Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster

The original Dead Rising shows its age these days but it’s still a fantastic experience for those who can adapt to it. Deluxe Remaster addresses this, adding a whole host of small additions, quality of life improvements and a beautiful graphical overhaul that keeps the core of the game intact. As much as I did miss the original voice cast, Deluxe Remaster cements itself as the way to play Dead Rising.

Overhauled visuals, gameplay tweaks, and a bevy of quality-of-life improvements come together in a spectacular return to the land of the living for Dead Rising.

Quotation forthcoming.

This remaster improves the gameplay, controls and various mechanics to greatly increase the fun, without sacrificing the tension and management mechanisms. It's a spectacular zombie playground that you can't stop playing.

Dead Rising is a silly game that’s secretly very smart. The boss battles might’ve aged, but the decisions you’re forced to make under a 72-hour time limit feel as impactful as a well-timed flying wall kick. You’ll be alerted that survivors have died when you were never even aware of them, and new ones pop up all the time. It’s just as tense and sometimes overwhelming as making that crossing through the packed shopping center on Saturday, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Thanks to the beauty of the RE Engine, and some desperately needed QoL improvements, there has never been a better way to enjoy Dead Rising.

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is not a remake and a simple remaster. You’ll find everything exactly as it was in 2006 but with better graphics. Even if it’s still fun to kill hundreds of zombies, the gameplay, the controls, the structure and some technical aspects are painfully outdated. The game has truly aged badly and could have benefited from a deeper work by taking some of the evolutions of the next installments.

An excellent remaster that improves on the original in every single way. This game is finally fun.

9/10 story 8/10 gameplay 7/10 atmosphere 9/10 characters 10/10 music The game is very cool. The plot component is interesting. - 3 points to the game for the fact that the developers have removed the erotic mode for photos and changed the appearance and replicas of some characters. Unnecessary censorship only slightly loses the atmosphere of the original game

Dead Rising is a game that seems permanently trapped in the era it came out in, back at the launch of the Xbox 360. While alot has been added to the experience to try and make it easier on the player to see all of its content, alot of the things that have always held it back are still here and won't ever go away without a full-on remake. Alot of the jankiness is still present here, with weird animations and things that get clipped in the walls all the time. The main problem still here is the escort missions that the game is heavily built upon. The AI here is still beyond garbage and having some of these guys follow you is an experience in making you want to rip your hair out all the time. Some people would classify that as a feature, mostly those who are just really into the game. But that was something that just never had been encountered before in games and they didn't give a crap about its development back in the day. I can say that the new controls work well and the graphics are very well done, something that Dead Rising has always been known for. But, at the end of the day, I can't really recommend this over the re-release from a few years ago because there's not enough change to the whole experience. If this was closer to 30 bucks, then I would say it would be worth it. But, if you're not just an absolute DR super fan, then there's no reason not to wait for a sale around Christmas time here.

It seems like the NPCs' stupidity is intentionally designed to annoy the player, and it's not the kind of funny stupidity you'd expect in a zombie apocalypse. It literally feels like they were made to drive the player crazy, and it's not fun at all. Many of the things the NPCs do are equally nonsensical, and the quest mechanics are terrible.

They removed a lot of details what made the original great. They change some lines so it will be less offensive to modern audience or wokee audiences, they also add some subtle censorships that made the original game fun like the erotica points, changed some store names to appear more appropriate and renamed some achievements and remodeled some characters to be safe from racial discrimination and the one I find really ridiculous is less gore. Yes people. Less Gore. I recommend that you just buy the original one where the developers of the game made it with love and that you can really tell that they had fun making it than this one where they made it just to make a quick profit....