
If you’re in a meat-packing plant, you’re going to have slabs of meat and cleavers and whatever.

“We have to come up with our base weapons and our environment provides it. “It kind of starts with our environment,” says the game’s executive producer and Blue Castle Games’ co-founder Rob Barrett. Looking at the dizzying amount of weapons available-of which we’ve only seen a handful-had us wondering how exactly a team comes up with such a crazy roster of tools. While discovering weapons through luck, happenstance, or message-board postings is a serviceable solution, players who manage to track down those combo cards and earn them “legitimately” gain enhanced attacks from those weapons. Combinations can be discovered through trial and error or by discovering combo cards and gaining inspiration from a variety of posters advertising an upcoming action movie. Players can combine certain objects at the tool benches, which are scattered throughout Fortune City. Maybe you couldn’t combine two items with a hammer and nails, but tape is so versatile.” “If it was a screwdriver or a hammer it would be a different thing.


“I think the duct tape plays well into it, because you can pretty much tape anything,” says Shinsaku Ohara, Dead Rising 2’s producer. In contrast, Greene scores extra PPs by using hybrid weapons that he cobbles together using liberal amounts of ingenuity and the handyman’s secret weapon. It’s just that West earned the bulk of his level-enhancing prestige points by snapping photos of the mayhem around him. That’s not to say West was above getting his hands dirty-he could sling CD cases, break boards over heads, and auger the undead in half with the best of them. Which one of these weapons is your favorite? Having problems finding some of the parts? Leave a comment below.Frank West may have let his camera do some of his dirty work in Dead Rising, but the sequel’s Chuck Greene is definitely more of a hands-on kind of guy. Make sure to check out our Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Mixed Drink Guide as well. After you’ve had some time to play around with things on your own, here is a guide to the Combo’s available to you during Dead Rising Case Zero: This bona fide MacGyver has some pretty nasty tricks up his sleeve and improvised weapon combinations are essential to your survival in Still Creek.

If there was one thing I noticed with Dead Rising 2 compared to the original, it was that while Frank West may have known his way around with a camera he is no match for new protagonist, Chuck Greene, when it comes to building things with his hands.
