Everyone is saying the game is short but is it good ?
Well is it worth buying ?

I didn't like it much. A single static savepoint and constant forced re-plays spoiled it for me. The actual gameplay was fun, but I think they made a lot of strange design choices that belong back in the 80's with limited continues and coin-ops.

if your a fan of films like dawn of the dead, the proper one not the crappy remake, then youll love it. at first. but when you get down to it all the enemies are dispatched the same way, its always kill stuff or find someone and kill a path back and its pretty much just that. its like an unfinished tech demo. its fun, but the novelty wears very thin quite fast.

If you like zombie killing then yes, bit annoying when you have to save people but, and this is important YOU CAN GET A KATANA...ahem, sorry had to be said.

It's fun, simple and worth it if you like repetitive sometimes funny gameplay, but the story is a huge pain in the ass though.

Yeah, I bought it because I heard really good things about it, but it was difficult to play, and the controls were sometimes unresponsive, so I'd rent before you bought it.

Oddly enough, I was having the same worries because I had recently purchased an Xbox360 and was thinking about picking it up.

The base concept of the game is really good, the visuals are astonishing in high-def, the sound is great, there are literally hundreds of zombies on-screen sometimes, and the combat is extremely well executed... most of the time. The downside, though, is that there are serious flaws (IMO, of course) in the game design.

The game is timered *and* requires leveling up to complete missions; though you can ignore the timer, if you do so you won't be able to unlock the story. This leads to unforgiving gameplay on a first run-through, or exploiting the game save system to grind through a bunch of low-level missions over and over again while accumulating XP.

Also, virtually every different action possible has a separate control scheme; walking and melee, then ranged combat, then vehicles. These schemes use radically different thumbstick operations. This makes the learning curve very irregular.

The AI is not very smart, which is acceptable for the zombies but not so much for the un-zombified.

Oh, and don't bother getting the game at all if you don't have a high-def set; you won't be able to read mission instructions unless you've got at least 720p display, and even my 26" 1080i had me squinting a bit.

There's a lot of up-side to Dead Rising (lawnmowing zombies doesn't get old, ever) but there's a lot of downside too.

-- Steve

I understand the complaints, but it remains one of my favorite 360 games.

So, yeah, I'd say it's worth every penny.

Its good, but i'd reccomend renting or borrowing it rather than buying it, unless you can find it cheap.

It's totally worth it! I ran it on my 360 back in the day at 480i and had a blast. The first play through will be purely for fun since you have relatively small amount of health.

The things to keep in mind is that there are stats, so it's more of a Action RPG than straight Action. The stats go up as you play, and if you die you will keep the stat upgrades that you gathered when you start over. I don't remember it being explained in the manual, but that design choice was very annoying. The only other thing is that the boss battles feel like they rely more on exploiting the game than real skill.

Bear in mind one of the real niggles of the game, you need HD or a big TV to read the text in game. It's playbale without this but I had a go a few times when I worked at a software store and it drove me nuts, although I am a massive story geek, so losing the plot to screen resolutions hurts.

It seems to be going for about £10 or so on eBay, so if you like the premise, it's probably worth a punt.

There's a demo on the XBL marketplace. Give that a shot and see what you think. There's plenty of fun to be had right there, for example, putting giant lego heads on zombies' heads and watching them stagger around disoriented.

All this reminds me, I should be keeping an eye open for a used copy on the cheap -- when my current set of games get old.

Dead Rising is definitely worth it. Don't take that to mean that it's the best game ever, or even that it's destined for greatness, but I'm sure it's no longer going for full price, and the fun it provides is certainly worth the marked-down sticker price.

At the end of the day, there really only are about three ways to play the game. Namely, you can do the main quest and try to side quest it up as much as you can, you can achievement hunt, or you can just go nuts on zombies and play with all the different mall weapons (not to mention Frank's own fighting abilities, some of which get pretty fun as you level up).

Overall, you'll probably have fun with the game as long as you're not expecting it to be more than it is, which is an accurate recreation of a Romero-esq zombie film, and it has both the good and the bad sides of that equation.

- J

For the 15-20 bucks you can buy it for today?

Most definitely.

http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Rising-Xbox-360/dp/B000F3AADE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1219240596&sr=8-1

I must admit i got bored after a while, but I definitely got my 30 bucks's (at the time) worth.

Dead rising is the greatest game ever made. It is so awesome, you cannot afford NOT to buy it. Playing that game was one of the most fun things I have ever done.

If you are that person who plays GTA mostly just to run about and have fun instead of doing the missions; it's for you. If you prefer to play through a story, meh.
Although, I think I saw it at gamestop last weekend for less than $10, so for that price, yeah, totally worth it.

Personally despite the sandbox nature of it i found that since you were stuck in a mall it still felt compressed. I would rather have a Zombie game which takes place in the wider world. Which is why I am waiting for Left 4 Dead.

I played it on the 360, it's a lot of fun and definitely worth a buy. The controls are crappy though, i wonder how the Wii version will (fail to)improve on them.

Lawn mowing zombies, or zombie crowd surfing never ever gets old.

For a budget price go for it, the game is a barrel of laughs.

