Dead Rising is rising slowly

More hands-on time for Gamespot at last week's Capcom Gamer's Day, this time they try out the recently "delayed"Dead Rising. Considering Joystiq's less than enthusiastic response to the title at CES, that delay seemed well justified. Gamespot reports, "As far as the visuals go, Dead Rising has made some impressive leaps over what we last saw. The graphics have been polished up considerably," continuing, "The unique structure seems like it could be a cool way to progress through a game--or it could be so vague that we end up going insane trying to keep busy."

I think most gamers can agree that the idea of zombies in a sandbox game world ranks up there with the greatest ideas mankind is capable of producing, but we remain skeptical. We'll need to hear a lot more praise and less equivocation; however, following Resident Evil 4, we're more than happy to give Capcom the benefit of the doubt.

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Some scans from the latest Famitsu, courtesy Xboxyde.
Some footage of the game in action, courtesy MyXbox360.com.