Dead Rising Interview

[wudi]

WorthPlaying (http://www.worthplaying.com) has posted an interview (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=30974&mode=thread&order=0) with Capcom publishing coordinator Robert Hamiter as he shows off a demo of Dead Rising.

RH: So what they try to do in this game is, in a nutshell, to throw you into this shopping mall. It is a very big sandbox for you to do whatever you want to do. If you want to go to a Sporting Goods shop, get a golf club, and fight some zombies, you can do that! You can go into a hardware store, which I’m about to do right now, and grab items out of there to take out zombies as well!
Sounds like an arcade-style approach to survival horror. Sign me up!

[Spiffae]

I played this game at TGS, it was far and away the best 360 game they were showing. It could be a system seller. It looks so amazing, and the mall just feels real. Gameplay is truly sandbox. In my session I went to a supermarket, where I was killing zombies with a Scythe I had grabbed at a hardware store. I climbed up on a row of freezers where ther was a guy holding the zombies off with an assault rifle. I beat him to death with a baseball bat, took his gun and just sat on top of the freezers, blowing zombies heads off with a high powered rifle. When I got bored of that, I jumped down and ran through the store with the gun on full auto until it ran out of ammo. Great fun.

[da.Guvna]

LOL, Spiffae that sounds awesome!

Anyone else having problems displaying WP in Firefox?

[Spiffae]

WP working fine here. Firefox 1.5

[bean19]

A sandbox zombie-fighting game!!! Hells yeah!

Images (http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/deadrising/screenindex.html)

Can't wait. Wish they'd let you customize your character though. That lead character looks retarded. . . maybe that's how the Japanese view us Americans.

[bapenguin]

Joystiq had a hands on (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/01/06/ces-hands-on-with-dead-rising/) from CES with this and they weren't very impressed. :( I'm really looking forward to this so hopefully there will be some big improvements before release.

[mr. murphy]

State of Emergency with zombies? Since when did sandbox become a good thing? It sounds like the kind of game you get bored of in fifteen minutes, which is cool, I'll be able to buy this for fifteen bucks a month after its release.

[Dirty Harry]

think arcadey survival hoorror is fun, well LOTD WHILE SOMEWHAT DECENT SUCKED DONKEY BALLS.

[AntB]

This game is going to be awesome. Atleast the concept of it is. And I love the new blood effect, looks GREAT!

There are some really great 360 games coming. I might actually pick this system up come March. (Birthday)

[bean19]

Joystiq had a hands on (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/01/06/ces-hands-on-with-dead-rising/) from CES with this and they weren't very impressed. :( I'm really looking forward to this so hopefully there will be some big improvements before release.

Youch. . . Well, they did only get to play one level, but from the picture they are painting it seems like fighting will be fairly mindless button-mashing.

The slowdown, poor UI, and poor graphics are all things that usually do get improved upon before a finished build of a game ships, so I'm not as worried about that.

Thanks for the link though. I was definitely going to wait for a review before purchasing this, but now I'm even a bit more wary.

[EGO]

In theory, this "should be" cool, but it's something that could easily go horribly wrong. I think "State of Emergency with Zombies" is probably a good assesment, from what I've seen. Good for a 15-minute laugh, but then it gets old, real-quick!

They better have more than a sandbox in their pocket. They better have a plot, achievements, progression and "moments" to keep this one from sitting right next to Ridge Racer 6 on the store shelves.

[Stryfe01]

it looks good to me, and every now and then a game like this is worth buying. if the action and freedom to perform those actions are well executed then it will be a buy for me. i think it will be more like dynasty warriors in the sense of massive enemies and wild action. i like that series, but one game is enough for me. this will be the one for me on 360.

[da.Guvna]

Reckon there's any chance of multiplayer? Adventure beat-em-up's are always more fun with friends.

Seeing as it's capcom, and knowing how much they love their zombies, hopefully this will turn out to be a good 'un once play testing gets under-way.