Technically a remaster of a remaster
Dead Risingis a proper gem, taking an overdone trope - zombies in a shopping centre - and turning it into a brilliantly quirky and challenging survival game that fully delivers on the madcap joy of using anything you can find to mow down hordes of the undead and then snap photos of them. Truly a proto-Instagram-era Nostradamus. Almost ten years after the first game came to PC, and upsettingly close to 20 years from its debut, the original Dead Rising is coming back in a fresh remaster.
Capcom’s teaser-y teaser for the Deluxe Remaster shows photojournalist and zombie-slayer Frank West arriving at the Willamette Parkview Mall by jumping out of a helicopter. Even in the brief bits of cutscene, it looks noticeably different from even the HD Remaster, from the sharper textures on everything to Frank’s revamped character model. It also sounds like Frank might have a new voice, with the snippets of dialogue re-recorded from original actor TJ Rotolo.
Capcom simply describe the incoming remaster as “an updated release with a brand new look”, so it could be we’ll see some gameplay polishes and additions on top of the fancy visuals. While we don’t know anything concrete yet, it’s fairly safe to guess that some of that modern hardware power will be put to cramming even more zombies onto the screen, too.
