The Canceled Dead Rising 5 Game Explained

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The Dead Rising franchise has been a bit of a mixed bag since its debut in 2006. Even the series' most hardcore fans will agree that not all entries are equal, and some may even go as far as to say the series has never been better than that very first game. The first Dead Rising hit at the perfect time, bringing an impressive zombie hack-and-slash game to the Xbox 360 right before the zombie market became oversaturated.

With every new sequel and spinoff, Dead Rising lost more and more fans, with many believing that the series had strayed too far from its tongue-in-cheek, creative roots, instead becoming an over-the-top exaggeration of the genre, being so overt that it lost all self-awareness in the process. With Dead Rising 4 not meeting Capcom's expectations, it's only natural that a fifth mainline installment was canceled, but not before the project had received an outline and had began development. Players will likely never see this version of Dead Rising 5, which is a shame, as it was to act as a return to form for the franchise.

The Case for a Dead Rising Remake

Development on Dead Rising 5 started almost immediately after the release of Dead Rising 4 in 2016, though the game wouldn't officially be announced until Spring 2018. During this time, some pretty infamous leaks popped up on 4chan. These leaks suggested that Dead Rising 5 would be set 25 years after the first game and would bring back Pyschopath boss fights and the time-limited mode of the original.

This leak turned out to be completely false. Instead, Dead Rising 5 was actually going to be set between Dead Rising 2 and 3, taking place in a ficitional Mexican city. Though Dead Rising 5 was going to play pretty similarly to the last few releases, there were some