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- For prestige points in Dead Rising, see Dead Rising Prestige Points.
Prestige points, often abbreviated "PP", are experience points that can be earned in Dead Rising 2, Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, Dead Rising 2: Case West, and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. By earning prestige points, the player is able to level up, unlocking rewards such as upgrades to a player's attributes. Prestige points can earned in various ways, including:
- completing missions and cases,
- Any survivors related activities (joining, rescuing and requested etc.),
- killing zombies and psychopaths,
- using combo weapons to kill zombies,
- Performing certain bonus actions,
- using hand-to-hand skills to kill zombies,
- playing minigames such as Motion Madness,
- taking photographs such as PP stickers (Case West and Off the Record only).
Prestige point gauge and leveling up[]
The PP gauge is located just underneath the player's life bar. It displays the amount of PP the player currently has. As the player gains more prestige points, the gauge fills. When it fills completely, the player's level increases by one.
Level increase benefits[]
A level increase gives the player:
- more life,
- better attack strength,
- more inventory space,
- new skills,
- increased throwing distance,
- faster running speed, and
- new combo cards.
Level-up PP requirements[]
In Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, the player can reach up to level 5, and in Dead Rising 2 and Off the Record, the player can reach up to level 50. Below is a list of prestige points required to attain the next level and the cumulative amount of prestige points needed to reach each level.
Level | PP required to level up[1] | Cumulative PP |
---|---|---|
1 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
3 | 20,000 | 40,000 |
4 | 20,000 | 60,000 |
5 | 20,000 | 80,000 |
6 | 30,000 | 110,000 |
7 | 30,000 | 140,000 |
8 | 30,000 | 170,000 |
9 | 30,000 | 200,000 |
10 | 30,000 | 230,000 |
11 | 50,000 | 280,000 |
12 | 50,000 | 330,000 |
13 | 50,000 | 380,000 |
14 | 50,000 | 430,000 |
15 | 50,000 | 480,000 |
16 | 70,000 | 550,000 |
17 | 70,000 | 620,000 |
18 | 70,000 | 690,000 |
19 | 70,000 | 760,000 |
20 | 70,000 | 830,000 |
21 | 90,000 | 920,000 |
22 | 90,000 | 1,010,000 |
23 | 90,000 | 1,100,000 |
24 | 90,000 | 1,190,000 |
25 | 90,000 | 1,280,000 |
26 | 100,000 | 1,380,000 |
27 | 100,000 | 1,480,000 |
28 | 100,000 | 1,580,000 |
29 | 100,000 | 1,680,000 |
30 | 100,000 | 1,780,000 |
31 | 130,000 | 1,910,000 |
32 | 130,000 | 2,040,000 |
33 | 130,000 | 2,170,000 |
34 | 130,000 | 2,300,000 |
35 | 130,000 | 2,430,000 |
36 | 150,000 | 2,580,000 |
37 | 150,000 | 2,730,000 |
38 | 150,000 | 2,880,000 |
39 | 150,000 | 3,030,000 |
40 | 150,000 | 3,180,000 |
41 | 170,000 | 3,350,000 |
42 | 170,000 | 3,520,000 |
43 | 170,000 | 3,690,000 |
44 | 170,000 | 3,860,000 |
45 | 170,000 | 4,030,000 |
46 | 180,000 | 4,210,000 |
47 | 180,000 | 4,390,000 |
48 | 180,000 | 4,570,000 |
49 | 180,000 | 4,750,000 |
50 | 250,000 | 5,000,000 |
Attribute reward chart[]
The following chart shows how many of each attribute upgrade will occur within a given level range. The order in which upgrades are awarded in each range is randomized.
Level range | Health | Inventory | Attack | Throw | Speed |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-10 | 2x | 2x | 1x | 1x | 1x |
11-20 | 2x | 1x | 1x | 1x | - |
21-30 | 1x | 2x | 1x | 1x | 1x |
31-40 | 2x | 1x | 2x | 1x | 1x |
41-50 | 1x | 2x | 1x | - | - |
Skill reward list[]
The levels at which a player learns a new skill is randomized; however, the player will always earn them in the following order:
- Back Drop
- Jump Kick
- DDT
- Curb Stomp
- Front Kick
- Dodge Roll
- Double Leg Drop Kick
- Foot Sweep
- Elbow Drop
- Haymaker
- Field Goal
- Smash
- Hands Off
- Power Bomb
- Pick Up
Combo card reward list[]
Similar to how skills are awarded, levels at which a player earns a new combo card is randomized and they will always be received in the same order. Below is a list of combo cards earned by leveling up, in order, for both Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record:
Dead Rising 2[]
- Drill Bucket
- I.E.D.
