Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Skip · Action · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 13.1h
- Value
- $1.53/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS or better, ATI Radeon HD 3850 or better, 8.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.
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The value story
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 92 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Rising® 2 ($19.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Strange Brigade ($49.99, scores 40).
66 from critics against 77 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 723 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 403 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13.1 hours. Doing everything runs 39, 3.0 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
59% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
25 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Advice for running game in second paragraph. Good game but a lot, lot of jank even by 2012 standards. There is controller support... for wired xbox 360 controllers only, no xbone or series X without modification. Get the fan made Off The Record Patch by LazyDuchess on github or Nexus. This enables controller support for any X input device, improves general stability, gives windowed and borderless options, cutscenes...
Notice: Capcom requires that this game will not install or update when connecting from an IP address attributed to Germany. Good thing vpns are a dime a dozen these days
Controller can be used, just use an Xbox 360 controller. As far as the game: Buggiest POS I have ever played. It is actually a good game, but unplayable. Crashes every few minutes. Deleted and downloaded the buggy POS again. Still crashes every few minutes. It also has a wonderful feature where it will crash a game when you go to save. I've replayed a bunch of times because of this. 0 out of 10 for a game that...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Dead Rising 2: Off the Record scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/45770/dead-rising-2-off-the-recordThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 4, price as of Sep 24.
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