REVIEW
DEAD RISING 3 The Dead Rising series has always been a personal favourite of mine, and though the series has always sold well, I’ve always felt it deserved to be bigger than what it has been. With ‘Dead Rising 3’, Microsoft themselves stepped in and offered Capcom their assistance in helping them achieve their hopes for the franchise. Dead Rising 3 is bigger, gorier and takes the series in a more serious direction, but does that make for a better game? Introducing a new protagonist, Dead Rising 3 tells the story of Nick Ra-
now inhabit it. Along the way, Nick will encounter the zombies, survivors and psychopaths that the Dead Rising series has become famous for. Scrounging for a weapon to fend off the undead may be a difficult task for some folks, but not for Nick Ramos. Being a skilled mechanic, Ramos is not only able to wield a wrench with the ferocity of a Viking, but he is also able to modify two items together to create deadly combo weapons, as well as combo vehicles (a first for the Dead Rising series).
Rising 2 however, players can now create super combo weapons by further adding items to their combo weapons. Adding a katana and a scythe creates the “Grim Reaper” weapon, and adding gasoline to that creates a “Fire Grim Reaper”. Going that extra step and adding a Grim Reaper mask to that creates the ultra-deadly “Ultimate Grim Reaper”, a flaming multi-bladed scythe that launches fireballs out of the multiple skulls that adorn it. Weapons like this are an absolute blast.
“INSTEAD OF CARTOON-LIKE CHARACTERS, DEAD RISING 3 OFFERS MORE REALISTIC CHARACTERS, AND WHILE SOME PEOPLE MAY DISLIKE THEM, I CERTAINLY FELT THEY BELONGED IN THE DEAD RISING UNIVERSE” mos, a mechanic in Los Perdidos, California. In it, Nick must find survivors and escape the city before a large-scale military strike obliterates Los Perdidos and the undead that
Similarly to Dead Rising 2, there is a ridiculous amount of fun to be had in dispatching hordes of the undead with combo weapons. Unlike Dead
Also new to the Dead Rising series are killstreaks. Similar to the Call of Duty series, killing a number of zombies in a set period of time adds a counter to the game screen,