Metareview - Dead Rising (Xbox 360)

Sounds like Serious Sam or Shadow of the Collosus, in that they take one key element, and focus on it really well. Though about AI, at least they've an excuse that the enemies are technically braindead. :P

Hmm...I just may have to buy this game now. I was going to wait and maybe rent it first, but if all the reviews are hitting around the mid 80's (out of 100) then it might be better then I thought.

GTA:ZOMBIE!!! Seriously though, how can anyone get sick of killing zombies? If zombies started rising from the grave tommorow I think I might shed a few tears of joy for the endless killing spree that would soon ensue.

WOOH!! An 8 is higher then I expected. I also thought the DEMO was fuckin awesome. Im glad this game got a pretty decent score. Well, I won't be playing it until tomorrow because of my Gamestop.

cant wait to play the full game.. just a fun kill zombies game... only reason its so popular i because there is nothing else coming out so it gets all teh attention...

wish the load times didnt suck

After all the reviews I might have to break down and rent this game, HA! Just kidding, I'm feeling I'm going to be short $59.99 this weekend...

Todd
http://www.proxbox360.com

If anyone lives by a Fry's Electronics, you should try and get it there. They usually sell games $5-10 less then the normal retail on the frist day it comes out.

I bought NSMB for $25 (I think) instead of the normal $35 when it came out.

An 8 out of 10? On the game-rating bell curve, that's what, just slightly higher than average? Oh well... I'll rent it anway.

This game is amazing. Its what Ive been waiting for all my life seriously. Ive played the demo 20+ times and am not bored. If I have this much fun with the demo the game is going to be orgasmic.
The load times arnt that bad. Im picking it up in the monrning. Im still afraid of the $60 price tag but I think it will be worth it.

Ha. Too bad it doesn't ship in Australia for another month(ish). I also had to try out that "XBLive Silver" thing to get it, because apparently the Australian marketplace hates me.

But for the trouble it was signing up a new gamertag and .Net passport, I love the demo. 15 minutes of Katana swinging, CD throwing, broom prodding and trolly.. trollying goodness.

I only wish I could continually pull off a combo without a skateboard or shopping cart. It'd make the game a little easier (bad thing), but make it look a lot cooler. Ah well, this is a buy for me. Even if I have to pay about 90 USD for it thanks to shipping.

>> Kritz

Already Pre-Ordered (yes I'm a sad UK buyer who has to wait a month) Demo was great of course. I expect it to be a future cult-classic - talked about in years to come. A game with a personality, innovation and most importantly massive fun quota! :)

I suspect this is one of those games that will do well in its initial release but not hugely well. Then later, as a Platinum Hit, it just sells and sells forever as an irresitable novelty at the right price, until it ultimately makes more profit as a PH title than as a regular release.

to #12 epobirs:

To bad many good games falls under that catagory, like Psychonauts, Sly 3, Shadow of the Colossus. Though given the multiple playthroughs of the demo by people, I'm willing to hazard a guess that there has to be some quality in it.

#13

Psychonauts does not fall in the category of games that do well but not huge. Psychonauts tanked badly, moving well less than 100K units before being clearanced, yet it was not a inexpensive production.

'Colossus' did close to 200K units in Japan alone in 2005. The combined 2006 global numbers should put it close to or better than a million by now. I haven't seen any Sly Cooper 3 numbers but I'd be willing to bet it's done far more business (without a four year development cycle) than Psychonauts. The first game in that series has cleared a million.

I fully expect 'Dead Rising' to clear a million units before it gets severely marked down. At this point the size of the Xbox 360 installed base and the still thin library make it an easy goal. I also believe it will see far more sales over the long term as a low priced item that is considered as a required part of every Xbox 360 library. For now it can be a big fish in a small pond but only becaus eit is so early for the 360. The same game on the PS2 would have far more potential buyers but far more competition as well and would probably make a much slower climb to platinum status.

I just PreOrder'd from GameStop last night.. Was gunna get it from BestBuy, but for the heck of it I stopped at GS to see if they would be doing a Midnight Sale (thats how bad I wanted this game).. And it was a good thing.. GS was giving out T-Shirts for a pre-order gift.. Tis a sweet shirt. Says "Chop til you Drop" and is kinda an ad for the Mall in the game..

Cant wait till 2marrow afternoon when I pick this up.. Might have to call in sick the next day.. -j/k..

Wait until conservative politicians find out about this one. The GTA mess will look like a joke in comparison.

From the Gamespot review:

"Save points are scattered in a few specific spots throughout the mall, and you only get one save per storage device on the Xbox 360. Considering most people probably only have one storage device, that means one save for the whole game. The inherent problem with this is that because the game revolves so heavily on a rigid schedule for the case files, if you save yourself into a corner where you can't feasibly get to that next case file in time, you're screwed. "

What made Capcom decide to set up the save system in this way? Was it to sell more 360 memory cards? Or are they just cruel?

Save point nitpicks aside, this game does look like fun.

Zombie Strom Thurmond will not be amused.

conservative politicians? Hell what about the nutcase liberals?

*cough*Hillary*cough
*cough*Leiberman*cough*

For the record I'm neither Republican or Democrat...I'm not stupid enough to align myself with one party and be forced to think like everyone else. :-P

Is there a reason why he's glowing on the box? I mean, I'm open to suggestions.

fat boy,
The saving issue my only criticism of the game so far. I had to re-play the beginning of the game 15 minutes in and I'll have to do it again tonight. There are really only like 2 save points and I'm not that worried about saving without having enough time to finish a quest. It's having to do those quests two or three times just so I can get through them AND save.

Oh and it asking for where to save each time is a bit annoying but so far the game is fantastic. Something I kept remembering is that this guy is a photojournalist. Make sure and take pictures of all the stuff that's happening.

If you find yourself playing Dead Rising and being a bit disappointed by the repetition, there is a really easy solution I swear by. Turn the game off, and put in something else. Yeah, I know, it sounds insane, but trust me, it works! Come back the next day, start up Dead Rising again and it'll be fun once more!

Some things aren't meant to be enjoyed 10 hours at a stretch. There are several games I've loved to death that I couldn't play for more than 3 hours at a sitting because they simply got too repetitive.

My only fear after playing the demo is that the controls are going to be a big sluggish... it seemed that way in the demo. I want nice agile quick zombie slaughter like in THE Oneechanbara.

I played the demo and after a few minutes it was basically State of Emergency with zombies.

Really boring. I like zombies, yeah, but a game like Silent Hill would have been much better. This is just boring.

perhaps anyone that has this game can tel me, as i have yet to be able to find anything online about this.

Does it have on-line multiplayer type of thing,or is it strictly a 1 player game ?

@Batman
No MP at all. There's some kind of Survival mode leaderboard, but that's it. Hopefully we can get some co-op in the sequel.

I can't believe people found the demo boring. I'm ashamed to admitt how many times I've played it. First I just tried to find all the cut-scenes, then tried to see how many I could kill in the allotted time. I just read about mixing the different smoothies. Haven't got a chance to try that..

Anyway, my EB just called to say it was in. Looks like I may be leaving work early today. ;)

I've got my copy. It's absolutely fantastic, amazing and frankly the review scores are selling the game short IMO. Easily my favorite Xbox 360 game and I own more than a few (Gamertag: Svenuce).

I can't wait for the sequel. This is one of the best zombie games I have every played and one of the hardest. I hope they keep the same feel of the game for the sequel and just polish the graphics and add some new things. Bravo capcom for the game.