There had previously been rumors that Capcom would be out to re-imagine the first Dead Rising game - which sees West trapped inside a Willamette shopping mall during a zombie outbreak - and while this appears to be exactly the case in the new trailer, there is no official confirmation of the game’s story. Set during the Christmas season and backed by Brenda Lee’s 1964 rendition of Jingle Bell Rock, the trailer confirms that photojournalist Frank West will once again return and find himself fighting zombies in a shopping mall, as well as in and around the snowy, fictional Colorado town of Willamette.
You can check out Dead Rising 4’s bloody carnage in the video above.
The first trailer has had its premier at the annual video game extravaganza in Los Angeles and what it shows – among many other things – is that Capcom has been hard at work since 2013’s Dead Rising 3. With the 2016 E3 conference currently underway, it looks as though Dead Rising 4 will soon be unleashed on a gaming public hungry for more.
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Those loyal to the series have eagerly taken on three installments and waited patiently for the arrival of a fourth opportunity to shred some undead. A lengthy lineage of zombie themed games has existed for decades now and some franchises (like Capcom’s Xbox exclusive Dead Rising) have made the destruction of undead hordes an outright treat. Whether it’s in film, novels, television, graphic novels or video games, the excitement that some feel over zombies is often matched only by the joy taken in seeing them destroyed.īeing the astute bunch that they are, video game developers have not missed an opportunity to focus on exactly that. Over the years, the zombie genre has grown at a remarkable rate, leaving behind the modest fringe element that it represented in days gone by and shifting into a high gear, all encompassing passion for many.