I downloaded Case Zero and it's decent. First, let's start off with the good stuff: 1. The AI has improved and no longer will you feel like you're leading a group of retards like in the first Dead Rising.
2. The graphics feel similar yet better.
3. Experimenting at a workshop to make combo weapons is fun and so far I mostly like combining shotguns with pitchforks.
4. More zombies than ever before and that's always a good thing for when there's more zombies, there's more killings.
Now the bad things:
1. For a download that was said to bridge the gap between Dead Rising and its sequel, it sure isn't mentioning anything from the first. No mention of Frank West, no mention of Williamette, nothing.
2. The protagonist is a badass racer who can make mass murdering weapons and yet with all that, it doesn't hide the fact he's a dotting father. So yeah, zombie slaying motorbike racer has to babysit 😐
3. I don't think the save sytem has changed that much. Still appears to be the same.
4. In the first Dead Rising, I can go into stores and take whatever I want is in them without paying. Who would keep a store open during a zombie outbreak, right? Well apparently stubborn people would do that. Turns out that you'll have to collect money to purchase things from certain shops to get the more better goodies and even though it's just a videogame, some things from reality need to be thrown in and keeping a shop open while surrounded by walking corpses that want to eat your flesh has got to be the most dumbest thing for anyone to do. Ever. Makes you wish there was an option to rob.
5. When I drove the motorbike, I automatically remembered the clunky driving from the previous Dead Rising but it seemed that Blue Castle was struggling against it and tried to make the driving smoother. Hopefully it gets improved a bit more before the rest of DR2 comes out.