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Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster’s developers have admitted during Capcom Next that the game is more of a remake than a remaster of the 2006 classic.
It’s been almost a decade sinceDead Risingfans had anything to look forward to, but that all changed last week whenCapcom revealed out of nowhere that it was developing a “deluxe remaster” of the first game. We only got a brief glimpse of the project as part of a teaser trailer, but that all just changed at Capcom Next.
Shortly after confirming that Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster was happening,Capcom revealed that we’d be getting a better look at the game as part of its Capcom Next Summer showcase. Ignoring the fact that it could have been at any of the other events over the past month, the reveal confirmed some interesting things about the new release.
Ever since the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster was revealed last week, fans have wondered just how much it was going to change about the original game considering its strange name. Well, we just got our first proper look at the title during Capcom Next, which revealed that it’s taking the bones of the game we know and love and tweaking it in a number of ways.
This might make you wonder why Capcom didn’t just go ahead and call it a remake, which is something that the game’s developers answered during the showcase. Shortly after showing off the Deluxe Remaster in action, the game’s director, Ryosuke Mirai, admitted that the project is pretty much a remake of the original game since so much work has gone into it.
“Well, actually it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call this game a remake considering the amount of work that we put into it.”
This makes sense considering how many graphical improvements and quality of life features were shown off in the trailer, but it does make you wonder why Capcom didn’t call it Dead Rising Deluxe Remake instead of Remaster. It could be because the studio’sResident Evilremakes are all wildly different from the original games, and labelling Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster as a remake when it’s sticking to the original vision would be inaccurate.
Whatever the case, Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster certainly looks like it’s changing a lot about Frank West’s original adventure, while also keeping the heart and soul of the series in-tact. We’ll know for surewhen it launches in September.
