Hours of Gory Fun Combined With a Great Story Make This One a Keeper
Anyway the game has you balance accomplishing objectives that further the story and rescuing survivors. Which even though it can be frustrating at times, however it's still rewarding once you find a way to lead your comrades to safety. If I remember right theres around 50 or sosurvivors but you won't have enough time to save them all unless you decide not to further the story.
The funny this is you would think Capcom would just take the Resident Evil idea and put it in a new game for mass consumption. However with Dead Rising thats definately not the case. I won't go into detail but the circumstances leading up to the infection are definately unique, though a little odd, still it works and the good news is the story itself is very entertaining, but it still ends with a nice cliffhanger that definately sets up a sequel.
The graphics themselves are beautiful though you kind of lose that sense when hordes of zombies gather as the camera doesn't always provide a nice dramatic effect, opting for function over substance. Still when you take close up shots and view the cutscenes you'll really get an idea of how beautiful this game really is.
One of my favorite elements of the game is something Capcom hasn't done in depth since the first Resident Evil and thats multiple endings. If I remember right theres about 5 different endings you get and about 3 of them are pretty good. However the best one allows you to view one of them along the way should you choose to prioritize the story over survivors.
Now for the bad. Not really a whole lot hear but sometimes the survivors are absolutely hopeless, and more then once you'll likely find your patience tested. Especially in one part of the game where you have to save around 5 or 6 survivors at once. On top of that a man named Otis who gives you the lowdown of where survivors are via walkie talkie will ring you like the overly needy friend who's calls your trying to dodge. And if you get cut off because you're getting attacked by zombies then you'll get yet another call from Otis who has the gaul to call you rude for hanging up on him. I don't know what Capcom was thinking with the whole Otis aspect but luckily they made a game that more then makes up for it.
Either way I definately recomend this game as it's easily a great combination of gameplay and story.