any given time?

darth-pyschosis

Yawn, rather play L4D. Hate time limit games.Zoso-8

Snakes on a plane >>>>>> Zombies on a screen

For example, in Tokyo subway it gets very crowded with many people.Imagine gettint onto a bike in tokyo subway with two chainsaws attached to it and cutting through all those people, it's just something that feels really damn good!"

this.sounds.promising.GTR2addict

ah yes, i still remember my first time

Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,IronBass

So? Is the frustrating save system slightly fixed? Are the zombies actually challenging? Why should I care about 7k zombies if there are Core mechanics of the original DR i didn't like?

And how will i notice 7k? Whats the point in that number? Seems like a dumb marketing ploy, i mean why do i need 7k? Wouldn't 500 be fine? I mean on my 27inch TV will i even see them, or just see little dots? I don't see the point, I can't see how it will help gameplay esspecially if it means they might have to sacrifice the zombies actually presenting a challenge for more on screen.

why couldn't you up the difficulty of manuevering past the zombies instead of adding thousands on screen you won't even need to deal with at any given time?

darth-pyschosis

Big deal. Fable II renders a lot more leaves in EVERY tree. Beat that,IronBass

Yawn, rather play L4D. Hate time limit games.Zoso-8