A Man's Man review for Dead Rising; no crappy one liners here people. So buckle up and get ready for a REAL review.
All I can say is that I was wrong. Ok lets start with the basics, you are a reporter called Frank West, you and your Heli pilot want to get some news on a military blockade and you decide to go check it out. As it turns out there has been a zombie invasion and Mr. Smartass decides to spend 72 hours in a mall infested with zombies to get the story of his life; that is if he is not killed along the way. Things go to hell pretty quickly and the Zombies raid the mall. Your weapon? The whole mall. You can pick up almost anything. From a tiny paper plate to a construction drill called the exacator. The game forces you to think outside the box and be innovative. For example I was once backed up ito a corner with hundreds of zombies surrounding me. I was out of weapons and health items and I saw a sheet of plywood next to me. I pick it up and swing it ripping off the lower torsos of a dozen zombies. It's moments like these that really make Dead Rising shine. That dosent mean that the game is without its flaws. For one thing that bothered me was the master timer the game has. You have about 74 hours in the game to beat it or you miss the helicopter game over ; a minute in the game is like 5 sec in real life. Even more annoying is that you have a certain amount of time to get to missions and if you save at a bad time then you wont be able to get to a certain spot and you will be forced to restart, yes restart, the whole game. Speaking of restarting the whole game, I advise you that on your first playthrought get to about lvl 8 and restart the game. Why? Because when you restart the game you keep your lvl along with all your new techniques and power-ups. If you dont do thid a couple of times you will have difficulty beating it. The graphics are not the best ive seen but I suppose that if they made them better the game would lag alot. This is because there can be over 800 zombies on the screen at once, which unless ive gone mad is a lot, So you could say the graphics get the job done and there is absolutly NO lag at all. The sound is just perfect, especialy for the weapons. There is nothing like the sound of you rev up a chainsaw into a zombies spine. The soundtrack is also good whenever it plays. Personally, it's one of the best sounding games ive ever heard. Well there you go, whoever you are, you must get Dead Rising it is one of the best games out for 360 and in my opinion only beaten by Gears of War.