The coins can also be used to buy a decent amount of cosmetic goods, but that feels more disappointing since it's limited to masks, which clash heavily with the exo suits that everyone wears. The coins can be used to buy better club sets, which feel like substantial upgrades. The game has an online component, but since there doesn't seem to be anyone interested in checking this out, you can have some fun locally by yourself or with up to three other people. The mode is decent, but there are a number of courses available, so it'll take some time before you cycle through them all. The final extra is the power-up that gives out a random effect on a random player, making shots more difficult to pull off given the offbeat course layout.
The second are zombies, which don't affect the ball but yield bonus coins when your ball smacks into them. The presence of coins in the field let you earn more money once you let the ball pass over them, and they also give you an idea of the line you want to follow. Standard golf rules apply, but there are a few extras. Here, you play as one of the characters from the multiplayer mode and go through four rounds of mini-golf on floating polygon platforms. The first is Super Ultra Dead Rising 4 Mini-Golf, which seems rather odd until you remember that Frank mentioned how much he loves mini-golf in the main campaign. The base game received a few small changes, which include a few more distress calls to answer and the maniacs dropping interesting weapons when defeated.Īside from the costume packs, the game includes both of the DLC packs. Overall, it's still a ton of fun if you aren't looking for something grounded in reality. Multiplayer is present, though not exactly a big draw, and the presentation is fine on the base console, with the camera sometimes getting in the way when you're in tight spaces or surrounded by a horde and can't see who you're hitting. The weapons get wackier thanks to the Christmas theme in play, while the robotic suits can feel overpowered even though they only last for a short time.
The gameplay eschews a time limit in favor of a more open world, with tons of collectibles to find and the ability to gain experience to power up Frank in a multitude of ways. The story may be more serious than before, but Frank's ability to crack wise adds to the levity and makes the photojournalist more likeable.
We reviewed the Xbox One version of the game a year ago, and the PS4 version is practically the same as far as the base game goes. It turns out that the zombie outbreak is once again happening in Willamette, and there is reason to believe that government involvement can be proven. Now living as a night school teacher under a new alias, he gets a visit from the ZDC. The investigation goes wrong, leaving Frank to take the rap for a domestic terrorist attack while his student gets away unscathed. It turns out that the government is continuing to experiment on zombies and trying to make them more advanced. After a bad dream related to his first zombie experience, he gets a call from one of his students, who dupes him into going to a relatively small and mundane military base.
Much like Rise of the Tomb Raider did in 2016, the game finally arrived on the PS4 at a steal since it has all of the previously released content plus a wild new extra thrown in for good measure.ĭead Rising 4: Frank's Big Package starts with Frank West as a professor of journalism, discredited by most publications for trying and failing to tie the zombie outbreak to government involvement.
Then again, the series has enjoyed a sporadic existence on the Sony consoles, while it was something of a marquee series on the Xbox family.
Coming from a third-party publisher as big as Capcom, that exclusivity seems weird when the bigger install base on consoles is the PS4.
For about a year, Dead Rising 4 enjoyed exclusivity status on the Xbox One and PC.