Dead Rising(tm) Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) [Paperback]

BradyGames (Author)

Book Description

Series: Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames) | Publication Date: August 7, 2006

BradyGames’ Dead Rising Official Strategy Guide includes the following:

• A complete walkthrough covering side missions and how to achieve alternate endings.
• Detailed item and equipment lists.
• Extensive bestiary.
• Game secrets revealed!

Platform: Xbox 360

Genre: Action/Adventure

This product is available for sale in North America only.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Brady Games (August 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744008085
• ISBN-13: 978-0744008081
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good assistant, but It doesn't know EVERYthing, September 3, 2006

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L. M. Snead "LSDangerous" (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Rising(tm) Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

Greetings,

This guide gives what it advertises - detailed maps, weapons list, how to get the endings, bosses strategies, and a comprehensive walk-through.

The "problem" with this guide stems from the gameplay of Dead Rising.

Dead Rising is like a chose-your-own-adventure story. The player can chose his own path.

The game guide offers (what it believes to be) the BEST path to solving all the cases and rescuing all of the characters.

This means, if the player choses to go against the guide, he might encounter a situation that isn't explained in the magazine.

For instance, I tried to save to female characters. A split second after they "joined" my group, the two ladies literally dropped dead. They just fell over and died for no apparent reason.

The guide offered no explaination. It only stated how to get the ladies to join. There is no mention to consquences too early, too late, or if another person had to have been saved beforehand.

There strategies for defeating some of the bosses that aren't mentioned in the book. The advice the book gives does work. However, I was able to find much better methods through my own gaming experience (and a little advice from GameFAQs website).

All in all, I recommend buying this guide. It is very helpful.

However, use the guide to assist you. Don't take its advice as the gospel.

Finally, it is almost impossible to win the game from start to finish on your first try. In fact, I highly recommend that you replay the first day's events at least seven times. Unless you are a master gamer, there is no way you are going to win the game without doing a lot of leveling up first. Guide or No Guide.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's a great walkthrough... but not a great guide., October 16, 2006

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J. Johnson "DVD and Games" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Rising(tm) Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

I love Dead Rising but I wanted to know everything about the game so I got the strategy guide. When looking though the guide I found everything I needed to know and even more, but I soon found that not everything that I needed was in this book (It might be in the book, but it's not easy to find)

The guide starts off pretty good it shows you the controls, moves, characters and story. Next it brings you into a walkthrough that practically tells you actually what to do from who to save, when to take picture, what item you need and where to get them on your way there. It's a very nice walkthrough, tells you everything you need to know.

The only thing that bugs me is at the end of the guide, where they have the list of all the weapons, books, and food items. For instant, the weapons, if you want to know where the BATTLE AX is located it doesn't tell you, but you can find them mention where to grab the BATTLE AX in the walkthrough, so now you have to go searching of it in the walkthrough. Same thing goes for the book they tell you exactly what the book does, but never tells you which book store it's located in. If they just added a map of where all the weapons and book are I would have given it 5 stars.

It's still a good guide but its better as a walkthrough then a guide. And as I mention before, it dose have everything but it's hidden in the walkthrough which you don't really have time to search, since every second counts.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Riddled with mistakes, July 30, 2010

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travb "travb" (washingon dc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Rising(tm) Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

Thank God Greg Off and BradyGames is not doing the Dead Rising 2 guide. Hopefully Capcom fired BradyGames.

This book is riddled with errors.

The Official guide confusingly misnames several weapons:

1. Meat Cleaver incorrectly named a "Chinese Cleaver"
2. Machete incorrectly named a "Combat Knife".

* The official guide incorrectly calls ovens "ranges", despite the game announcing a "Cooked in Oven Bonus" every time Frank uses the oven.
* The guide also states there are 7 "ranges" (ovens), when there are actually 9 ovens.
* The guide states that there are 6 stoves when there are only 5.
* According to several store overhead announcements, the shopping center was just about to celebrate its third anniversary. But in the bio of Otis Washington, the official Dead Rising Guide incorrectly states "Otis has been working at the Willamette Mall since it first opened in the early '80's."
* The official guide misspells Barbara "Babara" on page 120.

Keep in mind to get a lot of these pp bonuses, like the oven and stove bonus, you need a correct number, so an accurate number is important.

Poor advice:
* Regarding Gil Jiminez (the drunkard), the Official Guide offers this unnecessary advice: "Unequip your weaponand hit Gil until he decides to talk to Frank again. Even after another attempt at convincing him to come with Frank, Gil declines." This is unnecessary, as many guides will tell you, all you need to do is walk away.
* The guide also fails to mention the 10,000 prestige point photo opportunity in the section on Gil, and many of the other photo opportunities.
* The guide lists both the red cabbage and the cabbage, when they are exactly identical except for color. Yet the guide does not mention the different kinds of milk, cooking oil, cookies, snacks and wine, which are also found throughout the mall as well as being in Seon's Food and Stuff, and have identical properties to the Seon's Food and Stuff food except for superficial appearance like the two cabbages.

There are more, I will update this list as I find them. Online guides say there are 100 prestige point stickers, but the guide says there are 99. Not sure who is correct.