Introduction (Dead Rising 2)

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Dead Rising 2

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Introduction
Destination	Fortune City Arena
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Dead Rising 2
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The Introduction is the playable opening sequence of Dead Rising 2. This is not the official name given in-game, but is referred to as such for simplicity reasons.

Although it is an essential part of the main game's story, it is not a part of the 72 hours, and the game timer is disabled. It takes place shortly before the Fortune City outbreak. If the opening cutscene is skipped, the game will jump straight into 72 Hour Mode. The introduction takes about 20 minutes to complete. It is broken up into four sections:

1. Fortune City Arena TIR event
2. Elevator cutscene
3. Escaping the arena
4. Safe House

Fortune City Arena TIR event

Dead Rising 2 begins in the Fortune City Arena, with former motocross champion Chuck Greene checking his Slicecycle as he prepares to compete in Terror Is Reality, a TV game show that involves the killing of large groups of Zombies for entertainment. Chuck takes part in show to raise funds for Zombrex for his infected daughter, Katey. A TIR employee enters to inform Chuck that he is on shortly. Chuck asks the employee to take Katey somewhere safe while she waits, and the employee takes her to the green room.

Preparing for the competition

Chuck is looking over his motorcycle with Katey watching. A TIR employee walks in. TIR employee: Hey. Hey! You're on in two minutes, Mr. Greene. Chuck: My name's Chuck. TIR employee: Yeah, yeah. Look, I need you to sign this release form before you go out there. TIR employee: And don't forget to include your next of kin. Chuck: Her name is Katey. Chuck: Can you take her somewhere safe? TIR employee: I'll take her to the green room. Chuck: Go with the nice man, Katey. Don't worry. Chuck: I won't be long. The title screen is displayed.

As Chuck pulls up in the arena next to his competitors, one of them, Leon Bell taunts him about the death of his wife in Las Vegas. The announcer recalls the events in Willamette and Las Vegas, before introducing the host of the show; Tyrone "TK" King. The game show begins and the contestants slice through the zombie crowds.

Terror Is Reality

Chuck is on his motorcycle, lined up with the other players. Leon: Hey, buddy. I heard you lost your wife in Vegas. Leon: I guess you suck at killing zombies, otherwise she'd still be around! Chuck: Save it for the show, shithead. Announcer: Zombies took our Willamette! They took our Las Vegas! Announcer: But tonight, America, we're going to get a little payback! The platform Chuck and the other players are on lifts up. Announcer: Welcome, everyone, to Fortune City, Nevada! Announcer: America's entertainment playground! Announcer: And now it's time for America's most dangerous game show! Announcer: It's time for... Announcer: Terror Is Reality! Announcer: And here's your host, Tyrone King! TK: Well, America? TK: Are you hungry for a little terror!? TK: Because tonight, we're gonna give it to you! TK: I've been poking these zombies all week, TK: And man, are they pissed! TK: Our contestants are almost ready. TK: So let's send them a little message: TK: You've gotta be willing to risk it all if you're ever really gonna... TK holds up microphone to the stadium. Audience: WIN BIG!

After the minigame, one of two cutscenes takes place, depending on whether the player came in first place. This also affects the amount of reward money the player receives (see below).

Chuck wins

The Terror Is Reality game ends. Chuck wins. TK: Alright! Let's wipe 'em off and hose 'em down. Let me hear it, people! The crowd cheers. TK: And show some love for out winner tonight. TK: He's a hero! He's a survivor! He's... Chuck Greeeeeene! TK: He risked it all, and now he's taking home the big money! Amber: I was hoping for a better ride from you, Chuck... Crystal: ...but maybe you just don't know how to handle the tight curves. TK: But we just getting started, people! The carnage is just beginning. TK: So right now, let me hear you make some noise! The crowd cheers.

