So once again I did not go to school today cause I was "not feeling well". In truth I was spending most of my day being incredibly frustrated at Dead Rising for the Xbox 360. The game is in all honesty pretty good, but I think it can best be compared to wine. When its just starting out as a newly fermented grape mash, it sucks hardcore. Many upper class monocle-wearing Gentlemen will turn their cheeks at it and more than likely hire someone to spit in it's direction. But, the more time you give it, the better it gets until you can't get enough of it and eventually you'll leave your wife and kids and end up shooting yourself in the face with a shotgun in the bathroom of a seedy motel...
Ok, maybe that wasn't the best metaphor, but the point I'm trying to make is, the game at the beginning is kinda shitty. You wont actually gain any cool skills and have enough item slots till you've played through the game another time and some parts are just ridiculous. The game was based on this premise though so I guess after you've played through at least half of the first day and then became so frustrated you figured you would just start over with your status gained, it could actually be pretty playable and fun. On this note, I wonder if the first few levels and the PP required to gain those levels is a bit too high, but maybe I just suck and I should stop complaining.
In case you have no idea what I am talking about, in Dead Rising you play as Frank West. He's your typical freelance photojournalist meaning he's in your face and has a shitty personality, hence the freelance part. The story starts out as Frank is on a helicopter heading toward Willamette, Colorado where communication and all roads have been cut of. In photojournalist talk, this means something obviously is going on... From the helicopter, the town's population seems to be freaking out so what does Frank do? Well of course he slow-motion jumps out of the helicopter onto the local mall, because A) Malls are happening places, and if you want a story you have to go to the mall (small towns only) and B) you only look cool jumping and "woo-hoo"-ing in slow motion. All other times it just looks gay.
For anyone that hasn't played the game and prefers to live in a bubble, then don't read on cause minor spoilers are coming up in this paragraph. The people that have survived have all locked themselves in the mall though probably no one will admit that they were there on purpose... Everything seems safe until some dumb lady decides she misses her little dog so much that she has to open the goddamn door to let all the zombies in. Hence, we then get to play the recreation of Dawn of the Dead (Law suit pending). You pretty much have anything and everything at your disposal as a weapon. Lawnmower? Chainsaw? Kitchen Sink?! Hell yea, well maybe except the kitchen sink, but you get my point.
The game itself is semi fun though it reminds me of State of Emergency. I think maybe the makers of the game decided to switch all the gang members with zombies and add more weapons and this is what popped out. (This is kind of a stretch...)
I don't know why I complain so much about the game. Core-mechanics are there and it shouldn't be too hard this attempt. Basically on the first go around I must have took too much time killing a boss which limited my time later when I had to go fetch medicine for this black guy that got shot even though we all know I was doing it in hopes that his sexy partner would let me take pictures of her later. (You have a camera in the game...) Another thing I thought was not so great about the game is the face of the main character. All the other characters are in some way tolerable to look at, but this guy seriously looks like a "fugly" d-bag.
On that note it's time to get back to the game.
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hey. get a life. this was too long. :)
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