Dead Rising has always been a fun game, with heavy black humor and presenting a rather pessimistic view realistically though perhaps of humanity. From the first game the real villains and monsters were human survivors who lost their reason in the midst of a massive attack of zombies murderers. With Dead Rising 4, Capcom looking back to the roots of the series and it shows by the return of Frank West -the first lead of the series to Willamette, Colorado.
The game is set in an interesting way, as it will take place during the holiday season, which will surely bring a lot of new and fun ways to kill. Outside these details, we know more about the history of the game and most of the demo was spent trying some new ways to destroy enemies.
Among the weapons we tried was a kind of electric ax that caused damage area and loading the special blow, allowed us to launch a Thor type attack, in which load electricity and then spread explosively around Frank to end anything else that is out there. We could also try a kind of crossbow rocket that caused zombies approaching the colorful and sparkling projectile before exploding, to maximize the carnage. We had to hand some grenades, but there is something new to say about them: spears, arms and legs explode and fly through the air.
During the time spent testing these weapons we met the new combat system that saves us a lot of time and effort to switch from one weapon to another. Now, to make Frank use your melee weapon only must press X; to use your long-range weapons, you press the right trigger and you can aim using the left as well; projectiles such as grenades and pipe bombs throw them right bumper. This means you will not have to waste time going from one gun to another along the inventory trying to remember what position you had her.
To select a weapon for each of these categories you should just move around their inventories, using the right, left or top buttons D-pad; that’s enough to make them available. The button below will allow you to heal, so, you see, now everything is easier and faster to not steal valuable time that you could use to kill zombies.
Another thing I tried was an armor, a suit EXO designed to resist and cause damage, however, in the demo could only cause damage with kicks, as not serving the normal attack which is done with the X button. We do not know if this is a feature of the suit or if it was a bug. The EXO suit and other military technology can be found along the Willamette in special boxes, which emit purple light so that you can easily identify. In another of these cases we find a mini gun with which I destroyed a huge amount of zombies, though I had to be careful and aim well because the firepower makes shots to disperse.
After all, Dead Rising 4 feels like a good zombie game, full of enemies on screen ‘ Now more zombies – the protagonist we love, the town where it all began, at least for us and . More Dead Rising 4 will hit the shelves of your favorite store before the end of the year to coincide with the Christmas theme of the game and so you can get to Santa Claus in the best way: killing thousands of zombies.