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    Dead Rising

    Game » consists of 12 releases. Released Aug 08, 2006

    Freelance photojournalist Frank West struggles to survive a zombie outbreak after being trapped inside the Willamette Parkview Mall. Frank has seventy-two hours to get the scoop of his life while dispatching the undead hordes with anything he can grab.

    thai_jedi's Dead Rising (Xbox 360) review

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    Dead rising review

    Dead rising could of been an alright game, if there was more depth it, if you know what i mean.

    The thing that probably starts to annoy you after a while is the save points, its annoying that you can only save in certain points, and that it hasn't got a save any where feature. So if you are doing really well in the game and forgot to save it you are going to have to start all again, untill where you last saved it.

    the fun thing is going around and killing zombies, there is loads of different variety of wepons to choose from, chainsaw to lawn mower. my favorite is the sledge hammer.

    The worst thing about this game is there missions, the escort mission can be very annoying and frustrating, exspecially when they just stand there while the zombies attack them, and everytime you call them they don't come to you.

    i also like the idea of real time, if you miss the helicopter at the end of the game tough, there is no way of getting it back unless you, load back, which i don't think you can.

    there is also 4+ different endings depending what you done in the game, and if you got the helicopter or not.

    if you want you can pick up a copy of it but i wouldn't reccomand it. sorry.

    also the save system is TERRIBLE. you can only save in certain places and say for example if someone was coming round for dinner and you had to quickly save it, well you can't, you have to hack or way back through zombies which seem to never die, they just keep respawning, and if you die trying to get to the save point you load back to where you last saved.

    it can be annoying, it also is VERY repeptitive, and could end up getting bored of it.

    also isn't a xbox 360 exclusive as its coming on the wii now.

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