Dead Rising

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Karate Champ isn't so bad with the lariat, I recommend going for it after you have this.

[dc-arena]

Just going through this again, and thought I'd complete the boss fights I missed out on first time. So far I have beaten

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Gunshop guy, Steve the Clown (shudder I hate clowns), and The Hatchet Man (hardware store guy).

. I have a couple more I missed the first time too, so that should be fun.

Anyway, I just got the Mini-chainsaw and the three books meaning I have x27 life span on it!1 How insane is that?! I have just been owning bosses since getting it A trip down to the Maintenance Tunnels is in order me thinks..

[NeoStuey]

1,042 kills was the magic number in the end Find it hard to believe that I only did 42 non PP scoring kills - maybe this is just a bug?

Anyways, this game has made me camera mad. Here is Frank feeling all powerful just after unlocking the Karate Champ - DIE ZOMBIE PIG!!!

I loved the image of the scene in Colby's Movieland.

1042! Nice one!

I think the kill count is bugged or it's an oversight on how they implemented the counting system. I wish I could have traded my total for yours though. You onto the Zombie Killer and Genocide next then?

I'm currently playing to get the gourmet acheivement. I had my first try at making the juices took me most of a day in the game just to work out the combos to get them all. Energizer proving the hardest. I've written it all down so I won't forget in future. The same for the food stuff I find. If I have time in this game, I'll try for the clothes horse as well, as apart from being very time consuming it should be quite straight to get.

As for Frank in this round, he's killed every survivor in every scoop. He's fall from grace has seen him appropriatley attired.



Off to see the coward next, and then the restaurant man, I don't fancy their chances much.

[smokedog]

Anyway, I just got the Mini-chainsaw and the three books meaning I have x27 life span on it!1 How insane is that?! I have just been owning bosses since getting it

The bosses beome a walk in the park once you have the Mini-chainwas + books and the Megablaster

[spagmasterswift]

You onto the Zombie Killer and Genocide next then?[/img]

Got Zombie Killer during the bomb mission - but Genocide seems like a bit of a tall order at the moment - maybe when Frank is maxed out

[Rossco]

Not played this for a few days but not sure what to do about these achievments, I've got 5,000 already, and only have like 8 game hours left so dont want to throw all those kills away, but getting 50,000 seems impossibly difficult, do you basically drive around the tunnels for hours on end to get it!?

I think I'll go for the 10,000 one at least now then get 50,000 another play through, cause it needs to be in the one play through doesnt it?

[spagmasterswift]

do you basically drive around the tunnels for hours on end to get it!?

I think I'll go for the 10,000 one at least now

Thats what I did to get the 10,000

[dc-arena]

Finished it again for the third time today, and this time and had a totally different experience. More boss fights, crazy weapons, new achievements and a totally different ending. It sure keeps on giving. Next time through, another play time session Wearing my new

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Special Forces uniform. I shot down the chopper last time, but died before saving so reloaded and didn't kill it, so I didn't get the unlock.

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[Friction]

Had a great session on this last night and today. Finally got around to doing the main story after all this time. The reason being I took the liberty of getting Frank upto level 50, and doing the Zombie Genocide achievement (

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So I could get the Mega Buster to make life LOADS easier!)

Really enjoyed it!

Gutted I missed out on the 50 saved one by about 7 people and also failed to kill enough Psychos for that achievement too, but I guess I could have one more bash

Now I know what I am doing I reckon I can have loads of fun. Of course I don't have to worry about the main quest too much, just do enough to get me by!

I have to agree too about the

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Final boss! What a cheap bastard! He really got on my nerves! Thankfully did him first time, no idea how though, just managed to stamp on him and get him with a couple of kicks! Bastard all the same though!

[ItsThere]

The gourmet achievement is doing my head in, has anyone managed it?

[NeoStuey]

The gourmet achievement is doing my head in, has anyone managed it?

I did today.

