Dead Rising 2 players looking for the perfect reason to jump back into Capcom’s zombie decimating simulator won’t have to wait much longer as the standalone downloadable title Dead Rising 2: Case West will exclusively infect Xbox Live on December 27.

Case West concludes the story started in the Dead Rising 2 prequel Case Zero, and brings together Dead Rising protagonist Frank West and DR2 hero Chuck Greene for some doubly studly undead slaying. If you have 800 Microsoft Points and a buddy who loves slaughtering untold hordes of infected slot jockeys, you know what to do.

Anyone out there buy Case Zero, not buy Dead Rising 2, but plan to buy Case West? Seems like a savvy way to get a whole mess of gameplay for a third of the price of the full game, no?

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