Dead Rising sequels likely

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 January, 2007

"For years to come".

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 #1 5 years ago

    That's fine, just give us better NPC AI and a better save system next time...

  • Yossarian #2 5 years ago

    I want one set on an exotic cruise liner next please

    they can call it Dead Rising: Boat.

  • Shrimp #3 5 years ago

    And a branching storyline

  • SeesThroughAll #4 5 years ago

    Milking has become standard, to the point of openly admitting it. :)

  • Hunam85 #5 5 years ago

    listien to me, zombie DUCKS!!!

  • Steroyd #6 5 years ago

    Speaking of milking franchises what the hell happened to Dino Crisis that game bitch slapped the shit out of Resident Evil. :(

    And DC3 never happened.

    Dinosaurs >>>>> Zombies.

  • Tweakmonkey #7 5 years ago

    Dino Crisis was a stinker IMO.

  • YoJimbo #8 5 years ago

    Dino Crisis bitch slapped Resi Evil

    LMAO...thats the funniest thing i've this year yet!

  • Hughes. #9 5 years ago

    Good news, should go multi-format now I'd think.

    There was a a 3rd Dino Crisis game, it was an XBox exclusive and sucked quite royally, as I understood it from reviews.

    DC2 was a great game though.

  • lambtron #10 5 years ago

    Resident Evil 2 and 4 > Dino Crisis by an order of magnitude.

    IMO ;).

  • Furbs #11 5 years ago

    EA say this: 50 comments of bitching.
    Capcom say this, coming from the home of innovation that is Japan: Give us more!!

  • myiagros #12 5 years ago

    Bring on Dead Rising for PS3 and Wii

    i would really love to see it on both!!

  • jonsaan #13 5 years ago

    oooh goody. Milk it boys. Beat it to within an inch of it's life until we all hate it.

  • lambtron #14 5 years ago

    @Furbs well we still haven't seen Dead Rising 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 etc.

    No one quite does sequels like EA - hell they even made a sequel to Goldeneye and that wasn't even their game! ;)

  • Kami #15 5 years ago

    Dino Crisis 3 was on the X-Box. And it was, to be polite, a monumental cock-up of a game...

    Which is sad, really... I preferred the original Dino Crisis over DC2. Bring back Regina!

  • Xerx3s #16 5 years ago

    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.

  • Xerx3s #17 5 years ago

    DC was oke, I really enjoyed the game but the camera and controls where a abomination. All in all, I knew what I was buying for 5 €. :)

  • kangarootoo #18 5 years ago

    "to take more of an experiment in what games they'll try".

    What kind of sentence is that? A zombie sentence?

  • peterfll #19 5 years ago

    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.

  • Tyronne #20 5 years ago

    One set in a hospital called dead rising chest.

  • Santino #21 5 years ago

    i definitely won't buy a sequel to dead rising, i got bored of the first fairly quickly and can only imagine more of the same kind of thing except no shopping mall, which can only make it worse.

  • Nova5lag #22 5 years ago

    Dead Rising Wii... Bitch Slap zombies by swining the wiimote... might get arm ache tho...

  • Steroyd #23 5 years ago

    I know DC3 was erm... shite hence why I erased it from my history, it's as easy as forgetting DMC 2.

    A DC4 that's a basic rip of RE4 would make me very, very happy. :)

  • Furbs #24 5 years ago

    peterfll, calm down, who was comparing them? I just find its funny that some companies can get away with saying "oh yeah, we're gonna milk this for all we can" and others cant.

  • Poorandugly #25 5 years ago

    Dead rising: School

    Oh yeah.

  • sniglet #26 5 years ago

    Multiplayer. For the love of Jeebus multiplayer!

  • Mudo #27 5 years ago

    Dino Crisis 1 and 2 seriously rocked.
    Saying that, I don't think I ever got past the first level on Dino Crisis 1. :/

    Never played Resident Evil, but I hear it's about zombies, so it's automatically awesome.

  • Mr_Brown #28 5 years ago

    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!
    Edited by 1 at 10/01/07 @ 18:53

  • Kostabi #29 5 years ago

    I want some Capcom crossovers. Frank West in Resident Evil 5.

    What? He's covered wars ya know.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #30 5 years ago

    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.
    Edited by 1 at 10/01/07 @ 19:15

  • Tonka #31 5 years ago

    Yes!! If this goes co-op I might even pay for a gold subscription.

  • mattigan #32 5 years ago

    Set it in a laundrette . . . Dead Rinsing.
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    I'll get me coat!

  • mattigan #33 5 years ago

    Or a German Vinyard. . . . Dead Riesling.
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    TAXI!!!!!

  • Chtulie #34 5 years ago

    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.

  • floppylobster #35 5 years ago

    @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).
    Edited by 1 at 10/01/07 @ 21:50

  • smelly #36 5 years ago

    Geesus you guys dont half whinge.

