Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I wanted to write another horror comparison blog. What's better than two of my absolute favorite Capcom horror game franchises? Some people might be very surprise how vastly different the two franchises are from each other. To clarify, I mostly wanna focus on the main canon stuff.
I may make a few references to some of their non canon stuff to a degree. First I got to discuss what they both got in common. You have survivors trying to survive viral outbreaks. In some of their games they deal with zombies. There's a corrupt corporation that's secretly involved with these outbreaks. Yes they also had some strong ties within the government.
More recently Dead Rising 4 went back to Colorado where the events of the original Dead Rising took place. In Resident Evil Requiem, Leon returns to a destroyed Raccoon City. He last been there prior to the city getting nuked back in Resident Evil 2 both versions. To a degree, one of the protagonists gets infected.
They later get cured with Frank going through two different variations of the parasites. Some of the protagonists joins a group that's against corporations responsible for the viral outbreaks. In some of the games, there's a further mutated variation of zombies. Both had different takes on a cure with majority of Resident Evil antidote being experimental.
Some of the protagonists team up in a later entry. Eventually the main corrupt corporation falls ending an era. Inevitably other groups of people continued in some way what they started. Isabela forced to work for the corporation helped a role in saving humanity. In Resident Evil: Vendetta movie, Rebecca created a cure to a virus.
Now I can finally discuss how different these two franchises really are? Resident Evil is the more overall serious tone survival horror game franchise. Which is also represented within the game play canon wise. Dead Rising is notably more comical in the actual game play. Resident Evil uses for the most part real life guns as well as explosives.
Dead Rising literately lets you use anything as a weapon. I do mean anything with toys, sports gear and so much more!!! In some of the games allows has combo weapons mechanic. Which allows the player to create two or more things together. To be honest, a lot of these combinations gets very crazy!!! Resident Evil usually has survivors wearing uniforms in most of the main entries.
Dead Rising actually allows the player to dress up anyway they want. Which does include dressing up like a kid or a woman as a male character. Which also means there's more outfits in Dead Rising series. This is excluding DLC outfits as well. Resident Evil can notably differ among the main entries. The first three Resident Evil games are classic survival horror style with more puzzles to solve.
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis differs with more actual getting chased by a monster among a few other things. Resident Evil 4 & Resident Evil 5 are more action based with a shop feature. Resident Evil 6 was a train wreck with a lackluster shop feature. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard goes first person view direction while being more like the actual franchise.
Resident Evil Village felt like a mix between RE4 and RE7 respectively. I still haven't played Resident Evil Requiem prior to writing this. Yes I seen a large amount of the game. Grace's portions more first person view by default while Leon's portions more like Resident Evil 4 Remake. Leon's portions done in third person view by default.
Dead Rising doesn't shift the game play that much in comparison. Resident Evil in some main entries has a limited inventory slots. Some do get bigger to a degree through buying them. Dead Rising heavily centers on a leveling system. Every time you level up some aspects of the experience changes. Like getting another slot to hold something, earned a move or your overall health amount increases.
Majority of main Resident Evil games is linear at best. But it's non linear more smaller scale open world for Dead Rising series. For the original Dead Rising as well as the newer version takes place inside a mall. Dead Rising 2 takes place in Fortune City based on Las Vegas. The last two entries does much bigger than those.
Resident Evil has a lot of zombies while that pales to Dead Rising. Just in the original Dead Rising alone could have eight hundred zombies on screen at once. Yes the numbers kept getting bigger with each installment. Resident Evil also deals more with infected creatures. Sticking to the main canon stuff of Dead Rising there aren't any at all.
Resident Evil offers more of a variety in terms of the monsters. Dead Rising does Psychopaths later Maniacs that acts as majority of optional boss fights. This is a notable aspect Resident Evil doesn't cover. Where many people through tragedies during those incidents went insane. This by itself does get a little weird with some of the boss characters.
Resident Evil has a few characters cured from a few viral diseases. Dead Rising had a surprise cure inside Dead Rising 3's protagonist Nick Ramos. The closest Resident Evil gotten to this was Jake Muller whose Albert Wesker's son funny enough. Yes some of those were parasites like Las Plagas. Raccoon City later Terragrigia gets destroyed.
