Also like Dead Rising 2, Dead Rising 3 features two-player online co-op, with the entirety of the gameplay able to be experienced with an Xbox Live buddy, or even an assortment of random strangers.ĭead Rising 3 is undeniably huge, but more importantly, it’s a hell of a lot of fun! The well-received mechanics of Dead Rising 2 have also been expanded and refined, with a multi-layered weapon-crafting system that can now be used on the fly, the ability to combine vehicles into custom death rides, and the opportunity to recruit a posse of survivors to fight with you as you explore the city and proceed the story. It successfully renders upwards of a hundred zombies on screen at once, while eliminating load times completely as well, and spans an entire city this time around, in this case the fictional California-based, Los Perdidos.
Despite the preceding Dead Rising 2 going multiplatform, Dead Rising 3 has gone back to the series’ roots as a proud Xbox exclusive, this time published by Microsoft themselves, and coming to us from the since-rebranded Capcom Vancouver, formerly known as Blue Castle Games when they developed Dead Rising 2.įully embracing the leap to a next-gen console, Dead Rising 3 dwarfs its predecessors by pulling out every stop to be the largest game in the series yet. That seems to be one of the key design hooks of Dead Rising 3, one of the more high-profile launch titles for the Xbox One.
NOTE: While our review focuses on the original Xbox One version of Dead Rising 3, we’ve updated it with an additional section before the final verdict, to give our impressions of the belated PC version, Dead Rising 3: Apocalypse Edition!