It seems very wrong to give this game a negative review, given that the technical quality of the product is obviously very high.

Coming from a run of the 2006 original, in contrast, the leap in quality is simply absurd.

Animations are faster, more impactful, more diverse and much more fun to watch.

Combat offers a certain degree of added depth, even if it still retains the original's core simplicity.

You can run now. And climb things. And use useful special attacks that don't completely lock down your character.

Dodge is no longer a useless move.

The survivors' AI isn't an infuriating thing anymore, and as far as I've seen, escort missions aren't a thing in this game. They have been replaced by the much more palatable multiphase fetch quests (Lovely).

Crafting options have been tripled, with massive amounts of unbelievably ridiculous weapon options always readily available wherever you go.

Driving and shooting, despite still being mediocre, is no longer the worst thing on the planet and comes with the aforementioned and very welcome variety.

Access to healing items and escaping enemy grabs has been made much easier.

It has never been more affordable to tear apart entire crowds of zombies.

And these crowds were increased to a unbelievable scale. You encounter hundreds, if not thousands of them with every step you take.

Human enemies, still completely insane and very memorable, this time have consistent movesets and are not hideous damage sponges.

And along with that, convenient additions like checkpoints and wide access to a variety of useful items in any arena in which these fights take place.

Navigation was expanded to accommodate the game's larger scale, offering a modestly sized open world rather than the self-contained shopping mal. Now you have a city with multiple districts, with verticality and a much larger number of optional objectives.

Also the level of detail in the scenarios does not seem to have decreased.

And the story still follows the same serious and straight tone, contrasting with the dry humor that emerges from the insane situations that are happening or the simple ridiculous outfit that the player decided to put on.

The dialogue and interpretations seemed slightly more natural to me, given that the team this time was Canadian.

And I could notice some crumbs of social commentary, just like in the first one.

Sound and music also leave little to be desired.

Everything in general is extremely intuitive, readable and easy to pick up.

Anyway, with all this, it's clear to me that Dead Rising 3 is an competent and polished product. A complete and conceptual evolution of everything presented in previous games, without having any of the defects attached.

Technically it's exactly what I wanted.

But after a few hours, somehow the game turns into a mind-numbing experience.

It seems to me that the absence of a tighter structure and precise limitations, such as manual saves, specific items located in specific locations (especially the strongest ones) and enemies that, although always relatively easy to face, represented some kind of constant threat, simply made Dead Rising 3 boring.

You can "overcome" some of these "problems" by playing on specific difficulties, but the base experience is simply very dull.

The open world, despite being beautiful, doesn't add much to the game other than distracting from the original's tight sense of pace, facilitating a constant loss of focus and, being very large (in relation to the mall), robs you of the possibility of simply memorize the layout of the place and know where is what in an organic way.

It's clear that with the constant harassment from the zombies, I won't learn where anything is. You barely have time to breathe and understand where you are going. You just follow the marker.

Which even if I learned, it wouldn't have any practical function, since access to any type of super powerful weapons are available anywhere you go.

Hordes are harmless, because in addition to reduced damage and making it easier to escape from grabs, you are always fully well equipped and full of options to grind everything you see in front of you. And you never have to worry about healing items.

It's as if the focus has been completely diverted to the activity of killing zombies and not avoiding them in a variety of ways.

Before hordes of zombies represent some degree of danger. You avoided unnecessary risks, planned for more dangerous parts and capitalized on opportunities that offered good rewards. You had an incentive to mix things up tactically.

You can pretend to do all of this in 3, but there's no good reason to do so.

I'm sure no one who played the first one thought it was a good idea to walk around the mall without at least one backup healing item, since they're not accessible anywhere. Here things are so simple and so easy, that the notion of planning has been completely thrown out of the window.

Killing zombies has never been as fun as in this game, but at the same time, it has never been so banal. There was a sense of structure and a meaningful progression. Now you just have a mindless and tedious grind.

In less than two hours, the body count was already in the thousands. I didn't feel like I had climbed any steps in anything.

See how in DR1, you start with a handful of enemies and little health, being careful not to be killed and lose progress. And at the end, when the game's difficulty reaches its peak, gigantic hordes that make any crossing dangerous begin to appear and clog the mall's corridors, but despite this, you are stronger, full of new habilities and armed to the teeth with the best weapons in the game.

THAT was interesting. In 3 it's as if I started at the end of the game, without having to go through my character's evolution. They facilitated the fun, made technically excellent, but killed the experience.

I've waited years to play this game and now I'm not sure if I'll continue. It's frankly a little disappointing. So i really don't recommend the game to anyone who enjoyed what the first two games delivered.

The Game is Great i Remember watching Vannos and H2O delirious play this game when i was younger and now that i'm playing its very nostalgic and is just so good can't say that about the 4th game

'Run from one corner of the map to another for the pettiest reasons" simulator.

Dead Rising 3 es una emocionante adición a la icónica saga que lleva la experiencia de supervivencia en un mundo lleno de zombis a nuevas alturas. Desarrollado para aprovechar al máximo las capacidades de la nueva generación de consolas, este título no solo amplía la jugabilidad, sino que también presenta un mundo abierto más grande y diverso que nunca.

