According to ESRB, this game contains: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language, Partial Nudity and Use of Alcohol
Parents, don't even think about it. The game features a special move called "disembowelment, suggestive themes and detailed animations of what happens when various tools are applied to living dead people.
Friends of the zombie, other horror hounds and fans of George Romero and/or Peter Jackson's early work will be very very happy with this game. Atmosphere, gore, soundtrack, story, everything comes together to offer you the zombie game you dreamt of since you first saw either Dawn of the Dead or Braindead. If you are not convinced yet, remember: The game features a special move called "disembowelment", suggestive themes and detailed animations of what happens when various tools are applied to living dead people.
Attention people not owning a 360 yet. I know those are big words, but Dead Rising is not the worst argument to purchase this console, especially with Lost Planet, Ianfune's next 360 exclusive title, announced for early 2007.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing players should be aware that Capcom is responsible for a major screwup concerning the games subtitles, which effectively prevented me from giving this game a better score. According to them they didn't test Dead Rising on SDTV's at all, resulting in almost unreadable subtitles containing very important information regarding side-quests and the main story on said standard definition televisions. If it eases your pain a little at least half the text is not accompanied by voice-acting, so basically we are all screwed. Personally I was able to get a picture I could at least play the game with, by buying a better cable than the one that came with the 360 by default. But still it is not very nice to make me buy something for an extra 20$ to be able to play a game which cost me 60$ to begin with. I seriously hope this is a one time incident. Otherwise Capcom might quickly lose its growing credibility.
