Read on for our original review of the Xbox One release by Sam White. A distinctive lack of depth, personality and creativity keeps it firmly in the realm of mediocrity. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t still the worst entry in the series by quite a wide margin.īeyond mindless zombie murder, Dead Rising 4 simply fails to rekindle any of the flames that made the original trio of games so compelling and fun to play. If anything, Capcom Heroes is an unfortunate reminder of the properties I’d love to see Capcom revisit instead of poking at the shambling corpse that Dead Rising has become.ĭead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package is an exceptional port of the original package, with additional content that fans will have a blast with. You also lose access to some of Frank’s unique abilities when thrashing about as other, more likable icons. It grows stale far too quickly, and having to grind through the entire campaign with a limited set of costumes can make certain encounters a needless chore. Hurling hadoukens as Street Fighter’s Ryu and darting across Willamette as Mega Man is fun at first, but once again lacks any sort of substantial depth to keep things interesting. The biggest new addition to Frank’s Big Package is Capcom Heroes, a version of the solo campaign that has Frank West donning the costumes of iconic gaming heroes. But, considering his constant quips, I was more than happy to feed him to the undead anyway. Franks feels like he’s running through treacle, which makes using the camera around large groups of zombies an unpleasant experience. On the bright side, Dead Rising 4 runs almost flawlessly on Sony’s console, with no performance problems at all in my playthrough. Instead, you level up far too easily, and dispatching enemies is so trivial that it hardly feels like a difference has been made. There is little reward to be found in exploring the city of Willamette, which is a shame because seeing the original setting enhanced into a massive playground had so much potential. Survivors and psychopaths, major parts of previous titles, have been reduced to meaningless map icons and generic bullet sponges that feel completely soulless.Ĭombat feels similarly gutted, with powerful weapons and skills being handed to you in the opening minutes. With the exception of a few skill trees, everything else has been streamlined to a glaringly obvious fault. The moment-to-moment gameplay of Dead Rising 4 is perfectly serviceable but is so lacking in depth that I found it difficult to get invested. It’s also hard to take what little story there is seriously when Frank struggles to stop making sex jokes amongst the unusual mannequins playing the role of NPCs. His character is terrible, and not at all reminiscent of the cult personality we’d come to love from past games. Sadly, Frank’s Big Package is still the same creatively bankrupt outing we saw almost a year ago, with a few extra goodies thrown in.įrank, the veteran journalist beloved for his silly demeanor and awkward dialogue, is now nothing more than a walking cliche, with each remark worthy of a pitiful groan. It’s bundled with new modes and all previously released downloadable content, but does the previously mediocre zombie slasher hold up any better? Having released exclusively for the Xbox One back in December 2016, Capcom is celebrating the festive season once again with the launch of Frank West’s latest adventure on PS4. Both sides can be argued one way or another, but Frank wasn't the problem (or at least not when we bring in the rest of the cast that is more batshit insane than him).Dead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package Review by Jordan King If he wrote the script, he probably kept himself like that to point out that there is not only a method to his madness (at times.), but to also point out that there are those want to get more involved when it is usually better to expose the truth and leave it at that. He decided to show tag along and show how to "Get Photos and Get out" but it was the student that wanted to "help these people." Something to which seems even more back when we find out that rather than helping out the civilians like Frank does, she sides with the military that (once again) wanted what the virus could do (or at least the research before we got zombies again). He was promised minigolf, but instead got dragged into another conspiracy by a student. Mind you a certain other character that was a bit of a bitch in her own right can be one reason why the story wasn't as good, but at least you can say that Frank didn't want to get involved in the first place. Honestly, when it came to the story of DR4, I wasn't too bothered by it. You're going to make me regret standing up for Dead Rising 4, aren't you? /sarcasm
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