Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Out This September: What’s New About It?

The 2006 former Xbox 360-exclusive Capcom zombie game Dead Rising is making another comeback, this time in 2024.

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster will be out on 19 September for PC and consoles (PS5, Xbox Series), this time using the RE Engine as Capcom has done for its many titles in the past few years. The remaster will feature quality-of-life improvements like auto-saving, revamped controls, improved AI, and more. And as you can tell from the trailer and Frank’s new look, the graphics are getting redone.

The digital deluxe edition will add 17 more costumes for Frank and 17 music tracks that will play in the game’s Willamette Parkview Mall. We’re guessing it’s Capcom’s iconic themes and tracks from other games like Street Fighter and Mega Man.

What made Dead Rising stand out among the zombie-killing games back in 2006 was its time limit and roguelite approach to gaming. You have three days and have to find out as much about the zombie epidemic as journalist Frank West; how you approach it and complete the game is up to you. If you die, you start over from the beginning and the quests reset, but still keep your stats, levels, and permanent upgrades. We’re not sure why the series is making a comeback now, but it was enjoying quite a bit of fame back in the Xbox 360 era of gaming: Dead Rising 2 came out in 2010 and expanded upon the original with weapons fusion (via duct tape) and Dead Rising 2: Off The Record brought Frank West back in an all-new scenario set in the Dead Rising 2 casino mall. Dead Rising 3 came out in 2013 and brought in vehicles and a bigger world to explore/kill zombies in, and Dead Rising 4 killed the franchise by taking out the time limit and making the game more generic with its gameplay & setting.