Edition: Hardcover.
By Capcom, 2010.
It's October and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is hitting shelves today, making it the perfect time for me to pull out one of the gorier books in my collection.
That brings me to some of the issues I have with this book. As is the trend with most art books that come packaged with special editions these days, it’s roughly the size of a DVD case. While I can understand the decision to make them compact enough to fit in the packaging, I find little reason that designers couldn’t attempt to make up for this in page length. As a result we get quite a few pages packed with tiny
Despite it featuring a few shining examples of how not to design an art book I did enjoy the artwork and it did feature a plethora of content. It covered everything from zombies and psychopaths to vehicles and 3D renders. All of which would have been more enjoyable if they’d simply expanded the book a bit and gave us some nice full page spreads.
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