Dead Rising (Xbox 360)

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• 3 stars

  fun game, pretty hard to get trough story line

  by dumb1962000 on August 10, 2007

  Pros: Lots of gore, fun to kill zombies

  Cons: cant read most text unless you have a hd tv, timed missions, very hard bosses, few save points, loads too much

  Summary: At first i thought this was a fun game. it was fun killing zombies, and using the various weapons at your arsenal. Then it started to get annoying when you ...

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  Summary: At first i thought this was a fun game. it was fun killing zombies, and using the various weapons at your arsenal. Then it started to get annoying when you die and pretty much have to go to the beginning of the game because you didn't save. When you level up, you cant choose what you want to level up in, so you get a lot of something when you don't need it.

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• 9 stars

  Best Xbox 360 game! So far ;-)

  by Ex-KGB on August 22, 2006

  Pros: Swarm effect = many zombies on screen at one time; original weapons (i.e. excavator); lots o' blood:-)

  Cons: Small text; save system; & annoying transciever that you must answer.

  Summary: Upon purchasing my 360, I could only think of two games worth buying: Far Cry & Oblivion (I'm not much of a gamer, but waiting out for Halo 3). ...

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  Summary: Upon purchasing my 360, I could only think of two games worth buying: Far Cry & Oblivion (I'm not much of a gamer, but waiting out for Halo 3). No other titles grabbed my interest, until this one. IT IS FUN! I've read complaints about the save system, and small text which I agree with, but if your unimpressed because the bosses require more than 1 gun shot to kill than your looking for something else. I'm currently a Level 40, and find that the game just gets better. You learn cool new moves (i.e. pulling a zombies intestines out of their belly, grabbing them by the legs and swinging them into thier buddies, or putting them in a plain old suplex) and can start carrying more inventory. In regards to holding weapons for a limited time, well I think it was a good idea on Capcom's part; this encourages one to scope out new weapons, and remember if you find a book in one of the book stores that relates to a weapon of your choice (criminology=allowing you to hold a blade weapon 3x as long)your all set. Finally I am quite impressed with the story line. It has substance (considering it's a zombie game) and even that campy comedy associated with zombie flicks. All in all, if you think you might like this game, I bet you will once you've played it. If Capcom comes out with another, I'm sure they'll fix the smaller issues, and hopefully impress us with the town as a setting, instead of being limited to the mall (which btw is big enough; especially if your brave enough to venture in the underground parkade = Hell on Earth).

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• 6 stars

  Just getting started, but I'm dissappointed

  by rdekoch on August 15, 2006

  Pros: Incredible crowds of zombies

  Cons: constant transciever calls from a mentally challenged janitor character, confusing structure and level design, very small text

  Summary: The device of the benevolent janitor who constantly calls while you're trying to play the game is really annoying. It might not have been so bad if there was ...

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  Summary: The device of the benevolent janitor who constantly calls while you're trying to play the game is really annoying. It might not have been so bad if there was voice acting for this instead of tiny text (which I can't read). The zombie hunting part is awesome, but the structure of the game is stifling and doesn't allow for extensive exploration of the environments. It's a shame because there's cool stuff to explore.
  
  Maybe capcom will turn this into a franchise and the kinks will be worked out in the next iteration.

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• 3 stars

  Not a Shooter's cup of tea, but good melee

  by fishizlot on December 12, 2009

  Pros: It has some of the best melee around.

  Cons: Poor shooter, inaccurate and cumbersome aiming and firing. No save feature, so go back to beginning of the previous set each time you're killed and sit through the madatory, tiresome videos again. Survivors accidentally kill you all the time.

  Summary: Not at all a Shooter's cup of tea. If you're primarily a shooter, you're better off playing HALO, Godfather 2, or Left for Dead 2, all excellent, ...

