So far only Chuck Greene has headlined the Dead Rising PS3 experience, but Capcom is confident Frank West will be loved. It’s a ”very, very different” experience.
”It’s fantastic,” said Capcom Vancouver co-founder Jason Leigh. ”If you’re a Sony fan and you’ve got a PlayStation 3 and not a 360, you haven’t had an opportunity at this point to play as Frank West.”
”Perhaps you bought Dead Rising 2 and you’ve played the game as Chuck Greene, but that experience is very, very different. This isn’t just a character swap and we’re done. This is a very different story and a very different experience.”
”It’s really exciting for PS3 fans and they’re going to get an awesome game. I can’t wait to see what the reaction is from those fans around the character and the story. They will really embrace Frank.” So far West has been kept exclusive to Xbox 360.
How do we come to play as Frank West again? Where has he been?
”Frank after the Willamette incident in Dead Rising became famous,” Leigh explained. ”He managed to break the story, so he had a successful book and a talk show. He let the fame go to his head and let himself go and gained a little bit of weight.”
”Here we are several years later and he’s coming to Fortune City, and he’s trying to resurrect his career. He’s trying to get on TV, make a name for himself again. You’re going to see how that plays out in the story.”
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC later this year.
