Dead Rising - Any good?

ballybay_eh

Thats basically what I want to know. Would Dead Rising be worth picking up on the cheap? I heard good things about it when it came out but I don't know anyone who's played it.

Worth a shot?

armour87

One thing I can say about it is that the game system is very original.

"Dead Rising incorporates an experience system that allows Frank to improve his offensive and defensive capabilities as the game progresses. By taking pictures of different situations in gameplay the player can earn "Prestige Points", a form of experience points that allows the player to increase Frank's combat abilities. Pictures are automatically evaluated and assigned a genre: either erotica, horror, outtakes, drama, or brutality. These points are also gained by helping survivors or by killing zombies. Many attacks that Frank can learn are based on those used in professional wrestling. One new skill or ability is awarded randomly as Frank gains experience.

Should the player start a new game, all experience progression the player has already made can be carried over to the new game. In that way, the player may choose to ignore the plot completely and gain more Prestige Points to level up and use in a later game"


I love the gameplay and it has loads of replay value. Definetly worth a go. I picked it up 2nd hand for €20 a few months back but still haven't finished it.

yoyo

ballybay_eh wrote: »

Thats basically what I want to know. Would Dead Rising be worth picking up on the cheap? I heard good things about it when it came out but I don't know anyone who's played it.

Worth a shot?

Its a very difficult game and its a either hate or love one, I bought it and could never get into it . Also if you are thinking of picking it up make sure you have a HDTV! Its literly unplayable in standard def as all the news text and text in general is un-readable at any non-hd resolution

Nick

Slig

I found that aswell with the text and I have HDtv. Good value I think.
Its good crack just going around decapitating zombies with saw blades or crushing them with a sledge hammer, havent actually paid much attention to the plot yet.

armour87

Grrr... it's NOT "unplayable"!

Granted the text is really small but on a big enough SDTV it's grand sitting realtively close.

You can't say a game is unplayable due to one tiny issue with the text.

Everything else is fine.

yoyo

armour87 wrote: »

Grrr... it's NOT "unplayable"!

Granted the text is really small but on a big enough SDTV it's grand sitting realtively close.

You can't say a game is unplayable due to one tiny issue with the text.

Everything else is fine.

Well considering you need to keep checking your objectives and see where your going, the text is quite a vital part, of course playing just to kill zombies would work on SD but to actually advance you need to see whats going on...

Nick

Retr0gamer

As long as you are using a proper scart cable and not the ****ty out of the box AV cables the text is legible, just.

Really liked the game but took a while to get into. Once I figured out you should go straight to the boss in the gun store and beat him the game got much more playable.

thefinalstage

Retr0gamer wrote: »

As long as you are using a proper scart cable and not the ****ty out of the box AV cables the text is legible, just.

Really liked the game but took a while to get into. Once I figured out you should go straight to the boss in the gun store and beat him the game got much more playable.

Actually, you beat up the three guys in the hum vee and used the mounted machine gun to own his ass.

By the way, I played it many times and still do play it on a 21 inch sd crt tv and I can read the text.

chrislad

In a word, no. Couldn't stand the game.

corcaigh07

i have a 28" Philips widescreen CRT, will the game be playable(and i mean text and all )

Lex_Diamonds

I certainly enjoyed it for the time I played it! Good replay value since you cant save everyone first time through, and the game has multiple endings if I recall.

TomCo

I HATE HATE HATE HATE the save system!

At one point I saved with about 5 minutes left on the mission timer, I was just around the corner from the waypoint.

Unfortunatly it triggered a boss fight which I couldnt complete in time (the motorbike one). So now I have to start the game again!

Bull****!

Captain Chaos

Thats hardly the save systems fault, you didn't have enough time to do what you needed to even if you didn't save.

I have read a load of people with these probs and I can't understand it. I have completed the game many times and got all the endings and have never come across the problem people have with the save system. I think its a classic title.

Utopia Parkway

Great game. The save system is awful though and does detract from it a bit.

Dont be at yourself

It's one of the most misunderstood games out, but it's also one of the best.

The save mechanic completely changes the game - it's not your typical action/survival horror game by any means.

steviec

I thought it was horribly repetitive. Just keep hammering a button to attack zombies. Lots of weapons to pick up, but they just mean a different animation plays while you hammer the attack button so they don't exactly add depth.

Captain Chaos

You havent played it enough, when you level up you can do combos and more than one attack with weapons. Take the frying pan, you can just smack them over the head with it, throw it at them or scald their face off.

Then the hand to hand combat later on gets good, you can rip there guts out and come up hehind them and smasg theri heads into the ground, throw them through shop window or through a crowd a zombies clearing a path for you.