Terragrigia gets basically the famous magnifying glass burning method through using satellites. I don't know if that concept came from Batman or not, Batman & Robin movie reference. Chuck was able to call off fire bombing to save what's left of Fortune City. For those not aware, fire bombing is the next best thing to nukes to make sure everything dead during a crisis.
Dead Rising is more directly focus on working with other survivors. Most of the protagonists never joined an organization like The BSAA in Resident Evil universe. We actually get to see how everyone else gets effected by these incidents. Yes Resident Evil is bigger scale in some of the main entries. Like Resident Evil 6 occurred over three continents.
Resident Evil is more of the grand scheme of viral outbreaks. You get a clear idea how fast populations could crumble. Resident Evil is more of people trying to stop organizations or those allied with them altogether. Dead Rising also offers more variety of health items. Yes you can use a blender to make mixed drinks that differ in effects.
A personal tip if you ever get randomizer, throw it away!!! Dead Rising is more about directly using your environment to survive. Great players can quickly adapt on the fly. You also have more freedom to drive vehicles. Very few vehicle placements doesn't give you much to work with. In majority of Dead Rising series has a huge time limit.
Yes it does come into play to determine which ending you get? It's even possible to wait the entire time limit being a couple hours in the first two entries to get an ending. Some of the main Resident Evil games has multiple endings. Personally I felt this aspects was notably done better in Dead Rising series. Sure some of the instructions for the original Dead Rising you may not properly understand at first.
After a couple runs memorizing stuff down you'll better understand how to go about some of these endings. You also need to know which ending will lead you to the true ending in most of them. This doesn't matter for Dead Rising 2 since Overtime Mode actually non canon there. We know this because parts of Ending A that actually goes into the beginning of Dead Rising 2: Case West confirmed this.
I recently mentioned in another blog entry about how endings were done in Dead Rising 4. Which is such a questionable, bad decision for a video game. Dead Rising also allows the player to place masks on zombies. In some of the games, you also can take pictures. Yes there's a few categories with a particular one removed from Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster version.
There's a lot of ways to earn experience to level up. If you get creative actually could sped through a lot of the leveling. Yes whatever level you're on does carry over into newer playthroughs. Even if you never gotten an ending prior. As long as you saved your process you keep whatever process you have. Restarting runs does not reset your level.
Like some of the main Resident Evil games, there's a shop feature. I felt Dead Rising 2 went about the concept the best. You run into more looters that's interested in selling you things. You can easily stock up on them. in Dead Rising 2's case, you have a few ways to get Zombrex. Which is required to be given to Katey whose a little girl or Frank in 2: Off the Record version.
Umbrella never officially completed a cure while Phenotrans created Zombrex as a temporary cure geez thanks!!! You also could combine vehicles or add particular weapons to a few vehicles. Which is called combo vehicles in the series. In most Dead Rising games, you have the option to go out your way to rescue other people.
Some of them does give you a reward. But to be honest, a few of them requires additional stuff that's a bit frustrating. Like this guy refuses to go with you unless you give him something to eat. In Dead Rising 2's case, some of the possible people you could've rescued starts trouble in the safe house. You could go out your way once again to fix the problem or not.
Hell Dead Rising 2 with a few people saved gives you a card game mini game in the safe house. Yes you can gamble a few ways in the same game. Another notable difference is carrying magazines around. If you go to use them will affect aspects to particular actions making things a little easier. Yes that also would include gambling in Dead Rising 2.
You could stock up on vehicle's health making them last a few times longer than normal. Even the crappier vehicles doesn't go out too quickly. But the more decent vehicles you may don't wanna stop driving lol. There's a magazine to help translate what a small group of foreigners are saying. I wish learning another language was that easy!!!
In most Dead Rising games, there's plenty ways around the maps. Trust me when I say even the smaller Dead Rising games that's exclusive to Xbox consoles. Their map sizes is a little bigger than expected. But still doesn't even come close to the main entries. You actually feel like you're in a city in some of them.
