In , players will once again slaughter their way through thousands upon thousands of the living dead, using a plethora of weapons to butcher them. This time, however, instead of battling zombies in a shopping mall like , Dead Rising 2 takes place in a Las Vegas-inspired city loaded with casinos and flesh-eating blackjack dealers and zombified showgirls (). Some other zombies we've spotted in the just released are construction workers, ladies dressed up for clubbing, and police officers.

Providing the player with hundreds of weapons was a big part of the original game. In the new screens, Dead Rising 2's protagonist can be seen wielding a baseball bat, a giant-display cell phone, and an electric guitar.

Dead Rising 2 is being handled by a different developer from the first game, Blue Castle Games (, ). We should note that the Wii edition of the original game, comes out February 24, 2009.