Playing the original Dead Rising on Xbox 360 was a seminal gaming experience for me. Even before obtaining a copy of the full game, I vividly recall spending hours brutalizing zombies in its shopping mall setting via a demo disc that came free with a gaming magazine.
While I enjoyed the game’s 2016 port to (at the time) modern hardware, which cleaned up the visuals and boosted the frame rate but otherwise left the game unchanged, I’ve longed for a full remake for almost two decades. Finally, Capcom has obliged the years of fan requests in the form of Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, and while the publisher refuses to call it a remake, it’s a “full graphical overhaul” of the beloved title, and that’s good enough for me.