Chuck loses

The Terror Is Reality game ends. Chuck loses. TK: Alright! Let's wipe 'em off and hose 'em down. Let me hear it, people! Woman in audience: I love you, TK!! TK: TK loves you too, baby! TK: Though I did expect a little bit more from a real motocross champion. TK: But ladies and gentlemen, that is what I call a smackdown! TK: And our winner will walk away with the big money! TK: And we even have a little something for the losers. TK: But we're just getting started, people! The carnage is just beginning. TK: So right now, let me hear you make some noise! The crowd cheers.

After the show, Chuck sits in the changing rooms looking at the money. The TV reports on CURE protesting Terror Is Reality and shows their leader, Stacey Forsythe, voice her opinion on what she believes is systematic neglect for the infected. Another contestant, Anim White, sits next to Chuck and tells him how he lost his family in Willamette, and so he knows what it feels like to lose someone. Chuck gets up and asks Kristopher Bookmiller where the green rooms are, so he can pick up his daughter.

CURE news report

TV newscaster: ...the problem and are examining the diets of different farms. TV newscaster: This seems to have only compounded the problem which have TV newscaster: been linked to the beef shortages in local areas. TV newscaster: The zombie rights group CURE is in the news again. TV newscaster: The protest group have shown up in the adult playground of Fortune City, TV newscaster: which was chosen as the site of the latest installment of the TV newscaster: pay-per-view game show, Terror is Reality. TV newscaster: The protest just compounds the problems of the game show, TV newscaster: which has been plagued recently by tumbling ratings and controversy. TV newscaster: CURE was on the site of the show to display their opposition TV newscaster: to what they call the unethical treatment of zombies. TV newscaster: Stacey Forsythe, the leader of the Nevada branch of CURE, had this to say: Stacey: Let our government know we will not stand Stacey: for their systematic neglect of the infected! Stacey: We must take drastic action now! TV newscaster: Public opinion is mixed on the group's views, TV newscaster: which are sometimes seen as radical. Average citizen: This is a joke, right? Why would you want to save those "things"? TV newscaster: Stay tuned. Coming up right after the break, we've got weather and sports. Chuck looks at his money winnings. Another player comes in and sits next to him. Anim: Doesn't feel very good, does it? Anim: I lost my family in Willamette. I'd rather just have them back. Chuck stands up and walks next to another man getting dressed. Chuck: Hey, do you know where the green rooms are? Kris: Yeah. Take the elevator up a floor and then straight down the hallway. Kris: You can't miss it.

After the cutscene, Chuck starts in the locker room, and the player gains control. Chuck needs to travel to the green room.

The player earns prize money and a PP fulfillment bonus that differs depending on how they ranked during the minigame:

Rank	Money prize	PP bonus
First place	$10,000	5000 PP
Second place	$5,000	2500 PP
Third place	$2,500	1000 PP
Fourth place	$1,000	500 PP

Chuck walks past Amber on the way to the green room, and Amber says, "Well, who do we have here?" The other twin, Crystal, arrives in a cutscene, and both twins taunt Chuck further on his performance in the show.

Chuck is playfully taunted by the twins

The twin brunette Crystal walks out of the elevator. Crystal: The ladies were a little disappointed in your... performance tonight, Chuck. Crystal: But you must get that a lot. Crystal walks to Amber and Chuck enters the elevator. He raises an eyebrow as the elevator door closes. Chuck: Goodnight, ladies. The elevator begins to move. There is elevator music as Chuck looks at the advertisement for Zombrex on the left. Suddenly, the elevator jostles and Chuck loses his footing.

Chuck enters the elevator, and while looking at a Zombrex poster, he is knocked off balance when the elevator suddenly jerks to a stop.

Elevator cutscene

Chuck pries open the elevator doors and sees a crowd of people panicking and screaming. After witnessing a young man in a Letterman jacket transform into a zombie, it becomes clear to Chuck that another outbreak has begun.

