Dead Rising (Xbox 360)
In a nutshell:
Freelance photographer Frank West is stuck in a shopping centre full of zombies and he’s only got 72 hours to escape. How he manages that feat is entirely up to you, with his fate, that of dozens of other survivors and a legion of the walking dead entirely in your hands.
The lowdown:
Since this is basically an unofficial video game remake of Dawn of the Dead it tries to recreate all the major elements from the movie, including scenes with hundreds of zombies on screen at once. Given free reign in the shopping centre there are 250 different objects you can use to dispatch them but in the end escape is your own really option. The question is how you manage it and whether you properly investigate what’s going, try and help other survivors or photograph their demise in an attempt to win a Pulitzer. Although helping the survivors involves some fairly dull escort mission the only real flaw is the oddly strict save system which won’t let you save more than once. It’s not nearly enough to spoil the fun of a good zombie massacre though.
Most exciting moment:
Undoubtedly the best fun in the game is, much like Grand Theft Auto, not completing the missions but just mucking around – which inevitably involves attacking zombies with everything from a lawnmower to ladies’ handbags. Doing so with a cartoon head on and a pair of hotpants raises the level of surreal fun even further.
Since you ask:
Although officially the game is nothing to do with Resident Evil, the game contains a number of sly references to the series. One of the more subtle is the sandwich bar ?€œJill’s Sandwiches?€?, named after the famously awful line of dialogue in the original Resident Evil game.
The bottom line:
An action game with zombies, weapons and options by the hundreds.
HARRISON DENT
Customer Review: Dead Rising - The Honest Review
Hi everyone, today im going to review Dead Rising on the 360 for you all as i usually do in all my reviews i will go through the catagories STORY, GAMEPLAY , GRAPHICS, OVERALL, and MULTIPLAYER (if any). Lets get started.
Dead Rising is capcom’s (Resident Evil n DMC series) new zombie horror fest game in which you play as a photojournalist named Frank West who must survive 3 days in a zombie infested shopping mall what you do within those 3 days is down to you.
STORY:
Dead Rising see’s a small American town plauged by flesh eating zombies, Frank West (photojournalist) gets news of a strange incident and investigates to get the scoop, he arrives by chopper due to the roads being blocked off by the army but as mysterys unfold in the mall Frank finds himself in the middle of a huge conspiracy.
GAMPLAY:
Dead Rising is unique compared to Capcoms Resident Evil series they have focused more on a free roam aspect and the ability to use anything you can find as a weapon it’s great in theory unfortunatly towards the opening of the game most areas of the mall are locked/shut so you have to do missions to open them which isnt bad really but when the cases involve waiting for hours on end just to do a small objective it can get very boring
( e.g. when you get a case it says “NEXT CASE WILL OCCUR AT 6:00AM and sometimes this just for a cut scene and then having to wait another few hours is frustrating).
Thankfully there is plenty of undead and psycho paths walking the mall to get rid of, survivors are present but the AI is poor e.g, if they see a swarm of zombies or a safe path they will run into the swarm of zombies unarmed and die. That aside the controls of the game are very easy to use and the camera works better than most Capcom games the controls are very easy to get use to.
If you have a standard definition TV you might be abit annoyed by the small blurry txt that comes up every time you get a call but unfortunatly you have to read them( due to the fact that they didnt include voices in these phone calls), but if you dont want to you can just set a way point marker to the scoop and follow it.
I enjoyed Dead Rising but i think improvments could of been made but that doesnt mean its bad beacuse its a really good game and addictive if its your first time.
RPG fans will like this game too as you get rewarded new abilities for PP (picture points) or escorting survivors the maximum level is 50 and it will take a while to fully level up.
GRAPHICS:
Dead Rising is visually brilliant all the characters are well renderd and animated they look almost like real people, the mall itself is incredibly detailed with real time effects such as lighting and water features etc. The zobies actually look really good in this game considering theres so many on screen at once sure they look the same but would you really wanna animate different zombies a million times over? lol by the same i dont mean your gonna see only one zombie i mean more like GTA games for example. they sue the same skins but just multiply them.
The cutscenes look brilliant in this game and character detail is fine.
OVERALL:
Dead Rising will appeal to people that either love zombie games or those who love dawn of the dead, unfortunatly if your looking for scares this isnt what your looking for as its just not got the horror factor that Resident Evil had.
But theplot is great and its still a great game and is worth buying with 6 endings to collect and loads of different playing styles this is bound to keep you busy for a few months i’ll give dead rising a 7 out of 10 simply because i think some changes could have been done to make this feel more like a action horror game.
Thanks for reading hope this was helpful to you
by Jay *Sniper Wolf 1989*
Customer Review: Disappointing
‘Dead Rising’ for the Xbox 360 is the game that every fan of the zombie genre, whether it be films, books or games, has been waiting for. Unfortunately it didn’t live up-to it’s fairly high expectations.
The main objective of the game is to remain alive inside the zombie-infested mall for at least three days, after which help will arrive. In-game time runs twelve times faster than real-time, meaning one day in-game is exactly two hours in real time. Therefore, the game is automatically ended after six hours of gameplay, when the time runs out. You control the main character, Frank West. As a photojournalist, Frank has an interest in uncovering the truth behind the zombie epidemic through unlocking a series of “case files” that build upon the previous ones and reveal the central plot as the game clock progresses. Unlocking case files is accomplished primarily by completing tasks and being in the right place at the right time in order to view a cutscene that explains more of the story. Frank also carries a camera and can earn “Prestige Points” from photographing different situations.
You also can choose to rescue other survivors within the mall and battle the many psychopaths that get in your way. With over 80 shops and endless amounts of weapons where you can use pretty much anything from tools to toys, you’d think this game would be great fun, but after a few hours the action does get very repetitive and tedious and ends up being generally quite dull.
Basically this is “Dawn of the Dead: The Game”. The graphics are brilliant (some of the best on the 360, especially in HD) and the scale of the mall and it’s surroundings and the large amount of zombies on the screen at one time is extremely impressive, but due to the game’s terrible save system and repetitive gameplay, this game really isn’t as great as it should have been. It is definitely better to rent this game as it’s lasting appeal wears off fairly quickly.
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