Summary
The originalDead Rising’sInfinity Mode is exactly what it says on the tin of Venus-branded sardines; you have to stay alive for as long as possible. Nobody is coming to save you, you’re continually losing health as the hordes bang on the shutters of the Willamette Parkview Mall, and lending to the mode’s hardcore nature, consumables don’t respawn and you can’t save.
It’s notoriously tough, but even tougher is the achievement to survive an entire seven days in-game, which translates to 14 hours game time. That means you have to sit down and play for an entire day without stopping, otherwise you lose all of your progress. It’s a dangerous, time-consuming and unhealthy goal, but thankfully the Deluxe Remaster is making things much easier.
To put into perspective how long 14 hours is, you’d have to start playing at 9am to finish at 11pm.
Asthe official Dead Rising Twitter accountrevealed this morning, the Infinity Mode has been revamped. You will now be able to save the game midway through, andthere’s a “Time Forward” functionthat allows you to “play through […] in a more comfortable way”. Sure, it makes things easier, and fans have been complaining thatDeluxe Remasteris stripping back too much of the difficulty, but 14 hours of non-stop gaming for an arbitrary trophy and some tighty whities with hearts on them should not be encouraged.
You Can Still Play For 14 Hours Straight If You Really Want To
But You Probably Shouldn’t
As you’d expect, such a huge change is already drawing backlash, but it’s worth noting that these features are entirely optional.
For the purists who really want to sit down for 14 hours to grind out seven days of Infinity Mode, you don’t haveto use the time skip or save functionality. It’s not adviseable and, as many commenters point out, dull as dishwater, but you can still experience that old-school Infinity Mode by not engaging with the new systems.
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is out later this month on September 19, so we don’t have to wait long to get stuck back in after eight years of this sad, lonely, Dead Rising-less world.
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