Product Description

Dead Rising follows the harrowing tale of Frank West, an overly zealous freelance photojournalist on the hunt for the scoop of a lifetime. In pursuit of a juicy lead, he makes his way to a small suburban town only to find that it has become overrun by zombies. He escapes to the local shopping mall, thinking it will be a bastion of safety yet it turns out to be anything but. It will be a true struggle to survive the endless stream of enemies, but players will have full reign of a realistic shopping centre, utilizing anything they find to fight off the flesh-hungry mob and search for the truth behind the horrendous epidemic.
Dead Rising features an open level of freedom and offers a vast array of gameplay possibilities. As part of a real time system, time is dynamic in Dead Rising, marching on whether Frank is actively engaged or if simply stationary. Time also plays a role as zombies become more powerful when the sun goes down. Though they move slowly during the day, the zombies become stronger and faster at night, making it even more dangerous for players to survive. The unprecedented numbers of enemies come in never-ending waves and consist of a diverse population of former humans that have retained some memory of their previous lives, which is reflected in their behaviour and appearance. The variety of different stores in the mall offers players an endless supply of resources including vehicles, makeshift weapons and more. Players will also encounter other survivors along the way and by helping them can acquire valuable clues as to what has happened.

• Huge environment expansive indoor and outdoor areas of the mall provide a variety of different locations to explore
• Swarm technology allows an unprecedented amount of enemies on screen at once resulting in nonstop, pulse-pounding action
• Intense gore and vibrant realism
• Anything in the mall is at Frank`s disposal

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #476 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Capcom
• Released on: 2007-05-25
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Dead Rising follows the harrowing tale of Frank West, an overly zealous freelance photojournalist on the hunt for the scoop of a lifetime. In pursuit of a juicy lead, he makes his way to a small suburban town only to find that it has become overrun by zombies. He escapes to the local shopping mall, thinking it will be a bastion of safety yet it turns out to be anything but. It will be a true struggle to survive the endless stream of enemies, but players will have full reign of a realistic shopping centre, utilizing anything they find to fight off the flesh-hungry mob and search for the truth behind the horrendous epidemic.

Dead Rising features an open level of freedom and offers a vast array of gameplay possibilities. As part of a real time system, time is dynamic in Dead Rising, marching on whether Frank is actively engaged or if simply stationary. Time also plays a role as zombies become more powerful when the sun goes down. Though they move slowly during the day, the zombies become stronger and faster at night, making it even more dangerous for players to survive. The unprecedented numbers of enemies come in never-ending waves and consist of a diverse population of former humans that have retained some memory of their previous lives, which is reflected in their behaviour and appearance. The variety of different stores in the mall offers players an endless supply of resources including vehicles, makeshift weapons and more. Players will also encounter other survivors along the way and by helping them can acquire valuable clues as to what has happened.

Customer Reviews

Bit of a let down
I read the reviews on Amazon and was very excited, but the game is pretty annoying. Maybe I don't get it, but I seem to have to start at the beginning every time I die? How does that make sense? In the "Back up for Brad" mission there is a guy hiding in some signage that you have to literally shoot 150 or 200 times, and it's really incredibly tedious. What is going on? I'd rather just wander round and bash zombies - slashing them with a Katana was hilarious, but after a while I was starting to feel like there should be more too it, it was impossible to rescue anyone (eg a girl attacked by 3 hoodlums on a humvee mounting a machine gun, surrounded by zombies, and you have to rescue her in 30 seconds using a shovel or whatever) and you should be able to save your progrees through a mission!
I'll be going to bash some zombies again though, and to see if there really is any point to this game besides the occasional chuckle. Exploring was also fun, but the missions seem to be pretty tedious and unrewarding.
I didn't get GTA either by the way, but My favourite game is probably Mercenaries, so I'm not anti the "open-ended" concept.

The best non-shock zombie game made
There have been many comparisons to what this game is like, is it gta with zombies? is it resident evil without the dark areas and jumping moments, and to be quite honest it defines itself in a new genre, just like shaun of the dead did being a rom-com-zom (romantic comedy zombie film) this is a zom-rpg-tps-zandbox hybrid (zombie, role-playing, third person shooter, open-ended game)

The story is as you'd expect from a dawn of the dead knock-off, Frank West (the main character you control) is a reporter who hears about the story of a lifetime and so gets dropped off by helicopter into this town (unbeknown by him at the time populated by zombies) and tells the helicopter driver to pick him up in three days, and then the story goes from there. The great advantage with this game and it's biggest weakness is this system, you have a 72hour limit in which you can create your own path, want to know how this zombie epidemic occured? or do you just want to mash up zombie's mindlessly? the choice is completely down to you, but the problem is you don't have the chance to really do both, there are multiple endings to the game which may insight some gamers to try out different things, but there's mostly no point.

The gameplay is either great or incredibly fustrating depending on your view, generally most actions/attacks are done with the X button, this makes it easy but it can sometimes feeling like a button masher, Frank will upgrade and become stronger with or without weapons by doing certain tasks like killing lots and lots and lots of zombies or rescuing other survivors throughout the mall - these parts tend to be the most annoying part of the game, but are again optional. Saving the game has to be the worst part of the game, you can only have one save, thats it, and because your constantly running on a time limit if you save the game too far away from your objective with little time left you'll probably have to start the game again, luckily your all of the upgrades Frank has will be carried over so this helps, but in no way excuses the system from being down-right terrible.

In conclusion, this game desite some minor and major flaws is one of the best on the 360, killing zombies with a chainsaw NEVER GETS OLD, and the freeform gameplay does mean you can dictate what happens. If you have the time to put into this game it will reward you with hours of enjoyment, but even if you don't you'll still enjoy sticking hangers into zombies faces.

Provides hours of zombie bashing fun !
This is a fun game from Capcom , the makers of Resident Evil where you must survive a zombie invasion while trapped in a shopping mall !

You have alot of freedom in this game , if you want you can avoid the story all together and just do whatever you want in the mall until the time runs out.

You can use almost anything in the mall as a weapon and there can be hundreds of zombies on the screen at a time !

The controls may seem awkward at first but once you get past them , you'll be having hours of zombie bashing fun with this game.
The text size may be abit small for those with small screen standard definition TVs too. Alot of the game revolves around reading text , so it may be a problem.

Other than these small flaws this is a very enjoyable game for anybody willing to look past and adapt to these minor imperfections.

This game is easily one of the most unique gems on Xbox 360.