The core gameplay is instead focused on rescuing survivors spread throughout the mall where Dead Rising is set, and fighting the still-living psychopaths driven to extreme actions by the apocalypse they’re trapped within.
It is also, unfortunately, wholly unrepresentative of the rest of the game’s content, which offers few opportunities to take pictures and paltry rewards for those stubborn enough to do so.
It’s a great three minutes which sets the stakes, teaches players how to use the camera, and builds a mood of hopeless desperation, all in one go.
Now, a decade later, the PS4 is able to present the game in the form the developers originally intended.ĭead Rising opens with a virtuoso sequence of zombie horror, as hero Frank West is airlifted into the city and given a chance to take photographs of the carnage tearing apart the middle-America town of Willamette. The main shortcoming was a massive drop in framerate and heavy stuttering when too many zombies appeared onscreen at once, and since the point of the game was to put hordes of zombies onscreen, this issue turned up frequently. Upgrading wasn’t an option for the Xbox 360, so when it proved unable to comfortably run Dead Rising back in 2006, players were forced to accept the game as it was. Is a game running a little slow? Are the graphics a little blocky? Slap a new GPU in there and let the blast proccessing take over. One of the advantages offered by PC gaming is the ability to upgrade hardware. WTF No, Dead Rising, I don’t find zombies wearing lingerie ‘EROTIC’.
LOW Watching an injured survivor spend five minutes trying to climb up a ledge. HIGH Wading into a horde of zombies with a chainsaw and watching the limbs fly in all directions.