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  Summary: Not at all a Shooter's cup of tea. If you're primarily a shooter, you're better off playing HALO, Godfather 2, or Left for Dead 2, all excellent, and the latter being a much superior zombie game. It takes two buttons and a toggle just to aim and shoot in Dead Rising. And you must be close for shots to be effective. So those lighting quick readies and accurate shooting of multiple targets we see in the Godfather games won't happen with Dead Rising. Just about impossible to break free if more than one zombie grabs you. No combination of buttons breaks you free. When they grab you, your gun will not function. And when your armed companions rush up to help you, they're worse enemies than the undead. Your own friends will bash your head in and then back to beginning to sit through the videos all over again. No button will short cut you out of the videos. And there's tons of them. You can play for 1 hour and if you get killed you lose your progress after sitting through those monotonous videos. Really tiresome. The only way to trigger an Auto Save is to finish a set with out being killed. Dumb. And I've never liked a game with a time limit. I like to take my time and have fun if I'm playing just the AI. But Dead Rising is creative and clever, and some of the best, goriest melee available. Novel contrivances of transportion are cleverly added. You can choose modes of dress. And just about anything is a melee weapon. Clever, but not for me. I'm going to go play HALO. For a shooter, that's the shizzy.

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• 7 stars

  Could have been better.

  by dalton9931 on December 7, 2008

  Pros: Really fun game, pretty good story line. The idea of being trapped in a mall filled with zombies is pretty original but delivers amazingly. The variety of weapons you can use is absolute insanity.

  Cons: The saving system is really annoying. The best tactic to actually save is to do a mission go all the way back to where you started and save. The controls are sloppy and a good bit of times the computer makes the game really unfair.

  Summary: Over all its a pretty good game. Now that its twenty dollars its not that bad of a deal. I suggest you buy it if you have twenty bucks that ...

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  Summary: Over all its a pretty good game. Now that its twenty dollars its not that bad of a deal. I suggest you buy it if you have twenty bucks that need spending.

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• 4 stars

  a fun game but it gets annoying

  by huzzlebub on May 15, 2008

  Pros: The many interesting ways to kill zombies(and time),the way it is different from most zombie games

  Cons: You cant save often enough,The endless swarm of zombies can be a pain,rescue missions get tedious, bosses are more annoying then you think

  Summary: First off,this game is actually pretty interesting with the whole lvling system and taking pictures is okay.This game is actually a good time killer since you can pretty ...

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  Summary: First off,this game is actually pretty interesting with the whole lvling system and taking pictures is okay.This game is actually a good time killer since you can pretty much spend hours completely killing every zombie you see(if you keep withing the time limits it has set up for each of the story case.) the massive collection to weapons and food stuff is interesting since you can use weapons that dnt even hurt zombies but are just there.but the whole weapons break after a while is kind of stupid.since when does a sword break if you cut through some 50-100 zombies?it would get dull maybe but not break.the sheer number of zombies can be fun but is also annoying when your trying to escort a surviver through some huge mob of zomibes and since there are more at night its nearly impossible to do it. The bosses can take hundreds of bullets befor they die!!!i mean how man humans can survie 1 shotgun blast let alone 30??? The saving feature is also a drag when your busy trying to cut through zombies in a last mad dash so you dont lose your scoop and sometimes youll save so far away you really will have to start.the side missions also get maddening when you try to excort two people to safety only to go through a mob then they die and become a zombie.ill agree this game is fun but it just has too many annoying little flaws.i would suggest rentting not buying.

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• 8 stars

  extremly deep

  by williamhuds on February 3, 2008

  Pros: fun, in a extremly redundent kinda way

  Cons: extremly redundent

  Summary: good game, only problem is that it gets extremly tedious, and redundent after a while

  Summary: good game, only problem is that it gets extremly tedious, and redundent after a while

• 9 stars

  I really don't miss Resident Evil anymore...

  by Tomtom545 on September 18, 2007

  Pros: Graphics, Gameplay ,Sou--Its a mall full of friggin zombies!

  Cons: Some achievments require Xbox to be on all night, and others seem pretty difficult

  Summary: This game is fantastic! I can't see anyone who plays through this say, "this sucked"..Seriously I ate this game. Buy it, you'll never regret it.

  Summary: This game is fantastic! I can't see anyone who plays through this say, "this sucked"..Seriously I ate this game. Buy it, you'll never regret it.

• 1 stars

  I stopped playing this game because it really pissed me off....

  by frost_gothic on September 11, 2007

  Pros: good graphic, many thing to kill zombies

  Cons: saving,missions,storyline

  Summary: I know many many people stopped bothering playing this game such as i myself.
  
