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Dead Risingwas assumed all but dead after the much-maligned fourth game was panned by critics and fans alike. And then out of nowhere on a random Wednesday afternoon,Capcom announced that it was remaking the first game.
It launches in just two months on September 19, but fans are already looking to the future in the hopes that this remake is just the first of many more Dead Rising games. A popular suggestion among the community for where to take the series is on a cruise ship. Frank deserves a holiday, after all.
The first game is set in a large shopping centre called Willamette Parkview Mall, and the second continues the clear Dawn of the Dead inspirations with Fortune City, a casino mall. Dead Rising 3 opened its map up much more with the fictional Los Perdidos in California, and Dead Rising 4 took us back to Willamette with the newly constructed Memorial Megaplex. It’s time to shake things up a bit, eh?
Cruise ships are incredibly commercial, keeping all that glitz and capitalist glamour that forms the backbone of the Dead Rising series, and it’d be a nice change of pace for a series that hasn’t moved too far away from its beginnings.
“If this Dead Rising remaster sells well and we can get a brand new one all I’m saying is a Dead Rising game on one of these mega cruise ships would rule,” tweeted Dakota DeGarmo. “It’s isolated and has a similar feel to the mall or casino, it’s perfect. All the lifeboats are gone and the captain is dead. You have to survive for 72 hours while the ship barrels for the coast of Europe.”
Whether we even get a Dead Rising 5 is up in the air, but moving away from malls and cities to new, more compact settings again would be a treat. Hell, maybe we could even see Chuck Greene trapped in a theme park with his daughter.
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