yea,,,that's why :P

This is great news. I didn't care much for Dead Rising, but multiplayer would really be awesome for this game. I am now looking forward to this. Now the question is, how many players can play at once?

6000 zombies on screen at once huh, I'd love to see this in action, can't wait for gameplay footage

Dead Rising does not need MP. Co-op maybe, but not MP.

Co-op is a subset of multiplayer.  They very well could be talking about co-op and to be honest, that is the only thing that makes sense given their comments about 6000 zombies on screen.

Whenever is see the word multiplayer i usually think of Deathmatches and capture the flag. I understand co-op is MP, but most devs would just say co-op.

Dead Rising Deathmatch would be awful.

I agree.  It would have to be some sort of tweaked deathmatch to work.  Maybe you could command the zombie hordes where to go or something.  I cannot really think of any way to make a compelling deathmatch out of Dead Rising though.

Personally, I'd like to see players who die in multiplayer actually become zombies.  THAT would be cool.  Then after the zombie dies they respawn as some other survivor.

Anyway, multiplayer Dead Risng FTMFW!  This is the one thing that was missing from the first game.  I wonder if they'd be able to manage splitscreen, even with a reduced zombie count?  I mean, it's not like there's a massive threat drop between 6000 zombies and 3000.

frank and the blonde guy working together hows that for a pair?