The military shows up never on the protagonists' side. Their main goal is kill everything then destroy all proof what happened there. I also should point out there's queens and kings among the parasites. Killing an queen kills a small horde of zombies in close proximity. A king parasite only shown up in the true ending portions of Dead Rising 3.
Zombrex was stated to be made from the queen parasites. The assumption is the king parasites are required for reproduction. Cloning has a more essential role within Resident Evil. Umbrella made clones from a man named Sergei because it's very rare for someone having the DNA. Among injecting the T-Virus into themselves instantly becomes an tyrant.
In Dead Rising 4's case, cloning made a newer parasite possible not much else. Most Resident Evil protagonists are very well trained among a few key groups including the government. Most Dead Rising protagonists are regular people. Resident Evil also has higher mutation among the monsters. By this point, you could get infected in nearly every possible angle you could think of.
Although not explained Zombie Frank in Dead Rising 4 somehow maintain his intelligence. Similar to Calder whose that game's main antagonist that wears an exosuit. In some Resident Evil games, intelligence showing up more often among a few viral agents. Capcom confirmed these franchises aren't in the same universe.
To a degree, both franchises involves uncovering the truth. In Dead Rising series, the protagonists figures out who started the viral outbreaks among many other important things. Some form of communication, someone else either giving the protagonist information. Either important need to know stuff or optional stuff they could do during the incidents.
The actual map systems is a little better in Dead Rising series. Resident Evil with some notable exceptions has more straight forward story telling. There are times the players choose what happens next? Very true if you played Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. The main actual stories in Dead Rising series is set in stone.
You only truly affect how the stories ends. Traditionally the main campaigns has multiple endings with a further, shorter campaign goes into the true ending. Capcom reversed this with Dead Rising 4 with Frank Rising being paid DLC. The only Dead Rising game that's canon with no multiple endings is Dead Rising 2: Case West.
There's some platforming you could do while exploring some of the maps. Dead Rising 2 had a couple mini games around the map mostly gambling. There's also riding an animal as well as getting blown up while collecting money to name a few. You also can get on a particular ride. Yes they even allow you to go down a water slide.
Occasionally there's a few Capcom references. Yes Dead Rising does reference Resident Evil a lot. Majority of character reference outfits is pulled from several Mega Man series. You even could dress up as Arthur from Goblins 'n Ghosts with the completed costume doubling your max health. Dead Rising has a few locations that's not even in any Resident Evil games.
A good example being a few movie theaters. A few malls that differ from each other. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis does give you a lot of Raccoon City to explore. Sadly that pales to Dead Rising 3's map. There's also a few toy stores you could mess around with. A notable variety of clothing stores that differs from each other.
Resident Evil Village you could make food dishes to give to The Duke for stuff. Dead Rising does more actual cooking in a few ways. You could use a microwave or a stove to cook something. You also could use a stove to heat up a frying pan!!! Hell leaving some food items causes them to thaw or spoiled. Yes they actually allow you to eat spoiled food in the games.
I hope by now you could see how much these two are? Resident Evil does allow exploring just not to the degree as Dead Rising. Even how they went about zombies is a little different. Resident Evil has a few variations of them in the series. I also could say that about Dead Rising as well. But they differ more on Resident Evil side.
Resident Evil 6 zombies has some of their intelligences with some of them wielding weapons. This is excluding other main enemy groups in the more action entries. Dead Rising truly allows your imagination to run wild!!! I also felt achievement hunting wise, Dead Rising is a little more creative than Resident Evil at times.
Dead Rising is already packed with content before DLCs. They were designed to be replayable despite the first two entries being around eight to nine hours long. Depending which ending you're going for? Thankfully you can go more your pace with the last two entries. Dead Rising 4 removed the main time line for it's main campaign was a huge mistake to begin with.
Frank Rising has a main time limit with each upgrade being timed themselves to go for. Traditionally in most Resident Evil games, a countdown occurs at the end of those games. Resident Evil is ambitious in it's own right. They focus on the more essential parties centering around the incidents. Dead Rising is basically representing people caught between them.