The zombie outbreak begins

Chuck slowly regains his sight. There is an alarm and people are screaming. The elevator is between floors, the elevator door is opening very slightly then closing repeatedly. Chuck: Katey. Chuck pries the elevator doors open. He sees people running. Infected spectator: Oh, god. Oh, god, she got me. She got me... The infected spectator stops hunched over, then becomes a zombie and turns and growls at Chuck. Chuck: Oh, no. The infected spectator stumbles to Chuck, who is lifting himself out of the stopped elevator. Before he reaches Chuck, another man bumps into him and he pounces on the man.

Amidst the commotion, Chuck must run along the zombie-infested corridor to find his daughter.

Find Katey

Chuck's goal is to find Katey.

When Chuck gets out of the broken elevator, there are several weapons next to the elevator that he can use:

• Baseball Bat
• Bench
• Cardboard Box
• Fire Axe
• Flashlight
• Garbage Can
• Indoor Garbage Can

Out of all these weapons, the Fire Axe and Baseball Bat are the most useful.

Chuck can see Shaun Wexler and Tom Ebersole being attacked by Zombies through a metal barrier to his right. Like all of the survivors in the introduction, there is ultimately nothing Chuck can do to save these men.

Run down the hallway toward Alice Paynter.

Just like in Dead Rising's introduction, as the zombies kill survivors, there is a screen notification of their death.

There is a Handbag in the corridor. Handbags have either $100 or Handguns inside.

There is also an Electric Guitar further along in the corridor.

Chuck will pass several other items, including Folding Chairs.

Go past Alice and turn right. Upon doing so, Chuck can see Jenny Slaten and Noah Hawthorne trapped behind a security gate and Drake Danton being dragged into a changing room.

To the right of the corridor is another fire axe just below a Fire Extinguisher on the wall. The fire extinguisher will freeze zombies for 30 seconds.

Run down the hallway to the green room on the left.

A cutscene begins.

Chuck locates his daughter in the green room, along with the dead TIR Employee.

Chuck is reunited with Katey

Chuck bursts into the green room. Chuck: Katey!? Katey! Chuck sees a zombie eating someone next to Katey's backpack. He runs over and pushes the zombie off. Chuck: Get off her!! Chuck realizes the person the zombie was eating was the TIR employee. He picks up Katey's backpack, then opens the closet. Katey bursts out, swinging a coat hanger at her father. Katey: GO AWAAAY!!! Chuck: Katey! It's me! It's daddy! Katey: It's happening again, isn't it? Like what happened when Mommy... Chuck: Shh, hey, Katey, Katey, listen to me. You need to stay calm, ok? Chuck: We need to get out of here. So hang on tight. Katey looks behind Chuck and sees a zombie. She screams in fright. Chuck picks up Katey in his arms and glares fiercely at the zombie.

Escape with Katey

After the cutscene, Chuck is carrying Katey.

The message at the bottom states that Chuck can press / to kick while carrying Katey.

Chuck is nearly invincible while carrying Katey as long as he keeps moving. Zombies will stagger if he runs by them while carrying Katey. Chuck will really only get hit if he stops.

Run out the door.

As Chuck runs towards the double doors, Irwin Sagehorn stumbles through the doors, pursued closely by a zombie. Run through the double doors with the blue arena lobby sign above.

Press / to kick while carrying Katey.

Follow the hallway as it curves.

To Chuck's right are several vending machines. Ahead is the arena lobby, where Pat Berkson and Jeremiah Eckland can be seen trying to fight off zombies.

Run through the hallway and into the arena. Avoid protracted battles with zombies and keep running.

In addition to Pat and Jeremiah, Lucas Pontremoli, Adrian Lee, Andrea Brenser, Lance Pennington and Helen Bonner can be seen being attacked in the Arena. Chuck's destination is on the left, past the barricades.

Past the barricades are some stairs. Past the stairs lies Chuck's destination, the exit doors to the Platinum Strip.

Press / to go through the exit doors. A cutscene begins.

Chuck carries his daughter out of the arena and sees Fortune City overrun and several people being torn apart by zombies.