So its not just hammering the attack button at all unless you want to die really quick. Once you really level up your charater you feel alot more powerful and you can take on alot of zombies at once no problem.

johnny_ultimate

Wasn't a big fan of it myself. I think the saving and time system - while admirable for being something different - completely detract from the game. For a sandbox game, it doesn't really allow you to do what you want because it just keeps distracting you with missions. I also thought a lot of the combat was badly handled - the bosses in particular were usually pretty dreadful with awful collission detection. And trying to get health before a battle is an annoyance due to bad level design and sometimes minimal inventory (this does get better as you progress, but you still never have enough room)

Thats not to say its not fun running around fighting the idiotic zombie herds - it sometimes is very enjoyable, especially when you get vehicles or some of the more effective weaponry (lawnmoers for the win). But I think their efforts to be different somewhat backfired, and the main story kind of takes away from the well handled elements. I played it through to the end once, and had no urge to go back.

CiDeRmAn

I gave up when I met the Clown boss, traded it in, moved on.

Bought the game again a couple of months ago, convincing myself I was wrong, that this was a game of merit...

Nope, just walked back into the Clown fecker again, tried it a couple of times, now, sadly, it gathers dust, next to Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo, sniff sniff....

thefinalstage

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I gave up when I met the Clown boss, traded it in, moved on.

Bought the game again a couple of months ago, convincing myself I was wrong, that this was a game of merit...

Nope, just walked back into the Clown fecker again, tried it a couple of times, now, sadly, it gathers dust, next to Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo, sniff sniff....

Wow. Beaten by the clown?

faceman

I like this game. Its best played on a HD telly or a 60hz progressive scan telly.

On the downside, the save game feature can be annoying and some parts are really tough which on losing can involve going back to a previous save.

Its alot of fun tho.

Kur4mA

This is one of the games I missed out on. I reckon I'll pick it up cheap somewhere and give it a bash.

Lee Snowflake

It's a cool game. Getting all the achievements is time consuming. I love going to the gardening shop and getting the excavator, then drilling through a zombie and watching as his limbs go flying when i hit other zombies, then his torso is left on the drill. Very funny.

A-Trak

Absolutely loved it, bought it on launch (and an xbox for that matter - it was the game that pushed me into getting the 360.)

Brilliant interaction, massive replay value and the best set of achievements on the xbox so far imho.

Still dip in every once in a while for a fix of zombie killing.

I hate Otis with every ounce of my being though.

Fingleberries

I hadn't played this in almost 18 months, because I got so Peed off at it, thinking it was so horribly repetitive and the save system frustrated the crap out of me.

This thread piqued my interest again, so I went back for another look and immediately realised that I was right about the Save System, and nearly threw the thing out the window (again). But to be fair I persevered with it for as long as I could. It really seems the best way to get through this is to do stuff at the start and level up. Then when you get inevitably killed because your stats are so crap, save and go back to the start level up and repeat the process again. After a bajillion times, you finally have enough stock to have a decent selection of weapons to keep you alive a bit longer and perhaps make a dent in the game.

Still, while I realise I may have been a bit harsh on the game at first, it is still very frustrating to be killed by one of the friggers you are supposed to be escorting because they were taking a wild swing at a zombie with a weapon you gave them.

And what about the Psychos in the Jeep outside on the first night. Bloody impossible if you haven't already levelled up a lot before running into them.

Then, you're stuck either choosing Save and back to the start (again, again, again, again), or back to a save game from about 20 minutes ago and back to do the same tasks yet again (and again, and again, and again ...)

A-Trak wrote:

I hate Otis with every ounce of my being though.

Amen to that! Seriously the guy gets on my wick something terrible ... One of his best lines "Don't cut me off like that, it's so rude". Seriously sorry about that old guy, next time a hoard of Zombies are about to chew my bits off and I can't swing at them because some old Curmuddgeon is waffling at me, I'll ask them to keep it down for a second because I'm on the phone.

faceman

Fingleberries wrote: »

And what about the Psychos in the Jeep outside on the first night. Bloody impossible if you haven't already levelled up a lot before running into them.

without a machine gun its impossible at first!

wrote:

Amen to that! Seriously the guy gets on my wick something terrible ... One of his best lines "Don't cut me off like that, it's so rude". Seriously sorry about that old guy, next time a hoard of Zombies are about to chew my bits off and I can't swing at them because some old Curmuddgeon is waffling at me, I'll ask them to keep it down for a second because I'm on the phone.

If you listen to all his calls you get an achievement i think. not worth the hassle tho!

thefinalstage

faceman wrote: »

without a machine gun its impossible at first!




