Dead Rising—how a game that I've wanted to play for almost 20 years disappointed me.
WEEEEEEEEEELL. It's been years in the making. The first time I've heard about this game was back in 2006, when it was going to release on 360. I saw this amazing trailer on a DVD that came with one of the videogame magazines. It showed the gameplay and various ways you can kill zombies while that awesome "Gone Guru" song by Lifeseeker was playing in the background. "Gone Guru" instantly became one of my favorite songs and found its place on my playlist, and is not getting off of it any time soon, but Dead Rising went completely past me, despite me having a 360. I honestly think that this was the first and possibly the only time I wanted to play a game because of one song in the trailer. I literally have no idea why I haven't played it as a kid. What was I even playing as a kid? I got my Xbox 360 in 2008, I believe, and the first 3 games I got for it were Call of Duty: World at War, Mass Effect, and Ninja Gaiden 2. Most of the time I was playing some figh...