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how is it possible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: April 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game isnt suppose to come out until june 24 how do you guys got it so early ?

Yeah, Robs right

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game doesn't come out for a few months. How'd u get it???

WoW!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: August 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Now i have only played the demo from xbox live but it seems really awesome! You play as this guy trying to find the truth behind all of this everyone turning into zombies thing. There is a wide varity of stores and make-shift weapons. I mean its a mall...endless posibilities! You can roll the zombies over with carts, skate boards, and tons of other things. This game is so cool! I highly recomended it but there is a lot of blood and gore and really bad language, but im still a good person.

ZOMBIE KILLING ON A NEW LEVEL!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: August 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best games I have ever played. Almost everything in the mall and outside you can use as a weapon and the story isnt too bad either. My only concern was the saving because you had to go to one certain spot to save your game and if you missed one main mission you cant beat the story anymore. But you can load your game again or start all over with everything you had in your original game. This game is a must get for all those people who like to bash down zombies and having a lot of fun when doing so.

a wasted idea

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 15 / 31
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I waited for months to play this game, I played to demo to death and picked it up as soon as it came out on the 8th. And was severely disappointed. This game had so much possibility but its execution was terrible. Originally you were to be given three days in a zombie filled mall to play as you please, take missions if you want, save people or let them die, etc. You could just sit on the roof and wait for the helicopter to come get you three days later. I wish ever so much that they would have left it like that. Instead they replaced a three day stay in a zombie filled mall, with unlimited potential, with a linear and annoying story. But even that could have been salvage, what ruined the game for me were the insane time limits. Instead of getting your necrocide on in the middle of the mall with any weapon imaginable, you are running from one idiotic boss battle to the next and watching the clock the entire time. Because if you miss completing a mission in the required time limit its game over. Add to that the ridicules save system that only allows you to save one game and what could have been the greatest zombie escapade ever became an annoying and repetitive kill joy. This game does have some really neat qualities to be sure. Almost anything can be used as a weapon, which is great because they last all of ten seconds or so. So when you are in the middle of a hundred zombies (also very impressive) you end up going through every weapon you can carry in your limited inventory. Of course you have to carry you health regenerators in the same inventory. So one second you are swinging a lead pipe into a zombie head and the next you are sipping some OJ as the horde closes in and devours you. I bought this game in the hopes of a Grand Theft Auto style mall adventure with zombies and ended up with a very difficult, unfun and annoying waste of sixty dollars. I should have just bought the Dawn of the Dead DVD and spend the rest on beer instead of wasting my hard earned money on this miserable buzz kill.

HUGE LETDOWN

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Alright i'll sum all this up and keep it short because they never post the reviews i write about this game on here. So yah ill get down to it this game has its upsides with all the crazy weapons,hordes of zombies,crazy boses,impressive graphics and details,story line isnt bad and the leveling up is fun. Ok the huge down sides that prety much kill all the fun and potential this game has are of course the horrific save features where you have to go to specific scattered rest rooms in the game which are very hard 2 locate and are not often around when you need them the most. I will say this game is WAY more dificult than it has to be its very straight forward and very dragged out for being a game thats suposed 2 be free roam its far from it. Even though the demo was amazing and you can have alot of fun smashing zombies for your own good dont be like me and STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THIS TITLE . You'll feel very ripped off and screaming in anger at this game very quick,if you still wana check it out then give it a rental nothing more .

Just what the XBOX 360 needed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Disclaimer: I must admit this review may be a little bias, I absolutely love this genre, and third person action adventure games are my first love (RPG and 1st person shooters, 2nd/3rd). With that said lets get into the review:

Dead rising is the story of a photojournalist dropped off in a mall full of zombies trying to get the story of his life, but gets way more than he bargain for.

I will admit I started not to buy this game because I thought it was a mindless run around and beat'em up kind of game, until I played the demo, which in turn prompted me to purchase this game.

Genre/Gameplay - 9.5/10 if you like third person action adventure/RPG games you will love this game. It has a GTA type mission factor complete with side quests; you also get to level up RPG style so the more ZOMBIES you kill the more you level up. There are also side quest and picture taking that can earn you more points towards your next level. Gameplay smooth, easy learning curve, and extremely fun. A thing that wouldn't allow me to give the game play a straight 10 was the saving feature, while it is original isn't very user friendly. You can only save the game in bathrooms and on Couches (yep a sofa) that is it, no auto saving before going into a boss battle, you had just better find a bathroom close to your objective and save there. This wasn't too much of a problem though. Also the weapons (just guns) used are a little difficult to aim, in first person (by holding the R Trigger) it works but with out going to first person aiming and hitting your target can be frustrating. Also not much of a problem since using guns in this game is extremely boring. Being able to pick up absolutely anything (I mean anything) you see and kill a zombie with it is this games defining charm. Absolutely fun game!!!

