Dead Rising 3

Capcom Vancouver has an ambitious plan in place with its four-part downloadable content series for Dead Rising 3 . ‘The Untold Stories of Los Perdidos' follows four different characters on their own journeys through the zombie-infested city, with each...

While many aspects of the game have a good and bad side to them, the only part of the game I really have nothing nice to say about is the writing. It's the bad kind of stupid. Most of the dialogue is boring or silly, but when it comes to the Psycho...

The first Dead Rising set us loose in a zombie-infested shopping mall and allowed us to finally play out our Dawn of the Dead fantasies. Dead Rising 3 is more like World War Z, with huge numbers of zombies that significantly change the scope,...

Dead Rising 3 gets a lot of things right. It presents a massive open world filled with possibilities and features the first truly impressive use of scale in a game based on a zombie outbreak.

Through its lengthy campaign, I was always eager to see what crazy zombie-squishing contraption would come along next. It rarely disappointed, except when navigating its snarled map and waiting out its load times took me out of the fight took too long.

For once, I actually felt overwhelmed in a zombie outbreak, which is a real example of how next-gen technology can be used to do more than simply "make things look better." Out of all the launch titles I've played on both new consoles, Dead Rising 3 is my personal favorite, bar none.

Dead Rising 3 is a worthy entry in the series and, for the most part, gets out of your way. It knows that all you really want to do is discover and create new playthings to dismember the undead. As a vehicle for that, it's a comfortable ride.

It can be an inconsistent experience, but I choose to ignore the game's peculiarities and play Dead Rising 3 in the spirit that I believe it's intended: running around in shark outfit shooting zombies with deadly dildos fired from a leaf blower.