Capcom’s slapstick zombie series Dead Rising is being reanimated, with a Deluxe Remaster version of the 2006 original launching for unspecified platforms at an unspecified release date.
Created created by Keiji Inafune of Mega Man fame, Dead Rising’s first outing took the basic premise of George A. Romero’s horror movie classic Dawn of the Dead – which is to say, zombies in a mall – and gave it a fresh spin with a ludicrous anything-goes approach to weaponary and undead hordes appearing in absolute multitudes.
Players – as photojournalist Frank West – were given three in-game days to investigate Colorado’s sprawling, zombie-infested Willamette Parkview Mall, the idea being to solve a series of cases before a helicopter picked them up on the final day. There’s more to it than that, but it’s probably best remembered for the fact pretty much anything found in the mall could be used as a weapon – and if you’ve never seen a man bash his way through a zombie horde with a mailbox, wearing nothing but his underpants and a Lego head, can you really say you’ve lived?
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