Graphics - 8/10 I play all my 360 games on a Samsung 32 inch HD TV and the graphics in this game are definitely not Next Gen (not like say fight night) until of course you see 100's of zombies on the screen at once then you see the 360 power but character models and scenery are only slightly better than that of the original XBOX. The graphics are good enough though and in NO WAY hamper the playing experience.

Sounds - 9.7/10 Sounds to me are pretty much as good as it gets, scary zombie noises and screams accompanied by great background music. The Voiceovers are great!

Overall I would give this game a 9.5/10 (not an average) it's replay value seems like it would be pretty good, but since I haven't beaten the game yet, only 95% done, I cant really tell yet.. But it does seem as though there will be other modes once you beat it and I am very anxious to see what they are.

Bottom line: Go get this game!!! The 360 doesn't have many games like this out, (3rd person action) with the exception of Tomb Raider which is more of a plat former. So whether you like this genre or not you WILL enjoy this game.

Fun but the save system sucks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My only major gripe with Dead Rising is the save system used in the game. There is only one save slot and no auto save feature. My advice when playing the game is to find out where the game save spots are and save your game often. Maybe it's just me but I got pretty frustrated when my character would die and without an auto save feature I was left starting the game over from the beginning. The game is a bit on the short side also. Overall the game is fun the graphics are pretty good especially considering the amount of zombies that are on the screen at one time. Rent or borrow before you buy.

Expectations... Be aware of what to expect in Dead Rising

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: August 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Expectations can basically make or break this game. The problem I had w/ it and I think most others do is the fact we wanted to freely roam the mall while killing off as many zombies as we wanted with all the cool weapons avaliable. There would be a story to follow, but not in the annoying way it was implemented.

What CAPCOM delivered is slighly different from what most expected. The game takes place over 3 days, and within those 3 days you have to follow the game's main storyline within set time limits. Let clarify on that... you MUST get to certain story events within a certain time or you will loose out on the main story of the game. Side quests are avaliable, but you must pick and choose a few to do here and there because if you spend too much time on them, you will end up missing the main story. The game is made in such a way to MAKE you replay it two or three times atleast if you want to explore all the side quests and try to find all the cool weapons and things to see.

The issue with saving the game goes right along with the above... the developer didnt want you to be able to have multisaves and say take a different path or what not... they limited you to ONE save per XBOX360 profile. Everytime you save, you overwrite the last save. No other option. You can only save at the bathrooms and the safehouse. There is usually one save spot near each area, but it makes it a pain to save your progress.

Escort missings are a pain aswell as the people you try to save are extremly stupid. They try to fight zombies (and usually loose) and take forever to get where you call them to. You have to call for them over and over to try to direct them to safety.. again not so much fun.

The above reasons make you feel like the game is somewhat "job" like as it forces you to adhere to these requirements it has forcefully. It takes the edge off what could have been a five star game.

Why is the game still great? Well, it's extremly fun to go around killing zombies w/ just about everything you find along the mall stores (hedge clippers, chainsaws, bats, purses, etc..) and the game runs fast and smooth w/ nice looking visuals. Going around killing batches after batches of zombies just doesn't get old! Facial expressions look great and the zombie/weapon/voice sounds are perfect for the game. The voice acting great too IMO... its a shame that the few people you see in the game dont talk, you simply recieve subtitles for them.

I think the demo of the game also lead people to believe the game would be more free roaming that it actually is (fooled me) and that also plays a part in the initial dissapointment many are experiencing. Once you get over the fact that the you tied down by the clock and the subpar save system, you will enjoy the game though! Recommended!

Zombie Cure

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is simply a must for anyone looking to cause some mass murder with anything from CD's to cars. Many people have been complaining about the "broken" save feature. So far I have run into no problems and it appears to be pretty mucht he exact same way you save the game as in GTA, except you only get one space per save device. Not a huge drawback because I like to use only one space. The game looks great and sounds even better. It actually sounds as if you are pounding a zombie in the head with a sledgehammer.

Definately recommended.

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