GOD: Dead Rising this month

By Robert Purchese Published 12 January, 2010

XBL service gains GRAW2 today.

Brilliant zombie mash-up Dead Rising will lurch onto Xbox Live's Games on Demand service on 26th January.

Like other GOD titles, Dead Rising will cost 20 quid.

Released in 2006, Dead Rising was one of the first good Xbox 360 games. You play Frank West, a photographer and journalist that explores a town he later discovers is overrun with zombies. Luckily for West he turns out to be brilliant at killing them via any prop at hand, including lawnmowers, footballs and park benches.

A sequel's planned for release on PC, PS3 and Xbox in the second quarter of 2010. You can find out more about that on the Dead Rising 2 gamepage.

Meanwhile, head over to our Dead Rising review for a trip down memory lane.

Xbox Live's Games on Demand also added Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 today. Our GRAW2 review will brief you.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (32) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • imamazed #1 2 years ago

    still £19.99?

    No thanks.

  • HarryB #2 2 years ago

    10 is more realistic

  • AllenSpawn #3 2 years ago

    Why?
    You can buy this for a ten notes in my local games shop......... And still trade it in for £1.50 when you finished with it.

  • TeaFiend #4 2 years ago

    Blah blah, costs more than shop, moan moan. I want cheaper, whine whine.

    Now that that is out of the way, can we have a different conversation than usual?

  • captain_Carl #5 2 years ago

    He's covered wars, you know

  • macmurphy #6 2 years ago

    If anyone who cares who can do anything about it at Microsoft, I've wanted this game for ages. On a rainy day I'd buy this in a heartbeat at £15, realising it's a bit over the odds but not caring due to laziness. I'm your target consumer. Same with Battlefield Bad Company. I know I can find it cheaper, I'm just lazy and like convenience.

    Just reset your price points and you'll treble your business. £20 is just a shade too much.

  • carrotcake #7 2 years ago

    Well it's a quality game. Most of the stuff on GOD is quality. And I love that you can download full games. Just can't afford to show my full support for the service when every title is locked at 20 quid / 2400 points. If they had newer games at similar prices though, loads of people would download... instead of going to highstreet shops

  • siro #8 2 years ago

    Ordered Graw 2 for 5.95 from Zavvi in December... if it actually was like 1200 points / a tenner, I would probably go for the download just out of convenience - and not resell the title later on.
    Of course not going to happen, but a man can dream. ;)

  • justice-ste #9 2 years ago

    It's just a shame its not the legacy edition of GRAW2 :(
    Edited by 1 at 12/01/10 @ 17:46

  • SlackMaster #10 2 years ago

    I really don't know why Microsoft and Sony both price their games-on-demand in this way. I don't know why anyone would buy those games at that price when the boxed games can be brough for new for a lot less. Just makes no sense at all. It's just a pointless service at the moment.
    Edited by 1 at 12/01/10 @ 17:54

  • CosmicGypsy #11 2 years ago

    You know what, some of you morons are right. It is crazy that Microsoft offer us alternative options. Don't they realise that change should be feared?

    I'll probably stay in and download it though rather than go to a shop, I am scared to go outside because I think the sky might be falling

  • SlackMaster #12 2 years ago

    You might as well burn that £10 note... idiot.

  • Hobo #13 2 years ago

    I don't usually care for the pricing of these things...but i do admit it's funny to have a news article for a game that's £20 downloadable when there's a shopto ad to the right advertising it for less than £14!

  • hulahoops #14 2 years ago

    MS aren't going to undercut the retailers. They're in collaboration with retailers, not competition. This isn't like Steam.

    This is pitched purely as a convenience/impulse thing.

  • Shakey_Jake33 #15 2 years ago

    Talk about price points might be the 'same old conversation', but it's also the most relevant. The fact that Microsoft is seemingly having to cripple their own service to appease retailers is a genuine issue.

  • miiiguel #16 2 years ago

    "We" seem to fail to understand the target at which GoD are aimed. Ppl who browse the dashboard looking for some game to play, and just want to play *that* game *that* afternoon, while they are not making GoD their primary game suplier they do not have a problem to buy a game there every now and then.

    No need to call them stupid, it's not like it's a price of a car is it?

