Dead Rising 4 is souless. It feels like some corporate guess work into "what do Dead Rising fans like, oh Frank?, the Mall?, okay just do that again." Indeed it is a person named Frank West (a completely different character), there is a mall (that you are barely in except for the beginning), and it does do it again (but worse).
I kind of like this character named Frank West, he's kind of a middle aged Himbo, not super charismatic, and worse than original Frank, but he's fine. Still the worst DR protag, but fine, he just should not have been Frank West.
The map is definitely better than DR 3's map because there aren't constant road blocks to impede your progress, you just drive. The town is more interesting to look at and it does have the mall, gimped as it may be from previous entries.
The story is so fucking bland and nothing. Vick is one of the worst characters I have bared witness to with horrible motivations and STUPID decisions. "Hey Frank, why would you rather expose this bad government facility through journalism and not blow it up right NOW!!" She also goes on about Frank like selling out his news to the highest bidders, but nothing ever really points Frank out to be that type of guy, like, he is a pretty nice guy all things considered. He saved like a lot of people during the original outbreak, and continues saving a lot in this one! So what if he is kind of sarcastic.
Along with Vicky being terrible there are other characters that are so paper thin they are worthless, and are barely in the story anyways. There are like, barely any cut scenes in this game, and Dead Rising usually has pretty good cut scenes! It feels like the story is there because there has to be a story (and to give a reason why we are in Willamette again).
I will say the gameplay is fun, I still like to play it, but it kind of feels like empty serotonin watch numbers go up. Then after dabbling in the Capcom Heroes mode afterwards I can see some actual fun ideas that could have been implemented into this series (or something else made by the studio possibly).
I think Capcom Heroes has the soul that this game lacked, a fun little arcade replay of the main story (I dont really like that you have to play through main story missions again, since it feels weird in this game, why not just drop you off in the open world for free play, but whatever). I saw another review about that mode call it a Musou, and I think with some more work this mode could easily be a fun Musou game.
Overall: this isnt Frank West, the map is decent, the story blows ass, and the gameplay is fun and has promises of being a full blown action game. Like I would have rather seen them ditch a lot of the stuff that makes Dead Rising Dead Rising if they went all out and not this mediocre half assery.
I kind of like this character named Frank West, he's kind of a middle aged Himbo, not super charismatic, and worse than original Frank, but he's fine. Still the worst DR protag, but fine, he just should not have been Frank West.
The map is definitely better than DR 3's map because there aren't constant road blocks to impede your progress, you just drive. The town is more interesting to look at and it does have the mall, gimped as it may be from previous entries.
The story is so fucking bland and nothing. Vick is one of the worst characters I have bared witness to with horrible motivations and STUPID decisions. "Hey Frank, why would you rather expose this bad government facility through journalism and not blow it up right NOW!!" She also goes on about Frank like selling out his news to the highest bidders, but nothing ever really points Frank out to be that type of guy, like, he is a pretty nice guy all things considered. He saved like a lot of people during the original outbreak, and continues saving a lot in this one! So what if he is kind of sarcastic.
Along with Vicky being terrible there are other characters that are so paper thin they are worthless, and are barely in the story anyways. There are like, barely any cut scenes in this game, and Dead Rising usually has pretty good cut scenes! It feels like the story is there because there has to be a story (and to give a reason why we are in Willamette again).
I will say the gameplay is fun, I still like to play it, but it kind of feels like empty serotonin watch numbers go up. Then after dabbling in the Capcom Heroes mode afterwards I can see some actual fun ideas that could have been implemented into this series (or something else made by the studio possibly).
I think Capcom Heroes has the soul that this game lacked, a fun little arcade replay of the main story (I dont really like that you have to play through main story missions again, since it feels weird in this game, why not just drop you off in the open world for free play, but whatever). I saw another review about that mode call it a Musou, and I think with some more work this mode could easily be a fun Musou game.
Overall: this isnt Frank West, the map is decent, the story blows ass, and the gameplay is fun and has promises of being a full blown action game. Like I would have rather seen them ditch a lot of the stuff that makes Dead Rising Dead Rising if they went all out and not this mediocre half assery.