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HI-DEF HORROR HITS A HIGH

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: August 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I tend not to be easily impressed - I have only written a few reviews and only when I felt I really had something to say (or in this case, something to defend). With the release of Dead Rising, the time has once again re-surfaced and the dead has been resurrected - meaning this reviewer (so to speak!). For the two of you out there who do not know the plot: A photojournalist finds himself in a mall swarming with the undead. He has three days to get his story, take some cool pictures and, if he desires, save a few stranded shoppers - all the while trying to keep himself from becoming zombie chow! Now, let's get the one negative out of the way first: the save system is seriously lacking - both in implementation and frequency. Not only does the game allow for only one save (!!!???) - but the bathrooms in which to save (clever - pee and save at the same time) - are few and far between...and very hard to locate - especially when it is (too) dark. While I applaud the decision to make saves somewhat limited - which I believe adds to the heightened tension of the game...the makers of Dead Rising have gone too far in the other direction. The tension is now merely frustrating!

On to the positive - which are many (and contrary to the less than glowing reports below!). The free-roaming is exceptional - and allows you to make up your own missions should you decide not to go with the "cases". The sheer number of the on-screen undead is awesome - and reminds one of some movies that will go unnamed. The mall layout, design and graphics are nothing short of amazing - as are the myriad of items found within the shops that can be used as weapons: potted plants, cd's, signs, knives, chainsaws, lawnmowers, bowling balls, frisbees, mannequins, stuffed animals, dishes, benches, just to name a few!!!). Go to the food courts and hamburger stands and theatre concession to find food items to regain health (again, clever)! And just for fun, the gamemakers have allowed our hero, Frank - the aforementioned hot-shot photojournalist seeking the story of a lifetime, to change his wardrobe within the various clothing stores (from designer suits, to too-tight kid's clothes, to sports gear!) You can even satisfy the closeted transvestite within and give Frank a nice dress to wear for the zombie slaughter!!! While this has no impact on the gameplay, it is a nice and amusing touch. The environments are somewhat destructible (nothing more satisfying than smashing through a plate-glass window to escape - although more destructibility would have been even better!). The sound is outstanding as is the voice acting (I was unable to find any actors' credits, though) and character models (contrary to another reviewer's comments). Overall, an amazing (and gory) game - with high replayability! Dead Rising rises to the top of the horror games (alongside Condemned, Suffering and Resident Evil 4). Do not allow the haters to disuade you from this game!

Don't let the haters hold you back

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: August 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Dead Rising is an amazing game. Bottom line. Smashing in heads, chopping in half, pan frying, blowing up, and running over zombies...whats not to like. There are so many weapons and countless things to do while in the mall. Discovering everything is part of the fun of Dead Rising. I highly recommend this game to anyone with a 360. Don't let the haters who BITC* about TEXT in a game hold you back from this awesome game. seriously who complains about TEXT in a video game. Do you play the text? NO.

Dead rising is the 1st game besides Oblivion that I feel has real replayabilty and is actually worth the $$$

and if you doubt just go download the demo

Totally Broken - Only play if you have hours to spend...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: September 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Killing Zombies if fun. 'Nuff said. Dawn of the Dead is my favorite Zombie Movie....I bought this game very quick, and was absolutely excited about it.

However no amount of zombie bashing can make up for the entirely broken game. There is no excuse for a modern Next Gen Game offering this type of save system. Capcom should be ashamed of pushing this tripe off on modern gamers. I candidly answered the Capcom survey that shipped with the game in the same manner. They have to issue a fix for this.

I honestly believe that they were just moving right along fine tuning the graphics and action, then someone said, "Hey, wait -- I guess we should let the player save their game" and it was added as an after thought.

I am an avid gamer, and have been for over 20 years now. However, I am a father and have other things to do, so it is nice to be able to play a game, but be able to get out of it when you need to do something else. You simply cannot do that in this game. You have to trek all over the mall to get to the very limited number of save points. We're talking 10-15 minutes here. It's insane. I can live with only 1 save spot, but not this. You should be able to press the start button to bring up a submenu, and save your game there.

