Capcom has confirmed that Dead Rising 2 will feature a multiplayer mode, Eurogamer is reporting.

Speaking at CAPTIVATE ‘09 held in Monte Carlo last week, Capcom R&D boss Keiji Inafune said: “We’re at a point in game history that you need to have some form of multiplayer component in a game.”

“Single-player alone is not going to cut it. So rest assured we are going to put multiplayer in the game, but I can’t go into specifics about what type of multiplayer as that directly relates to some of the game systems that we don’t want to talk about at this event. It will be online multiplayer, so keep that in mind.”

Frankly, we can’t think of anything better than slaying zombies with baseball bats, moose heads and chainsaws alongside our friends, so this news is nothing short of amazing.

Just be sure to include it on the disc though, Capcom.

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