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Dead Rising Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: Capcom
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ESRB Rating: Mature
Platform(s): Xbox 360
Release Date: August 8, 2006
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-04-21
Cody's review
My son absolutely LOVES this game!! A little bloody, but okay for 14+ years. The mall setting is quite unique and graphics are awesome!!
Date: 2008-04-10
Great Game For Zombie Fans
This is a zombie fan's dream. The most remarkable thing about it is there are limitless things to use to bash the zombie. and plus this game has an intresting story line. Although not for young kids or for the squimish. Lots of gore.
Date: 2008-04-05
Not working for me...
I've tried... Really I have...
I can't seem to get into this game. I have it and plan to finish it... It is a zombie game after all but these are so many little things wrong with this. Let's start with the basics.
Saving games: What the hell... Having to find a bathroom? What are we in the 80's. Save places, save points, save puke. You should ALWAYS be able to save wherever the hell you want. Come on guys, this was an easy one.
The fighting mechanics: They are horrible. Most 3rd person games have horrible fight mechanics. Only "Gears of War" has 3rd person down pat.
The story: Not good.
Cut Screens: Also, not good.
Side games: Just Annoying.
Mixing to get odd, useless weapons: So tiring and not fun.
I've been waiting a long time for a great zombie game, I'm a horror and zombie fan and I guess I'll be waiting longer. This just didn't have anything I was looking for in a zombie game short of the setting and lots and lots of zombies. Worth trying out or buying when the price is nice and low.
Date: 2008-03-25
Strictly For The Hardcore
Let me first start off by saying that this game is, as mentioned in the title for my review, strictly for those of us who consider ourselves "hardcore" gamers. Capcom did a great job on their first game for the xbox360 and it's also one of the toughest games that you'll find on the system, much like Capcom's other great 360 game-Lost Planet.
Capcom, as a publuisher and developer, has always made games less geared toward the casual gaming market and Dead Rising is sure to be included among these ranks. Set inside a shopping mall in a 72-hour period (not real time-every minute equates to roughly 1 second), you play as photojournalist Frank West and are given the dual task of solving the mystery as to why this small town in Colorado is infected with zombies, and also finding as many survivors as you can and whisking them away to safety.
The fun in the game comes in that there are literally thousands of zombies infesting this mall, and also hundreds of implements of destruction to take them out with. Lawnmowers, chainsaws, battle axes, broadswords, a multitude of firearms, bats, skateboards, guitars, etc., etc. I could go on and on and list as many weapons I could think of that are at your disposal in Dead Rising but it would probably take up all the space I'd have for this review.
For all the fun this game offers however, it is not without its share of problems. First of all, the graphics are fantastic for one of the first of the second wave of xbox360 titles. With all this effort put into making the game look great, it is a complete mystery to me as to why the in-game text is so small. Unless you sit within 5 feet of the TV, I can guarantee that you'll have a hard time making out some of the text on screen. This stays constant whether you play in HD or normal TV modes.
Second, since you are tasked with rescuing as many survivors as possible, the game places a huge amount of importance on keeping them alive. This would be fine, except for the fact that the escorting mechanic is unbalanced and very problematic. For instance, many female survivors are only allowed to be escorted by hand, but this mechanic is very difficult and not nearly as easy as escorting the female survivors which you can carry, piggyback style. Also, the male survivors follow you on foot and can be given weapons (to be fair, both sexes of survivors can be given weapons but since you have the ability to escort females by hand or by piggyback, it makes no since to let them follow on foot since this is the worst of the escort methods) but their AI is terrible and they'll either swing at air, allow themselves to be swarmed with zombies, or simply run into walls and objects and slow you down.
Seeing as how the escorting of survivors is such a huge part of the game, it can be VERY frustrating to continue to deal with these limitations later on in the game as the difficulty ramps up.
The story for the game is your typical zombie fare-derived from george romero, despite the disclaimer on the box. Zombies are the aftereffect of a society gone wrong, blah, blah, blah. Biochemical weapons, overpowered military, blah, blah, blah. Nothing new here.
So, despite the games few faults, there is much fun to be had here, just understand that the game follows many of the old school hardcore video game tennants, such as super high difficulty and unforgiving gameplay. If you can stomach it, get your zombie on.
Date: 2008-03-17
Total lack of respect.
This game looks fun. I want to play it but I can't read the text. The text seems pretty important. People are telling me where to go and what to do but I can't read it.
It is a shame that such a fundamental part of the game is making the whole game unplayable.
Here is what Capcom had to say about this issue. "Unfortunately it does take time to resolve any issue and we would want to fix the issue appropriately as any changes to any game can create additional problems from the result of change; that's just how game programming works and that's why games go through extensive game testing programs and approvals."
Well Capcom, if you cannot provide us with the tools to adequately play your game, we will just buy games from someone else; thats just how being a consumer works. This is a total lack of respect for the consumer on Capcom's part. I will remember this and think twice before buying another game made by Capcom.
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