Highly Addictive
Dead Rising is made by Capcom, the minds who brought you the Resident Evil series, so zombie games are right up their alley.
What makes Dead Rising so cool is its originality. Capcom throws you in a mall with thousands, literally thousands, of zombies and lets you loose. Nearly everything you can think of is weapon fro a frisbee to a water gun to a chainsaw and auger. The amount of weapons in this game are astonishing. Here is just a few of the weapons in Dead Rising: lead pipe, chainsaw, dumbell, chair, bench, 2x4, propane tank, handgun, sub-machinegun, katana, battle axe, shopping cart, shotgun, plasma tv, milk jug, and many, many more. I could have gone on all day, if I wanted to. The storyline of Dead Rising is pretty good.
You play as Frank West, a photojournalist, who learned that some weird stuff was happening in the town of Willamete, Colorado. You hire a helicopter to take you in the city and drop you off at the mall to find out "nearly" every single person has been changed into a zombie. You find that there are town survivors who have barricaded themselves in the mall. But you soon find out that there is a conspiracy that is going on.
Once you start the game you can either do what you want( like a sandbox type of game) and start killing every zombie in sight and rescue the mall survivors or you can go with the story and find out how the zombie outbreak was caused AND kill lots of zomies and rescue survivors. The rescuing survivor system doesn't work to well though; you may want them to follow you, but most times they may get fall behind and leave them prone to zombie attacks. Especially when you have more than five survivors following you to the security room and they are trying to get on the platform to the security room. It's like there programmed to only climb up the platform on only one part of it and you see them running against each other, pushing each other around. It's frustrating. The only other flaw is the save system; you can only save ONE profile the entire game and you always overwrite the save you had before; there could have been more save slots.
The graphics are pretty good, but they still could have polished it up a bit more. This is one of the most gore-filled game I have ever played beside Gears of War, you will find blood everywhere; after each hit there will be blood splattering against your clothing and against the walls. And I'm not saying this is a bad thing, I'm just making a point that it is really violent.
Dead Rising has a very high replay value to it. You will find yourself playing it over and over again. The sound is very good also from the dismemberments and decapitations of the zombies to the roar of the chainsaw and the clunk of a 2x4. Dead Rising is a buy or at the very least a rental( you will be renting this a lot if you don't buy, that's why I bought it). This is a good game that should not be passed by. PLAY IT!
What makes Dead Rising so cool is its originality. Capcom throws you in a mall with thousands, literally thousands, of zombies and lets you loose. Nearly everything you can think of is weapon fro a frisbee to a water gun to a chainsaw and auger. The amount of weapons in this game are astonishing. Here is just a few of the weapons in Dead Rising: lead pipe, chainsaw, dumbell, chair, bench, 2x4, propane tank, handgun, sub-machinegun, katana, battle axe, shopping cart, shotgun, plasma tv, milk jug, and many, many more. I could have gone on all day, if I wanted to. The storyline of Dead Rising is pretty good.
You play as Frank West, a photojournalist, who learned that some weird stuff was happening in the town of Willamete, Colorado. You hire a helicopter to take you in the city and drop you off at the mall to find out "nearly" every single person has been changed into a zombie. You find that there are town survivors who have barricaded themselves in the mall. But you soon find out that there is a conspiracy that is going on.
Once you start the game you can either do what you want( like a sandbox type of game) and start killing every zombie in sight and rescue the mall survivors or you can go with the story and find out how the zombie outbreak was caused AND kill lots of zomies and rescue survivors. The rescuing survivor system doesn't work to well though; you may want them to follow you, but most times they may get fall behind and leave them prone to zombie attacks. Especially when you have more than five survivors following you to the security room and they are trying to get on the platform to the security room. It's like there programmed to only climb up the platform on only one part of it and you see them running against each other, pushing each other around. It's frustrating. The only other flaw is the save system; you can only save ONE profile the entire game and you always overwrite the save you had before; there could have been more save slots.
The graphics are pretty good, but they still could have polished it up a bit more. This is one of the most gore-filled game I have ever played beside Gears of War, you will find blood everywhere; after each hit there will be blood splattering against your clothing and against the walls. And I'm not saying this is a bad thing, I'm just making a point that it is really violent.
Dead Rising has a very high replay value to it. You will find yourself playing it over and over again. The sound is very good also from the dismemberments and decapitations of the zombies to the roar of the chainsaw and the clunk of a 2x4. Dead Rising is a buy or at the very least a rental( you will be renting this a lot if you don't buy, that's why I bought it). This is a good game that should not be passed by. PLAY IT!