Safety in the shelter

Chuck sees the chaos on the strip, with fires burning and zombies eating people. Chuck: Oh no, not again. Chuck: Hold on tight, Katey. Chuck runs through the chaos with Katey in his arms. Wade: Get to the safehouse! Katey points to the Fortune City Emergency Shelter. Katey: Daddy! Chuck stands at the top of the stairs leading down to the shelter doors. Chuck: We're gonna have to take our chances in there, kiddo. Chuck and Katey rush into the shelter just as the doors close.

Wade Coopwood directs Chuck toward the emergency shelter, where the survivors have gathered.

Victims

The elevator cutscene in the introduction reuses many survivor models.

All of the game's cutscenes are controlled in the game file cinematics.big. There are two files associated with the elevator cutscene:

• "010_outbreak.txt" (Chuck in the elevator, looking at the Zombrex poster)
• "011_elevator_2.txt" (Chuck witnessing the zombie jock become infected)

Zombie jock

If one watches the "011_elevator_2.txt" cutscene with the zombie jock, several survivors can be seen from behind.

Orange shoes

Black man with purple white checkered shirt, glasses, and unshaved

There is one unknown model used for the jock zombie victim (likely Royce with retextured clothing).

• "Erica" and "Royce" run past twice, once at the very beginning of the cutscene when Chuck opens the door, and a second time past the zombie jock.
• As the zombie jock is walking toward Chuck, "Noah" is attacked directly behind the zombie jock by the zombie referred to in the game's files as "James" (also known as the "7 PM zombie"). Yet after the cutscene, Noah is behind the bars in the cordoned-off hallway. However, this man was intended to be a different civilian but with the same model as Noah, who also happened to be in the arena.
• Gordon is the "zombie" that attacks the man who looks like Jared.

Juan

In "010_outbreak.txt" is the line:

cCineAnim srv_juan
{
AnimationName = "010_outbreak~srv_juan"

Juan was originally intended to appear in the cutscene, but was taken out at some point in development. See Juan Lee#Trivia.

In "011_elevator_2.txt", the following survivors are listed:

List of victims and survivors

Royce St. John cCineAnim srv_royce { AnimationName = "011_elevator_2~srv_royce" Duration = "52.7" Time = "0" } Erica Mayes cCineAnim srv_erica { AnimationName = "011_elevator_2~srv_erica" Duration = "52.7" Time = "0" } Jared Davis cCineAnim srv_jared { AnimationName = "011_elevator_2~srv_jared" Duration = "52.7" Time = "0" } Lenny Mooney cCineAnim srv_lenny { AnimationName = "011_elevator_2~srv_lenny" Duration = "52.7" Time = "0" } James cCineAnim cindead_james { AnimationName = "011_elevator_2~cindead_james" Duration = "52.7" Time = "0" } Andy Talbat cCineAnim srv_andy { AnimationName = "011_elevator_2~srv_andy" Duration = "59.3667" Time = "0" } Noah Hawthorne cCineAnim srv_noah { AnimationName = "011_elevator_2~srv_noah" Duration = "59.3667" Time = "0" } Gordon Dawkins cCineAnim srv_gordon { AnimationName = "011_elevator_2~srv_gordon" Duration = "59.3667" Time = "0" }

When Chuck leaves the stadium, the following victims can be seen:

List of victims and survivors
Alice (cCineAnim srv_alice) Leah (cCineAnim cine_leah) Luke (cCineAnim cine_luke) Skylar (cCineAnim srv_skylar) Wade (cCineAnim srv_wade) Zombies cCineAnim cine_z_m4

Safe House

A security officer, Raymond Sullivan, allows Chuck access to the emergency shelter (although he is hesitant at first due to Katey's infection) and directs him to a security room where it's quieter. Stacey Forsythe also makes it safely to the shelter.

