ZOMBIES.... A MALL FULL OF ZOMBIES....
Dead Rising is a zombie infested, horror action adventure game, which is the best, ever zombie game ever made by a legendary game designing company. Capcom.
First I’ll start of with (of course) the story in the game. The game starts off when you have a view of a mountain and a helicopter appears and it is you (Frank West) and his friend who pilots the helicopter Ned. Frank wants to be known as a famous photojournalist so he goes to a small town known as Willamette and the population is rather staggering…53,594. Yeah…which means that is how many zombies will be at the mall and you get a 20 point achievement if you kill that many zombies. Anyway your first task is to take pictures of the area and you’re amazed on what you are witnessing (this first task will get you started off with some extra pp points), until Frank and Ned arrive at a mall which is huge and the military sees you and chases you away and you jump out of the copter on the roof of the mall etc. This is when all the action starts a crazed old lady opens the door, which is keeping all the zombies out just to get her stupid dog and the zombies all come in and you got to make it to the stairs etc. Now I’m going to talk about the gameplay. The gameplay is really good as there are thousands of zombies surrounding you EVERYWHERE! But It isn’t really really good because when you are running it looks kind of goofy looking and I know it isn’t much of a driving game but the car movements aren’t top notch. The mall is structured very well; there are plenty of weapons to annihilate stenches (zombies) with. The sound effects are good when you make contact with a stench but when you move and stop you still hear a couple of footsteps when you’re standing still but they stop. The textures of the weapons and people, environment, you’re character, clothing, objects and the blood effects is so cool that when you attack a lot of zombies you get blood on your face and clothes.
However, there are some negative points about dead rising that lets the game down quite a bit.
1. You have to do missions in a certain amount of time other wise your “scoop” vanishes and you have to start it all over again from the beginning.
2. The “mini” bosses are damn frustrating as hell and always get in your way.
3. Saving is poor
4. If you die and you have hardly saved the games you start off when you last saved (so much for sucktacular
5. Story mode is quite frustrating
6. You have to collect survivors to get your pp up.
7. And the thing that bugs me quite a bit is when Otis constantly contacts you and in order to get an achievement you have to answer every single time he contacts you!!!!
But this doesn’t mean that dead rising is rubbish there are some good points about it.
1. Tons of zombies to Muller
2. A big variety of weapons to use
3. Graphics
4. Sound
5. When you gain a level you get more health, abilities, speed, strength, more weapon slots.
6. The look of the cutscenes look staggering
7. And it is a hell of a lot of fun which will keep you occupied for a long period of time
If you are the type of person who likes gory, action packed games well Dead Rising is definitely the game that you will enjoy and is worth the price it is sold for.