I have always liked the Dead Rising series. I was totally on board with the inherent quirkiness of the original game and dumped hours and hours into trying to find the best weapons and strategies to getting those god awful survivors to safety. I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat humming the song that the convicts in the jeep are listening to, and it remains one of the only games that I have ever reached a level cap in. So I was very excited when it came time to throw Dead Rising 3 into the Xbox One. As with the previous two games I talked about, I haven't gone all the way through Dead Rising 3 yet, so this is not a traditional review, but instead my impressions of the game so far.

If anyone was worried that this game would do away with the quirkiness of the original Dead Rising, you can more or less put that theory to bed right now. This game is still nuts. And its great. I might go so far as to say that this game is even crazier than the previous two just because of some of the insane stuff that you can come up with...There's a weapon that consists of a dragon helmet and boxing gloves with knives in them thats just...perfection.

The gameplay is much of the same as the previous two entries. You are in the midst of the zombie apocalypse and you are using anything at your disposal to cut, slash, shoot, or crush all zombies that stand in your way. Of which there are many. This game has made it even easier to combo weapons as you can do it anywhere now, without having to find a workbench to put items together. Once you have done so, every item you pick up or combo is saved to your locker as well for later access. Your character is also a skilled mechanic, and is able to combine a motorcycle and steamroller together simply by driving them next to each other and hitting a button. This is ridiculous, but its incredibly satisfying to run over the charred remains of a zombie with the steam roller front of your flame throwing motorcycle. Weapon combinations are gated by the collections of blueprints, but these are all over the place and show up on your map, so its not too long before you're combining hilariously powerful weapons capable of taking down zombies in the hundreds.

This game is not only fun for a launch game, but for a game in general. This is one of the games I picked up at launch that I truly look forward to continued playing in the future.