La historia sigue a Nick Ramos, un mecánico atrapado en la ciudad de Los Perdidos, que se enfrenta a un apocalipsis zombie a medida que trata de escapar y salvar a sus amigos. A lo largo de su aventura, Nick se encuentra con una variedad de personajes interesantes, cada uno con sus propias historias y motivaciones. La narrativa se mantiene intrigante, aunque se enfoca más en la acción y el caos que en el desarrollo profundo de los personajes, lo que puede ser un punto a favor para quienes buscan una experiencia más frenética.

Una de las características más destacadas de Dead Rising 3 es su mundo abierto expansivo. Los Perdidos es un entorno vibrante y lleno de vida, con áreas diversas que van desde zonas urbanas hasta suburbios y fábricas abandonadas. La exploración se siente gratificante, ya que puedes descubrir recursos, misiones secundarias y nuevos vehículos que te ayudarán en tu lucha contra las hordas de zombis. Además, el ciclo de día y noche añade una capa de tensión, ya que los zombis se vuelven más peligrosos y agresivos a medida que cae la noche.

El sistema de combate ha evolucionado, permitiendo una mayor personalización y variedad en la forma en que enfrentas a los zombis. La mecánica de "combinar" armas y elementos regresa con fuerza, permitiendo a los jugadores crear una vasta gama de armas improvisadas que son tanto ingeniosas como devastadoras. Desde un hacha eléctrica hasta un lanzallamas improvisado, la creatividad en la lucha es una de las claves del juego.

Visualmente, Dead Rising 3 es impresionante, con gráficos detallados y efectos de iluminación que crean una atmósfera inmersiva. Los escenarios son ricos en detalles y ofrecen una experiencia visual que sumerge a los jugadores en el caos del apocalipsis zombie. La música y los efectos de sonido complementan la acción, añadiendo una sensación de urgencia y tensión a cada encuentro.

Aunque Dead Rising 3 ha sido elogiado por su jugabilidad y su diseño, algunos fans de la serie han notado una ligera disminución en la profundidad de la narrativa y el desarrollo de personajes en comparación con sus predecesores. Sin embargo, el juego compensa esto con su enfoque en la acción y el caos, manteniendo la esencia divertida y loca que ha definido a la saga.

En resumen, Dead Rising 3 es una emocionante y entretenida adición a la serie, ofreciendo una experiencia de mundo abierto que combina supervivencia, acción y humor en un paquete explosivo. Con un entorno vibrante, una jugabilidad adictiva y un protagonista carismático como Nick Ramos, este título es una aventura que vale la pena explorar, ya sea que seas un veterano de la saga o un nuevo jugador. Es un recordatorio de lo que hace que Dead Rising sea tan especial: la libertad de crear tu propia locura en un mundo lleno de zombis.

Dead Rising 3 is a very mid game and a perfect timewaster you can get when on sale.

--- THE GOOD & THE BAD ---

Capcom Vancouver never understood what made the franchise so special and turned it from a unique time management experience into a generic mid-2010 sandbox game - but with zombies!

It’s genuinely impressive how many zombies can be on screen and the combo weapons are very imaginative.

You can tell most of the dev-time was spend on making sure that slicing your way through a sea of rotten meatpuppets is as cathartic as possible and the collectibles are fairly spread out the map so that there’s always an incentive to explore. Technically there is a timer – but it’s so lenient it might as well not be there.

Problem is that the gameplay loop of killing zombies and looking for blueprints gets old fast and the rest the game has on offer is serviceable at best and a boring grind at worst.

Mission design consists almost entirely of fetch quests, navigating the map is a hassle due to roadblocks and lack of ladders, the story is so uninteresting it’s not even worth dissecting and the constant barrage of zombies got really annoying when trying to explore or do sidequests.

--- THE UGLY ---

Dead Rising 3 has some serious technical issues. It isn’t as broken as others will have you believe, but be prepared to do some tweaking before playing.

For starters the game is locked at 30fps (lol) which can easily be fixed with an ini file. I also strongly recommend getting the FOV mod and stuttering fix from Nexus.

The big nasty one however, is when the game randomly forgets to load your savefile and you run the risk of losing your entire progress if you don’t catch it in time.

As long as you don’t start a new game this can be fixed by restarting the app. This will likely never be patched, so keep a backup save just in case. (This glitch happened only once for me.)

--- FINAL THOUGHTS ---

Dead Rising 3 is a game born out of the misunderstanding what the core appeal of the series was supposed to be. The stress and anxiety one would feel while playing the original was seen as a negative - so elements got streamlined or downright removed.

Instead, all the devs focus was now solely on killing zombies and while their efforts are commendable it also proves that this gimmick alone was not enough to carry a game.

In the end Capcom Vancouver made a fine, but ultimately forgettable, videogame that will keep you occupied for a few hours and is probably most enjoyable when played with a friend.

super fun time, glad it's not stuck on the xbox one cuz this is a blast with friends, might get a bit frustrating at first with cars breaking quickly and the entire map filling with enemies and the map layout being a bit weird but when you get into the groove it's just a whale of a time with all the weapon and vehicle blueprints and the side missions being a solid gameplay loop

9/10 very good game. Interesting mechanics, fun bosses, optional bosses, very fun game. The story was great too, and overall i definitely enjoyed this one

Recommended if you enjoyed the concept of the previos dead rising games

most underrated Dead Rising game i ever played and this game deserves more love