Released: December-06-2016
Price $59.99
Also on: Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Coming to PS4 2017
1st to start off with in this review I am a semi
late DeadRising super fan, so with that said even take what some of the stuff I
may say with a grain of salt. I always
state what I think in these reviews trying to give you the reader the best idea
on what the game I’m reviewing is like as I had played it. Make sure to come up with your own decisions
about a game by reading multiple reviews, opinions, ETC. or just go out and
rent the game before you buy it. With
all that said here is MY review of DeadRising 4 played on the XboxOne.
Ok
starting off this review by stating forget basically a lot on what you thought
about a DeadRising game this is definitely NOT that type of game! No More
Timers, No More Psychopaths, No More Toilet Saves, or even any easy type of
saves at all! All those saves are now checkpoints which are points in the game
where your adventure saves. What? Wait!
Don’t stop reading Now! There is still a lot of Great left in this game if
you’re that type of gamer in which I am.
Did I mention Frank West is back? But NOT the same voice actor who
played him from the 1st DeadRising game, but still a very good sounding
likeness for his character which is set many years later in the DeadRising
series.
Now for some cleanup, 1st This is Not in my opinion
a bad game not at all, 2nd if you’re the type who likes challenges
in their gameplay well there is NO challenge what so ever! This game was basically dumbed down to the
barebones nitty gritty for a crazy open world hack n slash adventure for all to
enjoy. Basically if you’re not a skilled gamer and just want some easy fun this
game is right for you. The main part of
the game starts your character Frank back in that FN mall again! Sorry Frank ha-ha…
But don’t worry the giant mall is not your only place to do damage in, later in
the game which is kinda split into Cases brings you out of that forsaken mall
into a large open world in the town of….. You’ve guessed it Willamette! Rebuilt with tons and tons of zombies to take
on and take out with crazy vehicles, and weapons in which you create into crazy
killing elements of destruction.
The game is for the story and basically accomplishes it amazingly well at least up till its semi climatic ending in which I won’t Spoil for you. The main characters seem very well fleshed out with enough backstory to please me enough and not to get over or underwhelmed while playing. If you’re a DeadRising veteran like me and got to play the 1st game in the series with a much younger Frank, then you will be happy to hear that the iconic janky gameplay has returned! This is not a bad thing it was meant to be in the game for funny occurrences between Frank and his enemies. The game simply looks and feels amazing when playing at least when horrid game bugs don’t find you. (I will get to this in a bit) Plus the time this entire story goes down is right after Black Friday / before Christmas which everything is dressed up in a holiday festiveness of fun and joy. Leveling up Frank’s abilities is back again like in all DeadRising games, plus like I said because of the game being really easy the leveling up system in earning points is very fast, so getting to be Super Frank won’t take long at all. This game is truly for the novice players or gamers who just want some mindless easy fun to cause havoc in an open world environment. Oh and one more quick thing! There is a lot of collecting in this game LOT’s of collecting items like, newspapers, cell phones, taking creepy burned figures pictures, ETC. If you’re not into collecting maybe think twice about this game because there is again a lot of it, to help flush out the game and its story.
Yes as
you probably were wondering why I haven’t mentioned any backstory for this game
well here it is! The story of DeadRising
4 as I previously stated starts in Willamette years later after the 1st
zombie outbreak incident which had all been cleaned up. There is a New mall in the middle of the town
called the Willamette Memorial Mall larger in scale than the 1st. It’s Black Friday and thousands and thousands
of people are fighting to get those holiday shopping deals. This seemed much
scarier than a zombie outbreak as occurred during the fighting. Now all the
people are zombies again sigh!? Frank now journalist professor is 1st
introduced with secondary character Vick journalist student (a girl. Not guy!
Yes this confused me at 1st) both on a drive in which Frank thinks
he’s being treated to a few rounds of mini gulf. NOT! Vick shams him into going
back to the one place he doesn’t ever want to return to, you guessed it
Willamette! He’s outraged over the deception then wondering why they are
heading to a military base in the town. They enter the base and find out there is a
big government conspiracy going on with the zombie outbreak happening again,
and that they have larger problems going on than they know. This sums up the story in which you can chose
to continue to learn by playing the game for yourself if interested.
Now I
have to talk about all the bad in this game, I don’t like doing it because of
how much fun this game was for me but it has to be done. I’m going to start off with the game breaking
bugs that I had many times run into, mainly the audio disappearing which
happened to me in two occasions. Once when I was in the open game world driving
around killing zombies, in which the audio completely went silent. Then if that
wasn’t enough the game had froze after I tried navigating the menus to get it
back so I had to restart the game, but that didn’t even work! It was so bad
that the game would Not restart at all just kept pushing me back to the XboxOne
dashboard over and over again, then I had to just reinstall the whole game
again! After the boot up it worked again but I lost all of the progress that I
had done due to not getting a checkpoint save! The second audio tunnel like silence
which was way less harmful was during a scene so I just turned the game off and
restarted it and the sound had returned yay!?