  At the begining it was fun, good graphic, nice new idea of gaming and all that
  
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  Summary: I know many many people stopped bothering playing this game such as i myself.
  
  At the begining it was fun, good graphic, nice new idea of gaming and all that but it becomes very very annoying when you have to do the same thing over and over again as the 'save' thing in the game sucks.
  
  This game is more fun rather than being a 'game'. kill zombies, enjoy graphic and all that jazz but when you feel like playing video games, you cant take this as a proper choice.
  
  I myself played it like 1 week and i went so far in the game and suddenly now i have to start playing from the very begining because apparently i dropped a mission that i had to accomplish. C'omon , gimmi a chance to try again and not force me back to the very very beginning of the game. no way.
  
  I stopped playing it and i know many many people who decided just the same thing. If you do not own this game, you would probably join the 'very pissed-off-group' of us.
  
  do NOT buy this game. you will be disappointment. Trust us.

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• 4 stars

  All You Can Kill Load Screen Fest

  by jones.williamk on August 19, 2007

  Pros: All you can kill zombies, beautiful array of weapons, decent enough graphics, all you can kill zombies.

  Cons: All you can read load screens, annoying janitor, boss-types break game flow, save games annoying, all you can read load screens.

  Summary: This game had a lot of potential and I wanted to love it, but it let me down and feeling used. For all the zombie-slaying joy the game offered there ...

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  Summary: This game had a lot of potential and I wanted to love it, but it let me down and feeling used. For all the zombie-slaying joy the game offered there were some catches that killed the game experience for me. So to get the unpleasantness out of the way, the things I didn't like.
  
  First, the loading screens really got to me. It seems like a little thing, but I found them to disrupt the flow of the game. While trying to complete a mission having to sit and watch a still screen was a mood killer. It got worse when the screens would be followed by a clip, and then another loading screen. Some little indicator of the game's progess, something a little more interesting to keep me in the game, just anything to make those loading screens seem a little less like a black and white screen of boredom.
  
  Then there's the janitor. He's not a bad concept, but he's insistent and rude. While wandering around a mall dealing with zombie hordes you can't just stop everything like some teenager and answer the phone. Also, when you have to hang up to stay alive so you can find out what's going on with that next batch of survivors it's rude to be told that it's rude to hang up. Sure, being trapped in a mall with zombies is a stressful situation, but it's more stressful for the S.O.B. actually out with them.
  
  The save game system was also a pain. Friends don't let friends program games with save points; especially when the option is to start the game over from the last save point or the very begining. At least some sort of autosave during the relatively frequent loading screens would have been an improvement. Again, like with the loading screens the save system helped disrupt the flow of the game.
  
  Finally, there's the small text. No options to change the font. Just really small, almost entirely illegible text. I couldn't even tell if it was merely an annoyance, or something that was depriving me of vital information.
  
  Wait, there's another thing that bugged me. Targeting zombies on their hands and knees with melee weapons was (from what I remember) impossible. C'mon, if zombies are crouched over kneeling what could be more fun than to play whack-a-mole with their heads? Alas, it was not to be.
  
  The game has some good points though. The combination of all you can kill zombies and the multitude of ways to kill them did provide me with hours and hours of fun. In fact my favorite part of the game was just seeing how many zombies I could kill before I ran out of weapons. It was also fun watching how the different weapons worked, and how other items didn't work. Plastic swords don't kill zombies, but do make a nice sound.
  
  I also found the levelling system to be a nice touch as well. Though seemingly random, it was something that appealed to my sense of curiosity: what would I gain the next time I levelled?
  
  Unfortunately, I decided that the game ultimately wasn't worth keeping before I could make it very far into it. The loading screens, save point system, and some of the early missions (and how some seemed to have disappeared after I died or restarted) just wore down the appeal of slaughtering thousands of zombies.
  
  It's not a horrible game, but it should have been so much better. In what may be an unfair comparison Oblivion handled the loading and saving issues with much greater aplomb. Also, other games with some seemingly similar combat mechanics seem to have done better for targeting also, and these would even include Saints' Row. I may pick up another copy once the price drops another couple of dollars, until then there's the Fall/Winter 2007 line up coming out.

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