Game Review - Dead Rising

Well I wanted to review a zombie game and I have played one... tho it hasn't been in some time.

Dead Rising came out basically when the Xbox360 did... its old, tho now its a classic so its still available.

I had a copy of it for a long time but at one point it broke... wouldn't load the game past the opening scene. Tho I played though about half the game I can give a decent review... however I never got to survival mode.

The game gives you three days to survive in a mall infested with zombies. There are plenty of survives in the mall with you and you can help rescue them and get them back to the main base. There is also a central story that you follow, and if you skip points of it you will fail. I got stuck on one part because I couldn't get enough guns to kill this one bad guy in time, you can only carry so many items.

You also level up as you go, giving you new abilities like the zombie walk that lets you walk over a sea of zombies. As far as hacking and slashing with whatever you have its fun. Zombies move slow but when they get near you they can fall forward kinda fast.

Weapons are just like they describe, you can use most anything in the mall... from plastic swords that don't do any damage to cash registers, 2x4's, guns, and my fav the chainsaw... when I first found the hardware store I spent like 20 minutes just chopping up zombies outside the store and going back for a new chainsaw when the one I had broke.

You can also take pictures to earn more points/xp. You get bonuses for different things like number of zombies in the scene and if they are attaching someone or even you.

I give the game a 7 out of 10. Its fun but the story can be kinda hard to keep up with, and you gotta be really good to rescue all the survives.