

It’s hard to shake the feeling that some character was lost in this transition, but that’s the only real inconsistency the game has with its predecessors. Los Perdidos isn’t quite as colorful as the mall from Dead Rising, or Fortune City from Dead Rising 2. It’s not even a case of ‘make your own fun’ that good old Dead Rising tone is still intact, even if it’s not always at the forefront. That just didn’t happen often enough, but when it did, I had a blast. There are times where I would just grab a Defiler, run into a mob, and go nuts. I kind of wish the map wasn’t so dense with buildings.

You can still dress up in some Daisy Dukes, grab a laser sword, and go to town on a crazy astronaut. The game is being marketed as a grim and realistic Walking Dead-esque game, but that’s not the case. Yeah, don’t worry folks the nonsense is back for another installment. And the otherwise serious conspiracy yarn takes place in a world filled to the brim with nonsense. It’s just so hokey that it becomes impossible to take seriously. Inspect it, and some music I’m sure was designed to rip off the infamous Dead Island trailer will play. There are also ‘Tragic Endings’ you can find, where Nick stumbles upon a body put in a sad position.

Rhonda in particular is a really fun character, and the other main survivors are well rounded, if a bit cartoonish.īut the big dramatic moments are backed against really obvious Romero-esque synth. And the game mostly succeeds in this aspect, mostly due to the excellent facial animation and generally quite good character writing. Nick and the survivors you’ll meet are presented as sympathetic, and the game assumes you’ll want to see them all make it. Specifically, it’s a little hard to tell if Dead Rising 3 wants to be taken seriously. Which brings me to a small kink in the story: the tone. If you have any knowledge of zombie genre tropes, you should be able to call a lot of this game’s twists and turns. Does it tie into the overall story in some way? Let me put it like this: I figured out the entire plot a third of the way through Dead Rising 3’s 10-odd hour campaign. He’s a former mechanic with a mysterious past that even he doesn’t know about. You play the latest unlucky guy to find himself suddenly at the center of a zombie outbreak (here in Los Romeros, which is somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard) and government conspiracy: Nick Ramos. There’s a really great open world game somewhere in here, but what fun there is to be gleaned from duct-taping a microwave and a battery to create a chest laser unfortunately has to share a game with a city that’s too large for its own good and simply atrocious boss fights.

It is important that you know this, because were moments in Dead Rising 3 that made me want to put an axe through it.
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I now associate some very happy memories with this specific console, and even if the Xbox One as a system never reaches its full potential, I’ll always treasure this Xbox One. It’s a launch unit that I purchased at a really fun event. I’ve had an Xbox One for a little over a week.