  • Shakey_Jake33 #17 2 years ago

    The issue is that they are priced just a tad outside of the 'impulse purchase' range. I know it's been said that Steam isn't a good comparison, but I don't really agree - Steam is an excellent example of how to create impusle purchases, and old products new 'shelf life'.

  • UKLL #18 2 years ago


    I find it funny that Dead Rising will cost £20 and right next to this story there is an advert for Dead Rising for £13.95.

  • Korpers #19 2 years ago

    Dead Boring.

  • SteelPriest #20 2 years ago

    wait a sec, dead rising was gash.

  • tachometer #21 2 years ago

    I'd like to thank microsoft for the high price putting me off because if they were say £14.99 I'd end up buying a load and just have them sitting on the harddrive not getting played

  • Murton #22 2 years ago

    I still reckon later in the year when the GoD store has more titles MS will go the way of Sony's PSN and have weekly special offers where you can pick them up for 10-15 quid a piece. Over the holiday period I managed to pick up Trine for half price, 7.99 rather than 15.99, great value for a great game and more recently Savage Moon for 4 quid instead of whatever it normally costs, another great game, possibly the best "tower defence" style game I've played.

    If I owned a 360 and was considering downloading games from the service my first concern would be my HDD space as if you didn't buy an Elite your space is extremely limited and those replacement HDDs are priced even more ludicrously than the Games on Demand service.

  • siro #23 2 years ago

    According to Joystiq, in the US there will be a number of GOD games on sale starting today. Can't be bothered to turn the 360 on now, but that would sure make the thing more interesting. Among others, Civ Revolution is mentioned. Might as well give my shrink wrapped copy away to replace it with a downloadable one if that happens over here as well.

    Edit: Looking at majornelson's, it might be "just" a regular reduction. Probably from $29.99 to $19.99. Not happy that in Germany, those games cost 2.5 times the monez...
    Edited by 1 at 12/01/10 @ 22:44

  • mrpon #24 2 years ago

    Looking forward to the sequel.

  • Darkjinxter #25 2 years ago

    Bunch o' dipsticks.
    Consider this. Xbox 1080X pops up, we all go and buy one. Lo and Behold back compatibility is 'not supported', but you've 40+ D/L'd, paid for games on yer Xbox. Over time you grow to love yer Xbox 1080X, yer 360 is consigned to Ebay, or a skip.
    Ol' Microsoft execs are cock-a-hoop, money for nothin', yup, free chicks.

    Just how long do you expect D/L'd content to survive? as long as my physically boxed Dungeon Master? 20 years? I doubt that.

    Do not buy D/L content. End of.

  • urban #26 2 years ago

    20 quid!? what the fuck.

  • miiiguel #27 2 years ago

    @Darkjinxter : Sorry, that's bollocks, it's going to be backwards compatible.

  • mungolikebeans #28 2 years ago

    PSN version.......?

  • sneetch #29 2 years ago

    @urban
    20 quid!? what the fuck.

    The RRP of the physical version is £25. Can you get it cheaper elsewhere? Yes, you probably can but they (Microsoft) are under no compulsion to compete with online retailers or sales/stock-clearances in high street stores. Also, the game was developed and published by Capcom so Microsoft aren't really setting the price, Capcom are. They could suggest a lower price (they probably won't of course) but they can't make Capcom sell at that price.

    I bought it last year but it took ages to find an online store that had it in stock (none of the stores near me had it) and it cost me £20 and took over a week to be delivered. I would have loved the option to just download it even at a higher price.
    Edited by 1 at 13/01/10 @ 12:13

  • Murton #30 2 years ago

    mungo: capcom hinted at a PSN version of Dead Rising back in 2008 but have dodged every question about it since. Personally I don't think it's going to happen, the studio will likely have been too busy with Dead Rising 2 to work on the port of the first game.

    Which is a shame really as it looked like good fun when I saw it on my brothers 360, not a game I'd go crazy for but it was available at the right price I'd pick it up.

    edit
    Sneetch: actually all content on the LIVE marketplace is priced by MS. Not 100% certain if this includes the GoD service but I'd assume so.
    Edited by 1 at 13/01/10 @ 12:45

  • gjgjg #31 2 years ago

    GOD: Dead ...(etc)...

    nasty

  • mrpon #32 2 years ago

    Hmm think I'll keep my tin version thanks.