I sold this game on eBay within 2 weeks. Pitiful....

So, in conclusion, unless you can stay up all night playing the game, or are able to play for long, extended sittings, buy it, if not, save your money or you will be very frustrated.

Seriously broken.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 23
Date: September 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

"The reviewers who give it 5 stars are probably working for the developers and trying to sell more games. Don't fall for it, this ones a 65 dollar turd! 99 things wrong with it"

I totally agree.

Yea I read many positive reviews here. I'm sure they were PAID!
I have an enhanced Def TV and you can't read the text.
Or maybe you just need a $3000 TV to read the directions.
Will the XBOX be able to download a fix for this please? ITs UNPLAYABLE at the moment.
Terrible save system can bump you right back to the beginning after playing for HOURS!

Another thing I noticed is that reviews that state the truth are rated bad, so I know the PAID pushers are at work here.

Mediocre Zombie Killing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: August 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was very excited when this game came out. I was waiting for over a year for this game because I heard about it being developed. Then I saw the screenshots and knew I had to grab this once I picked up the 360.

Sidenote: The game was released 8/8/06 but most places didn't even have it yet. Wal-Mart was still waiting for the shipment to come in. I was angry because I wanted my game that day but I digress.

Once I got the game and had some friends over I started this epic hoping for Dawn of the Dead but with a lot more to do. Well first this that got me was the insanely small typing. For us non-hdtv plasma 80" tv's its almost unreadable. I found this is a common problem. What I don't get is why they didnt figure out that this would be a problem?? Through testing they must be on huge hdtvs. It's not fair to us that dont feel we need to upgrade for 1000's of dollars.

Once I got into the game play it was fun. Then I found out about the saving system. It is seriously flawed. I went through the board leveled up a couple times but because I didn't get to a save point I had the option of starting all over again from my save point from the beginning or starting the game over again with the same levels. Im like are you serious?? How can you have fun with a game that you have to run half across the game with 100's of zombies especially after 7pm when they get more agressive. That flaw alone made me want to scream.

Then down to gameplay itself. Beating zombies with various weapons is fun. It never seems to get old because there is so much to discover and kill them with. Plates, Cd's, katana, chainsaw, etc. The list goes on and on. But the weapons break too easily. And it always seems they break when your in a pack of zombies. I understand its to make you use your surroundings more then picking up the katana and killing all the zombies in the game. I just wanted to use it more then about 20 zombies. And whats the point of a gun when you have to stop to use it?? Theres hundreds of zombies coming at you and you cant check behind you when you have a gun aiming so chances of getting eaten are high. Should have been Syphon Filteresque.

Piecing together the story is insanely difficult. You cant save all the escorts AND get the story. Its not possible. And they give you like 5 minutes to get from one end of the mall to the other, so then once your on your way to that one, they die or the scoop is lost, then you walk to the next one but its already almost gone. Its too much pressure. And the survivors are retarded. They shoot badly, they run around and get lost, and the one even pushed me down instead of a zombie which resulted in me getting hurt.

There is positives though. Good story and well done graphics. I like the idea of the story piecing together through contacts. You can literally do anything you want then get on the helicopter and leave. I like a lot of the cool moves to kill zombies with also. The leveling up is a great idea and adds some fun to the game although I dont know how taking pictures makes you stronger but I'll go with it.

Overall I think it wasnt a waste but it is REALLY flawed. If they fixed the big problems like saving and the very limited time you have to complete scoops and escorts then I would say this game is amazing. But with all the problems it has I'm just disappointed that they could get it SO wrong. I guess I'll just wait for Halo 3. You can't mess up Halo. Hopefully.....