In fact I've spent the last two days trying sort this one out. It didn't help matters much that I have ignored mixing juices in all my time with the game. Energizer proving the most toublesome. The other thing that I managed to do wrong was being that I was trying to be a bit clever, I was trying to do it whilst undertaking a certain case

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medicine man, as the supermarket would not have any zombies in it. I ended up eating everything in sight, having all the different kinds of cookie, snack, milk etc based on the thumbnail desgin. But the game was having none of that. I had already worked out that certain foods go bad or can be cooked, some frozen items melt as well, these all contribute to the acheivement. Another thing that made me go mad today was the fact that on only one of the palm trees in entrance plaza seems to be bearing fruit/coconuts on it. I spent literaly an hour or more trying to shoot, knock down, bunny hop over the railing on a bike, Skatebord over the rail, to get the damn things down (in the end I gave up) It seems that is just a red herring. I gave up and started the game again, this time I completed the medicine man mission, went through the list of foods that I had noted down eating, and hey presto it unlocked straight away. I felt good that it worked but slighty miffed that I spent two days trying to do something that I thought would be straight forward.

An even more frustrating acheivement still is the PP collector acheivement, there is a color map on these boards and on it are pink dots which appear to tie in with the locations of each pp sticker, well there are at least 6 missing from it. As I had a spare two days in the game to find them it wasn't too much of a problem finding the missing ones. The real painful ones to get involve the clock in the park, 3 faces have stickers, and you don't take the pictures from the places you would expect to. Also another painful one was one on the space rider, in which you go speeding past whilst on the ride with a split second to get the shot. I must of gone round 6 or 7 times before I got a 27% snap, still better than nothing I guess.

Re: Gourmet award:

If you want a list of the items that I ate I can provide one in a spoiler tagged post as I made a list of all the food I had tried in notepad so I didn't forget if I had to start again.

[ItsThere]

I am faintly aware that things go off - I have done those ok but the "thawing items" seem to be causing me bother. I can't tell when they are ready to eat...

Perhaps a list might be good if you don't mind typing it up
I have...
7 juices
25 normal items
6 variation items
But still no luck...

[NeoStuey]

Cut and paste job from my notepad list, not in any particular order.

To check if the frozen stuff has thawed put it down on the ground. If it's defrosted the label will change from frozen vegetables to thawed vegetables.

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foodstuffs

-wine
-snacks
-coffee creamer
-orange juice
-milk
-cookies
-baguette
-pie
-uncooked pizza
-(cooked pizza)
-(rotten pizza)
-grapefruit
-apple
-ice pops
-(melted icepops)
-yogurt
-melon
-raw meat
-(well done steak)
-(rotten steak)
-frozen vegetables
-(thawed vegetables)
-cabbage
-red cabbage
-zucchini
-corn
-squash
-lettuce
-japanese radish
-orange
-cheese



mixed juices

-randomizer - pie and cooking oil blended - makes Frank get stomach cramps
-spitfire - 2x condiment or cooking oil blended
-nectar - 2x orange juice blended or 2x apples blended
-untouchable - 1 pie and 1 orange juice blended or 2x baguette blended or spitfire and nectar blended
-zombait - 2x corn blended or untouchable and spitfire blended
-quickstep - 2x wine blended
-energizer - randomizer and zombait blended

I even did some crazy things like taking the king salmon to the blenders to see if I could make some sort of salmon pate, all I got was a juice (spitfire I think). I guess I was expecting too much.

Edit: Franks new look might just be a keeper.
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http://ntsc-uk.domino.org/attachment...id=12509&stc=1

Goes really well with the haircut from Ripper's Blades in North Plaza.

[dc-arena]

Nice one, Neo - that will help a lot!
On my next burn through I was going for clothes, photos and food. Then on the one after that its the big one; trying to save every one! Will need some serious help with that one...

[ItsThere]

Cheers mate! Gonna try and nail that today.