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 Morpheus\' Review From Hell: Dead Rising Developed By: CapcomReview By: Morpheus Written on: Sunday, August, 13th, 2006 at 12:37:43 pm Rating: 80% Site: here System: XBox 360 Now before we even get to the actual review portion of this I\'m going to address an important issue. The XBox 360 is not much better than the xbox in terms of anything but graphics prowess, and they force wireless controllers on you whether you like batteries or not. Enough with my greivances about the 360 though, on to my first 360 game review. For those of you fortunate...or should I say, rich enough, to own an Xbox 360 it does have some awesome graphics and I\'m just going to cover that first because to an honest gamer, in my opinion, graphics shouldn\'t matter too much. The graphics kick ass, yes we know, it\'s the Xbox 3-frickin-60. It\'s kind of a given. On to the stuff that actually matters. Dead Rising is, for all intensive purposes, a zombie game. You fight zombies. Lots of zombies. Unlike traditional zombie games, though, where the main purpose of the game was to attempt to make you piss yourself or throw up by scaring you or showing you enough gore to make you feel queasy because you might have seen aunt Gertrude\'s intestines, this is actually more of a hack and slash with some Beyond Good and Evil thrown in. Basically it resembles something like your tradition Dynasty Warriors, but with a bit more of a flair for the random weapons. Let me put it this way my hack and slash fans. The weapons range from sickles, chainsaws, hedgeclippers, and large scale rotary drills, to handguns, baseball bats, 2x4\'s and benches. If it\'s on the scenery, you can use it. Actually I\'d say my favorite weapon so far, aside from the rotary drill, which should be top on any gore lover\'s list, is the katana I accidently found on top of an awning. It, as would be expected, sliced through decaying zombie flesh quite nicely. Anyway, the Beyond Good and Evil comes in when you can take pictures of more or less anything to get points. You use these points to level up your character. You get the points in other ways too, like killing zombies with special weapons and reaching certain kill counts, which, entertainingly enough, the game keeps track of in the lower right hand corner of the game at all times. Now you might be saying, wait wait wait morpheus, you\'ve gotten into the heart of the game, but whats the frickin storyline? That ones easy, and I thought kind of a lesser thing to worry about for reasons I will explain later. Basically you\'re a photojournalist, Frank West, who is out for a big story so you come by helicopter into a government locked down city to get the scoop. You get stuck inside of a mall, however, when you ask your pilot to drop you off and come get you in three days. In short you have 72 hours to fight off never ending hordes of zombies with random weapons and bits of environment, while uncovering the truth behind the zombie infestation and saving survivors. Overall the game is pretty interesting. The music isn\'t much, but the point of the 360 is to use your own music during the games. Let\'s just say listening to Bodies by Drowning Pool while taking a chainsaw to zombies is pretty fun. Back on track though, it\'s really an impressive find because you\'re not going to find any game that has quite the zombie slaughtering action of this one with a sufficient storyline to keep any RPG fan addicted as well aside from here, at least for any Xbox related console anyway. They just don\'t come around that often for any system, let alone the shooter-haven that is the xbox. Here\'s the best part though. Don\'t feel like dealing with complex storyline? No problem, the whole thing is voluntary. If you want you can, in fact, ignore the whole storyline and just spend 72 hours slaughtering zombies in fun and new ways. It\'s a great stress reliever. What? Don\'t like a three day time limit? That\'s fine, if you miss your ride you can stay and kill zombies all you like. More or less the only gripes I have are that sometimes the subtitles and text are hard to read, and there are times you just don\'t want a mall janitor to call you on a walkee talkee, I.E. when you\'re trying to shrug off a horde of zombies that are trying to violate you in unholy ways. In conclusion, if you like slaughtering things in bloody ways, or just don\'t mind it and like a decent storyline, Dead Rising is one 360 you can not afford to miss. I Mean what other game lets you save by taking a dump? Screenshots   write a review
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