Vi fik for nyligt chancen for at stille Capcom Vancouvers Studio Director Joe Nickolls en række spørgsmål om det kommende Dead Rising 4, og om hvilke grunde der var bag Frank Wests dramatiske og festlige comeback til serien.
"When we finished Dead Rising 3 we took a bit of time to kind of plan out what we wanted to do. We kept coming back to Frank, because the fans love Frank, he's the original and because it was the 10th anniversary of Dead Rising we thought well it's perfect timing to bring Frank back."
Historien udspiller sig 16 år efter det oprindelige udbrud i Willamette, og vi får nu lov at se Frank vende tilbage til det indkøbscenter, hvor det hele begyndte. Men Nickolls gjorde det dog under interviewet meget klart, at spillet ikke er en remake men har en helt ny historie.
Dead Rising 4 bringer også Franks famøse kamera tilbage. Men denne gang vil det blive brugt en del mere. Nickolls forklarer:
"More than just taking pictures of what's going on Frank uses his camera as a tool, there's a bunch of filters on the camera, it's got kind of a night vison mode and a spectral analyser, so it lets him solve puzzles and find hidden objects and open up different areas of the game that you wouldn't normally have, so the camera is a really big part of the game."
Du kan også tage selfies på mange forskellige måder i spillet:
"Yeah the selfies are awesome. They're even more fun when you're wearing a chicken head, cause you can do the cos-play still, so you can do the selfie, but when he doesn't have a chicken head on, when he just has Frank face, you can move the stick around and change his facial expressions, so he's happy or he's doing Magnum or Blue Steel or he's sticking his tongue out, it's super cool."
Denne seneste tilføjelse til serien vil have en hel række nye zombier med sig, som du kan smadre, og så lover den også at kunne klemme tusinder af disse levende døde ind på skærmen på samme tid. Nickolls sagde følgende om de nye zombier, og om hvad de håber at gøre med spillet i fremtiden:
"We've introduced a whole bunch of different types of zombies in the game, so we have our regular zombies, the horde, we have the freshly infected guys, which are the crazy ones, who are a little bit like 28 Days Later, they'll chase you, they'll climb up on cars after you, you can't just stand on a car to get away they'll come up after you and we have a third zombie called the Evo which we are not showing at E3 today, but the Evo is kind of like a super smart version of a zombie that's got some strategy in it."
Dead Rising 4 udkommer til Xbox og Windows 10 i julehøjtiden i år.