- Molotov
- Pole Weapon
- Air Horn
- Gem Blower
- Fountain Lizard
- Hacker
- Ripper
- Electric Chair
- Flaming Gloves
- Heliblade
- Fire Spitter
- Beer Hat
- Sticky Bomb
- Driller
- Defiler
- Hail Mary
- Freezer Bomb
- Knife Gloves
- Roaring Thunder
- Super Slicer
- Handy Chipper
- Dynameat
- Electric Rake
- Parablower
- Boomstick
- Auger
- Infernal Arms
- Porta Mower
- Super B.F.G.
- Tesla Ball
- Spear Launcher
- Blitzkrieg
Off the Record[]
- Drill Bucket
- I.E.D.
- Pole Weapon
- Air Horn
- Weed Tendonizer
- Bouncing Beauty
- Gem Blower
- Electric Chair
- Blitzkrieg
- Ripper
- Cryo Pod
- Dynameat
- Heliblade
- Fire Spitter
- Sticky Bomb
- Pegasus
- Defiler
- Hail Mary
- Electric Crusher
- Shocker
- Knife Gloves
- Roaring Thunder
- Super Slicer
- Spear Launcher
- Handy Chipper
- Tesla Ball
- Parablower
- Flaming Gloves
- Infernal Arms
- Super B.F.G.
- Porta Mower
- Driller
- Lightning Gun
- Auger
- Laser Gun
Chuck's current status[]
To check on Chuck's current level, skills available, and prestige points, pause the game by pressing / and select status from the pause menu.
Quickly gain prestige points[]
Case Zero[]
In Case Zero, once the Mechanic Jed Wright is defeated, Chuck receives the Boomstick combo card and the corresponding heavy attack.
The quickest way to increase Chuck's level is with the Boomstick's heavy attack, which stabs and lifts zombies into the air. It yields 2,500 prestige points per kill, so perform the heavy attack often to earn lots of prestige points in a short time. The player can keep remaking the weapon at a maintenance table.[2]
In comparison, having a Case Zero survivor join the player's party is only worth up to 2,000 prestige points and successfully escorting a survivor is worth up to a maximum of 3,500 prestige points.
Prestige points for rescuing survivors[]
As the player progresses, the prestige point amount for each survivor increases.
Case Zero[]
Photo | Survivor | Join bonus | Escort bonus | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dick Jones | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
Fausto Vargas | 1,000 | 3,000 | 4,000 | |
Gemini Vargas | 1,000 | 3,000 | 4,000 | |
Nikki Valentino | 1,000 | 3,000 | 4,000 | |
Tia Hernandaz | 1,000 | 3,000 | 4,000 | |
Sharon Riesinger | 1,500 | 3,500 | 5,000 | |
Jason Wong | 1,500 | 3,500 | 5,000 | |
Archie Eaton | 1,500 | 3,500 | 5,000 | |
Bob Blackrock | 1,500 | 3,500 | 5,000 | |
Darcie Blackrock | 2,000 | 3,500 | 5,500 |
Dead Rising 2[]
- Further information: Dead Rising 2 Survivors
Special prestige point bonuses[]
- See also: Minigames
Bonus name | Description | Store | PP bonus | Repeatable | PP Total | |
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Dummy Punched Bonus! | Destroy a punching dummy. Chuck must punch the dummies either bare handed or with boxing gloves or MMA gloves; other types of weapons will not work. | 3 in Royal Flush Plaza - The Man's Sport 4 in Palisades Mall - Flexin' |
1,000 | 7 (once each) | 7,000 | |
xx | All Dummies Bonus! | Destroy all seven dummies | 10,000 | No | ||
Neon Fish Destroyed Bonus! | Shot the 6 neon fish lights in Atlantica Casino - near the Palisades Mall entrance | Atlantica Casino | 1,000 | 6 fish total | 6,000 | |
All Neon Fish Bonus! | Shot all 6 neon fish | Atlantica Casino | 10,000 | No | ||
Treadmill Bonus! | Run on one of the treadmills | Palisades Mall - Flexin' | 1,000 | 6,000 | ||
All Treadmills Bonus! | Run all of the six treadmills | Palisades Mall - Flexin' | 10,000 | |||
Display Rack Spun Bonus! | 3 racks in Palisades Mall - KokoNutz Sports Town 3 racks in Royal Flush Plaza Sportrance |
1,000 | Yes | 6,000 | ||
All Display Racks Bonus! | Spin all 6 racks | 10,000 | ||||
Poster Sprayed Bonus! | Spray a Zombrex Poster. See page for all locations. | 1,000 | Yes (each poster) | 33,000 | ||
All Posters Bonus! | Spray all 33 Zombrex posters. | 300,000 | Yes (each poster) | |||
Exercise Bike Bonus! | Pedal one of the exercise bikes. Press the (B)
button to use and press the (A) button rapidly to ride it until bonus.
