In fact, I frequently found myself switching between them, especially when driving a vehicle with a turret gun on it.
All of this means that players can stick to playing and exploring without having to do a lot of back and forth.Īlthough the game is designed for a controller, the keyboard and mouse aren't too shabby. Also, the game also lets players save the game from the options menu, instead of having to make a run for the nearest toilet. There is a tremendous amount of creativity that goes into some of these inventions, including a giant teddy bear turret that fires explosives, and trying out new recipes is a big part of the fun. Or Nick can combine two vehicles into a super car, perfect for plowing through the zombie horde. All he needs are the right blueprints, parts, and a quiet corner to quickly put together a weapon combo like a fiery katana scythe. Instead of having to visit a Maintenance Room to construct weapons of mass destruction (as you do in Dead Rising 2), Nick can build everything on the spot. To this end, Dead Rising 3 makes its most important gameplay innovation. Hundreds of items can be picked up and used either as or part of a weapon, and there's a substantial list of gear designed to chop, crush, electrocute, burn, and blow up the undead-but I should add that the unarmed moves aren't half bad either. Even though there's plenty of side missions marked with humor to keep players exploring the large open world, the draw of Dead Rising is using outrageous gadgets for the wholesale slaughter of zombies.
However, the heart of the Dead Rising series isn't necessarily in its absurd story or characters. Players will also need to keep an eye on what time of the day it is, since zombies gain extra strength and endurance during the nighttime hours. After that, a giant incendiary bomb is due to wipe out the city.
Players have seven days to complete the main plot and any side missions they can manage. The trick is, like in previous games, there's a time limit to the fun. Along the way, you'll encounter a variety of crazy characters, some of whom will fight at your side if you manage to save them from themselves. So, it's up to you, a mechanic named Nick Ramos, to wade through buckets of gore and find a way out of a city that's in complete lockdown.
This time around, there's a massive zombie outbreak in the city of Los Perdidos even though the zombie condition is supposed to be under control through a national microchipping program that automatically administers Zombrex to the infected.