Print Story Dead Rising: A Review
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By thenick (Fri Sep 01, 2006 at 12:30:15 PM EST) Xbox 360, ZOMG, 007, Crap (all tags)
I finally broke down and bought an Xbox 360. I know, last time I owned an Xbox, the repair division of Microsoft called me a potential terrorist and refused to fix my system. But this time, it's going to be different, Microsoft promised. Microsoft just gets frustrated with me and I know deep down inside, Microsoft really loves me.

Anyways, for the second time in my life, I bought a system solely to play a zombie game, the first being the PSX and Resident Evil. This time, I picked up an Xbox 360 and Dead Rising, along with a used copy of Perfect Dark: Zero, the sequel to the N64 title created by Rare. I also downloaded the Uno demo from the Xbox Live Marketplace, thinking I could relive a part of my childhood by playing a card game I could kick ass at almost 20 years ago.



Dead Rising

Pro: You can kill zombies with a lawn mower, which eventually clogs. Then you can pick the mower up and beat them with it. When that breaks, you can beat them into submission with things like park benches, and TVs, or slice them with chainsaws and tree pruners. Some items can be heated, like a frying pan, then used to burn the zombies into submission.

Con: Who cares, you can run zombies over with a lawn mower.

Pro: The occasional zombie becomes a "twitcher" and need to be killed again.

Con: A friggin industrial push mower. There's a grinding noise and they zombies are pulled under the deck.

Equivalency Rating: Like Christmas morning, when you were seven and opened up the Lego Monorail set.

Perfect Dark: Zero

Pro: It's a pretty decent FPS with lots of weapon options and multiplayer games.

Con: I can't aim for shit.

Pro: The Cover feature makes fighting from behind objects easy and fun.

Con: The lock picking tool has no use except to delay you from getting into a door.

Equivalency Rating: Like a free sample of Tide detergent in your mailbox.

Uno: The Video Game

Pro: It doesn't look too bad graphically.

Con: What the hell is a challenge? I kept getting down to one card, then I'd get challenged and end up with three more cards. I'm deleting this game as soon as I get home.

Pro: I don't know. Uh, how about the fact that no animals were harmed in the making of this game?

Con: I don't know who's ruleset they used, but I've never even heard of some of the crap the computer pulled. For example: A Draw Four card means that you end up with eight cards. Welcome to Crazyland, Population: Uno.

Equivalency Rating: Like getting molested at camp during fifth grade. It was confusing and made me want to block the entire experience from my memory. Uno, that is.

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