Developers would later explain that the early builds were plagued by technical issues on the Xbox 360 and PS3, and so, out of necessity, the partnership and exclusivity with Microsoft was made to give developers a more powerful console to make their open-world vision possible, buy the team more funding, another year of development, and a larger marketing budget. 2013 saw the likes of Grand Theft Auto 5, Saints Row 4, Assassins’ Creed IV: Black Flag, and Batman: Arkham Origins, and the ways Dead Rising 3 would try to be those games was, for some, what upended the experience as whole.ĭespite promising to be the biggest and, in a lot of ways, most accessible Dead Rising game yet, one harsh detail announced early on was that, while Dead Rising 2 had been been on both Xbox and PlayStation consoles (a first for the series), Dead Rising 3 would stay on Xbox One, and would only, eventually, get a release on Windows. However, while previous Dead Rising games were their own early and focused novelty within an emerging sandbox genre, AAA conventions of the time had changed what a sandbox game had to be.
The developers, in many ways, were pushing the series’ sandbox formula to meet the limits and standards of the time. Early release material boasted three times the zombies on screen as Dead Rising 2, and also aimed for no load screens, short load times, and a large, open-world that could fit both maps from the previous games inside.
In November 2013, seven years after the original Dead Rising and three years after Dead Rising 2, Capcom Vancouver would deliver Dead Rising 3 a game in a tug of war with the times and technology, and one ultimately unsure of how much it should embrace, or reinvent, its own roots.Īs a launch title, and exclusively for the Xbox One, the sales pitch leaned into what was one of the original’s biggest selling points: what this new and powerful hardware was going to bring to the table.
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