Dead Rising is definitely worth it in moderation. If you want to kill zombies, this is your game. If you want to see the story watch it on the internet. There is more than one save-point, but they are usually way too far apart and have zombies waiting right outside them, so save your game with some weapons in hand. Lots of fun ways to kill zombies, especially in the North Plaza, unfortunately you have to slug through the story to unlock that area.

Anyway, I sold this game but recently repurchased it when I saw it's now an "Xbox Classic" or whatever you call it and now only $20. For that price it's worth it.

Also, as cool as the katana is, it breaks way too easy, so the fun is short lived. I prefer the post-digger, which has a disproportionately sized gas tank and uses zombies as flails. It will go through plenty (skewering at least 4) of zombies before it runs out. Unfortunatly, it is in the aforementioned North Plaza, and you have to fight a psycho to make the store where you find it safe (yes, you can run past him, but it's easier to kill him so you don't have to dodge grenades on the way to fresh weaponry).

I gotta say, I personally did not like this game. It was to frustrating when you wanted to save someone but they wouldn't be saved unless you did something else first, or the girl at the jewelery counter who had to be carried out??? Seriously? I always wanted to save everyone to get the accomplihments and see what all the full game had to offer, but could never make it back to that one single save point. It was frustrating in a non-challenging way. Taking pictures is mad fun tho.

Oh yes I almost forgot, saving people is really frustrating, because most of them are helpless and if you give them a gun (they have infinite ammo) they will just cry or scream for help. On the upside, when a person dies you can take pictures of them during the mini-cutscene, if someone is really annoying, you can lead them to their death and then capture the memories.

Funny; I was thinking of writing a review for it.

Dead Rising has some absolutely brilliant dark humor and tons of new gameplay elements. And it's fun. Fun! Remember when a game could get away with not trying to be a moving epic or being some pencil-pusher's attempt at a gritty war-story?

That said, the controls feel like Capcom forgot they had more buttons they could use and are often stiff. The ally AI is dumber than a half-empty bag of rocks. The ranged combat feels terribly forced and stiff. There are many gameplay elements which do not feel as if they've been integrated very well into a whole. An initial walk-through of the game will likely end in a bad ending unless one is used to Nintendo-Hard difficulty.

Despite this, the game is still worth a play. The bosses are amusing, game play is addicting, and simply put, the game lets you suplex a zombie. A game where you can walk up behind a zombie and throw it back with a sickening, wet thud is -fun.- All the little quibbles disappear the first time you realize you can grab a ten foot cactus and use it as a melee weapon. Yes, you'll be grinding for levels in the game. Yes, the controls would be much better if they were tighter. And absolutely; hi-def is almost a pre-req. You will almost certainly have to replay the game a few times, though Capcom made a good move in unlocking new modes after you do so. At first, you can only play 72 hour mode, where you sandbox or else do the main story. If you complete the main plot with the best ending (and this requires hustle), then you may opt to enter 'Overtime' mode which concludes the story with one more 24 hour run through the mall. Finally, survival mode is true sandbox play, driven by a slowly draining health meter which you'll have to restore.

None of that matters after the first time you grab a scythe, pop a zombie in the knee, and as it falls down reap its head clean off.

Roasting zombie's faces with a heated frying pan isn't too shabby either, and throwing pies at their faces, and putting a shower head in their skulls...

You have to admit, there's no shortage of interesting ways to kill zombies in this game.

I've owned Dead Rising for a while now, and I absolutely love it. It's pretty clear that there are some annoying parts of it, such as the stiff controls and the short single-player story, but if you're willing to overlook that, you'll be treated with some of the best zombie mutilating action video games can offer.

It Was Fun but,
1. too hard for the 1st 50% until you level up... way up
2. weapons break, after like 5 swings of the katana it's time for a new one
3. The picture taking sucks, unfortunatly it's necessary to level up

rent it first

the games not perfect - but nothing is. The game I found enjoyable and worth getting. The novelity like with most things slowly wears thin actually last for a lot longer than you expect, if you enjoy killing zombies you'll enjoy the game :3

I'm sure it'll be argued with me, but I would say it's one of the must have games on the 360!! It's more fun than you might think, and it's only as short as you want it to be! I restarted the game about 5 times and still couldn't get enough. Just for your sake (and I'm sure you can do this) if you can pick it up for less that £20 (or half it's original value) then do it!

It's worth it if you get it at a good price. I enjoyed the game and it can become tedious but in the end you allways find yourself going back to it just to see a zombie being cut in half by a katana. Yes the game can be short but you have to remember that you get a overtime and unlimated mode. Overtime mode adding a whole new sotryline keeps the game going and keeps you playing on and on, as for the overtime mode. Well thats bascily the free roming messing about time. In all it's a good buy. Thoughout the game you find yourself laughing your ass off at some of the things you can do.

poleboy:
I didn't like it much. A single static savepoint and constant forced re-plays spoiled it for me. The actual gameplay was fun, but I think they made a lot of strange design choices that belong back in the 80's with limited continues and coin-ops.

What?

There's at least 4 other savepoints in the game.

Dead Rising is a quality game, you just need to have your eye on the clock sometimes.