Sat, Mar 28, 2009 | 15:28 GMT

GDC: Dead Rising 2 dev wants 6,000 zombies at once (apparently)

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Speaking at GDC in San Fran this week, Blue Castle’s Izmeth Siddeek apparently said that that he wants a mere 6,000 zombies on screen at once in Dead Rising 2.

The information comes by way of Laura Scholl, product manager for Mental Mill, who released of postscript of the game’s presentation at the event. No actual quote is forthcoming.

According to Scholl, Siddeek said that “Dead Rising 2 deal[s] with the rendering of the greatest number of characters ever seen in a video game. Everything else needed to be subordinated to this requirement.”

More rendering madness over at MTV.

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#1

Syrok
28/03/09, 3:10 pm

So what about Stronghold with its 10.000 characters. :)

#2

XDamage
28/03/09, 3:34 pm

Looks like the guy in the picture has stolen the leather jacket from the main character of inFamous. :D
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/Infamous-cover.jpg

#3

Retroid
28/03/09, 3:37 pm

/Eagerly awaits the Wii version

#4

Quiiick
28/03/09, 3:43 pm

“Everything else needed to be subordinated to this requirement.”

What’s the benefit of having 6000 NPCs on screen at once while game-play, story and graphics sucks?

#5

XDamage
28/03/09, 3:45 pm

Uuum… But it’s 6000!! ;)

Anyways, I guess alot of those will be sprites.

#6

El_MUERkO
28/03/09, 4:35 pm

6000, that’s my kind of game

scope > prettys

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