14 DAY TRIAL // Capcom, the publisher of the upcoming Dead Rising 2 video game, denies it is alienating PlayStation 3 owners by offering special prequel and epilogue packs exclusive to the Xbox 360 for the soon to be released zombie hack and slash title.
Dead Rising 2, in case you forgot, will soon hit the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms, in just a few days.
Before that, Xbox 360 owners have already received a special Dead Rising 2: Case Zero downloadable prequel, which tells the story of how the new lead character Chuck Greene managed to reach Fortune City, a Las Vegas-inspired location which is now filled with zombies.
Last week, the Japanese company revealed that it will be releasing a special downloadable epilogue, also exclusive to the Xbox 360, entitled Dead Rising 2: Case West, which will see Chuck Greene team up with the first game's protagonist, Frank West, and battle the hordes of zombies.
As you can imagine, this didn't exactly sit well with PlayStation 3 gamers, which felt they were being mistreated by the Japanese company, after the original Dead Rising was just released for the Xbox 360.
This isn't so, at least according to co-producer Shinsaku Ohara, who revealed in a recent interview that the whole team, led by Keiji Inafune, is sorry PS3 gamers won't enjoy the full Dead Rising universe, but they will be able to get their hands on the full Dead Rising 2 game.
"I think Inafune said that we're sorry that it seems like you're getting a little bit less of the Dead Rising 2 universe, but you'll still be able to enjoy the full game," revealed Ohara. "You'll just miss a little bit of extra. We haven't completely alienated PS3 gamers because Dead Rising 2 is a standalone boxed product."
Ohara continued, saying that the two downloadable titles are a way of Capcom saying thanks to the Xbox 360 fanbase that made Dead Rising such a popular franchise for the Japanese company.
"Dead Rising was our very first Xbox 360 title and Microsoft supported the title all the way," Ohara said. "At the beginning we didn't know that this new IP would be a success, but the fans on the console really assisted in making it into one. So it's like a present, something that we gave back to the original Dead Rising fans."
Dead Rising 2 is scheduled to be launched on September 24 in Europe, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and September 28 in North America. The PC version will debut on that same day.