In 2006, I had a decision to make. Christmas was coming up, and three new gaming consoles were on the market: Sony's super-expensive PS3, the impossible-to-find Nintendo Wii, and the Xbox 360, which came out the year prior and already had an established library of great games. Still, after a decade of only owning PlayStation and Nintendo consoles, I wasn't sold on the Xbox 360. That was, until I read about Dead Rising in a gaming magazine. There had been plenty of zombie video games before, but nothing to its scale, with the promise of hundreds of zombies on-screen at once and all the action taking place in a Dawn of the Dead-esque shopping mall. Dead Rising pushed me to ask for an Xbox 360 for Christmas that year, and I did not regret the decision. Now, an eye-watering 18 years later, Capcom has brought Dead Rising back as Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster. Upgraded for a new generation of consoles, Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is in many ways better than the Xbox 360 original, even if it drops the ball in some areas.