Frank West is again! He’s covered wars, you know …
The rockstar photojournalist hero of Capcom’s groundbreaking zombie-survival hit Useless Rising returns in a brand new remaster later this yr, which the writer surprise-announced on Wednesday.
Useless Rising, Keiji Inafune’s homage to cult zombie flicks, and a progenitor of the undead apocalypse craze that has endured as a motif, if not a style, greater than 15 years later, comes again with up to date visuals “a brand-new look” and what appears like a brand new voice actor for West himself.
At any charge, it’ll be a basic sport with fashionable visuals playable natively on present {hardware}. Useless Rising was re-released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (in addition to Home windows PC) in September 2016, and is playable on PS5 and Xbox Sequence X, however solely due to backward compatibility. This can be a model particular to the most recent household of {hardware}.
In Useless Rising, gamers are West, who drops into the city of Willamette, Colo. to get a firsthand take a look at what the federal government isn’t telling us about this zombie outbreak and infestation.
He leads to the Willamette Parkview Mall, the place he loots shops and scavenges objects to assemble weapons and traps that assist him survive a three-day undead onslaught till assist arrives. Useless Rising’s makers have been very cautious by no means to say famous grindhouse thriller director George A. Romero or his cult hit Daybreak of the Useless, but it surely’s clear Useless Rising takes nice inspiration from each.
Useless Rising was for a time a significant franchise in Capcom’s library, spawning a 2010 sequel for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (starring a unique protagonist, the motocross star Chuck Greene), then a stranger and extra poorly acquired Xbox One console unique in 2013. Inafune, one of many unique designers of the Mega Man franchise, left Capcom in 2010 shortly earlier than Useless Rising 2’s launch (Greene’s yellow and black racing jacket, which says Ijiek, is an homage to the collection creator) to begin Comcept, the studio behind Mighty No. 9, a crowdfunded religious successor to Mega Man.
When is Useless Rising: Deluxe Remaster launching?
Useless Rising 4 returned the present to Colorado in 2016 for PS4 and Xbox One, in a sport that drew indifferent-to-middling curiosity. Its studio, Capcom Vancouver, was closed two years later.
In any case, the information that Frank West is again on project ought to excite older followers who keep in mind him on the vanguard of one thing that as we speak appears so cliché — one compos mentis human in opposition to a brainless horde, since copied by Left 4 Useless; Name of Responsibility’s Zombies mode (starting with 2008’s World at Battle); the Dying Mild franchise and Days Gone.
Useless Rising: Deluxe Remaster doesn’t have a agency launch date, however ought to arrive later in 2024.