Pros/♥♥♥♥

Pros:

1. You play as crowd favorite Frank West again.

2. Photography is back again so that’s nice, but it’s not as important as it used to be.

♥♥♥♥:

1. The inventory system from the previous games was thrown out the window and replaced with a new HOT GARBAGE one. You have 3 different inventories: throwable, melee, and ranged, because only having one was too hard for some people. Going between melee and ranged is kinda clunky because if you aim down with right mouse button and shoot something, then stop aiming and hit the left mouse button to use melee again, it will just shoot another bullet. So you have to constantly switch by hitting 1, 2, and 3 on your keyboard to go between your inventories.

2. You like saving your game? Too bad, because they removed that. The only way to make the game save now is by getting auto-save to activate, which means progressing in the story or reaching checkpoints in the game by doing challenges.

3. Is it really Frank West? Because he sure as hell doesn’t act like Frank West. It’s like they replaced him with some overly clumsy and cringe dude who can’t catch a break. It’s almost like this is a dude who was told he was once in a zombie outbreak instead of actually being in one.

4. The Story. I can't even comprehend what kind of drugs they were on when they wrote this. So much canon lore just thrown out the window so there could be room for their "woke" lore. Anytime there's something bad, the game immediately points the finger at "THE MAN" and I'm not talking about the government like it was in the old games, but now it's the 1% and "MEN and their BIG EGOS" — this is straight up a quote in the game from Vick — because they want to be immortal and have cheap labor, or as they call it, zombie labor. And then towards the end, because they gotta have a little bit of the old in there, you find out that the Pentagon is also involved, so again the government ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around again.

5. Vick is essentially your New Age, SJW-style reporter student. She starts off fine — a student with more vision than she can realistically handle — and at first, that’s perfectly acceptable. But then she basically forces Frank to accompany her to a secret military base to chase a story, even though Frank thought they were just going out to play mini-golf.

When she reveals where they’re actually headed, Frank protests. He's had enough of zombie outbreaks and is content just being a teacher. Eventually, after she begs him, he agrees — but only on the condition that the story belongs to him, since she's still a student and not ready for something this serious. She tries to argue, but Frank holds firm because he didn’t want to be involved in the first place.

Once they get to the base and find real proof, Vick ruins everything by shooting a zombie being held in a cell, simply because she feels bad for it. Frank immediately demands to know what the ♥♥♥♥ she’s doing — this was supposed to be a stealth operation: get in, gather evidence, and get out.

Despite the fact that Frank didn’t even want to be there, Vick resents him for calling her out and somehow comes to the absurd conclusion that Frank is basically Hitler. For the rest of the game, she constantly ♥♥♥♥♥ on him while Frank just takes it. God, I hate her.



Conclusion:
This has gotta be the worst Dead Rising game I have ever played.
2/10

half decent little game

I put in some actual hours after watching the 2 hour long youtube videos on this game and I think I can agree with one of their sayings ~ this wasn't the worst game I've ever played but the worst experience playing one. I honestly don't even know where to begin from the lackluster story, psychopaths, humor or lack of. I finished the story and messed around on Frank Rising and the capcom stuff, and was honestly just stunned as to how bad it was from the direction of the game to the content within in it. I explained the story to a friend and I think it lasted like 4 sentences, that's how little there was to it. The world despite having a rather large map (mainly due road padding) felt so barren. There is more gameplay outside the mall than inside it? I tried to go for most achievements so I put some hours in but i was honestly clocked out by like, case 3. It's just sad. Infinite mode in DR is arguably more fun than the content in this game.