If you listen to all his calls you get an achievement i think. not worth the hassle tho!

I killed them with pistols. Kill the gun mounted guy first.

Slig

How do you get back into the security room?
I got the game secondhand and there was no booklet. I know you can save at the toilets but after I get Brad to the old guy in the bookstore (shootout in food court et all) there is no way to save. The only toilets are in paradise plaza which I cant get to because there is a shutter in the way. I can go all the way around through the park but I keep hitting the convicts in the hummer.
I just want to be able to progress without starting out at that annoying camera guy again.........

Also when I go to answer the phone and press the right key it just cycles through my inventory instead.

niallon

You've to go in to the warehouse, on the ground floor in Paradise Plaza. If you're having trouble with the convicts just cling to the wall the minute you get outside, usually works for me! Or if you absolutely cannot make it over, go outside and go into the underground car park. Get into the car and go to town to rack up the PP for yourself! Get killed, and start again! You're still fairly near the start so you won't be losing much and you'll be strating the game well upgraded level wise!

Fingleberries

And the Underground Car park would be where? ... That sounds like a great way to get some PP, and eventually make the character useful ... Until now I'm only getting small amounts (with the odd bonus for annoying photographer guy, and to old couple on the roof).

RAIN

Couldnt get into the game,i tried TWICE (bought it again 2nd hand got it free the first time) its just so frustrating. Not my cup of tea, loads of people love it - pick it up if its cheap.

sharkDawg

How much loading is there in the first hour of gameplay, its ridiculous! Everytime I go around a corner a loading screen comes up :mad:. Does this continue for the rest of the game???

Rowley Birkin QC

Marmite game. I loved it and I played it on a SDTV, and a small one at that.

It's different to anything out there and one of very very few games that got me to stick it out til the end to get to 100%

brennaldo

not the biggest fan of the game, but its a bit funny going around every now and again just whacking the s**t out of zombie's. can be alright, but its still not the best in my eyes

Jip

I think the best way to approach this game is not to follow the missions or stories at all and just use it to jump in and out of to go on some zombie killing sprees, you rack up an insane amount in a car or bike. I too found the storyline frustrating due to the time contraints etc.

niallon

Fingleberries wrote: »

And the Underground Car park would be where? ... That sounds like a great way to get some PP, and eventually make the character useful ... Until now I'm only getting small amounts (with the odd bonus for annoying photographer guy, and to old couple on the roof).

If you go out to the Leisure Park from Paradise Plaza (only one I can picture in my head at the mo!) stick to the left handside of Leisure Park, up close to the North Plaza you'll come to a gap in the wall that leads you to an overground car park. Hop into the car and drive down into the underground. Don't worry, the living dead can't get you in the car so take it easy because there's propane tank zombies everywhere and once that car's fubar, so are you!

Rowley Birkin QC

Jip wrote: »

I think the best way to approach this game is not to follow the missions or stories at all and just use it to jump in and out of to go on some zombie killing sprees, you rack up an insane amount in a car or bike. I too found the storyline frustrating due to the time contraints etc.

Wouldnt agree with that tbh, worth doing that for a while to build up the character and then restart with a view to completing the story.

Mr. K

The story is cleverly structured, you're given a large amount of freedom. It's an unusual game, there's a lot of fun to be had with it.

koneko

Total marmite game, but I love it. Played it sooo much by now I should be sick of it, but I'm still tempted to go back one of these days to try and survive 7 days

ghouldaddy07

loved the game so many things to do and ways to play.


highlight for me was clobbering zombies with a giant lego block.


fookin hate the bosses though

SNL

After the foodcourt fight ya can save in the gym in al fresco plaza just to the right when it loads as far as i remember

corcaigh07

Im really enjoying this, yea theres a few things a bit odd like the bosses are terrible and the time constaint can be annoying but the game as a whold is really enjoyable.

playing on a 28" CRT Panasonic with a RGB scart and it looks great. dont know where the SD in-game unreadable text issue came from.

Retr0gamer

corcaigh07 wrote: »

playing on a 28" CRT Panasonic with a RGB scart and it looks great. dont know where the SD in-game unreadable text issue came from.

If you are playing with the nasty AV composite the text is unreadable. However if you are playing with AV composite on a TV that supports RGB scart then it's your own fault.

corcaigh07

yep, i can't state enough how important a RGB scart is especially to non-HD gamers. I got a wii RGB for 6 quid a while back and the difference was huge.

i remember capcom saying they would fix the whole StandardDef situation but really, its the gamers own fault if they can't read the text.