To be fair, Dead Rising 2 was objectively better than Dead Rising 1 from all gameplay aspects, and it actually felt like a proper American setting instead of what Japanese think our malls look like in 1. Out of Capcom's whole experiment at that time, Capcom Vancouver/Blue Castle were the best thing to come out of it.
Then again, Capcom is shitting the bed with retarded decisions again so that might have just been dumb luck, but there is an entire thread dedicated to this discussion.
I didn't know Turning Point devs were behind LP3, that actually explains a lot. Same for Yaiba, what a horrid portfolio