The second bad thing that Capcom Vancouver had majorly done
was to rid the game of actual psychopaths aka bosses which made a fun and funny
addition in playing the game, as they told you a piece of their backgrounds
before trying to kill you. Then they had long health bars to chip away before
you would dominate them in each of their battles. This absence like most have already have
stated about this game is sorely missed and makes the game very bland and empty
in which the more health enemies do not fill in. So if a DeadRising 5 is in the
works Capcom! Return The Psychopath Mini Bosses! This was a major messed up
situation and I can’t as a reviewer understand why they had gotten rid of them,
makes No sense!
Next if this can’t
get any worse for you the reader there is 2 more bits of bad in or should I say
Not in this game. 1st being the lack of cool combo weapons which the
series was so big and proud about, plus the lack of combo vehicles in this game
unlike DeadRising 3 which had a slew of then to build and play with. The second pretty bad and non-existent
feature missing from this DeadRising game is the save points in the forms of
bathrooms, closets, or just plain pause the game and save your state of play.
These are replaced with what I think a horrid save checkpoint system that ONLY
happens in certain points of the towns in which it will trigger and save your
progress. Very bad indeed if you’re like me and game a lot need a break, have
to run some errands, or even go to bed, which you will have to wait and go
around town till it shows the glowing save box on the side of my screen then
end. Wow why would this pass in an open world environment of a game now? I
don’t think so! Oh and yes due to NO saving means NO multiple game saves sorry!
Yes you
might now be saying well fuck this game I’m going elsewhere and I fully
understand you thinking. But even with all these problems with the 4th
DeadRising game in the series! Yes I’m talking to you Capcom!! It still has
lots of a budget appeal to the game which I say is still very fun to play! Even
this one item which Capcom added and promoted a lot, the Exo-Suit is a fun bite
sized edition to the game in fun killing zombies. These upgradeable Exo-suits
are located all over Willamette and are timed limited to play with, don’t worry
they eventually respawn and are plentiful throughout the game. These suits can
get power longevity upgrades and weapon upgrades making Frank super human for a
moment to kill lots of zombies! And
another nice edition finally added to the game was the introduction to
different breeds of zombies or zombie types. Now there more than your regular
brain dead zombies, 1 being fresh bit zombies who seem to look like they have
really bad headaches, scream to high heavens at you, and just run charge at
you. They are very quick and grabby so be careful. The 2nd type of
zombies are what I call the smelly ones due to they look like they are covered
in nuclear waste with glowing bugs flying around them. But don’t take them for dummies they are
smart, fast, and can climb walls and jump from anywhere so again be
careful!
In my
final thoughts about Capcom and DeadRising 4 are that I think due to Capcom’s
financial budget problems as of late, I think the developers in Vancouver had a
very limited time frame and budget to produce this game unlike DR3. Still it’s all in all a very polished looking
and feeling game when the bugs don’t surface.
If Capcom Vancouver had a few more months on the creation of this title
I think this would be a must buy for anyone!
I don’t know why they decided to take out the psychopath mini bosses out
of the game, but again I think they didn’t have the budget for more characters
shame! Even though Frank is not voiced
by the same voice actor from previous games, he still has a similar Frank feel
to him in his later years. And bonus plays the same as you remember him playing
from previous entries. Again I think for budget reasons the lack of combo
weapons/vehicles can be greatly missed and should have been priority number 1
for them to keep in the game.
In my
conclusion I will give you my personal opinion first then my professional
second. My personal opinion of DeadRising 4 is with all its flaws it was still
very fun to play and I love hunting for collectibles crazy me right?. But I
still wished they had more to it as it does feel a bit empty in a giant open
world environment with mostly zombies in it.
Now for my professional opinion I think if you liked any of the previous
entries of the series well this game is mostly NOT for you. If you the type to just have an adventure,
lots of collecting, love killing lots of zombies in fun ways, and don’t care
about timers, psychopaths, or save points this is for you! I hope someone for
Capcom reads this and takes it to heart to try to bring the DeadRising
franchise back to at least the DeadRising 3 form which I thought gave everyone a
bit of something special, which made this series great. Don’t cheap out, don’t
cut corners makes this game feel great and Sell! Now finally for my review
score on this game my very easy simple system of (Horrible, Bad, Good,
Great). This is not the best system or
even a good system for most but isn’t all the game review systems out there
just bad? This is my system and I’ll stick to it! I have calculated this for a
bit in my mind and even though I have enjoyed this game a whole lot, I can’t
ignore any of its great many flaws from bugs, lost gameplay elements, to its
characters that made the franchise the way it should have been today but
Not! This game gets a review score of
BAD! Sorry if you want to check it out be my guest wait to rent it or wait till
it’s very cheap in store. This game is Not worth the $59.99 price tag Capcom
had put on it, if they sold it for a $39.99 price at launch I would understand
all of this game’s flaws a lot better. Sorry DeadRising 4 (BAD!)
Fallout4 Got a Mr. Mike Score of: BAD!
12/30/2016 Review
Played On XboxOne
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