It isn’t long before he’s contacted by Brad Park, director of the ZDC, and told about a new outbreak in Willamette. The secrets they uncover there lead to the dissolution of their relationship and Frank ending up a fugitive on the run for the next four months, going by the genius alias of Hank East.
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He’s teaching young, impetuous prodigy Vick Chu, and agrees to take her on a covert mission to a top-secret military base to give her a first-hand taste of how to cover wars and stir up shit. Set in the December of 2021, 15 years after the original outbreak, Frank is a 52-year-old photography professor still living on his reputation as the “Hero of Willamette”. He rarely acts in the interest of others, but always seems to come out like the Saviour. Frank is mean, he’s selfish, he’s the most accidental of accidental heroes. That’s perhaps the best news, to be honest, as Frank’s neolithic, opportunistic, alpha-male attitude makes for a likeably-unlikeable protagonist who’s infinitely more interesting than Dead Rising 3’s two-tone mechanic, Nick Ramos. What’s apparent in Dead Rising 4 is that the consistent slide from “tense, claustrophobic thriller with added fun” towards “mindless zombie murder with added missions” has continued and, sadly, the results aren’t as positive as we might have hoped.īut first, the good: Frank’s back.
The sequel balanced some issues and bred more, and it was a long time until Dead Rising 3 shambled into the launch line-up of Xbox One and almost, almost, found the sweet spot. The original Dead Rising polarised critics and gamers in 2006, its dedication to cathartic, slapstick violence either marrying well, or clashing with (depending on your stance), its insistence on strict time constraints, escort mission busy-work, and maddening boss fights.
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