Dead Rising Demo Insights

This is for all of you out there who either don’t have their Xbox 360 hooked up to the Xbox live service and couldn’t download the demo or who are still on the fence about Capcom’s newest franchise: Dead Rising.

I’m sure at least most of you reading this article have seen other previews and reviews for this promising title. I have too, and up until a few days ago I wasn’t really paying that much attention to it. It looked like a mindless ‘run around and beat stuff up’ style of game. Well, in a way it is. However it also takes that part of your brain that always asks “What if?” and gives it a Red Bull.

Imagine yourself stuck in a corner at the foot court, there are no exits and there’s a group of undead shambling toward you. In the corner of your eye you see a 12 pack of soda on the floor. What do you do? Correct! You snag the pack of soda and launch your ballistic assault one can at a time until your foes lie motionless on the floor. But what if you missed one? You turn around and notice that somebody left their 30 CD collection behind the counter.

Instinctively you grab the stack CDs and fling them at your attackers, case et al. It drives the last zombie back a few paces and fuels its wrath but leave no noticeable damage. “At least it was worth a try”, you tell yourself. As you stumble back into the corner of your very own Bastille you accidentally kick a frying pan with your foot. You grab it and give it a few practice swings, reassuring yourself of its potential lethality. Realizing you have yet to take a presentable picture your editor would be proud of you try to think of something clever. Spinning around you spy a stovetop.

Rushing over to it you hastily turn on the burner and set your frying pan onto the flame. Your hungry assailant has climbed over the counter and is struggling to stand up for that final charge. Just as the pan starts glowing a comforting bright red the zombie charges you. You grab the pan and firmly scorch the zombies face until nothing is left but a black char. It falls, once again lifeless, to the floor. You stand over it and with a smile on your face you snap a picture that you find incredibly humorous.

And that was but a sample of what lies ahead. Here’s a short list of other items you find at your disposal:

Golf Clubs – Back into a corner a tee off with your favorite driver
Bowling Balls – Good for cracking skulls and scoring strikes.
Shotguns – Official spokesman for the human race when zombies come around for dinner
Toy masks – Wish zombies would stop biting? Cover their head with a mask!
New Clothes – Discover your horrible fashion sense
Laser Swords – Clean family fun. Lets the kids play with the best in non-lethal weaponry.
Batteries included!

This is going to be a must buy. Now get out there and experiment on the undead!