In the PC game file items.txt, this minigame is called the "FitnessBike" (Fitness Bike). |
Flexin' | 1,000 | Yes | 5,000 | |
All Exercise Bikes Bonus! | Pedal all six exercise bikes | Flexin' | 10,000 | No | ||
Movie Watched Bonus! | On the Platinum Strip is a the movie theater Paradise Platinum Screens with one door Chuck can enter and watch a bad movie. The movies can only be watched at certain times that you can see listed on the marquee. See Paradise Platinum Screens for showtimes. Chuck loses one and a half hours when you watch the movie. | 2,000 | Yes (once each movie) | 10,000 | ||
All Movies Bonus! | Watch all 5 movies | 10,000 | No | |||
Time Share Bonus! | Watch the Time Share Video from 12:00-01:30 am. | 10,000 | No | |||
Standee Used Bonus! | Use the Standee in front of the Fortune City Arena | Fortune Park - next toTIR Souvenir Kiosk | 1,000 | No | ||
Peeping Tom Bonus! | Pay $1,000 to view a peepshow | Peep Hole | 1,000 | Yes - 3 times total | 3,000 | |
All Peep Shows Bonus! | Watch the peep show three times. | 10,000 | No | |||
Aversion Bonus! | ?? | |||||
All Gifts Given Bonus! | See Gifts for Katey | |||||
Use Slide Bonus! | Palisades Mall grotto | 10,000 | No | |||
Stove Used Bonus! | Heat up a Pan on a Stove | See Pan#Stove locations | 1,000 | Yes (once each stove) | 20,000 | |
All Stoves Used Bonus! | Use all stoves | 10,000 | No | |||
Strip Poker Elimination Bonus! | Strip eliminate a survivor in the mission Ante Up. | Safe House | 5,000 | Yes | 25,000 | |
All Stripped Bonus!!! | Strip eliminate all 5 survivors in the mission Ante Up. | Safe House | 10,000 | No | ||
Test Of Strength Bonus! | See Minigames | The Man's Sport | 5,000 | No | ||
Craps Table Bonus! | See Minigames Roll a seven on the Giant Dice at 'Flamin' Craps' | Royal Flush Plaza | 10,000 | No | ||
Giant Wheel Bonus! | See Minigames | |||||
Bull Ride Bonus! | See Minigames | |||||
Dolphin Bonus! | See Minigames Win the "Ride the Waves" | |||||
Motion Madness Bonus! | See Minigames | |||||
Virtual Golf Bonus! | See Minigames | SporTrance | ||||
Fortune Whisperer Bonus! | See Minigames | |||||
Fire Pit Bonus | See Minigames | |||||
Pyromaniac Bonus! | See Minigames | Yucatan Casino fire pit | ||||
Stupidity Bonus! | See Minigames | Yucatan Casino fire pot | ||||
Environment Bonus! | See Minigames | Varies |
Gifts for Katey[]
- Further information: Gifts for Katey
Chuck can bring Katey certain items as gifts for prestige points. There are a total of 11 gifts that Chuck can give to Katey. The first gift will merit the "Father of the Month" achievement and giving all 11 will merit the "Father of the Year" achievement.
Prestige point load screen hints[]
Prestige Point load screen hints from Off the Record.[3]
There are no load screen Prestige Points in the Fortune City Arena, the Safe House or Atlantica Casino.
Location | Hint | Description | PP Bonus
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NONE | Knock over bowling pins with a bowling ball | 1,000 PP - up to ten times[21] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NONE | Donkey Lamp, Football and Novelty Cell Phone | 100 PP[22][23][24] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NONE | Bow and Arrow and Novelty Poker Chip | 5 PP[25] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NONE | Paint Can and Cardboard Cutout - including Cardboard Cutout - Frank West and Cardboard Cutout - Chuck Greene | 25 PP[26] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NONE | TIR Baseball Bat, regular Baseball Bat and Sports Car | 100 PP[27] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NONE | Bass Guitar and Amplifier | 10 PP[28] |
Sticker locations in Off the Record[]
- Further information: Off the Record Prestige Points Stickers
Trivia[]
- In Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, even after reaching level 5, the prestige points bar will continue to fill again as normal until the player reaches 110,000 PP, though nothing in particular happens at that point, as the player can only reach level 6 and beyond in the full version of Dead Rising 2.
Gallery[]
- Further information: Dead Rising 2 Prestige Points/Gallery
External links[]
- Alucadrian, Dead Rising 2: Case Zero: Levelling Guide, GameFAQs, (September 6, 2010). Best guide on leveling up.
- Dead Rising 2: Bonus PP Guide, GameFAQs, (November 04, 2010).
References[]
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Case Zero |
Weapons - Locations - Characters |
Cases |
Case 0-1 - Case 0-2 - Case 0-3 - Case 0-4 - Zombrex 1 - Military Arrival |
Missions |
Above the Law - Gemini's Request - Handle With Care - The Mechanic - The Morning After - Win Some Lose Some |
Gameplay |
Achievements - Chuck's Notebook - Combo Weapons - Prestige Points |