I played a lot of the original, "Dead Rising," on my Xbox 360. It was a wildly fun (if at times really difficult) title where you play as a freelance photojournalist named Frank West. Frank West has gone to a small town in Colorado, which is being blockaded from the outside world and full of zombies. Yep, zombies. Frank has a helicopter drop him at the big town Mall and over 72 hours you (as Frank) can work to solve the mystery of what's going on and get everyone you possibly can out safely from the Mall too. Now the game is back in a deluxe remaster and I tried a good chunk on my PlayStation 5. It is as great a time as I recalled, if not even more fun now!
I loved the mixture of serious-and-silly in, "Dead Rising," as you were snapping photos and fighting zombies with random objects in the Mall. From benches to swords, toys to chainsaws, it is pretty zany. The story of the zombies and where they were coming from had some interesting twists and turns too that I appreciated. The remaster keeps much of the tone and adds a whole lot more voiceovers, great graphics, some gameplay tweaks, and is familiar to those of us old enough to recall the original but still fresh in a manner that it is fun to revisit the series with some much-needed changes--you can move while aiming a gun now, thankfully.
"Dead Rising: Deluxe Remaster," is like retooling a vintage treat for the modern day. You take a great game, polish off the aged aspects, give it a nice new graphical shine, and you're good to go. It's still plenty tricky, but I'm also at an age now where I realize there is no shame in an easy/casual mode that is offered. I don't have as much free time or patience to constantly die fighting zombies as I did back in my schooling days, after all!
5 out of 5 stars.
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