[Any similarities to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead are purely coincidental.]
When I played this game as a kid, it literally felt like going into a mall and playing with everything you find. The fact that zombies are in it hardly mattered to me. What mattered was that you could go into all these shops, that all had their own quirks and things to pick up. It felt real, it felt like fantasy fulfillment, it was fun. It is crazy how modern games just do not satisfy this urge anymore. The maps get larger and larger to the point that they take 2 real life hours to drive full speed from one side of the map to the other, but none of those games feel like real interactable places. But this game beats out all those other game worlds by being truly memorable, detailed and interactable.
Dead Rising is unfortunately one of those series that gets worse the further you go, but if you stick to DR1 and DR2, you wont get burned.
When I played this game as a kid, it literally felt like going into a mall and playing with everything you find. The fact that zombies are in it hardly mattered to me. What mattered was that you could go into all these shops, that all had their own quirks and things to pick up. It felt real, it felt like fantasy fulfillment, it was fun. It is crazy how modern games just do not satisfy this urge anymore. The maps get larger and larger to the point that they take 2 real life hours to drive full speed from one side of the map to the other, but none of those games feel like real interactable places. But this game beats out all those other game worlds by being truly memorable, detailed and interactable.
Dead Rising is unfortunately one of those series that gets worse the further you go, but if you stick to DR1 and DR2, you wont get burned.