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Zombie (Dead Rising)

GamesInfected, still aliveShamblesA parasite2000 to 2009

The crowd enemy of Capcom's Dead Rising, set in a shopping mall in the town of Willamette. The zombies are victims of a wasp parasite created by cattle research gone wrong, slow singly and overwhelming in their hundreds. The game's selling point was sheer numbers, and its debt to Dawn of the Dead was plain enough to end up in court.123

⚔️ Battle it
First appeared
2006
Dead Rising (2006)
Source work
Dead Rising (2006)
Capcom
Age rating
ESRB M
Made in
Japan
What causes it
A parasite
A parasite carried by wasps. It came out of livestock experiments with native wasps at a research site in the Central American town of Santa Cabeza.
How you become one
Infection with the wasp parasite, typically passed on by a bite.
How it moves
Shambles
Sluggish and weak by day; more active, tougher and more numerous after dark.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
  • almost anything in the shopping mall can be used as a weapon
  • the drug Zombrex holds off the change (Dead Rising 2)

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2006

Dead Rising (2006)

field notes

What the sources say

1

Up to 800 could be on screen at once, according to Electronic Gaming Monthly123

2

Capcom chose a more comic take on the zombie than in Resident Evil123

3

Dead Rising 2 raised the on-screen count to as many as 7,000123

4

The holders of the Dawn of the Dead rights sued over the mall setting; the case was dismissed in 2008123

5

Germany's rating board refused to rate the game and it was later banned from sale there123

6

Zombrex is made from the queens of the wasps that cause the outbreak123

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Zombie (Dead Rising) about 3 km/h
You, walking about 5 km/h
You, jogging about 10 km/h
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h

Sources

  1. Dead Rising 2 - Wikipedia
  2. Dead Rising (video game) - Wikipedia
  3. Dead Rising - RAWG

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