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Dead Rising
Frank West, a freelance photojournalist on the hunt for the scoop of a lifetime, pursues a juicy lead to a small suburban town only to find that it is being overrun by zombies! He escapes to the local shopping mall thinking it will be a bastion of safety, but it turns out to be anything but. It's a true struggle to survive the endless stream of ene...
Details
- Released
- August 8, 2006
- Developer
- Capcom Production Studio 1, QLOC
- Genres
- Survival · Action · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Adventure · Horror · Open world
- Publisher
- Capcom
How it plays
Time to beat · 3 player times (IGDB)
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Re-released in time for its ten-year anniversary on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, Dead Rising remains one of the most unique zombie-themed video games ever made and
Dead Rising is survival horror game where you play as Frank West, a grizzled freelance photographer who has made his way to an idyllic suburban town to get his hands on the scoop.
How much you enjoy Dead Rising hinges entirely on your acceptance of this principle. As someone who doesn’t mind playing games over and over until I perfect them, I like the idea of adding some form of urgency, and feel like in most sessions I have ample time to meander without missing out on much. By that same token I also prefer the leniency of the sequels, and enjoy replaying them more often. It’s a give and take, but Dead Rising is worth the squeeze and still holds up after all this time.
Almost from the time it was announced at E3 2005, there has been buzz around Dead Rising. A next-generation zombie experience from the house that Resident Evil helped rebuild, helmed by the man behind Mega Man and more recently, the Onimusha games. Not only that, but Dead Rising along with Lost Planet represented proof positive that the Xbox 360 would not get the same cold-shoulder treatment from Japanese developers as the original Xbox did. While early screenshots of the game didn't have the...