  • Max_Powers #37 5 years ago

    Set in a bakery: Bread Rising









    Oh come on, that wasn't that bad! :)

  • haowan #38 5 years ago

    Good. Get it right this time, proper branching storyline, decent incentive to restart, good difficulty levels and some weapon RPG typoe stuff.

  • Matsuo #39 5 years ago

    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 ;)

  • sharpfish #40 5 years ago

    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 ;)

  • Scimarad #41 5 years ago

    From a technical perspective I think it's very impressive but judging by the demo I suspect it gets dull very quickly.

  • davisorle #42 5 years ago

    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!

  • sharpfish #43 5 years ago

    "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.

  • Scientist #44 5 years ago

    "Or a German Vinyard. . . . Dead Riesling."

    Or a German sweet factory...Dead Riesen.

  • trevd72 #45 5 years ago

    the first was a huge missed opportunity and a brilliant example of how bad design can cripple a game. fingers crossed that they have learned their lessons.

    It kinda makes you think if the designers are even gamers.

  • Kami #46 5 years ago

    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...

  • spongebob #47 5 years ago

    could we have the sequels on PC and PS3 as well? thanks.

  • IAmBatman #48 5 years ago

    Fix the bits of weirdness in the controls, sort out the save system, make it so it is actually free roaming, get rid of respawning enemies who aren't zombies, put in a HUD size option, and full voice acting throughout, and it might be worth buying.

    Which reminds me, anyone want a limited edition Dead Rising? Apparently it's great but I've been trying to sell it for months and nobody wants it.

  • Phreedh #49 5 years ago

    Arrr, more DR would be awesome. Had a lot of fun with it.

    One which would be nice would be to rip the Walking Dead books and/or 28 Days Later and focus the game less on slaughtering and more on surviving. You've got a camp with survivors and have to go on raids into the nearby city. Maybe get your camp mobile, search for better locations to stay with more resources and safer surroundings. Could be nice!

  • kangarootoo #50 5 years ago

    For me Dead Rising was an awesome work of extremely flawed genius.

    The stuff it did well, nothing else can touch. The stuff it did wrong can make you run out of your front door and commit murder.

    I think this is a typical example of an opportunity for a huge number of lessons to be learned from the original and a fantastic sequel to spring from its ashes. I just hope Capcom listen to their public, as they hold most of the answers.

  • neuroniky #51 5 years ago

    Dead Rising is still one of the best games released last year. It is flawed, but it is pure genius.

    Now, a Dead Rising 2 with an Evil Dead 3 setting would be perfect...

  • Der_tolle_Emil #52 5 years ago

    Some kind of hospital setting would indeed be nice. I don't know why but for me run down and abandoned hospitals make a great scenery. As long as it is somewhat believeable and doesn't look like a total sci-fi hitech research lab.

  • kangarootoo #53 5 years ago

    Take it out on the streets I say. Get a few key based indoor locations, and link them together with a network of roads, alleys, parks and so on.

    Actually, the first issue that springs to mind is accessibility. In DR you could go pretty much anywhere in the mall. As soon as you move into the streets, you have a thousand front doors that you can't open.

    So maybe I am talking bollox.

  • kangarootoo #54 5 years ago

    "it will have graphics modelled right down to the root of each hair"

    How extraordinarily pointless. The weather stuff sounds slightly interesting though, if it actually ends up meaning anything in gameplay terms.

  • kangarootoo #55 5 years ago

    "All you folks whining about it just expect far to much from games that have been hyped to high hell so you'll never be happy with the finished product."

    Not sure about that. There wasn't really that much hype surrounding DR compared to many other games. My first real interest in it was playing the 360 demo. I loved it to bits. Then I played the full game, still thought parts of it were awesome, but saw some deeper issues that could be extremely annoying.

    It was fantastic in many ways, but some aspects were simply broken or badly implemented. I don't think expecting boss battles to be fun is to expect too much is it? I haven't played all the way through DR, but I haven't yet found a boss battle I actually enjoyed. And don't get me started on the intercom system.

  • Skooch #56 5 years ago

    Dead Rising: A Necrophiliac's Fantasy

  • Skooch #57 5 years ago

    Control system: Screwed
    Save System: Screwed
    Boss Fights: Screwed
    CRT TV text size: Screwed

    BUT I still loved the game for it's darkness, originality and downright zombie-bashing fun! Fix the above issues and it is a rare opportunity for the sequel to be better than the original.

    EDIT: OK, Kangarootoo kinda beat me to it with the whole sequel thing.
    Edited by 1 at 11/01/07 @ 16:28

  • kasabian72 #58 5 years ago

    It should be set out in the open where you get to move from one building to another, or one area to another filled with zombies. An absolute apocolyptic setting. Or maybe do a companion piece to Dead Rising.....like a game based on Dario Argento's "Demons" from the 80's. Let's get the full cheese effect.