Dead Rising

Davey_Pitch · 6 Sep 2006 at 23:46

Gameplay have sent my copy of DR out, should hopefully get it tomorrow. If today was anything to by, I'll need the ability to smash zombies to bits to get over a crap day in work.

L33 · 6 Sep 2006 at 23:49

I have to say I rate Saints Row a lot higher than this game, it gets boring very quickly

bluesouljah · 7 Sep 2006 at 00:08

Kainz said:
The emails are always time delayed. I reckon you'll either get yours by 8pm tonight or 1am in the morning. Either way it has been already dispatched.

Yup, got my email, roll on tomorrow and working from home on Friday!

~J~ · 7 Sep 2006 at 00:19

L33 said:
I have to say I rate Saints Row a lot higher than this game, it gets boring very quickly

I think you're probably right in the end Saints Row is probably gonna be better, but then again I think Dead Rising has always been pimped as a fun little slash-fest rather than a serious one.

Davey_Pitch · 7 Sep 2006 at 00:51

~J~ said:
I think you're probably right in the end Saints Row is probably gonna be better, but then again I think Dead Rising has always been pimped as a fun little slash-fest rather than a serious one.

Indeed. They've never hidden the fact that it's a short game, but stressed the multiple ways of doing things and finishing it in different ways. To be honest, with games like Oblivion, Saints Row, Burnout, all of which take hours upon hours to finish completely, it'll be nice to have a game I can complete quickly when I want a quick blast on something.

ScoobyDoo · 7 Sep 2006 at 08:34

Mines just landed on the doorstep

.... slash fest this afternoon/

Widget · 7 Sep 2006 at 08:55

My copy just arrived, got a couple of hours before work so gonna have a bash now.

FeFiDoh · 7 Sep 2006 at 09:09

Davey_Pitch said:
Indeed. They've never hidden the fact that it's a short game, but stressed the multiple ways of doing things and finishing it in different ways. To be honest, with games like Oblivion, Saints Row, Burnout, all of which take hours upon hours to finish completely, it'll be nice to have a game I can complete quickly when I want a quick blast on something.

exactly why i want the game. I got saints row to tie me over and other games but when i get bored and need a break from them i can whack DR on and mess around for a while.

NokkonWud · 7 Sep 2006 at 11:26

It's very vast from the 90 minutes I played this morning for things you can do, however, the control system is awful (aiming with the left joystick for example!).

I'm sure it will become second nature, but for now it's annoying. I do like the challenge of the save system though

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moody · 7 Sep 2006 at 11:53

Had this for a few days and its great.

Got killed on the first play through so re-started and just went for some of the achievements and easy PP points to build up my level. Eventually got killed again but restarted at level 16 and now playing through the case files.

What I found thou is that its impossible to do all the case files, scoops and save the survivors all in one go. I'm currently doing the case files and the odd scoop or save survivor in between waiting for the next case file to start.

If your going to do one scoop thou make sure you do the out of control one. Cos you get two hand chainsaws for completing it.

Memphis · 7 Sep 2006 at 12:47

My LE metal box copy turned up this lunchtime. Wont get to play until after work though

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da_mic_1530 · 7 Sep 2006 at 15:56

it seems the game and a certain competitor have broken the release date, so you should be able to pick dead rising up from them on the way home

Holds a competitor in main article

sanofi · 7 Sep 2006 at 16:44

I have some credit at my local gamestation so I'll get it from there on Friday when I go back to my home town.

BFCTom · 7 Sep 2006 at 16:50

Anyone noticed that when you have the analogue stick directly forward you only walk? I'm having to run diagnally all the time to stop myself walking and getting attacked.

Stuck on the first Psycho as well

lol

DaveyD · 7 Sep 2006 at 16:58

da_mic_1530 said:
it seems the game and a certain competitor have broken the release date, so you should be able to pick dead rising up from them on the way home

xxxx

If you know it's a competitor, why link to a story with it in?

da_mic_1530 · 7 Sep 2006 at 17:12

DaveyD said:
If you know it's a competitor, why link to a story with it in?

DOH, sorry, wasnt thinking about the competitor in the story, apologies

Memphis · 7 Sep 2006 at 18:24

Limited Edition Metal Case goodness

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(And yes, I should clean the desk)

FeFiDoh · 7 Sep 2006 at 19:31

not many comments on this really! i will be picking this up 2morrow hopefully. Anyone with the face plate? wouldnt mind seeing it

~J~ · 7 Sep 2006 at 19:34

There'll be some comments from me in about an hour. Can't wait to try it!

~J~ · 7 Sep 2006 at 20:14

Right, had a quick blast of this (reason why it was a quick explained).

First impressions, pretty damn good.

I don't think this is gonna be the quick slash-fest we all thought of. First 20mins was really hard, there are soooooooooooooooooooooooo many zombies in the mall and the challenge of getting it done within a time frame, albeit a big one, is something I didn't know.

Had an absolute mass of zombies in an area, no slow downs at all, a lot of interaction with the environment and some good sick-humour thrown in (Maddonna the dog!!

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Quick game though because I think it's a lot more involved. Definately gonna have a few hours on TDU and then some on Dead Rising, I think it's gonna need a bit of concentration to take it all in.

Overall though, this good be as good as we thought!!!