Dead Rising (How Much Fun Does That Look)

[Outlaw]

anybody on monster looking forward to dead rising

also whats the storyline to it

[Fleeboi]

The storyline to Dead Rising is like any other zombie film/game, you are trapped in a mall waiting to be rescued, during the course you find others that are in the same boat as you and have oppurtunities to help them, which involves killing hordes of zombies left right and centre. I think it takes places within 2-3 days in real time, so events will occure as time the time goes by and it's your choice wether or not to do them, though there are benefits if you decide to do some of the sub missions.

This game is looking good, the fact that just about anything is wieldable, and there can be so many characters on the screen at once as got to be awesome, and I bet having custom soundtracks playing as you're mowing down zombies as got to be fun.

[PublicEnemy#1]

i cant wait for this one it is deffo one of the many games im gettin when it comes out

[just Jam Man]

Yeah looking class! I think the best part has to be sticking cones on zombies heads though! One thing i was annoyed about though is the promised 1000 enemies on screen at once but in a mag recently it said there could be 100 wtf thats dropped by 900 surely the 360 isnt that weak!

[Outlaw]

thanks for the info on the storyline fleeboi, and it sounds pretty good

[Xtreme chaos o6]

deffo looks a top game and is yet another game i`ll be buying as soon as its available

looking at the info / video it looks awesome with endless ways of being able to kill the zombies

[phatmuther]

it does look quite fun, something you can just pick up and play.
hella reminds me of state of emergency, but with zombies :|

[Xtreme chaos o6]

Does anyone know the actual release date

as nobody seems to know everyone seems to have a different date,

[PublicEnemy#1]

i dont think the release date has actually been confirmed

[bake15]

i watched a trailer for this the other day and it looks like it could be pretty good, the graphics looked a bit dodgy though but it might of been a early version.

[PublicEnemy#1]

i dont really care about the graphics as long as there not totally crap, i just care about how much fun you can have

[Outlaw]

the graphics aren't exactly top notch due to the fact that theres loads of enemies on screen at once so if they were to be brilliant graphics it might lagg and or framerate

[II AWESOME II]

I wasnt going to get this game after them sorta games dont appeal to me i watched the trailer i was like that is a must buy to i pre-orderd my copy from play.com but the realese date is in september so long time to wait

[PublicEnemy#1]

i think the actual release data hasnt been confirmed yet because there different dates every were you look

[mjmaskrey]

An awesome preview from CVG:

Rise and shine. It seems like any other morning. The bedroom curtains yawn with a deep exhale of daylight as you rise among the long shadows. It's so peaceful - more than you can ever remember. No trilling of motors on the road outside. No neighbours' footsteps from the room upstairs. No birdsong.

You peer through the window, unfurling pavement after pavement of shambling, burbling figures. ZOMBIES! Panicked thoughts rush through your head, effortlessly keeping pace with the adrenaline. Will you stay put and try to hold out? Are your friends and family in danger? Is this your chance to kill without guilt? It's a fathomless dilemma... The REALLY scary thing about zombies isn't that they'll eat your flesh, it's what kind of person they'll turn you into.

Dead Rising Producer Keiji Inafune has had big success in the past with Megaman and Onimusha, and Dead Rising is another title that hits all the right notes. It's a game where you make all the choices - where to go, who to save, how to survive. You have almost free reign to explore the zombie infested Willamette Mall and 72 hours to do it. It's a gorgeous and fully interactive game world ripped straight out of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Just like that movie, the characters in Dead Rising choose to take refuge in the best place to find food and weapons.

There are over 120 stores in the Willamette Parkview Mall, each one selling unique household items that are surprisingly effective for eradicating zombies. Every piece of hardware has a different strength and weakness, and some can even be used in a variety of ways - a bowling ball makes a great bludgeoning device, but it can also be bowled to strike down entire rows of zombies. A stack of kitchen plates might not look that powerful, but an experienced hurler will be able to fling them like a discus, taking zombies' heads clean off.

Weapons range from the conventional, such as shotguns, machineguns and antique swords to the downright comical, including custard pies, cuddly toys, handbags and lawnmowers. Impressively, there are over 260 items to pick up and use as weapons. That's more than you'll ever find in just one play through. But the most important thing is that most of them are really funny to use, especially if you have a taste for outrageous gore. You'll almost feel sorry for the zombies as you blow their brains out, slice them horizontally or vertically, chop their heads off, impale them on spikes or rip their guts out. And that's just the humanitarian stuff!

You can kill as many as you want because there's literally no end to the supply of zombies. One of Inafune-san's reasons for making Dead Rising is to test the Xbox 360 hardware, putting it under pressure to display over 100 flesh eaters at once. It's extremely impressive from a technical standpoint.

