Dead Rising -- Rising from the Grave.

I have completed the seventy-two hour mode of Dead Rising earning the "A" ending. I unlocked some new costume items and a new menu option called overtime mode. What a wonderfully bleak ending. During the process of completing the seventy-two hour mode, which constitutes the main game, I managed to unlock roughly half of the game's fifty achievements. I'll be playing through the overtime mode and probably once more through the seventy-two hour mode to get the rest of the achievements that I believe are obtainable. I'm not sure on a couple of them. As for the game proper, how did that turn out? It turned out pretty well in the end. After a serious adjustment on my part. I had to forget trying to do it all. There is just no way. I'm the kind of gamer who goes the extra mile in trying to get everything done in certain games. If there is a big checklist of things to be done I'm going to systematically set about checking off said list. Dead Rising's timing and game flow doesn't allow for that. It keeps you moving, forcing you to have to pick and choose what you can get done in between what has to be done. At first this was jarring and grating to me. It was actively pissing me off.  After a fair amount of effort in letting it go, the game settles into something far more fun. The game isn't designed to be played once. You're not supposed to be able to complete everything. It's designed to be played through multiple times and to that end the game allows you to start over with your accumulated status. Get to level fifteen and then start over and you'll restart the game at level fifteen with all the moves you've learned and the extra inventory spaces and the like. Some of the achievements carry over. So they can be earned by accumulated totals over multiple games. Others will require you to get a certain total within a single game. The achievements are clearly listed in that regard. We'll see how many I'll be able to unlock...