dead mallrats!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok I am a big fan of zombie movies. And this game reminds me alot of Dawn of the Dead. I liked that movie with the whole concept of being locked in a mall with hordes of zombies everywhere. This game exceeded my expectations. You play as Frank, a photojournalist that is dropped off at the mall cause he hears that something big is happening. Something big is definately happening. Stranded at the mall for 72 hours, he must fight to survive if he wants to make it out of the mall alive. Frank can use almost anything in the game as a weapon or sheild from the zombies. He also is equipped with a camera and you have to take pictures of the events to earn points so that he can level up. There are missions you can accomplish or choose to ignore. People you can save. Food you can eat. Vehicles you can drive. etc.... But the zombies arent the only thing to worry about. You have some very bad people that you may have to fight in order to survive. And eventually the special forces who will stop at nothing to try and cover up the zombie outbreak. The graphics are amazing. The only complaint I have is that the text it sometimes too small and when you get the missions via cell phone, you are forced to read the small text and it is sometimes hard to find out what exactly to do especially since I dont have an HD tv. I dont understand why you cant actually listen to the conversations. This is 2006 and we have had audio in videogames for about 10 years now... Oh well I guess that was just a bad design problem. But overall I would give this game 5 stars as far as fun is concerned and 4 stars for the overall since that small text problem really does bother me alot. (I even have played it on an hd tv and it is still small, I just dont understand it.) Normally I would just look past it, but it does effect the overall enjoyment of the game slightly. But design issues aside this is an extremely fun game. Its got everything, playability, action, gore, freedom, likable characters and more. I love this game and it is the best game I own so far for the xbox 360.

Dead Rising , somewhat Amusing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game with high hopes from the Demo. While it does look good, it's a game I can only play for about an hour at a time. It's quite repetitive but that's not all bad, it's pretty fun for a while, just need to take breaks from it.

This game is not much fun in Standard Def. I switched from Standard to HD, you can't read all of the text in Standard def. from ingame phone calls, to tell you what to do.

Without multiplayer this game is lacking. I can't sit down with a friend, wether he be at my house or at his and play this game with anyone. That makes this game sit on the shelf more than most others. While I do enjoy it, it'll have a short shelf life for me, once you play through I have no real reason to continue other than to smash zombies, which is fun, but I can live without for the price. If they were to add in multiplayer it'd revive this game for me.

gets tedious fast

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: October 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I liked the demo enough to buy this game, but after a few sessions I got bored. The game is sort of open ended in that you can save people, but don't have to. You can also take pictures of carnage to boost your abilities-lame. However, you have a fixed time to catch a helicopter out and there are certain missions you must complete or the game ends. The whole storyline just felt slapped together at the last minute. You can search the mall for new weapons and kill them in funny ways. You can even try on different outfits-its fun to kill zombies in children's/women's clothes for a bit. But eventually I just wanted the zombies to get the hell out of my way and complete the missions. One impressive aspect of the game is that there are literally dozens of zombies moving on screen and I never experienced any framerate lags. However, the graphics were only ok and it was annoying to see the same zombie models over and over again (there are maybe a dozen or so distint zombie models). Try renting first before taking the plunge.

One word: FUN

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: August 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THE GOOD:

At first I thought that this was a crazy idia and this will never work. Well I'll Regret that for the rest of my life! This game is awsome! Graphics are really sharp and the controles are perfect. What this game dose very well in is the sound design. I garentee you that you won't find any better sounding game than this. The sound of killing all of those zombies is just delightfull! Also, everything is a wepon in this game wich makes the gamplay expierience fun and exiting.

THE BAD:

With all of that said the one major problem with this game is game is that the save system is awfull becouse you only get one save and if you save in a bad spot, it's done, it's over, your screwed, you'll have to start back at the begining of the game. But there is an option to save all of your curent stats and restart the game with all of those stats so that helps the pain of having to restart the game bit, but for the most part, it preaty much sucks.

BOTTOM LINE:

The bottom line is that Dead Rising is an amazing game, sure it's got some problems but a lot of those problems are really overshadowd by how fun and crazy this game is. Dead Rising is definatly a MUST HAVE GAME for any 360 owner.

So very close....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: August 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'll keep this short because it's all been said: the potential for a great zombie game is there, but it's seriously mucked by frustrating game play, one of the worst 'save game' systems ever, and blurry, microscopic text (and I have HDTV). There are many wonderful things about this game, too, (zombies, graphics, zombies, storyline, zombies, replay value, etc..) but I recommend some hands-on time before investing in this title.

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