Dead Rising (360) Review

Yes, this is by no means a new game. But the reviews come as I play the games, so cry about it.

Dead Rising was one of those games that just sounds so awesome, and you see the movies and the pictures and its just so fucking cool that you need to play it.

Me and one of the guys at work both got 360's about the same time, and the same night we both went and got dead rising without even mentioning it to eachother beforehand.

We both came in the next day and declared it fucking horrible.

The premise is fantastic, Free roam in a mall and anything is a weapon against zombies - How cool is that?

The execution is actually terrible:

Survivor AI is so retarded they make shortbus kids seem like scholars, I cant tell you how often I had 4-5 survivors following me and keeping up while one found a way to get stuck on his own, but it sure as shit felt like every fucking time.

The "Fantastic Assortment of Weapons" that you are first presented with shortly turns into a list of like 3 things that are good and 2 dozen someodd pieces of shit that you dont want in your inventory. You quickly learn where the good items spawn and you basically spend the entire time going from one niche to the next hoping your dumbfuck survivors dont die while avoiding ...

The Cult, Talk about fucking retardedness, somehow these idiots in raincoats can get away with not being eaten by zombies by wearing a cheezy green mask, to add to further frustration they randomly gas you and lock you up - totally randomly - which then puts you into an impossible situation where you have to kill like 25 of them with a weapon that doesnt last long enough to kill 25 of them, all while any one of them could gas you and repeat said event. Furthermore these fantastic additions to the game totally destroy any retarded survivors (see above) that happen to get stuck near them, almost instantly killing them.

the Psychopaths (bosses), For some reason every fat person within the town ended up going insane at the appearance of the zombies, thus creating your 'bosses' throughout the game. A Clown with 2 chainsaws who is upset that the 'people in the mall no longer laugh at him', a Store owner who just goes apeshit and affixes every sharp instrument he can find to a shopping cart to defend his store? the crazy owner of the gunshop? the bulldyke cop? wow. D- for stupid bosses.

Between the bosses and the dumb story, the overly repetitive gameplay bites off more than it can chew - Killing zombies gets seriously tiring after the 4th hour of the same exact thing.

I seriously gave this game a good shot, I expected alot from it and I was terribly let down. Ultimately I ended up getting home, turning this on, watching somebody die stupidly getting pissed off and returning it.

But overall I give this tarnish on capcoms record a 4 out of 10. If you like killing zombies its a sweet rental, but dont buy this piece of shit.