A couple days ago, the demo for Dead Rising went live on Xbox Live! Marketplace. The download was a fairly large one, but so, so worth it.
In Dead Rising you play a photojournalist named Frank. Frank is looking for a big scoop, and well, he found it. But what he doesn’t know is, he’s the scoop. A scoop of BRAINS that is. See, he’s dropped off at the local mall via helicopter because something is going on, and to find out what, Frank goes to investigate to find the story of a lifetime.. ZOMBIES!!!
The demo is just about the best thing since sliced bread for the 360 yet. You are dropped into a mall, filled to the brim with zombies. And you can use just about anything you find as a weapon. In the demo, I found the following: Scythe, Shotgun, Police baton, CDs, Bags of gems, skateboards, shopping carts, potted plants, baseball bats, bowling balls, a hidden Katana, a sledgehammer, store signs, chairs, benches, hunting knives, and even “meat” off other zombies. I’m sure I missed a few.
This is what zombie games are all about though. Running through a mall, with a sledgehammer in you hand, and swinging it to take out 5-6 zombies at a time, then turning to bring it down on the head of one sneaking up behind you to suck your sweet grey matter.
Although it is only a 15 minute time limited demo, you find yourself loading it up again and again, wanting to destroy more and more of those naughty brain munchers.
Frank is also armed with his trusty camera, to take pictures of the “problem” that has “risen up”. You can take pictures and score extra points for what you capture on frame. Wether it be just hoards of zombies, “erotica” points for taking shots of the hot hooker zombies, of extra points of outtakes where you take a picture of a zombie after you’ve just slapped a Lego head mask on it’s head. Seriously some funny stuff can be done with this.
The game comes out officially tomorrow, I can’t wait! Even though all I got was a small taste of brains the game, I want more! BRRRRAAAAAAIIIIINNNNNSSSS!!!!