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Dead Rising
Game Cover
Developer(s)Capcom Production Studio 1
Publisher(s)Capcom
Designer(s)Keiji Inafune (producer)
Platform(s)Xbox 360
ReleaseUS: August 8 2006
EU: September 8[citation needed] 2006
JP: September 28 2006[citation needed]
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single player

Dead Rising is a one-player video game for the Xbox 360 produced by Keiji Inafune and under development by Capcom. It will go on sale in the United States on August 8, 2006. [1] [2] A playable demo was released for download to the Xbox 360 from the Xbox Live Marketplace on August 4th, 2006.[3][4]

The player character, Frank West, is an "overly zealous freelance photojournalist"[5] who is trapped in a mall filled with flesh-eating zombies. The player must rescue other survivors and get out of the mall alive with the best scoop possible. Frank West wishes to win a Pulitzer Prize for his story. During the game the player must choose between taking pictures, or simply killing the zombies which brings a twist to the gameplay. The game's shopping mall environment is very similar to George A. Romero's classic zombie movie Dawn of the Dead.

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An early image of Dead Rising

If the player takes pictures, he may win a Pulitzer, but it may make surviving more difficult. The player can also help the people who are attacked by zombies, or let them get eaten, taking pictures of their demise. Depending on the actions a player takes the ending will vary. "Designed to be totally open-ended, Dead Rising allows you to investigate whatever you want, kill whoever you want and finish the game by completing whatever objectives you saw fit."[6]

The main character can use hundreds of everyday items as weapons to kill zombies. Trailers show the player using a lawnmower, baseball bats, swords, CDs, 2x4's, showerheads, chairs, plates, bowling balls, knives, tennis racquets, chainsaws, hockey sticks, plastic light sabers, safety cones, pies, plasma screen TVs, potted plants, fully deployed beach umbrellas, a battle axe from an antique store[7] and the more conventional shotguns, machine guns and pistols. There are over 250 items that a player can use to attack zombies.[6][2] Electronic Gaming Monthly explained there are up to 800 zombies on the screen at once.[8] During the day the zombies are more sluggish, but at night they become more active and deadly.[9][10] The trailer also showed what seemed to be a mega buster, a reference to Capcom's Megaman series.

Despite the presence of zombies, the game is not officially tied to Capcom's Resident Evil series. Inafune explained that the game is more humorous in tone compared to the Resident Evil series. This is reflected by the main character himself, who is not a "cool" hero working for a special task force, but an average citizen with an ordinary job.

Dead Rising demo

The Dead Rising demo can be found on Xbox Live Marketplace which requires an Xbox 360 to access the demo. In the demo, the player is in "Paradise Plaza", which is a small section of the mall. If you try to leave this section of the mall, you will be treated to a cutscene (depending on what section you tried to enter, the cutscene varies) and the game will bring you back to the demo's main menu. There are around 50 weapons that can be used, and 20 stores to explore. There are no specific missions and the player is free to roam a section of the mall. The demo is timed, however, the player has 15 minutes of game time, with infinite replayability.[11]

Game officially not on sale in Germany

Capcom's upcoming Dead Rising will not officially be on sale in Germany. The USK, the equivalent of ESRB of Germany, refused to give the game a rating. This is the first Xbox 360 game to have no rating. Unrated games can be banned later on (rated games cannot be banned anymore) but this would have to happen after official release.[12] Capcom stated: "The game has not been banned in Germany. It is scheduled for release on September 8."[13]

Quotes

The demo gets underway inside an airborne helicopter, which photojournalist Frank West is using to bypass army checkpoints and such en route to the town of Willamette, Colorado after being tipped off that something big is going down there. What he finds, long before arriving at the aforementioned mall, is that the whole town is overrun with zombies, and as the helicopter pilot flies over the town, Frank wastes no time putting his telephoto lens to good use. This sequence plays out a lot like a rail shooter, except that you're armed with a camera instead of a firearm, and your targets are--for the most part--already dead.[14]

Notes

  1. ^ "Release Dates". www.capcom.com. Retrieved 2006-06-17.
  2. ^ a b "Dead Rising". xbox360.ign.com. Retrieved 2006-06-17. Release date August 8, 2006. Cite error: The named reference "ign" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Dead Rising Demo Lurches onto Marketplace". Xbox Live Marketplace. Retrieved 2006-08-04.
  4. ^ "Demo: Dead Rising". www.majornelson.com. Retrieved 2006-08-04. Xbox Live members can now download a demo for 'Dead Rising.' This demo is not available in Mexico, Germany, Australia, New Zealand or Asia.
  5. ^ "Dead Rising (Xbox 360)". teamxbox.com. Retrieved 2006-06-17.
  6. ^ a b "Dead Rising Preview". www.myxbox360.com. Retrieved 2006-06-17.
  7. ^ "Dead Rising - Hands On Impressions". 360.advancedmn.com. Retrieved 2006-06-17.
  8. ^ Boyer, Crispin (2006). "Dead Rising". Electronic Gaming Monthly. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  9. ^ "Xbox 360: Dead Rising Preview". www.halflifesource.com. 2006. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  10. ^ "Dead Rising Preview for Xbox 360". www.xboxcore.com. Retrieved 2006-06-17.
  11. ^ The download page on Xbox Live features a disclaimer "THIS GAME WAS NOT DEVELOPED, APPROVED OR LICENSED BY THE OWNERS OR CREATORS OF GEORGE A. ROMERO'S DAWN OF THE DEAD(tm)", which acknowles the similarity in tone and plot aspects to the famous horror film (innumerable zombies in a mall setting, etc.)
  12. ^ "First Xbox 360 Game Ban: Dead Rising Banned From Germany". gamingbits.com. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
  13. ^ "Dead Rising Banned in Germany? Zombie-killing not so verboten, after all". www.1up.com. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
  14. ^ "Dead Rising Hands-On We check out a timed playable demo of Capcom's undead action game for the Xbox 360". www.gamespot.com. Retrieved 2006-07-14. Explains in detail the opening minutes of the game and "prestige points"
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