Dead Rising: 10/10 vision required, and "how to gain friends and infuence people" is strongly recommended

User Rating: 6.5 | Dead Rising X360
By michaelsdad | Review Date:
Dead Rising has a great premise and gives you an amazing arsenal of weapons to use to eradicate zombies-- parasols, mop buckets, golf clubs, bowling balls, cash registers, CDs-- if you can find it in a mall, you can most likely wield it with deadly force. It's a visceral game and it really relays the claustrophobia you'd feel if you were trapped in a mall crawling with slow moving, dimwitted zombies-- at times you're shoulder to shoulder with a room full of them, and your anxiety increases commensurately. So its a really well done game.

That said, I didn't like it. It's a matter of personal preference-- I don't like games where you have to photograph things, I don't like games with minuscule font, and I really detest games where you have to protect or escort other computer-controlled characters through the game. To date, no escortee in any game I've ever played has any more artificial intelligence than a piece of moldy cheese. I can't take the frustration when the quest failures aren't my fault.

I realize I'm in the severe minority here since most other people enjoyed it. Even though I gave it a lower score than most, I actually recommend it for almost anyone... except those who have the same pet peeves as me. If so, you may find Dead Rising actually falling off your radar pretty quickly. I did.

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