Safe house survivors

Chuck puts Katey down in the shelter. Chuck: It's going to be okay now, Katey. Tamara: I can't get a signal. Why? Why can't I get a signal? Skylar: She, she was looking right at me, and they had her, Skylar: and I, I couldn't do anything. Skylar: She went down without a sound and I, I had to get outta there. Skylar: I just... ran. Woman off screen: This is horrible, horrible! Chuck and Katey turn around as they hear the sounds of the undead through the doors; everyone else turns toward the doors. A second set of doors opens, revealing an older bearded man in an FCS (US Fortune City Security) jacket. The survivors hurry through the door, with Chuck, holding Katey's hand, coming in last. Sullivan: Whoa, whoa, whoa - hold on a second, son. The security officer looks down at Katey's arm, which has a bite mark. Chuck: Listen, it's an existing condition, alright? It's ok - it happened a long time ago. Sullivan: It's only a matter of time before she turns. Chuck: Hey, don't worry - I've got Zombrex. Sullivan: Yeah, well, you'd better have a lot. Sullivan: Because there ain't none here, and the rescue ain't comin' for three days. Chuck: Three days? Sullivan: Yeah. The reserves will already be mobilizing, Sullivan: but their first priority is to quarantine the city. And that takes time. Sullivan: They'll enter the city at first light three days from now. Sullivan: That's the standard procedure. Chuck: So we're stuck here? Sullivan: There's a couch in the security room - why don't you take her in there, it's quieter. Chuck: Thanks.

Sitting in the security room, Chuck reveals to Katey that he actually doesn't have any Zombrex, and that he meant to get some after the show. Stacey overhears this, and tells Chuck where he can obtain some, while promising to keep quiet.

Stacey offers to help

Katey: We don't have any Zombrex, do we? Chuck: I was gonna get some right after the show. Chuck: We still have time. Katey: Where you gonna get it, dad? Chuck: You let me worry about that, ok, kiddo? Stacey: I know where you can get some. Chuck: How long have you been listening? Stacey: Don't worry - I won't say anything. Stacey: I think there's a pharmacy in the Royal Flush mall. Stacey: I'm Stacey Forsythe, by the way. Chuck: I'm Chuck and this is Katey. Chuck: Do you know a way out of here? Stacey: No. But if you find one, I suggest you take this. Stacey: That way we can keep in touch. Stacey gives Chuck a transceiver. Stacey: There's closed circuit cameras all over the city. Stacey: These monitor are playback only, but I will keep an eye on them. Stacey: Chuck... if you find anyone alive out there... Chuck: I'll do what I can. Chuck: Keep an eye on my daughter, okay? Chuck picks up a map of Fortune City.

After this, 72 Hour Mode begins and the timer is activated.

Trivia

• Chuck is unable to check his watch during the introduction.
• If Chuck loses all his health before making it to the emergency shelter, a cutscene will play that shows Katey waking up an unconscious Chuck right outside the shelter. He then picks her up and runs in before the doors close.
• If Chuck does not win the Terror Is Reality event, an alternate cutscene will play where TK criticizes him for his poor performance, considering his status as a motocross champion.
• During the elevator cutscene, several civilians can be seen fleeing the arena who share the same models as Erica Mayes, Royce St. John, Lenny Mooney, Noah Hawthorne, Andy Talbat and Jared Davis.
• The zombie who attacks the Andy Talbat-lookalike survivor shares the same model as Gordon Dawkins.
• In the PC game file missions.txt:
  • The Slicecycles minigame in the arena is referred to as Tutorial1.
  • Everything after the minigame up until Chuck's arrival in the Safe House is referred to as Tutorial2_Katey.
  • If Chuck is killed before reaching the Safe House, the section Tutorial2_FailState plays.
  • The stadium arena items are found in data\datafile.big\gs_biketutorial.txt.
• There are four survivor corpses that are repeated throughout the stadium: Barra, Kerri (shares a recolored model with Tamara Stein), Dean (shares a model with Tim Duggan), and "pa" (the TIR employee).

Gallery

Further information: Introduction (Dead Rising 2)/Gallery