![]() ![]() "I actually found out in the process of doing this that it's the Capcom USA office that owns the Street Fighter IP, not Capcom Japan which is something that they did way back in the '90s. "International copyright law is extremely complicated," explained Jones. Intellectual Property is a tricky business, even when you think you own all this stuff. There is no handily accessible vault at the company's HQ, into which producers can plunge and plunder. This desire at Capcom to connect the new with the old, is not without its problems. "The blue bomber is a big part of gaming history," said Jones. Few things happen in the video gaming world, without at least half an eye on the bountiful value of nostalgia. In both cases, the celebration comes around 20 years after the original. Now he is back as part of a transition to Xbox One. Mega Man X transitioned the character from the NES to the SNES era. ![]() Dead Rising was an Xbox 360 exclusive and featured Mega Man. ![]() There is a certain symmetry at play here. Which brings us back to Mega Man X, a space-marine platform hero from a more gentle age, transplanted into an urban carve-'em-up. "We're huge Capcom fans ourselves and so it's an opportunity to tip our caps to some of the games that we love and we're also inspired by the Easter Eggs used in the previous Dead Rising games," said Jones. And, of course, they are all opportunities to deliver new weapons into the hands of the player. A funeral scene turns out to be in memory of of a well-liked character from a previous game. Players can stumble upon a locked museum dedicated to the events depicted in the previous games. This being the third game in the series, and it being a major platform exclusive for Xbox One, the emphasis is on more and bigger more zombies to kill on-screen in a bigger environment.Ī basic desire to deliver variety is one motive for Capcom Vancouver, to pepper the game with little treats that celebrate the series. The fun mostly boils down to wielding a variety of weapons against these foes. This game, just like its two predecessors, places a male protagonist in a living arena, along with large numbers of zombies. "It's cool to be able to leverage other Capcom games as well as just putting stuff in the world whether it be vehicles or weapons. "Dead Rising is one of those games where parody is baked into the DNA," said producer Mike Jones. But here, in the tongue-in-cheek world of walking dead goofiness, just about anything is permissible. Of course, Dead Rising 3 is big on strange combinations, throwing bizarrely jimmied weapons and cultural references together with almost alarming abandon. ![]()
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