Dead Rising

Dead Rising

Features:

• Real-time gameplay - Time marches on whether Frank is actively engaged or simply stationary
• Dynamic enemies - Record numbers of zombies will come at you & react to their environment -- each has unique behaviors and appearances
• The variety of stores will give you weapons aplenty - an endless supply of vehicles, makeshift weapons, and food are waiting for you
• Encounter other survivors along the way -- helping them will give you more clues as to what has happened and what you need to do to stop it
• Visual clarity - Playing in native 720p resolution allows for unprecedented detail and clarity in gameplay

Product Description
Dead Rising follows the harrowing tale of Frank West, a freelance photojournalist after the scoop of a lifetime. In a small suburban town that's overrun by zombies, he escapes to the local shopping mall, thinking it will be safe. Now it's a standoff, with zombies unable to get Frank, but him unable to get out & escape. Fortunately, he's got an entire mall at his disposal. Utilize everything you can find to fight off the flesh-hungry mob and search for the truth behind the horrendous epidemic.

Customer Reviews

Not original (2008-10-20)
Personally I preferred to collect original ones without any platinum hits and et cetera. Its been hard for me to find any brand new originals until I saw this item with original covering which enthrilled my thoughts into grabbing the opportunity to capture one for my own. Since I did researched through-out on amazon.com and there re games that specific labeled saying its platinum hits including pictures as well. Except for this game... so if your one of people who prefer collect originals then this wont be what you expected. Sorry, it did disappointed me greatly. I wished it used platinum hits covering which would stopped me from buying. However the review on gaming itself, ingore it because of course we all know its one of those great games.

Fun with a few problems (2008-10-11)
Although the front cover says otherwise, I can't help but compare Dead Rising with the movie Dawn of the Dead. The fact is you can do anything you want in a mall. Personally when I think of a mall, I think of Dawn of the Dead, and Dead Rising sort of allows me to play out my fantasy.

Dead Rising is one of the most unique Zombie games out there. Capcom is truly the master of Zombies games much like how George Romero is the master of Zombies on the big screen.

To explain Dead Rising, think Grand Theft Auto meets Resident Evil. The game's world is limited to a mall, but don't worry, there's plenty to do at the mall. If you want a comparison, think of a huge mall with roller coasters, grocery stores, toy stores, movie theaters, and all other wonderful things you'll find at the mall.

In Dead Rising you play a journalist named Frank whose love for the latest story lands him in a town overrun by zombies. The most unique thing about Dead Rising is that you can choose what to do. You are given basically three days of play, and within those three days you can uncover the story of the zombie plague, help survivors to safety, create chaos by killing zombies left and right, stop psychos, or you can do a combination of all.

Dead Rising unique system doesn't end with the fact that you can choose how you want to spend your 72 hours, but also the fact that you can choose how you want to defend yourself from the zombie plague. Do you want to bust TV's over zombies head? You can do that. Do you want to pick up an umbrella and use it as a ram to plow zombies? You can do that. Do you want to pick up chainsaws and cut zombies in half? You can do that. Pretty much anything can be used as a weapon in this game... right down to pies and foam bats and can sodas.

Overall a fun game to play for any zombie fan. There are few minor problems with the game which includes the fact that on some TVs it will be hard to read the text on the screen. I highly recommend playing the game on HDTV otherwise you'll be having a hard time reading the text on standard TV although I heard for some people it isn't a factor. Ironically on the front cover of the game, the main character has a standard TV to break over the zombies head... perhaps it is a precursor to the fact that you'll be doing that to your TV when you are overrun by anger.

Coming 4 U Barb (2008-09-29)
Overall, I liked the game a lot and played it a 2nd time just to max out all level ups and go on a killing rampage, but the part that always griped me was that the SMALL screen scripts to read whenever you get a hint or message, and too many overlaps in missions to save people within a too limited amount of time. The hopping around on the heads of the zombies to finally clear the last challenge probably sounded good on paper, but in practice it was frustrating. Otherwise, I liked it, but not a great deal of re-play value once you beat it unless you want to do the rampage thing.

