

If you want to fight them while wearing a suit of armour and hitting them with a leather handbag you can, although the less dangerous route is to make use of the game’s revised combo system – which lets you combine two different objects into a single more deadly weapon.ĭead Rising 3 (XO) – the Rollerhawg is more fun with a friend In fact despite the presence of zombies the game isn’t remotely scary, since the undead are used as nothing but a punchline in the game’s non-stop joke reel of extreme violence.

The main characters are written relatively straight, with new protagonist Nick Ramos portrayed as an affable but nondescript everyman, but this certainly isn’t the transformation into a grim and gritty horror game that some feared. When first unveiled there seemed to be an attempt to give Dead Rising 3 a more serious tone, but happily that’s not really the case in practise. It’s about killing thousands upon thousands of zombies in the most inventive way possible, ideally while wearing as many ridiculous items of clothing as possible. What remains is still the same basic premise though: an open world zombie game where you must, well… the end goal is simply to escape the city but Dead Rising isn’t really about plot or even story missions.
