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Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition

Relive the adventure for the first time in HD! Experience thrilling high-flying robot combat unlike anything you've felt before. Includes the Special Edition version of ZOE: The 2nd Runner. Beautiful new…

25 October 2012

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Kojima Productions, released 25 October 2012 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition is

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Kojima Productions and released in 2012. It was published by Konami Digital Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on Fox Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game is set in the year 2174, two years after the events of Zone of the Enders. It follows Dingo Egret, a miner working on Callisto. He inadvertently discovers the Orbital Frame, Jehuty, hidden. When he is attacked by BAHRAM forces who have come to seize it, Dingo climbs into Jehuty and engages the attackers, which include a female Orbital Frame runner named Ken Marinaris. During the battle, Dingo enters the BAHRAM battleship, seemingly defeating Nephtis, an Orbital Frame controlled by an AI program based on Viola's fighting style, but is subdued by Anubis, Jehuty's superior counterpart controlled by Col. Ridley "Nohman" Hardiman, leader of BAHRAM. Nohman requests Dingo to join him once…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Zone of the Enders series

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition is the fifth of 7 entries we hold in the Zone of the Enders series. The next entry was Zone of the Enders: HD Edition in 2012.

See all 7 Zone of the Enders games in release order →

What it launched against

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition launched on 25 October 2012, within three weeks of Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Assassin's Creed III.

Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassin's Creed III.

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When did Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition come out?
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition was released on 25 October 2012 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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