Dead On Arrival (2008-08-23)
Once again a game I've been looking foward to play and once again am left disappointed and ask 'Why?'.I'm not going to go in to a great deal of detail about the whole game.I will say the good parts first-fun killing Zombies in different ways,voice acting nicely done,great graphics and a large area to explore.

Now the bad-buttons are mapped incorrectly making it confusing and cumbersome to use.Random people calling you in a middle of a mission or when a bunch of Zombies are about to surround you and tear you apart.You run like one mile an hour at all times.Time and Map not correctly displayed.

Now the ugly and these REALLY cripple the game to the point that you'll lose excitement and encouragement very quickly.The first major one is Save points or lack there of.You can only save at the Security Office and if you die you actually start the game over (and although all your stats and abilities are there)all your missions you've completed,all the items you've collected are gone.AND your time that you were on is present when you start over so let's say when you died you had 62 Hours 13 Minutes that's what you'll start off with when you begin the game again.And that's another thing that mad me mad-the time limit.I am not a fan of games that puts time limits in games especially ones of this type.I feel it artificially adds difficulty and rushes you way too much.You never get that GTA-type feel where you feel free to do just whatever or choose to do a job.Dead Rising's approach is to always have one mission activated with a time limit so you have to drop what you are currently doing and run half way across the map.Weapons like guns you get are practicily useless.You can't auto target which is essential in this game or should have been.You have to select it,hold down R2 and you stay there like a statue most of the time completely vulnerable and with a little tiny reticle try shoot someone with a high powered machine gun while you're left with a weak pistol.And most of the stores are bare of weapons and practical usages.And really everywhere you don't find much weapons.And the weapons themselves disinigrate after 3-5 usage.

What can I say-oh I KNOW-RENT THE GAME DO NOT BUY IT!If you do Buy it the first half hour will be left with boring opening with the arrival of the Shopping Mall where you Escort people,then BS around,save your game and then try to kill a man who has an P-90,die and start the game over not knowing that you have to start the game over from the very beginning.That's it in a nutshell.And if anyone else has the patience to over look these damaging flaws and enjoy this game more than I have then you have the patience of a Buddhist Monk.I hope they make a sequal to fix all these flaws and learn from their mistakes.Because this game is certainly what I call a mistake of monumental perportions.

Zombie bashing at its best!!! (2008-08-18)
Dead Rising is a fun game that plays kind of like a beat-em-up.You are Frank,a photojournalist who is trapped in a shopping mall and later on the government wants to deny what happens their and drops in swat guys to kill the zombies and blocks off every thing around the town.You can use anything to kill zombies.Their is main missions and optional missions throughout the game to gain special abilities and experience points.The game is a sandbox game with everything at your disposal including 2x4s,chainsaws,guns,skateboards,guitars,water-guns,swords,baseball bats, and many others weapons.The game has three modes: 72 hour mode,overtime mode, and infinite mode. The 72 hour mode is the mode where has to complete the main missions and side missions to escape the mall.The overtime mode is unlocked after you beat the 72 hour mode,this mode is harder and has the swat guys(come out at end in 72 hour mode)and zombies trying to kill you.Infinite mode is where Frank survives long as you don't starve and don't get kill by zombies.Dead Rising is a fun amazing zombie game and is almost like the movie Dawn of the Dead.

Overall,this is well done and has nice elements that make this game more fun by adding two extra modes after beating the game.The game has so many weapons,just about everything is a weapon even a plant or a chair.Dead Rising has a lot of replay value because you can just run around and throw things at or shoot zombies after you beat the game.

Pros: tons of weapons,fun to play, lots of modes, replay value,
Frank can wear different clothing/accessories

Cons: A.I needs work,end was disappointing