This time around all of the dialog for the game seems to have been re-recorded for the inclusion of Frank, and this even extends to the messages that would get sent out from the Safehouse periodically by West's partner Stacey Forsythe, the leader of CURE who is blamed for the outbreak. However, before getting too far ahead of ourselves, let's backup and talk about what's new in this iteration. In fact, Capcom really hammers home this point by making Frank utter one liners that Chuck Greene would often shy away from. However, the protagonist substitution makes the tonal shift immediately apparent when Frank starts uttering new lines of dialog while rescuing survivors, or killing psychos. Needless to say, returning players will probably find themselves constantly asking when Frank is going to stare into the camera in order to offer up some kind of hamfisted, fourth wall breaking speech to perhaps state "I woulda done it like this." But the game does not do this, and instead opts to play it straight just as Dead Rising 2 did. In fact, Off the Record starts out assuming that everything that occurs is completely factual. Any players that skipped the last few games will be at a loss however to tell the difference, as the game does not at any point show Frank West fantasizing about any of the events occurring before his present experience. On the one hand, veteran Dead Rising players will instantly know that the story is completely non-canonical, but this only speaks to those players that played Dead Rising 2 (or either of the two DLC games, Case Zero and Case West). Right from the start of Dead Rising 2: Off the Record the game creates a strange dissonance. With the city quarantined, and in need of Zombrex, Frank seizes the opportunity to reclaim his fame, and get to the bottom of what really occurred. Unfortunately not all is right with the show, and it isn't too long until the zombie activist organization known as CURE is blamed for an explosion that triggers an outbreak in Fortune City. Having no where else to go and in need of money to pay for the zombie plague preventing medication, Zombrex, West accepts an invitation to appear on the reality TV game show Terror is Reality in Fortune City. But Frank's time in the spotlight comes to a grinding halt when a series of bad decisions and binge drinking causes his status to tank. West's celebrity status grows as he is thanked by the President, adored by fans, and given his own talk show. In this twist on the original plot, Frank West is famous after having exposed the truth behind the zombie outbreak at the Willamette Mall in Dead Rising. The premise of Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is a "What if" scenario in which Chuck Greene, the combo weaponing protagonist from Dead Rising 2 (read our review), is replaced with Frank West, photojournalist and protagonist from the original Dead Rising. In the lead up to the release of Dead Rising 2: Off the Record last month, Capcom was stating that the game's story is non-canonical.
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