Dead Rising 5 Gameplay Leaks Online

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Fans of Capcom’s Dead Rising games have discovered a treasure trove of concept art and video from the canceled Dead Rising 5, letting gamers see what would have awaited them in the series’ fifth outing. Although the franchise made an appearance in 2021 as part of a Dead Rising and Teppen crossover, there hasn’t been a numbered Dead Rising game since 2016’s decidedly lackluster Dead Rising 4.

Capcom’s zombie-filled franchise debuted with 2006’s wildly successful Dead Rising, which put players into the shoes of photojournalist Frank West as he tries to fight his way through hordes of zombies while contending with a colorful cast of sometimes-crazed survivors inside a Colorado mall. The Xbox 360 title was praised for the massive numbers of enemies that could be displayed on screen and for the unique, often humorous ways that Frank West could dispatch the zombie hordes with a variety of improvised weapons. Subsequent entries in the franchise moved away from the lighter and more comedic tone of the first game, becoming increasingly grim, with the series going on hiatus after Dead Rising 5’s troubled development led to that game’s cancelation.

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While gamers may never get the chance to take on Dead Rising 5’s legions of undead opponents, they can now get a better look at what the game would have had in store for them thanks to new screenshots and video of the title found by franchise fans. Discovered on the portfolio page of a former technical level designer on the title, the cache of clips and screenshots shows Dead Rising 2 protagonist Chuck Greene fighting his way through jungle and city environments that appear to be set in Central or