Dead Rising brings in more unexpected game play especially from Capcom. Resident Evil always aimed to be somewhat revolutionary. More recently, each newer main Resident Evil game constantly changing the horror genre. Dead Rising represents more pure messing around fun in it's game play. Unfortunately, Capcom limited what the team could do with the franchise that led getting buried.
I was happy to see Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster happened. Resident Evil always went bigger with the overall scope of things. Dead Rising was essentially life of a party that eventually died out. Some could argue Capcom was a bit too focus on Resident Evil. But in all honestly, they have so many franchises!!! We are lucky some of them eventually came back in some form.
I was surprised the first two Dino Crisis games came back. If franchises like Dino Crisis comes back. What's preventing some of their other franchises from doing the same? Resident Evil always was a huge money earner for the company. Dead Rising is among their most successful to date. These two franchises forever changed the world.
Even right now people can't believe the original Dead Rising still held up amazingly well. Especially for an early Xbox 360 game. The same entry was considered by many to be the greatest zombie game ever made!!! Microsoft themselves saved Dead Rising 3. I know some people are mixed about that entry. I always enjoyed that Dead Rising game myself.
Dead Rising was like an unique experiment. Possibly seeing if lightning could hit the same spot twice. They already had huge success with Resident Evil prior. Up to Dead Rising 3, it was going well. Then let offs with Capcom constantly turned down ideas. In fact, the only other game the team done that isn't an Dead Rising game.
Puzzle Fighter (2017 game) was a new installment for Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. From what I seen Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix was better!!! I hope Capcom listens to the fans. I know a lot of them wants Dead Rising 2 to get a remake soon. For all we know they easily could make a brand new reboot game.
Dead Rising was like modern Zombies Ate My Neighbors to me. Which also had zombies and chainsaw maniacs respectively. Not to mention, a huge variety of weapons that's meant to be comical. Dead Rising up to a point had faster load times than Resident Evil if you could believe that!!! They also allow you to beat up zombies or a few moves as if you're in an beat 'em up game.
One of my favorite moves is doing a weird walking animation on top of a lot of zombies!!! Yes you heard me correctly you actually can walk on a lot of zombies if they're close enough to each other. This really helps in areas filled with zombies. You even could throw zombies into more zombies. Dead Rising is a vastly different beast from Resident Evil.
Resident Evil shows a lot more of the world in comparison. It's safe to say most continents been featured in the franchise. Dead Rising takes place in North America. Although, an handful of characters came from another country prior to the events of the original Dead Rising. Of course that doesn't stop people wanting to go patriotic in Dead Rising either.
Dead Rising is more underrated than anything else. Resident Evil usually among Capcom's biggest hits. Maybe some people might be interested in trying out some of the Dead Rising games. Which would make me quite happy. Dead Rising is great if you are new to video games. I just don't recommend starting people with the original Dead Rising.
I actually felt either version of Dead Rising 2 or Dead Rising 3 would be better. Dead Rising 2 improved in a few notable areas from the original game. Dead Rising 3 is the most chaotic that could be a lot of fun for some people. Despite having a vastly different look from the rest of the series. To me, it's so filled with creativity despite some super combo weapons being very op.
Some of those easily destroys the challenge of the game. For some people though that's a good thing. You don't have to kill yourself to make small process. They really give you so much to work with. This is where Dead Rising 3 truly shines!!! None of the Resident Evil games canon or non canon are like this Dead Rising game at all!!!
I always felt Dead Rising 3 had the best overall zombies in the franchise. Melee is notably better in Dead Rising series. Resident Evil makes using guns more unique. Sure you also could say that about Dead Rising regarding guns. More of that involves some of the combo weapons than anything else. Dead Rising did beat Resident Evil to using an light saber!!!
Both these video game franchises means the world to me. But in vastly different ways, both constantly inspiring me. Resident Evil is more amazing at what they actually pull off. Dead Rising is more unpredictable what it may bring to the table. I always felt that's the franchise's greatest strength. You just never know exactly what you're getting with an Dead Rising game.
