I can’t believe how off the mark they were with this game

Now I’ve finally played this game (thanks to the summer sale, and thank you Lord Gaben for the discounts you bestow upon me). I can’t believe that they thought this was even remotely a good Idea! It’s a hollow, shallow, superficial game with no atmosphere and a horribly confused tone.

Its combat is so unintuitive but also dumbed down at the same time. You can’t throw melee weapons or hit enemies with your gun or hit with throwable items and no auto lock-on with your firearms like in the previous games. Right at the start, the combat feels lazy, the zombie violence feels like a controlled, irritating chore because there are so many Zombies, unless you have some of these ridiculous combo weapons then it turns the action from a complete chore to a boring pile of nothing. The combat feels very unresponsive because there aren’t many round swings, most hit seem to go in awkward directions mostly diagonally and he takes too long to hit a zombie with most weapons.

Now… Let’s talk about “Frank West” spoiler alert: HE IS AWFUL!
Frank has been transformed into a completely unlikable scumbag who did nothing but incessantly irritate me. I don’t get what Capcom Vancouver were going for with this guy, the old voice actor TJ Rotolo was FINE!!!! Why did they really change him? because it totally isn’t for maturity purposes like they claim. Frank has been turned into a selfish, unfunny, constantly quipping, constantly self-praising, constantly ego-stroking, man-baby. HE MAKES CAR NOISES WHEN HE DRIVES CARS SOMETIMES FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD! Only a child would do something like that.

The “horror mixed with humour” attempt is a complete FAIL!
This game seems to think that the best way of combining horror with humour like the other games did is to have something horrifying or dramatic happen then following it up with “Frank” making an incredibly tasteless and insensitive quip! He basically does this throughout the entire game, the game never seems to want to let a horrific or dramatic moment pass without reminding you not to take it seriously, which ruins the atmosphere and tone! there things that do that throughout the whole game

Story and other characters
Just bad, none of them are likable or memorable, Vick is stupid and extremely annoying! Darcy isn’t funny! Brad is boring and forgettable! Paula’s “radio persona” makes me want to rip my hair out! As for the story, they decided to Retcon the story and the character of Dr Barnaby from DR1, even though even he died years and years ago in the games lore. The story is based around Barnaby wanting to use zombies as some way to achieve human immortality. There’s other bits and pieces like some guy gets accidently turned into some super zombie by the big bad guy company named “Obscuris” but WHO CARES?!?! There’s some rivalling survivor factions as well. BORING.

Other things that need mentioning
Psychopaths have been replaced with “maniacs” and they are PATHETIC!! No beginning or ending cutscene and their attacks are the same as “Franks” their AI is bad and they have no character.

There are only 36 COMBO WEAPONS!! That is PATHETIC!! That’s less than Dead Rising 2 there were 50 in Dead Rising 2 and 100 in Dead Rising 3!. (oops , correction, 58 or something) A lot of them are very unimaginative or stupidly overpowered or just worse copies of the combo weapons from previous games. The new thing in this game is “power Armor” IMPORTANT FACT: it’s temporary and you cannot use anything other than the weapons that are power Armor specific, so apparently when “Frank” puts on power Armor he forgets how to pick up and hold a gun!

The port is WORSE THAT DR3 I DIDN’T EVEN THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE!! It keeps crashing and has a lot of terrible performance, I only had 1 crash in DR3 but a lot of bad performance.
There’s so much more to say but I think I’ll stop there… NOT RECOMMENDED!... it pains me to say all this as a big Dead Rising fan, but it’s true NOT RECOMMENED!!

I can’t believe how off the mark they were with this game Now I’ve finally played this game (thanks to the summer sale, and thank you Lord Gaben for the discounts you bestow upon me). I can’t believe that they thought this was even remotely a good Idea! It’s a hollow, shallow, superficial game with no atmosphere and a horribly confused tone. Its combat is so unintuitive but also dumbed down at the same time. You can’t throw melee weapons or hit enemies with your gun or hit with throwable items and no auto lock-on with your firearms like in the previous games. Right at the start, the combat feels lazy, the zombie violence feels like a controlled, irritating chore because there are so many Zombies, unless you have some of these ridiculous combo weapons then it turns the action from a complete chore to a boring pile of nothing. The combat feels very unresponsive because there aren’t many round swings, most hit seem to go in awkward directions mostly diagonally and he takes too long to hit a zombie with most weapons. Now… Let’s talk about “Frank West” spoiler alert: HE IS AWFUL! Frank has been transformed into a completely unlikable scumbag who did nothing but incessantly irritate me. I don’t get what Capcom Vancouver were going for with this guy, the old voice actor TJ Rotolo was FINE!!!! Why did they really change him? because it totally isn’t for maturity purposes like they claim. Frank has been turned into a selfish, unfunny, constantly quipping, constantly self-praising, constantly ego-stroking, man-baby. HE MAKES CAR NOISES WHEN HE DRIVES CARS SOMETIMES FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD! Only a child would do something like that. The “horror mixed with humour” attempt is a complete FAIL! This game seems to think that the best way of combining horror with humour like the other games did is to have something horrifying or dramatic happen then following it up with “Frank” making an incredibly tasteless and insensitive quip! He basically does this throughout the entire game, the game never seems to want to let a horrific or dramatic moment pass without reminding you not to take it seriously, which ruins the atmosphere and tone! there things that do that throughout the whole game Story and other characters Just bad, none of them are likable or memorable, Vick is stupid and extremely annoying! Darcy isn’t funny! Brad is boring and forgettable! Paula’s “radio persona” makes me want to rip my hair out! As for the story, they decided to Retcon the story and the character of Dr Barnaby from DR1, even though even he died years and years ago in the games lore. The story is based around Barnaby wanting to use zombies as some way to achieve human immortality. There’s other bits and pieces like some guy gets accidently turned into some super zombie by the big bad guy company named “Obscuris” but WHO CARES?!?! There’s some rivalling survivor factions as well. BORING. Other things that need mentioning Psychopaths have been replaced with “maniacs” and they are PATHETIC!! No beginning or ending cutscene and their attacks are the same as “Franks” their AI is bad and they have no character. There are only 36 COMBO WEAPONS!! That is PATHETIC!! That’s less than Dead Rising 2 there were 50 in Dead Rising 2 and 100 in Dead Rising 3!. (oops , correction, 58 or something) A lot of them are very unimaginative or stupidly overpowered or just worse copies of the combo weapons from previous games. The new thing in this game is “power Armor” IMPORTANT FACT: it’s temporary and you cannot use anything other than the weapons that are power Armor specific, so apparently when “Frank” puts on power Armor he forgets how to pick up and hold a gun! The port is WORSE THAT DR3 I DIDN’T EVEN THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE!! It keeps crashing and has a lot of terrible performance, I only had 1 crash in DR3 but a lot of bad performance. There’s so much more to say but I think I’ll stop there… NOT RECOMMENDED!... it pains me to say all this as a big Dead Rising fan, but it’s true NOT RECOMMENED!!