Dead Rising

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  • ESRB Rating: Mature
  • Intense Violence
    Language
    Partial Nudity
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Just plain fun Braindead computer AI
Innovative concepts Unresponsive controls
Addictive gameplay Repetitive gameplay
Intense action Not enough content

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Killing Zombies and taking Pictures of them with LEGOS on there head... UBER!

Pros Cons
Just plain fun Ugly visuals
Awesome audio Repetitive gameplay
Intense action
Addictive gameplay

Alright, if you aren't aloud to play zombie games, your too young to be on here, and if you don't like zombie games, you don't deserve to have video-games. Your a photographer that is taking pictures of zombies doing stuff, and he goes into a mal full of zombies, blah, blah, blah, who gives a crap about the story? Just go slap a lego head on a zombie and take a picture! There are so many zombies I can't even count, it beats any Resident Evil game. Now, all they need to do is get it on PS3!!!!!

A Zombie Game Done Right

Pros Cons
Addictive gameplay Poor storytelling
Just plain fun Ugly visuals
Epic boss fights Repetitive gameplay
Engaging story Braindead computer AI
Intense action

When I first got this game, I was skeptical about how good this game would be, after hearing some bad things from my friends about it. But once I got past the first zombie breach section after killing over 200 zombies, I was hooked. For the next two weeks, I carved and hacked my way towards the end of the story mode, the thrill of almost endless zombie slaughtering filling me with the feeling that I was almost unstoppable. Even though I only achieved the "C" story ending (due to my many hours slaughtering roughly 100,000 zombies and ignoring most of the quests), I liked the game for almost every aspect of it. The only problems that I had with the game was that most of the people (who I had reluctantly chosen to save) are total IDIOTS. They either get themselves lost into a mob of bloodthirsty zombies which kills them before you can reach them, or they try too hard to help kill zombies and get brutally mobbed to death. The story is nice, so too are the graphics, but after my 5,000th zombie kill, the sense of repetitiveness sank in and I felt bored. Other than that, this game will forever live on in our hearts as one of the best zombie games to date.

PROS: Addicting gameplay, amazing graphics, total zombie ownage, and interesting story mode.
CONS: Repetitive gameplay, too much great zombie ownage can lead to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, dumb AI.

Everything but the kitchen sink....

Pros Cons
Addictive gameplay Not enough content
Innovative concepts Ugly visuals
Just plain fun Braindead computer AI
Epic boss fights Unresponsive controls

Okay, so this isn't that great of a game. But it succeeds at what it is; an off-the-wall zombie splatterfest inspired by Grand Theft Auto and Dawn of the Dead. There are literally hundreds of weapons to use on the hordes walking dead, including everything from potted plants and bowling balls to chainsaws and lawnmowers. And I do mean hordes of walking dead, as the number of zombies on screen is staggering at times. Of course, the novelty of butchering zombies eventually wears off, and then you're stuck with the actual storyline. Basically you have three days (or a couple hours of real time) to do scripted missions on time and get out of Dodge on a helicopter. You also have the option to save survivors scattered throughout the mall, although they're only marginally smarter than the zombies and an absolute headache to escort back to the safehouse. The time issue is unnecessarily annoying and stressful at times, and your janitor friend from the safehouse is constantly calling and providing text that is so small you either need a microscope or 100-inch TV to read it. The bosses are completely over-the-top lunatics and provide some laughs, but other than that the main 72 hour story mode is pretty dull.

Dead Rising Review

I freaking love this game. i can't even explain it. for a zombie game it is not scary at all. (which is good for the faint of heart that still want a good game) even when it becomes night time it aint scary. it has a very very high replay rate. it has 7 different endings and awsomly challenging achievments and awsome unlockables. sense it's made by Capcom (they made Megaman) u can unlock mega mans real gun and the whole mega man outfit. U play as Frank West a free lanse photo journalist eho got a tip that something big was going down in that little town of willamete. In a hellicopter u get dropped off on the roof of the shopping mall u head into the mall and witness zombies break in to the mall. Safe back in the security room, there are a couple of people fighting to survive just like u. Bascialy u can do wat ever u want either do the case files which are the missions or go around fighting physco paths (bosses) or finding and saving people. Or all of them! u can level up to level 50 each time u either get a boost in health, stock, speed, strenght, throwing distance, or u get a new move. The moves are very entertaining to use there are moves such as suplex, wall kick, and round house kick. U can take pictures of varies things a genres of things such as out take, horror, and erotica. u can a certain amount of pp points for doing varies things such as pictures and saving people. PP is wat levels u up. I strongly recamend this game and it is highly entertaining and very very fun. 5.0 THANK YOU FOR READING

maybe to hard and gory

i like this game but some missions get to hard.this game is long and after you beat the game there is another mode which makes the game even hader cause the military is after you dont get me wrong its enjoyable but the thing is you might get tired of it real fast and it perhaps have to much gore

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