The 6 Best Mods For Dead Rising 2: Off The Record

Summary

• Blu's Boss Weapons lets you use all the bosses' weapons from Dead Rising 2: Off The Record pretty early.
• If you already beat the game and want a new and fresh experience, Dead Rising 2 OTR Randomizer is your mod.
• Looking for some sweet QOL improvements? No More Unmarked Cases gives you aid with some quests.

Perhaps more than anything else, the ability to modify a game is what can lead to it having a long-lasting legacy. Some of the best-regarded games of all time have been kept afloat or are known for their vibrant modding communities. For some games, this is an intended side effect. For others, it is the passion of fans that allows for such advances to be made. With mods, the well of content is extended far beyond the original scope that the developers intended.

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In this sense, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, the zombie adventure game developed by Capcom, is part of a long tradition of modding. If you are searching for another reason to play, there are mods to add new items, add quality-of-life features, or remix the game entirely. Whatever your taste, you're bound to find another reason to dive back into the apocalypse.

6 Blu's Boss Weapons

Easy Access To All Boss Weapons

Mod Link

Blu's Boss Weapons

Author

Nippleson

At its core, Dead Rising is a series about providing a playground for experimentation. Sometimes, that means being able to goof off with the wide variety of items and situations the game offers. If that's what you're primarily interested in, Blu's Boss Weapons may be useful to you.

This mod collects every boss weapon in the game and deposits them into one of the saferooms, allowing for ease of access and the ability to make the most of all the tools available. This won't lead to a balanced game experience, but if you're modding your copy there's a chance you weren't looking for that in the first place.

5 Mini-Chainsaw

Implements A Weapon From The First Dead Rising

Mod Link

Mini-Chainsaw

Author

OnoticPineapple

The restoration of cut content is a fertile source of inspiration for modders, and sometimes the content doesn't even need to come from the game in question. For games based on the same engine, content can be more easily moved from one to the other. In this case, the simply named Mini-Chainsaw mod adds a weapon from the original Dead Rising: the mini-chainsaw.

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The weapon's damage output and smaller form factor make it an excellent choice, beaten out only by a select few alternatives. Bringing over content from the original game that wasn't present in this one serves to create a richer and more full experience.

4 Ball Launcher And Flashbang Restored

Implements Weapons Not Normally Found In The Campaign

Mod Link

Ball Launcher and Flashbang Restored

Author

BattyMare419

Similarly to the Mini-Chainsaw mod, this mod adds two new weapons. Where it differs is that these weapons are both already content from inside the game, but were not usable in the regular campaign.

While their use might be less specialized than how they were originally intended to be, rounding out the arsenal allows a greater depth in gameplay opportunities, with the multiple situations that can arise from such a wide variety of weaponry. In a game like Dead Rising, that variety is a key component to the fun.

3 No More Unmarked Cases

Integrates Unmarked Missions

Mod Link

No More Unmarked Cases

Author

BrazilianTortoise

Not all mods are about restoring or adding new content, however. Large swathes of mods are designed to implement quality-of-life changes, making the game more accessible or convenient where these changes are warranted.

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As opposed to adding new weapons or tools to play around with, this mod, developed by BrazilianTortoise, seeks to better integrate a series of unmarked missions into the game, some of which were marked in the original release of Dead Rising 2 but were not in Off The Record. These were designed to fit more or less seamlessly in with the rest to the best of the mod author's abilities, and should provide easier access to even more content.

2 Playstation Buttons

Changes Button Prompts

Mod Link

Playstation Buttons

Author

sergio1030

In the time that Off The Record was developed, and even still today, there are limitations in the UI design for games where controllers are concerned. Many titles from that time will only offer button prompts for either DualShock or Xbox controllers, regardless of which you are actually using.

With the ease of access available to all sorts of controllers in the current day, this is less of a problem, but can still crop up for games that weren't designed for this possibility. Enter modding. What this mod does is simple: change the UI to reflect the use of a DualShock or DualSense controller instead of Xbox. While not unplayable without it, this will make the experience much easier if you are using a Playstation controller.

1 Dead Rising 2 OTR Randomizer

Randomizes Many Aspects Of The Game

Mod Link

Dead Rising 2 OTR Randomizer

Author

FairyWithaPan

If you've reached the point where you've mastered the game and fully exhausted its systems, modding always has something to make the experience new again. Once you've had your fill of adding new weapons and tweaking Dead Rising to your liking, if you're still in search of more, a randomizer might be just what you're looking for.

Randomizers are a phenomenon that, essentially, remix your experiences, changing the location of items and NPCs, or even altering how these items work themselves. This is done in a way where the game remains beatable despite these changes, making for a more challenging run for those looking for that extra reason to play. This mod by FairyWithaPan does just that.

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