But if you can't eradicate all the zombies, what are the alternatives? The choices available to you are what lift Dead Rising well beyond a repetitive bloodsoaked beat 'em up. At the start of the game, you're informed that a helicopter will arrive at the mall in 72 hours (about 15 hours in real time). How to spend that duration is entirely up to you. Now you could just find a safe place to hide and wait there until the chopper arrives. Or you can get out there and try to rescue some of the mall's 100 other human residents. Your reason for doing this isn't just out of charity. Playing as photojournalist Frank, you're also looking for the big scoop and only the other survivors hold the key to why zombies walk the earth.

Like every good human drama, not every survivor actually wants your help. Some are terrified that you might be infected, some have been driven mad with fear and others want to kill you for your weapons and supplies. While the zombies are obstacles to overcome, it's the human opponents that really need to be feared.

Saving the right people does yield rewards though, especially when it comes to different ending sequences. However, you'll find it nearly impossible to save them all in one attempt. Because the survivors move around the mall independently during the 72 hours, you'll come across them at different times and in different places on each play through.

The constant passage of time also has other attention-grabbing effects on gameplay. As day becomes night, the mall takes on a much more threatening appearance. It's harder to spot the zombies, especially if you go outdoors where there isn't much light. To make matters worse, because zombies are creatures of darkness, they find a new sense of flesh-munching motivation. If you thought they were bad in the day, they're twice as fast and ferocious during the twilight hours.

Time also has an effect on some of the game items, particularly food. Naturally, it starts to spoil the longer it's left out on display. Some has a longer shelf life, but very little will be left once the 72 hours draws to a close. The longer you survive, the tougher it's going to get.

Don't be deceived though, you won't find any life-giving green herbs - this is a long way away from Resident Evil. Dead Rising is not a survival horror game in the traditional sense. There are no mutants or supernatural creatures. Neither are there any puzzles or jump-out-of-your-seat scary moments. In truth, the outrageous gore and hilarious weapons make this more of a 'survival comedy' than 'survival horror'.

Throughout our hands-on time, we couldn't stop giggling like a mischievous ten-year-old. It's our guarantee that there's nothing funnier on Xbox 360 than snipping off a zombie's legs using a giant pair of garden shears.

Inafune-San obviously shares our sick sense of humour, but he also has another reason for making Dead Rising a comical game. "Already, Capcom is making Resident Evil 5, so there is going to be a serious zombie game as well," he explains. "We've already covered so many genres in videogames up to now, but comedy is one of the few left to be established.

"It's a really hard sell to make a game funny. But now we're moving over to new hardware, it's just as important to create a different kind of gameplay and be original. I'm really happy if you can see that it's something funny and enjoyable as well."

:)

[II AWESOME II]

The video made me crack up he picked up an apple and threw it at him lol i mean hacking down enemys with Axe's and other Big weapons and you can doin wrestling moves on them!

[capt ajax]

I'm getting it.....I love all things ZOMBIE!

[rronaldraay]

Yeah looking class! I think the best part has to be sticking cones on zombies heads though! One thing i was annoyed about though is the promised 1000 enemies on screen at once but in a mag recently it said there could be 100 wtf thats dropped by 900 surely the 360 isnt that weak!

I really hope this isn't true

[mjmaskrey]

Is 100 not enough for you?

Look at the camera placement and the main character size...I doubt you could even physically fit 1000 zombies on-screen!

:)

[just Jam Man]

Yeah but i mean they shouldnt promise us 3 times 1 thousand enemies on screen and thne take 900 off instead! Release is June or July unfortunately! Well itwould be bad idea releasing soon anyway what with the big stream of games being supplied for us now. Hopefully teh graphics will be given a good clean polish till then

[PublicEnemy#1]

dont no if this trailer is anywhere else on the site but if not here it is

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=sb&page=title&r=X360&title=667331

click on the trailer button under the picture

[just Jam Man]

Ye enemy tht trailer is teh oldest one out i didnt actually like the look of the game when i seen tht trailer but the new one is awesome!

[charliebrown]

I havent seen that trailer before, it looks like a load of fun.It would make an amazing movie,(shaun of the dead 2?) just dont let uwe boll get his hands on it.

[capt ajax]

28 Days Later is one of my fav films....

[smileemptysoul]

so its basicly dawn of the dead?

[just Jam Man]

Hmmm i mean its a little more comical than that as you can hit zombies with melons! But im sure you can play it in a serious way if you like. But it being a zombie game it really cant get much different to say dawn of the dead or even shaun of the dead. Personally i see it more towards shaun and not dawn!

[Raisedbyflames]

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/deadrising/news.html?sid=6147712
http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/701/701634p1.html
just seen these two articles pop up on ign and gamespot if any oens interested

[shark352]

yeah this game looks funny just seen the video clip where the main guy is poppin different heads on the zombies looks like a great fun game cant wait for the release

[JMWolves]

heard the game aint out till Sept now :( bit of a wait but it should be worth it