Dead Rising 3 to feature procedurally generated zombies; handcrafted world

At a recent Xbox One event in Sydney, Capcom producer Mike Jones told CVG that next-gen technology has allowed the studio to achieve much that the Xbox 360 wasn't capable of.

[lifeisgamesok]

There's so many good things about DR3 already and now we find out it has dynamic zombie models missing jaws and eyes etc

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[AngelicIceDiamond]

Cool but its something that will go unnoticed when maiming loads of Zombies at once.

[B-radical]

I like to play with my zombie victims ill notice all right :D

[mhunterjr]

I've played tons of zombie games in my day, and have gotten used to killing the same 10 character models over and over again.

To fans of this type of game, the variety will certainly NOT go unnoticed.

[theWB27]

Hundreds of zombies and no 2 are the same...yeah.

[Goku781]

Maybe that's why they had the frame rate issues.

[theWB27]

Maybe...but it's been fixed so no problems there.

[mhunterjr]

If it truly is procedural, the chances of seeing twins is really small.

If course it depends on how many individual pieces a zombie consists of and how many variations capcom creates for each piece. If the only variables were gender, hair, torso, legs, shirt, and pants, and there was only one option for each variable, There would be already 720 possible zombies.

Given that each variable likely has several options, and there are probably far more variables, there are easily hundreds of thousands of possible zombie configurations.

So yeah, mathematically, your skepticism is unfounded.

[Trekster_Gamer]

Maybe it's not done is why there is a so called frame rate issue... TROLL alert!!!

[RiPPn]

So if someone says something negative about a game they are automatically branded a troll? So I guess anyone that says anything positive about said game they should automatically be branded a shill then?

Taking the platform it's on out of the equation, I don't get the hype for this game. It's the 2nd sequel to a game that was a mediocre 360 launch game, which had an even worse rated multiplatform sequel. I really think the hype for this game is because it's one of the few Bone exclusives that fanboys can rub in the faces of people not interested in that console. I think if it was multiplatform it would be lost in the sea of multiplats coming at launch. This of course is opinion and should be treated as such.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

@Rip

"It's the 2nd sequel to a game that was a mediocre 360 launch game, which had an even worse rated multiplatform sequel."

I'm not a huge Deadrising fan myself but...

The first Deadrising: http://www.metacritic.com/g...

The Second Deadrising: http://www.metacritic.com/g...

Case Zero: http://www.metacritic.com/g...

The first Deadrising was better reviewed than the others.

Either way the game was widely popular and liked altogether.

[theWB27]

It's really sad that people think others are genuiley looking forward to this game only to smite the other camp. Like that's the only way to do things.

The same argument can be made for Killzone...mediocre first game...better sequel...lesser recieved third title and now it's the defacto PS4 launch title. Is the only reason it's a launch title is to boost its meager sells and show off the visual ability of the PS4?

I don't doubt BF4 and COD will both outsell KZ. But, just take that as an opinion. Nothing more.

[CommonSense]

I get called a troll when I say Naughty Dog is an overrated developer. Nobody came to my defense.

Just another example of the double standard on n4g.

[Redgehammer]

Some people are hypersensitive to, and insensitive towards, the opinions of others. I see so many threads hidden only because of a question, or statement of disagreement, against one console, or another. His words are innocuous, and trolls are anything, but that.

[yarbie1000]

Not reusing textures - no 2 zombies look the same. That is really awesome

[CandyCaptain]

I'd agree but those two firemen zombies from the article look a lot alike from what I can see. (When blown up.) Don't really care anyways, killing zombies in unique ways is fun regardless.

Edit: It'd probably be more accurate to say It'll be far less likely you'll encounter similar zombies in any given scenario. Then say like the npcs in GTAV where while walking down the street you can see 1 person and their 12 identical twins walking along too.

[showtimefolks]

i hope its good but i am not counting on it, DR series has been average, some of the gameplay decisions by developers really puzzle me

just to put more zombies on the screen and calling it a day isn't good enough, i hope capcom learned something from last gen, we need the old school capcom back which cared about game quality and gamers

[Kingdom Come]

More Weapon Combo's,
Seamless open world (larger than both previous worlds combined),
Smart utilisation of Kinect,
More Zombie types,
Greater amount of zombies on screen,
More vehicles/vehicle combos,
Co-Op specific combos,
And more...

It's got more going for it than just "more zombies".

[Scatpants]

Have you seen the video where they combine a motorcycle and a steamroller? looks pretty crazy.

[lifeisgamesok]

And I'll add to Kingdom Come's post

Zombies get more aggressive during the night
6-10 different endings
Lots of costumes

[showtimefolks]

good let's hope it turns out great

[ohboy]

I am personally looking forward to dr3 the most of all xb1 launch titles =}

[hellzsupernova]

It is the only game that I want on the xbone at the moment. But I'll see how it reviews

[xKugo]

Is the resolution still not at a fixed 720p/30fps? Game is still a complete fail in my eyes considering that it's a supposed 'next-gen' title. Don't understand why you would make a game have "dynamic resolution" because it can't hold it's frame rate. Really, really bad game....

[Ohlmay]

The best game of this generation was SD, Super Mario Galaxy, graphics, FPS, don't mean anything, it's the gameplay that matters.

[GarrusVakarian]

"The best game of this generation was Super Mario Galaxy"

That's funny

[Ohlmay]

You're right it isn't the highest rated game this generation not only in Metacritic but in user score as well and didn't win at ton of GOTY awards... It may not be the best to you, but it certainly was one of the best to real gamers.

[BobBelcher]

I've never been overly excited about the DR series, but there are some things about DR3 that are making it shine a bit to me.

[UncleGermrod]

Honestly from what I have seen, Dead Rising 3 is, at the very least, an impressive launch title. People keep coming out with all these claims/arguments about resolution etc., but in the end the game just plain looks good. This story just reiterates how "next-gen" this game can be. It's too soon to start praising the game too much, but from what we are seeing and being told, there's no reason this can't be an awesome launch title.

I'm excited to just explore the world and find weird ways to f*** shi* up

[breakpad]

Dynamic generated Zombies ...Nice feature for a future Resident evil

[Excalibur]

These are this things that excite me about Next gen gaming.