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Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
Capcom's Mark Beaumont has said that the company will produce Dead Rising games "for years to come".
The original game, an Xbox 360 exclusive, has shipped over one million copies worldwide as of 31st December 2006.
Speaking exclusively to our sister site GamesIndustry.biz, Beaumont attributed some of the game's success to punters' willingness "to take more of an experiment in what games they'll try" at the start of a hardware cycle.
Others would probably point to the 360's shortfall in first-party titles along the back straight of 2006, and the game's superb critical reception.
"Bringing out Dead Rising has allowed us to establish a new franchise that we can use for years to come," Beaumont added, which ought to give those Resident Evil slackers something to think about. Come on, what's happening with number five?
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Psychotext
10/01/07 @ 17:09
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That's fine, just give us better NPC AI and a better save system next time...
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SeesThroughAll
10/01/07 @ 17:11
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Milking has become standard, to the point of openly admitting it. :)
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As long as it doesn't have bosses that you cannot beat because you can't get there in time (timer starts to run before you even arrive) resulting in a TOTAL REPLAY OF THE ENTIRE GAME FFS, count me in. Oh, and quit the effin Japanese console save system. It was already antique back in the 80's. It doesn't add gameplay or realism, it only adds frustration and annoyance.
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kangarootoo
10/01/07 @ 17:51
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"to take more of an experiment in what games they'll try".
What kind of sentence is that? A zombie sentence? |
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Best game of 2006 that I started and didn't go back to after only getting 25% or so into it. Still, it means I've got it for the quieter moments of 2007.
And Capcom comparisons to EA? Yes, comparing the evolution of say the RE titles to that of FIFA titles, Capcom compare rather favourably don't they? Or perhaps their most recent releases........ say Lost Planet to your Superman Returns? Quality. |
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I really hope so. This is one of my favourite games for the system. Could do with AI improvement as already mentioned though. Perhaps adding AI that could help you kill or protect survivors. Perhaps having certain survivors who specialise in using cerain weapons which can actually fight back and obviously have useless/injured survivors to keep the game tricky.
Really wanting to play this game again, specially after watching Dawn of the Dead. Some of the locations look identical to the game, its great!
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Der_tolle_Emil
10/01/07 @ 19:14
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It seems like I am the only one who liked the save system in Dead Rising. I really don't know what the problem is with that. Every other save system would ruin Dead Rising. It is one of the very few games where you actually have to make decisions and I mean real decisions. Not like "I'll do this first, THEN that" but "I'll do this INSTEAD of that". With the clock constantly ticking the athmosphere and certain stress/time pressure were what made the game so great. Besides it is because of those decisions I kept coming back to replay the game. Someone (Shrimp) mentioned a brachning storyline; Actually, this game already has one; It is possible to do everything in one runthrough, but not the first couple of times. So the second time you play it you probably will not encounter the same happenings as the first time.
I agree about the NPC AI though; It was horrible.
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Like all of the above, I hope capcom will break to process of repeating games into a franchise and will actually itirate their franchise games. 'cause Dead Rising has a lot of potential, a lot of good things, but also quite a lot of areas of improvement. And not just the bastard small text which they refuse to patch.
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floppylobster
10/01/07 @ 21:49
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@lambtron
Lay off EZ, I mean EA. Their game was called GoldenEye not Goldeneye. They capitalised the E so that no kids would make the mistake of buying their game thinking it was in anyway related to the Rare classic (and then they trademarked 'Golden-Eye' to make sure there'd be no future confusion). They're all about the kids those people at EA. (There are also rumours that E3 had to shut down last year because EA had trademarked that name for an upcoming sequel).
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Dead Rising was the first game on the 360 that actually caught my eye and made me wanna play on the 360. Everything prior to that was kinda seen it done it.
I'd love a Dead Rising on the Wii, I'd be great to smack the hell out of those zombies with the Wiimote. Shame it'll probably look like s***, but still, should be lots of fun! Go on Capcom, go milk the cow ;) |
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Dead Rising is still one of my favourite all time games, something about the atmosphere and fun quota... great style also. And never had a problem with the so called "flawed save system".
I'm just waiting to finish Viva/StarWars II and stop playing Gears online to go back through it yet again and get everything done. Fkin love it and would love a sequel set in Space on a massive space station, zero gravity zombies outside would be cool too ;) |
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Zombies AI shouldnt be better cause zombies are meant to be stupid.. Dino Crisis 2 and 3 sucked. Only the first one was a really good game.
RE for wii will probably suck. With crapy graphics I axpect nothing more and nothing less. I arather see RE 5 whenever it comes out. No rush. That better be good though! |
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"but judging by the demo I suspect it gets dull very quickly"
No... it doesn't at all. Judge from the full game. the demo get's dull quickly cos it's a demo with limited content obviously. I thought I had seen it all in the demo until I played the full game (to "completion", repeated playthroughs pay off) there are plenty of twists and lots more to see, even subtle stuff like the mall closing down and all the lights going off in the nights and the atmosphere in certain areas of the mall (Supermarket @ night alone, tunnels with hundreds of zombies to drive through) really make the game what it is. The demo just shows it from a tech point of view only. |
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davisorle wrote;
RE for wii will probably suck. With crapy graphics I axpect nothing more and nothing less. I arather see RE 5 whenever it comes out. No rush. That better be good though! Well, that was all-sweeping wasn't it? "Oh, it won't look as shiny as RE5 so the graphics'll be rubbish"... that is absolute b*ll*cks. It's like saying the 2D Castlevania's aren't as good as the 3D ones because 3D is prettier. It's simply not true and is just trolling. I expect really good stuff from RE:UC overall, and personally can't wait to hear more about it... |
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